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  • robinelwood
    Forum Mentor
    • Oct 2010
    • 122
    • Bellingham, WA
    #1

    Bellingham to Boise ADV style on an 850..

    A fiend/sometimes bike mechanic made this a couple years ago.... '83 850, mostly backroads. Trip involved changing out the rear hub and transmission while camping out in the boonies!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PTDr9W8Ffc
    Robin Elwood
    1980 GS 850T
    My kids wish I had a sidecar. But I don't.
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    • GS1150Pilot
      Forum LongTimer
      Past Site Supporter
      • Nov 2013
      • 18914
      • MoN, AZ
      #2
      Cool stuff, fun to watch the gauges start dancing and stop working. The 850G has to be the Caprice Classic of motorcycles.
      "Thought he, it is a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan."
      ~Herman Melville

      2016 1200 Superlow
      1982 CB900f

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        • Gorminrider
          Forum Sage
          Past Site Supporter
          • Aug 2012
          • 4803
          • British Columbia, Canada
          #3
          ^ It is. A really good video. Thanks!
          ...I'm impressed with those roads too. prairie gravel...Very very similar places to where I want to get ..so his tires are interesting. Looks like a metzler on the front and ...maybe a "Trailwing?" on the back?

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            • robinelwood
              Forum Mentor
              • Oct 2010
              • 122
              • Bellingham, WA
              #4
              I don't recall the brands; I know he started with older tires and kept picking up free/cheap ones at bike salvage yards. He had extras strapped on the tail!
              Robin Elwood
              1980 GS 850T
              My kids wish I had a sidecar. But I don't.
              ~
              Previous:
              '79 GS 850 GN
              '79 Kawasaki KZ400
              '83 GS 650L

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                • 850 Combat
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                  Past Site Supporter
                  • Sep 2006
                  • 6018
                  • Spokane, WA, and Hampden, ME
                  #5
                  Ranch Beans...... Good
                  sigpic Too old, too many bikes, too many cars, too many things

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                    • Carter Turk
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                      Charter Member
                      • May 2002
                      • 2279
                      • Bellingham Washington
                      #6
                      Matt is a good guy. I've known him for 35 years and he's helped me many times with my GS's.
                      He also has the coolest shop logo, with Eddie Lawson looking over his back after probably winning a 500cc race.
                      I've been trying to get him to make more Performance Labs shirts to no avail.
                      GS\'s since 1982: 55OMZ, 550ES, 750ET, (2) 1100ET\'s, 1100S, 1150ES. Current ride is an 83 Katana. Wifes bike is an 84 GS 1150ES

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                        • Motojoe2492
                          #7
                          These are the kind of adventures I want to take all summer on my 83 GS850G!!! I try to take dirt roads as much as possible. I had a Kenda k761 on my read this summer and it worked great! Next year I'll have a matching set of trail wings.
                          Last edited by Guest; 10-20-2017, 07:00 AM.

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                            • Guest
                              #8
                              I've hear over and over that those trail wings are "death wings". I'd look for a better tire. Cool video, thanks for posting.

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