1993 Suzuki GSX1100F Katana
Miles: 5,108
Asking: $3,800
Where: FB Marketplace, Lincolnwood, IL
SELLER
93 Katana 1100 with 5k miles. 2 owner bike. Yoshimura complete full exhaust. Runs and looks great. Lincolnwood, IL
RSBFS
Not much of a write up from the seller, but the photos carry it. Purple and grey paint still has its shine, chrome and switchgear look untouched, and that Yoshimura full system hanging off the back tells you this wasn’t a bike that just sat in a garage under a cover.
Here’s the piece of trivia worth knowing: 1993 was the last year Suzuki brought this faired Katana 1100 into the US. Factory code GSX1100F if you’re digging through parts fiche, though this one just wears “Katana” and “1100” like most of them do. Air/oil-cooled four, built off the GSX-R1100 bottom end but retuned with 34mm Mikuni flatslides for midrange grunt instead of top end screaming. This isn’t the bike you buy to chase a redline, it’s the one you buy to eat a few hundred highway miles and still want to ride home.
Two owners and 5,108 miles on a 33 year old bike is a genuinely low number, and the aftermarket pipe tells you somebody actually rode it enough to want a little more sound and a little less weight hanging off the subframe.
If you want to see where this nameplate started, we covered the original square headlight 1983 Katana 1100 a while back. Same name, completely different bike, and it’s worth seeing the two side by side.
At $3,800 with these miles and that exhaust already done, this feels like fair money for a clean, honest example of the last US Katana.
Good luck to the buyer and seller!
And it’s got a (Metzler) lazer! Or is that a fake lazer?.. Period correct none the less.