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Originally Posted by Iceman
Cafe it ! hell bent on getting a Thruxton very soon, my son's Bonneville is driving me crazy.
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You know me Andy I love to build new things. With this one I'm going the other way, but I did buy it to build something out of it.
The R100R is the road version of the R100GS.
The only difference is the shock, fork, front wheel size and exhaust. It's a easy conversion. The GS does well off-road but is sluggish on the road. The R100R on the road is a great handling bike, much better then the GS.
A common upgrade for the R100GS is a DRZ400E or DRZ400S Suzuki fork.
That turns them into a much stronger Offroad bike, but degrades their road ability.
What I'm thinking is I'll replace the fork with a DRZ400SM fork the fork they use for Supermotto.
I'll then run dual 17 inch Shinko 705s on it like with this DRZ400SM.
In other words I'm going to make a Supermoto out of it.
It'll look bad ass, have higher ground clearance and offroad ability but it should also retain some if it's superior road handling ability compared to the normal GS or the GS-DRZ conversions.
I should end up with a bike that can do everything a R100GS can do but at the same time run circles around one on pavement.
No-ones done it as far as I know but that's half the fun and I know it will work.
The fork from this R100R is an excellent road fork. I'm moving it to a R75 Cafe project I'm also working on. So I should get a Great Cafe out of as well, but first I have to find the right DRZ400SM fork
In the meantime she's a great bike, and I'll be riding it, but your right change is coming down the road.
