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Larry Pearson replica in the making
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I just read Mitch Boehm is building a bike very similar to Larry his S.
I will be following that thread with great interest.
Would be nice if a certain unnamed friend could convince him to do a build thread on GSR ...
Link to FB thread :
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I just read Mitch Boehm is building a bike very similar to Larry his S.
I will be following that thread with great interest.
Would be nice if a certain unnamed friend could convince him to do a build thread on GSR ...
Link to FB thread :
Hello, S Fans…. Just joined and wanted to say hi and check in.
I’ve owned a few S models over the years, starting with an ’80 in 1982 while in college which I foolishly totaled in Little Cottonwood Canyon (Utah) while trying to apply my motocross skills to a 600-pound streetbike at speed on a twisty road. (Didn’t work out that well.)
Then a low-mile and pristine ’79 with about 6000 miles on the clock (sold it to a collector that offered me way too much money for it) and then a higher-mileage ’80 that I rode for several years and am now resurrecting into an actual (street-going) Wes Cooley replica, as it’ll have the blacked-out engine, wheels, fork legs, etc. like Wes’ 1981 racebike. (I’m sure most of you know this, but the ’79 and ’80 production bikes weren’t aesthetic replicas of anything, as Wes didn’t ride a blue-and-while bike until the year after the ’79 and ’80 debuted.)
And finally a thrashed and rusty parts bike that sat outside someone’s garage for a few years, though one with a 12,000-mile engine (fresh!), a fine frame and, bingo, an intact fairing, instrument panel, f fender, wheels, fork assy, etc.
Good to have, I guess.
Anyway, the Cooley race-rep will look just like my friend Larry Pearson’s GS, which I’m sure some of you have seen.
It’s just beautiful (see attached).
The finished product will appear in the pages of American Motorcyclist magazine, which I’m Editor of, and which is part of every AMA membership, so some of you have probably seen it.
We’ve made a lot of changes over the last couple of years, so if you’re missing the traditional motorcycle magazine experience, check it out.
I’ll try to update things here as the bike comes together over the next few months; the chassis is about done, and my buddy Thad Wolff (who raced an S against the likes of Wayne and Eddie and Wes and Steve Wise back in the early ‘80s and did quite well despite being a starving privateer) is re-assembling (and painting) the engine as we speak.
Should be fun!
Thanks for allowing me to blather on endlessly here…hope to connect with some of you in the coming months.
Thanks!
Mitch Boehm
Editorial Director
American Motorcyclist Association
I’ve owned a few S models over the years, starting with an ’80 in 1982 while in college which I foolishly totaled in Little Cottonwood Canyon (Utah) while trying to apply my motocross skills to a 600-pound streetbike at speed on a twisty road. (Didn’t work out that well.)
Then a low-mile and pristine ’79 with about 6000 miles on the clock (sold it to a collector that offered me way too much money for it) and then a higher-mileage ’80 that I rode for several years and am now resurrecting into an actual (street-going) Wes Cooley replica, as it’ll have the blacked-out engine, wheels, fork legs, etc. like Wes’ 1981 racebike. (I’m sure most of you know this, but the ’79 and ’80 production bikes weren’t aesthetic replicas of anything, as Wes didn’t ride a blue-and-while bike until the year after the ’79 and ’80 debuted.)
And finally a thrashed and rusty parts bike that sat outside someone’s garage for a few years, though one with a 12,000-mile engine (fresh!), a fine frame and, bingo, an intact fairing, instrument panel, f fender, wheels, fork assy, etc.
Good to have, I guess.
Anyway, the Cooley race-rep will look just like my friend Larry Pearson’s GS, which I’m sure some of you have seen.
It’s just beautiful (see attached).
The finished product will appear in the pages of American Motorcyclist magazine, which I’m Editor of, and which is part of every AMA membership, so some of you have probably seen it.
We’ve made a lot of changes over the last couple of years, so if you’re missing the traditional motorcycle magazine experience, check it out.
I’ll try to update things here as the bike comes together over the next few months; the chassis is about done, and my buddy Thad Wolff (who raced an S against the likes of Wayne and Eddie and Wes and Steve Wise back in the early ‘80s and did quite well despite being a starving privateer) is re-assembling (and painting) the engine as we speak.
Should be fun!
Thanks for allowing me to blather on endlessly here…hope to connect with some of you in the coming months.
Thanks!
Mitch Boehm
Editorial Director
American Motorcyclist Association
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