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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
          Forum LongTimer
          Past Site Supporter
          • Mar 2004
          • 13723
          • Michigan, west Michigan
          #3
          Welcome (again) to TheGSR Steven.

          Last edited by Redman; 03-18-2021, 10:18 PM.
          http://webpages.charter.net/ddvrnr/GS850_1100_Emblems.jpg
          Had 850G for 14 years. Now have GK since 2005.
          GK at IndyMotoGP Suzuki Display... ... GK on GSResources Page ... ... Euro Trash Ego Machine .. ..3 mo'cykls.... update 2 mocykl


          https://imgur.com/YTMtgq4

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            • Rob S.
              Forum Guru
              Past Site Supporter
              • Dec 2013
              • 9393
              • 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
                  Forum LongTimer
                  GSResource Superstar
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                  Super Site Supporter
                  • Oct 2006
                  • 14001
                  • 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
                      Forum Sage
                      Past Site Supporter
                      • 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
                              Forum LongTimer
                              Past Site Supporter
                              • Dec 2012
                              • 10146
                              • 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)

                              my opinion shouldn't be taken as gospel or in any way that would lead you to believe otherwise (30Sep2021)

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