INDIGO RACER: SUZUKI GS750 BY CROWS PERFORMANCE

[Skub]

This ticks a fair few boxes of what I dislike. Some of the Japanese custom boyos definitely see things....differently

https://www.bikebound.com/2022/08/19/indigo-racer/

[weeksy]

I'm trying to find anything at all I like about it. But failing

[Gregor]

I like the footpeg rubbers

[Count Steer]

I think I quite like those pipes.

[MingtheMerciless]

I quite like the retro vice on the workbench

[ChrisW]

I’d say that this sort of custom is probably manga-influenced and in that light it’s probably a pretty good job. I saw one recently which was more obvious - a Honda msx125 which had been turned into a replica of a fifties/sixtiesbucket-fairing guzzi which had been the bike of a character in manga. It was very well done and actually quite cool.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

It's horrible, really fucking horrible

[mangocrazy]

A shaft drive 'racer' with the steering head angle of a chopper. And 80's wheels, brakes and forks.

A cafe racer in some weird alternative Japanese universe, perhaps. But not this one.

[Druid]

The 750GL was a jap market only shaft drive custom. It's difficult to make a bike like that any worse but they've had a bloody good go.

[demographic]

I quite like the front wheel chock/stand thing thats against the wall.

[Yorick]

All these are a waste of time. Putting shitty engines in a posh frock. Why not base summat around a new capable engine ?

[Count Steer]

All these are a waste of time. Putting shitty engines in a posh frock. Why not base summat around a new capable engine ?

Cost? New engines cost new money. If you start with something that costs fourpence you can afford to spend a bit on the customisation. Anyway, with many of them it would be a waste of a good engine.

Oh...and if you've got a good engine you may as well put it in an equally good frame etc...oh...hang on...you may as well buy a new bike.

[Yorick]

All these are a waste of time. Putting shitty engines in a posh frock. Why not base summat around a new capable engine ?

Cost? New engines cost new money. If you start with something that costs fourpence you can afford to spend a bit on the customisation. Anyway, with many of them it would be a waste of a good engine.

But you can't polish a turd.

[Count Steer]

All these are a waste of time. Putting shitty engines in a posh frock. Why not base summat around a new capable engine ?

Cost? New engines cost new money. If you start with something that costs fourpence you can afford to spend a bit on the customisation. Anyway, with many of them it would be a waste of a good engine.

But you can't polish a turd.

You can spray one gold.

[Yorick]

Cost? New engines cost new money. If you start with something that costs fourpence you can afford to spend a bit on the customisation. Anyway, with many of them it would be a waste of a good engine.

But you can't polish a turd.

You can spray one gold.

After a good Tindy, mine came out gold

[mangocrazy]

All these are a waste of time. Putting shitty engines in a posh frock. Why not base summat around a new capable engine ?

In fairness, the engine is the best bit of that. Not saying much admittedly, but Suzuki air-cooled fours have always been strong. A lot of 80s Jap motors are still viable propositions.

The rest of the bike, not so much.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Cost? New engines cost new money. If you start with something that costs fourpence you can afford to spend a bit on the customisation. Anyway, with many of them it would be a waste of a good engine.

But you can't polish a turd.

You can spray one gold.

They did actually manage to polish turds on an episode of Mythbusters. They got officially 'high gloss' on a paint measure thing.

I still don't like this bike mind.

[Supermofo]

Well, they know how to bend a pipe at least. Usually there are 957 welded sections in each pipe

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

A standard GS750 is a nice bike to ride, for a 1976 bike, that abortion will be worse than the bike it's based on.

[DefTrap]

I feel a bit sorry for it.
The engines probably ok, GSs were ok, a shaft drive is ok.

But what they've done to it is pretty horrible.
Someone spent a lot of time and money on that.