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  • 1steven
    Forum Newbie
    • Feb 2021
    • 5
    • north port FL
    #1

    New GS owner, sort of..

    Hi everybody! I owned a used Suzuki 750 in high school, (1980) and there are many fond memories. Last spring, March 2020, I was bored, like many people, so I bought a Suzuki GS1000 from a guy in Michigan. I kinda like the bike, and I ride it some, but it doesn't have the magic I remember from High school...
    GS1000.jpg
    Fast-forward to December 2020, and the bike I see in my dreams comes up for auction on Ebay! Yes, you guessed it, a 1977 GS750B! The exact model I had in high school! I shouldn't have bought it, but I did! It was 300 miles away, and the guy wanted instant payment and pickup. I am always up for a road trip, if I can buy something that does not run! I can always pay off the wife with cash if she lodges a protest. ( She did!) Bike had been sitting for many years, and had 17,000 miles on the clock. Ran really bad, leaked gas, and the clutch was seized. However, fairly complete. $1100.00 and I was on my way. I will upload a bad Ebay pic in the next post. Steven
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    • 1steven
      Forum Newbie
      • Feb 2021
      • 5
      • north port FL
      #2
      GS750 barn find condition

      GS750B.jpg This is the bike I am in love with today...

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        • Redman
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          • Mar 2004
          • 13765
          • Michigan, west Michigan
          #3
          Welcome (again) to TheGSR Steven.

          Last edited by Redman; 03-18-2021, 10:18 PM.
          Bikes​
          Had 650G & 850G. GK since 2005. BOTM 850G 6/2024 , GK 9/2015​

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            • Rob S.
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              • Dec 2013
              • 9487
              • New York City
              #4
              I like this thread. No shafts, pods, and is that a Kerker?

              Welcome aboard!
              1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red

              2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.

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                • salty_monk
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                  • Oct 2006
                  • 14013
                  • London, UK to Redondo Beach, California
                  #5
                  Nice, that's a good pair to have...
                  1980 GS1000G - Sold
                  1978 GS1000E - Finished!
                  1980 GS550E - Fixed & given to a friend
                  1983 GS750ES Special - Sold
                  2009 KLR 650 - Sold - gone to TX!
                  1982 GS1100G - Rebuilt and finished. - Sold
                  2009 TE610 - Dual Sporting around dreaming of Dakar..... - FOR SALE!

                  www.parasiticsanalytics.com

                  TWINPOT BRAKE UPGRADE LINKY: http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum...e-on-78-Skunk/

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                    • Gorminrider
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                      • Aug 2012
                      • 4803
                      • British Columbia, Canada
                      #6
                      I am always up for a road trip, if I can buy something that does not run!
                      Haha! that's a dangerous itch to scratch but I think you'll be happy! there's no bike quite like the bike you used to have, is there? Carry On!

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                        • 1steven
                          Forum Newbie
                          • Feb 2021
                          • 5
                          • north port FL
                          #7
                          GS 750 late 80s.jpg
                          This is a photo from the mid 80s, the bike that started my fascination with the GS750 Suzukis. By this time, I had retrofitted a 1000 engine with 29mm smoothbores in 1984....it practically bolts right up, with some bracket modifications. It was a bit of a sleeper, I guess. As a hotrod, the bike became obsolete when the GSXR750, and some other bikes were built... Haha! I ride for different reasons now, so that does not matter, anymore. I wish I had kept that bike! Steven

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                            • GSXR7ED
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                              • Dec 2012
                              • 10160
                              • DE via L.A.
                              #8
                              Originally posted by Rob S.
                              I like this thread. No shafts, pods, and is that a Kerker?

                              Welcome aboard!
                              Are those PODs on that bike? It sure doesn't look like the original airbox.

                              It's chain drive, alright...and as for the Kerker...I like V&H/4-1's...so Kerkers are not on my radar.

                              EDIT: WAIT! were you joking?

                              Ed

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                              GS750TZ V&H/4-1, Progressive Shocks, Rebuilt MC/braided line, Tarozzi Stabilizer[Seq#2312]
                              GS750TZ Parts Bike [Seq#6036]
                              GSX-R750Y (Sold)

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