Project Rat Bike -Never completed. [Sorry]

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1983 Suzuki GS450L... sold it before ratting it out back in 2012
Ages back, this 1983 Suzuki GS450L rolled off the line in Japan, found it's way into a shipping crate and subsequently ended up in America, most likely California where it was soon to be shipped to a Suzuki dealer in Michigan, to be purchased by someone. That someone had some fun with it, in fact, so much fun that the bike was eventually crashed and impounded. We can only assume at this point anyway. In the Mid-Nineties my friend Joe, a Wayne County Sherrif saw the bike in the impound yard and scooped it up for real cheap, brought it over to (at the time) Pilgrim Motorsports for an extensive look over. Joe ended up purchasing a set of tires, tweaking the brakes, replaced some turn signal lamps and other lil bits.

Happy Joe was zipping all over town and across Michigan with this machine as she was breathed life yet again, times were great, and so was the bike. Joe had ridden this machine for some years, racked up a few thousand miles and eventually sold the bike to Our mutual friend Jay, which had the bike for a few years, only accruing a few hundred miles, but for being a rather large man, some would say that he looked a little out of place, strange, or just plain wrong on this bike, so he ended up parking the Suzi for more important things, like family and life. The bike was , however, ridden in a chairity event to Hell, Mi for one of the last rides.

Suzi was sad, heartbroken, that nobody wantet to ride her, so she gummed her carbs on them. This performance hit was noticable, and some would say that she was only firing on one cylinder... We might never know the exact truths here, as an unnamed crazy hack mechanic went at it, fighting Suzi every step of the way, and she fought back, and fought back hard. The Mechanic had stripped almost every screw, bolt, and nut on her, and in fact, doglegged a sheet-metal screw into the left carburator's float bowl, which ended up causing more grief then necessary, Suzi had won the battle. Shall no one tame her?

So Lonly Suzi slumbered for a few years in a dusty garage, also known as the "Man-Cave". In here she would be covered in household goods until her next owner would fall in love and want to take her on as a starter bike / project. It was a snowy December 9th and "LARC0" Had her delivered via flatbed tow-truck to his garage, filled with other unfinished projects, yet accepting another, but this was different... Suzi IS different.

Time went on, and here are the stories, only to be told in brief viral videos, video logs, also known as VLOGS, of a 1983 Suzuki GS450L, with a terrible petrol leak from the carbs, and not enough time to care after... Suzi sat yet again, for two and a half years, turned over a few times, but nothing to call an accomplishment, Suzi just sat in garage until now.

Project Rat Bike is born.

-m