I guess this is where introductions take place, at least it's my understanding. I have "technically" owned an '80 GS850g since new. It was resurrected from dead on three occasions and unfortunately has sat derilict in my ex wives now ex husbands barn (my son placed it there to "get it going" 6 years ago).
She lived her useful life mostly as she was delivered. Juices and hard parts redone first in the late '80s when I had the pleasure of telling my X the bike outlived the marriage. Still true today, sort of.
She he got a third life in '94 with some port matching, pipes and help from K&N and dyno jet. A fourth and final rebirth in '97 with a Pichler fairing, rear sets and Clipons. Rode the old girl in as spirited a manner as she could take for several years.
Then she sat. For years until my boy wanted to "fix her up". Her electrics had taken a vacation and weren't coming home anytime soon. My assumption is stator issues. And I understand now the tank has tanked out and now is ulcerated.
But it I miss her. I have a little CX500, but I miss the seamless rideability that was (arguably) the finest UJM ever produced. I'd love to take a runner of same vintage and re do the suspension with better units and keep the other bits or return it to pre rearset/fairing mode.
Someday, I swear, I'll enjoy it or another again. Until then, I'll just have memories.
She lived her useful life mostly as she was delivered. Juices and hard parts redone first in the late '80s when I had the pleasure of telling my X the bike outlived the marriage. Still true today, sort of.
She he got a third life in '94 with some port matching, pipes and help from K&N and dyno jet. A fourth and final rebirth in '97 with a Pichler fairing, rear sets and Clipons. Rode the old girl in as spirited a manner as she could take for several years.
Then she sat. For years until my boy wanted to "fix her up". Her electrics had taken a vacation and weren't coming home anytime soon. My assumption is stator issues. And I understand now the tank has tanked out and now is ulcerated.
But it I miss her. I have a little CX500, but I miss the seamless rideability that was (arguably) the finest UJM ever produced. I'd love to take a runner of same vintage and re do the suspension with better units and keep the other bits or return it to pre rearset/fairing mode.
Someday, I swear, I'll enjoy it or another again. Until then, I'll just have memories.
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