anyone go for a ride today? Pics?

[ste gs1000]

118228197_10158599445382618_1848542718653870959_n.jpgTaken out of two year storage,Changed oil,Dusted off the cobwebs, Had a ride down to the coast today,Rides superbly ����

[steve murdoch]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]61550[/ATTACH]Taken out of two year storage,Changed oil,Dusted off the cobwebs, Had a ride down to the coast today,Rides superbly ����

Excellent!
Means you have a good bedtime routine for your bike.

[bobgroger]

Got the '80 1260 licensed this week. I have not ridden it much after the RS38 carbs and some other changes. The RS carbs require a LOT of effort to open the throttle, and need as much effort to close them even with a push-pull throttle. I need to get to the dragstrip to see what the difference is, but between the carbs and me losing 50 pounds it is substantial....

[trevor]

Got the '80 1260 licensed this week. I have not ridden it much after the RS38 carbs and some other changes. The RS carbs require a LOT of effort to open the throttle, and need as much effort to close them even with a push-pull throttle. I need to get to the dragstrip to see what the difference is, but between the carbs and me losing 50 pounds it is substantial....

Jebus Bob...that looks awesome!!!

[steve murdoch]

Beautiful.
Now that's a muscle bike!

[Noreg]

Got the '80 1260 licensed this week. I have not ridden it much after the RS38 carbs and some other changes. The RS carbs require a LOT of effort to open the throttle, and need as much effort to close them even with a push-pull throttle. I need to get to the dragstrip to see what the difference is, but between the carbs and me losing 50 pounds it is substantial....

That bike is TIDY! Does it run as good as it looks?

Just curious, why do people change the carbs?

[Burque73]

I used the GS to run some errands after work yesterday. Approaching a stop sign I realized I didn't secure the bungee net on the back. At the stop sign I lowered the side stand, or at least I thought I did, and well, it took a nap at the stop sign. I tumbled away from it as this was on a fairly steep incline, low side to the left of course. Three passers by came to check on me. Man that's embarrasing!

Broken turn signal and a smudge on the windjammer is all the bike suffered, but I may have bruised or broken a rib or something. Could have been an elbow, knee or hand injury for sure. About thirty minutes prior I was talking with my son about heading out for a short ride, but almost took the car instead of gearing up to ride. He said, just throw on a helmet and ride It's just a couple of miles. I insisted on gearing up and am so glad I did. Hopefully he learned from this too. ATGATT!

Forgot to mention my takeaway from this. Always visually check the sidestand is down before committing to leaning the bike, and choose better more level ground when possible.

[bobgroger]

That bike is TIDY! Does it run as good as it looks?

Just curious, why do people change the carbs?

I primarily use this bike for 1/4 mile drag racing. I changed the carbs strictly to go quicker. Racing is on hold for me this year, but the bike needed some exercise. The bike is already way faster than the limits of the rider, but I am considering cams over the winter. Slower than a modern liter bike, but faster than a stock KZ\GS and most new 600's. This is the one I will never sell....

[alke46]

I used the GS to run some errands after work yesterday. Approaching a stop sign I realized I didn't secure the bungee net on the back. At the stop sign I lowered the side stand, or at least I thought I did, and well, it took a nap at the stop sign. I tumbled away from it as this was on a fairly steep incline, low side to the left of course. Three passers by came to check on me. Man that's embarrasing!

Broken turn signal and a smudge on the windjammer is all the bike suffered, but I may have bruised or broken a rib or something. Could have been an elbow, knee or hand injury for sure. About thirty minutes prior I was talking with my son about heading out for a short ride, but almost took the car instead of gearing up to ride. He said, just throw on a helmet and ride It's just a couple of miles. I insisted on gearing up and am so glad I did. Hopefully he learned from this too. ATGATT!

Forgot to mention my takeaway from this. Always visually check the sidestand is down before committing to leaning the bike, and choose better more level ground when possible.

Sorry to hear about that Roger, but we've all done it and to those who haven't done it, just know it is always looming on the horizon. Your worst injury will take weeks or months to heal. That is how long it usually takes a bruised ego to heal

When are you going to add that new bike to your signature line?

edit: one of my most embarrassing moments happened the first time I rode my bicycle with quick release pedals. I returned home from a short "test" ride only to stop in front of the garage door without releasing the locked in place shoe from the pedal. Talk about embarrassing. I was just wondering how many people witnessed that act of stupidity.

[GS1150Pilot]

I used the GS to run some errands after work yesterday. Approaching a stop sign I realized I didn't secure the bungee net on the back. At the stop sign I lowered the side stand, or at least I thought I did, and well, it took a nap at the stop sign. I tumbled away from it as this was on a fairly steep incline, low side to the left of course. Three passers by came to check on me. Man that's embarrasing!

Broken turn signal and a smudge on the windjammer is all the bike suffered, but I may have bruised or broken a rib or something. Could have been an elbow, knee or hand injury for sure. About thirty minutes prior I was talking with my son about heading out for a short ride, but almost took the car instead of gearing up to ride. He said, just throw on a helmet and ride It's just a couple of miles. I insisted on gearing up and am so glad I did. Hopefully he learned from this too. ATGATT!

Forgot to mention my takeaway from this. Always visually check the sidestand is down before committing to leaning the bike, and choose better more level ground when possible.

I did that on my 1150 in our school parking lot some years back. Ugh-sorry!

[Hayabuser]

Got the '80 1260 licensed this week. I have not ridden it much after the RS38 carbs and some other changes. The RS carbs require a LOT of effort to open the throttle, and need as much effort to close them even with a push-pull throttle. I need to get to the dragstrip to see what the difference is, but between the carbs and me losing 50 pounds it is substantial....

Badass bike Bob, but losing 50 pounds? Good on ya!

[Noreg]

Does this count?

Did a run in the rain trailering it! I don't really see the appeal of having a trailer queen...

[Noreg]

Finally my bike is in order. So I went to see Sweden (from a safe distance obviously):



Sadly they have placed these giant fans on Bjørnefjell (Bear Mountain directly translated) that makes it really windy:



I saw a tiny church on the mountain by the train station (no good angle to take a shot of the train station):


Filled her with 98 today, probably not much use but I felt bad I left the gas tank on some wet cardboard on the lawn:



Weather was cold and wet and somewhat windy. I crossed the suspension bridge to Narvik (they charge cars 90 norwegian krone about 9gbp/usd/eur), since I crossed it twice I saved 180 kroners! Motorcycles doesn't pay tolls in Norway, back when they had manual toll boots they implemented it. So every single biker mobilized to ride to work in rush hours, and when it came to pay they had to take off their helmet, gloves, and then count up the money. It made huge lines and pretty soon they were exempt again. SInce that they haven't tried reimplementing it.

Edit:
Bike ran great, didn't smell too oily either and the secondary drive seems to not drip. Seems less moody when first starting up, but rpm still bounced wildly at like 6500 to 8000. Was annoyed at the rear brake for not allowing me to lock the wheel, so I slammed it and fishtailed. Apparently the feel of steel braided lines are completely different than that off a good vintage week 18 1980 rubber line, I thought I bottomed it out, but its just stiffer now. I also managed to bleed them without spilling or making a mess and quite quickly. Only took me a moment too.

Edit2: Apparently this part of sweden is now yellow, so I am in fact allowed to go there without quarantining.

[GS1150Pilot]

I did a short 30 miler out to a tavern I've been meaning to try. I was the only patron sitting outside. Fortunately, the food was excellent and they had 4 Sons Sour Blonde.

[Eli69]

Dern fans blowing my toupee off around here too. I just had to go get milk for Mrs. 69 and her white russians, I mean breakfast cereal. But I couldn't help it and went down some really bumpy dirt roads and some of the milk spilled inside my luggage. Really shook up the six pack I bought too but at least didn't spill that.