Customizing bikes is all about seeing potential. Case in point: this cute little ’92 Suzuki GN250 from Portugal’s Dream Wheels Heritage.
Back in the day, the GN was the go-to bike for riding schools and the Portuguese postal service. But this one’s been resurrected as a neat-n-tidy café racer, for delivering smiles around the island of Madeira.

Dream Wheels’ client specifically wanted a bike with a traditional café look?but it’s the impeccable execution that has us sold.
Take a look at the beautifully matched upper bodywork, for example. The tank has been adapted from a Sachs Lotus Special V5?a 50cc Portuguese bike made in the 80s.

The seat hump is actually a removable hand-made cover, with passenger accommodations below. It’s perched on a custom-made subframe, with a discreet LED taillight built into the seat pan.
The front fender and rear license plate bracket are hand-made, as is the new battery box. There’s a new gel battery in there too. For the exhaust, Dream Wheels combined two EMGO mufflers?connected to the headers via a one-off branch.

The GN250’s also had a serious under-the-hood refresh. The engine’s been rebuilt from the ground up, and treated to a fresh coat of paint. Smaller items?like the brake lines and fork boots?have all been replaced.

There’s a set of Showa shocks out the back, taken off a Honda CB750. The front forks have been dropped a little to adjust the stance, and the 18? fron...