'89 GSXR nearing completion.

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  • Mark1
    • Feb 2026

    #1

    '89 GSXR nearing completion.

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    Just have to replace a couple feeble stock connectors and attach the tire hugger and then test ride!
  • posplayr
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    • Dec 2007
    • 23673
    • Tucson Az

    #2
    beautiful looking bike. I see you are doing a little touch up paint so it is probably looking pretty good for such vintage bike.

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    • Buffalo Bill
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      • Jun 2008
      • 6006
      • New Buffalo, Michigan 49117

      #3
      Killer!
      Are you on gixxer.com/forums? They have an oil cooled section too.
      1982 GS1100G-
      1990 GSX750/1127
      1987 Honda CBR600F Hurricane
      1985 Kawasaki GPz750

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      • Mark1

        #4
        Originally posted by posplayr
        beautiful looking bike. I see you are doing a little touch up paint so it is probably looking pretty good for such vintage bike.
        I guess it does look like there is some painting going on, but that's from the '78 Toro Groundsmaster resto Having said that, it does have quite a few nicks and scratches from what looks like poor transporting in a truck\van. Overall though, very good shape. It only has 25k on it. The previous owner said he couldn't get it to run right after rebuilding the carbs. It's no wonder, he left out 2 balancing springs, o-rings and springs from the mixture screws and somehow during all that, he had pulled the cap plug away from the wire from the coil. All pretty easy fixes. It did need fork seals and I put new wheel bearings in just because.

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        • Mark1

          #5
          Originally posted by Buffalo Bill
          Killer!
          Are you on gixxer.com/forums? They have an oil cooled section too.
          I really shoud join that forum and thank them for all the info I gathered from there.

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          • Guest

            #6
            The bike looks great Mark! I'd really like to see that one in person and hear it run, great stuff.

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            • Hayabuser
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              • May 2013
              • 1134
              • Sidney BC

              #7
              Need some bar-end weights, Mark? I have a pair from the '94 GSXR1100 front end that's on my 80 GS11.
              2005 Suzuki Hayabusa
              2010 Suzuki GSX1250FA
              2015 BMW RnineT


              Dave

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              • Mark1

                #8
                Originally posted by Hayabuser
                Need some bar-end weights, Mark? I have a pair from the '94 GSXR1100 front end that's on my 80 GS11.
                Thanks Dave, it does have a pair but there doesn't seem to be a receiving nut for the throttle side. Just another one of the "little things" I need to sort out.

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                • trevor
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                  • Oct 2011
                  • 18680
                  • Victoria bc

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Mark1
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                  Just have to replace a couple feeble stock connectors and attach the tire hugger and then test ride!
                  Looking great Mark!

                  No signature :(

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                  • Mark1

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                    • posplayr
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                      #11

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                      • Mark1

                        #12
                        Thank you posplayr.

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                        • Zav

                          #13
                          Originally posted by posplayr

                          Nice Bike for sure. Doing any MC Shows? Let us know.

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                          • trevor
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                            • Oct 2011
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                            #14
                            Wow Mark, it looks awesome!!
                            No signature :(

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                            • Road_Clam
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                              • Jun 2015
                              • 122
                              • Southern NH

                              #15
                              Looks OUTSTANDING ! Did you perform an oem resto ? Here's a pic of my restored 1st gen 750. Lot of money and sweat invested but it came out awesome. My 750 is a weekly driver as well, I don't spend all that money on garage queens ! You may remember me back several years ago, not sure if you saw my finished bike or when it was just a wrecked pile of parts

                              Last edited by Road_Clam; 03-05-2016, 05:52 AM.
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