first of all any standard bike i.e. like the GS cannot be made a cruiser. it could be made to "look" like a cruiser "somewhat", but the results of such efforts are usually tacky and not satisfying in the long run.

second thing, its not just the aesthetics of a cruiser I am after. it the actual relaxed seating, low ride height and the other associated benefits I am after.

Yes, I could go for an Avenger, but the whole point was the refinement of the Suzuki engine. plus the six speed is a real attraction, as I am looking at long lazy rides. I am not really a fan of Royal Enfield, as I believe they are fundamentally obsolete technology products, low on refinement and not very well made, their cult following notwithstanding (at least the RE products made available to us here in India). plus, even the Thunderbird isn't a true cruiser in the true sense of the term. its just a low slung seat and high handlebar, basically on the same chassis.

I mentioned the Enticer, as it is already lighter than the GS itself, as alkemyst pointed out. If it did okay with a 125 cc / 4 speed combo, it should certainly do okay with a 150cc / 6 speed combo.

in fact, for my requirement (no ripping or trying to test the rev-limiter, just relaxed cruising at max of 75-85 kmph), it should be a great combination, as the seating ergonomics of the Enticer are really good (for me i.e.)

so, can it be done ?

we all understood what u told..... its u who did not ,,,,,, anyways
i cruise very nicely on ma rx 135,,,, n feel relaxed so i got what u talkin bout,,,,,

go to a chassis modifier and ask
as i already told u

ONLY N ONLY IF U REALLY WANT ........... any damn thing can be done

but then in the end u will have to do some tweaks to the chassis and hence will not be an ENTICER chassis then

but i recommend u something
find an expert who knows what to do about it......... u ll get some rare engine experts around but chassis expert!!!

and please dont think guys who make custom fibre bodies and chasis are expert................... in the real sense

there are custom chopper guys but too costly........
i dont think ur looking for one of them

best of luck
now asking something else is useless

why the aggression outwordly_maniac ? anything i said to offend you ??

your post came across a bit un-neededly curt. any particular reason ?

and care to explain what it is i did not understand ? i was responding to other member's inputs as well. in fact i agreed with what you said about modifying a GS body to a cruiser one. so i am a bit confused.

and any reason you seem to be using "we" when you mean "I" ? or is it that you speak for everyone on this forum or thread ?

just curious. is all.

Relax guys! Don't fight

I am one prospective buyer of GS150R, currently in money saving mode for the purchase. However, one thought crossed my mind, and is now seriously taken control.

GS150R is released somewhere around Feb09, and since then, the number of these bikes I have seen on road is 3! One overtook me while riding, one parked near the Juna bajaar road, and third one was spotted in Sikkim (Gangtok)! That's it, 3 bikes. I mean, I have spotted wayyyy many more FZ or R15, or even FZ-S! Damn, I have spotted Scooty streak more often than this.

This is really a bothersome question for me. I love the GS150R, and would be glad for the 'exclusivity', but somehow, this doesn't come across as a positive thing for me. This will definitely have effect on resale value, as well as getting the problems rectified in remote villages (to where I intend to take my bike )

Any thoughts on this?

hey,
i wasn't fighting. i was just a bit surprised at the tone of his reply.

Anyways, yes, your fears are justified. a bike that sells in large numbers is always easier to keep maintained and serviced. easier availability of spares and widespread know how on repairing stuff, even roadside mechs will know how to.

to be honest, i am in mumbai, and I am yet to see a GS too. as you must have checked out (you being in thane), there are just 2 suzuki dealers in mumbai, both in western suburbs. lots of FZs, hunks and CBZ extremes, but the sight of a GS still remains elusive. i can imagine how things must be in gangtok.

that is a concern, yes. having said that, even earlier, TVS Suzuki bikes were slow to pick up in sales, but, i believe, always made decent numbers. and reports on this thread indicate that sales are slowly racking up.

i shared the same fear when i bought it.. but since then i am seeing a lot of bikes on the road(i m in banglore).. i have seen minimum 15 GS here in all the colors.. i used to think tht the black is the only good color available in GS but the orange looks good/sporty on road..
dont know how much u will be convinced by the fact tht the others are buying it too, but i think if u feel its a good product u should buy it.. just because others are too scared to take risk with a new bike, you shouldnt miss a good product like GS.

Thats very true... Even i at most in Bangalore have seen around 5 GS150R's... N was wondering the same... As far as reviews go the bike is supposed to be really good... but i don see a reflection of that on road... I mean after the fz launch... I see fz's everywhere.... But GS are still very hard to find... I don no if its the marketing or something else that is the prob..

^^ oops... Somebody seeing more GS150R's... Maybe they are eluding me... But still i stick to my point that there are very few found on road and somwhere the word of how well this bike performs is not getting around...

I am not against less bike population in general. I have a yo speed, which also I haven't seen much in Pune, but that vehicle is performing flawlessly for more than a year (touchwood!). But my intention to buy a new bike is for touring, else for city my Cali115 is sufficient (just needs a crank job). If I am not able to get support in remote vehicles in Maharashtra, then I could be in some deep trouble

I have seen Bajaj and Honda SCs in small villages, even TVS to some extent, but none from Suzuki. My neighborhood mechanic doesn't even stock parts of Heat and Zeus!

This is the first serious negative I have felt about the bike (not even the rusted tanks bothered me).

what the hell man,,,,, i am spending time suggesting you n trying to help u out and u point all 10 finger of urs towards me.......
and please learn more english and read whatever i said with patience
u open full eyes and see what I and mr ssivakumar told u
both replied keeping your talk in mind
bloody its like if someone does 100 good things for u and 1 thing goes wrong fingers are pointed
and where did u find aggression in my talks mr arrogant
if u wanna learn something , get some answer keep ur attitude in limits
there was no aggression in my talks..... i was trying to explain you the seriousness and complication in it,,,, and those capitals were to mean to say that if u have a serious dedication you can achieve anything

and we used instead of I
what ru ranting about........ if u n some other guy said the same thing
to a third person u will use the word " we "......

now m in no mood of fighting wid u ,,,,,, stupid someone manipulates words acc to his own fancy and blames others,,,,MEEEE ( "I")

sigh.....

and yeah sorry it was my mistake that i was being good without u asking for it........ MY MISTAKE ..... not needed curt as u said,,,,,
so i apologize for being whatever u felt i was
peace man
peace

dont bother me neither take my name here,,,,,,, do whatever u want ,,,,, and write whatever u feel like but keep me ALOOF

Hey bro, Even I have not spotted one GS in chennai. Even i had the pathetic feeling. I even asked the same to the SC guy who said the sales are going good. In this situation, what makes me going is that, ma monster bike makes lots of head turn around. Once i parked ma bike next to an apacheRTR. know what, I felt pity for the bike being small next to mine even though it is doing gr8 in the market.

Coming to the resale value, I have not thought about that, but still i hope that this does well.

Hi... i too from Chennai, its not like that in my case... one fine day i noticed 6 GS (two black, three orange and one blue on GST road during on one hour travel). On average i see two to three GSRs on tambaram area...

The main reason for this slow start is because of heat and zeus models, not much service centers,in my area many people still thought that TVS and SUZUKI are in tie up... there is no much exposure of SUZUKIs fame over India (I hope so). Poor sales is simply because of its REPUTATION.

A similar opposite case:
Honda introduced Unicorn few years back, initialy the sales were poor BUT it increases as the time, and it created the benchmark for commuter bikes, later the same company introduced Shine... it hit the market initially for the simple reason that it is a miniature version of unicorn which made others to buy with low budget and previous UNICORN's reputation... but now? i am seeing number of shines but OLD shines... (my opinion)

ok coming to the point... A QUALITY PRODUCT DEFINETLY HIT THE MARKET. . . but the time of hit is decided by lot of factors.

relax...there is no need to explode to show your displeasure. you will notice, I did not do so.

i was put off by the tone of your post which came off as patronising to me.

i refer to these comments :
what exactly did i not understand ??
i did not want directions and idiot mode instructions to doing something. i wanted to discuss what were the problems one could foresee if taking up such a modification. if you did not know anything pertinent to add, all you had to do was keep quiet. in any case you have not contributed anything really useful, that one would not already know. everyone knows a chassis expert can help. the point was to discuss possible issues with fellow members here. and now stop moaning about the great invaluable help and wisdom you have given me.

the great master has spoken !!! what helpful words of wisdom indeed !!!

i am quite sure my language skills are good enough to put my points across without managing to sound patronising. maybe you need to know how to phrase your points well, so that they don't sound like your patronising someone.

my eyes are and were indeed open. i was referring to the other member's comments as well in my reply. not just yours.

i am pretty sure i am not arrogant. but i do take exception when i am talked down to, especially when there is no cause.

and you are calling me arrogant ???

so you assumed i was a dodo who didn't realise that. i do realise that and so i was just putting up a possibility for discussion. i did not say ."hey members, come teach how to put a GS engine onto an Enticer". i don't remember saying that.

the above was what i did not particularly like. and i don't think that makes me arrogant.

again, name-calling does not help your argument. maybe you should look back and read your own post to see if it actually conveys what it is that you want it to mean.

i am quite willing to concede and grant you the benefit of the doubt that you did not mean to sound rude, IF, you are willing to concede that your wording is not particularly sound. especially something like this :
just take a moment and consider how it would have sounded to you, if you were wanting to discuss something and this was one of the responses. calling me stupid or arrogant does not make you right.

you need to consider how your words will sound when read by someone else. the internet is a medium of communication where we do not have the benefit of other things like tone of voice, gestures etc. so the written word can often be interpreted differently (possibly just as i did , again to give you the benefit of the doubt), so you can't just blame me for the opinion i formed about your tone in your post.

peace, if you did not mean offence, and if so, neither did I.

WOW. nice to hear something like that. I'll consider you lucky. I dont see any in the IT Highway where i travel most. Probably in due time i'll get to see.

Well I was out of station on friday and saturday. There was showers on saturday evening. Sunday morning when i started the bike, It did not start as usual. I had to wait kickin for some time to start. since i was in a hurry, I started to vroooom past 4.5K mark. After 10 minutes, i felt a jerk in the engine everytime i cross 4.5K mark. Also i travelled around 40 - 50 Kms (not continuously) that day still having that problem. today morning i did not feel that. I just have a doubt if that jerk is a problem because i vroomed a cold engine.

The jerk was something like there was fuel supply consistently and no fuel for a second( I exactly dont know how to term it). similar to what would happen if the bike needs to be switched to the reserve fuel. Any toughts ?

Is ur engine sound changed during that journey? One thing - Never rip the cold engine (even u crossed run in period) it will results is early cylinder head/valve wear (my friend is facing this problem with his enticer)

I am sure that its not because of crossing that rpm range... probably there may be some temporary clot in fuel line (fuel hose, fuel filter, carburettor) because of some impurities in petrol. Better check with service center guys asap... BTW how many days to first service

And refuel ur GS in trusted bunk... preferably SHELL

@ hell glider

if u cud read so many things
u cud nt read that i apologized
now u can kill me if u want
if u want M SORRY if i hurt u
n i dont posses any shame in apologizing

let this thread be a gs ownership thread
alrite

if u have any complaint still......... go to the mods

keep this thread for gs owner to discuss
and i appreciate their gentleman behavior that they arent objecting or complaining

i was telling everything in a friendly note
there are many things and talks that cud be taken in multiple ways
u had me BAD in ur mind so u took it negative
what the heck ,.,,,,, u have completely taken my words in a diff sense
seriously some of those things u crying about i never meant at all!!!
i was using words like friend n buddy for u
and as u rightly said,.,,,,,,,,, and i once again say,,,,
u have completely completely mistaken my words acc to ur wish

there are ways to tell everything......... if i was wrong ,,, u cud have told it in a proper way...... i also felt u quite rude,,,,