1980 Suzuki GSX1100 'Brat Bobber' Custom
No Reserve – Period-perfect early '90s custom

Registration No: DFN 999W
Frame No: 512653
MOT: Exempt

• Built round one of the most exciting engines of the '80s
• A time-warp custom in the early '90s style
• Last on the road in 1994 but MOT'd until recently

When it was launched, the Suzuki GSX1100 was a motorcycling tour de force. Its 1,074cc, 16-valve inline-four, was said to produce 100bhp and propel it to 135mph; the highly-tuned Katana model was one of the fastest production motorcycles on sale. The GSX1100 was a true superbike in every sense of the word, and it looked fantastically exotic, but looks can be a matter of taste. Some prefer custom bikes, and in the early ’90s, the American tradition of building choppers and bobbers fused with a separate movement emerging from Japan, named Brat Style after the shop in Tokyo where it was pioneered.

This fantastic 1980 GSX1100 custom combines elements of the Brat and bobber styles and has all the right parts to present as a period-perfect early ’90s custom, reminiscent of the thriving culture which was embodied in the pages of Back Street Heroes and at events like the Bulldog Bash. It is not known exactly when it was built or by whom, but it has survived well. Despite being untaxed since 1994, it was regularly MOT’d with no advisories up to 2022. Now a straightforward recommissioning project, it is supplied with the current V5C.

For more information, please contact:
Mike Davis
mike.davis@handh.co.uk
07718 584217