Suzuki in a featherbed tasty

[XS1100 0]

[madsod 0]

that is so nice

[Stue11 0]

Not my cuppa

[Tony nitrous 0]

Interesting.

Funny mix of styles.

GS550 engine ? Wouldnt be my choice of motor.
There are a couple of featherbed Suzuki's that use
the later oil cooled Bandit/GSXR engine.
Alrthough you have an oilcooler its still has fin's on the motor
and doesnt look all bad (and go's hell of a lot better)

[stantheman 0]

nooooo it looks so uncomfortable

[Oldfart 0]

Nice cafe racer. Reminds me of the beeza one I built.

[Robbie 0]

Not for me, That back end looks awful.

[Tony nitrous 0]

Underseat exhaust doesnt really suit that look,
but it thats the way your going to go, why wouldnt
you use an arm from a bike WITH an underseat exhaust
so you didnt have to run it around the outside.
Put it up through the arm like most do.

[Tony nitrous 0]

I'd imagine a GS550 would be a lot easier to
fit in that frame than a Rover 3.5 V8 ?

[Tony nitrous 0]

Out here they'd just chop 2 pots of the end of a Roll Royce Merlin
(4500-5000cc should be enough?)
Then build a frame around it later.



..then decide maybe its not mad enough,
and put a supercharger on it....

[Davehutch-hutchs 0]

@madsod wrote:

that is so nice

[dansofield550 0]

"Underseat exhaust doesnt really suit that look,
but it thats the way your going to go, why wouldnt
you use an arm from a bike WITH an underseat exhaust
so you didnt have to run it around the outside.
Put it up through the arm like most do."

it is a swingarm from a bike with an under seat exhaust, its from a cbr1000r


"Interesting.

Funny mix of styles.

GS550 engine ? Wouldnt be my choice of motor.
There are a couple of featherbed Suzuki's that use
the later oil cooled Bandit/GSXR engine.
Alrthough you have an oilcooler its still has fin's on the motor
and doesnt look all bad (and go's hell of a lot better)"

its not as slow as you might think,revs easy to 11000, i managed a 62 second lap at brands hatch , now has a 672 top end and slabie 29mm flatslides though, so little extra go for now

[fr499y 0]

and it sounds brilliant!

[Tony nitrous 0]

Is there a reason for such long header pipes
before the 4 into 1 collecter?

Does if move the power up or down the rev range
compared to the traditional position ?

Was there a reason for it ?

[dansofield550 0]

i just had a lot of tube!! i made it up as i went along, it dosent seem to affect anything really , however it did fail the noise test , first of it was 130 db, had to choke it up a bit and it knocked the revs down to 10000.

its not really a featherbed i copied one but stretched it at the swingarm and shortened the length a little

[dansofield550 0]

a youtube link to the bike , if your interested!

[Stue11 0]

Nice one

[dansofield550 0]

sadly for sale now on ebay  

[dick65 0]

that's a shame m8