Bruce showing off his ‘manual labour’ skills
WORDS: DANGEROUS, IMAGES: CHAPPO
Perfection takes time, effort and willingness (as Boothy often says when he’s applying his make-up). In motorcycling parlance, perfection often costs a fair fortune too, demanding the use of innovative materials, construction techniques and whole troops of masterminds to iron out the issues and deliver to the showroom a motorcycle that’s fit for purpose… and then someone like me comes along and smashes that finely crafted specimen right out of the park. This project, transforming a perfectly capable and respectable production bike into a race-ready renegade, has probably seen many an engineer wince into their pint pot, and I don’t blame them.
Suzuki’s latest GSX-R1000 took years in the making, demanding countless tough decisions and enough overtime to fuel a local council. But as good as it was, it still could have been made better, faster, lighter and, well, sexier. That’s been the ethos of this build, to take a bike from its firm foundations and better it in every conceivable way.