gs850 rearset

[GS850]

hi! this question might have popped up here and there on this forum but i can't really find it and i'm not sure where to put it so i put it here!

i want to install a rearset on my 1979 GS850 but i don't feel like spending 350? on a tarozzi set...
i heared you can modify a cheaper gsxr or gsx rearset pretty easy but i would like to maybe see some pictures or get a few pointers from someone who has done it before!

or perhaps anyone knows a site where they sell rearset for a reasonable price? around 150-200 ?/$

thx!

[Mad Ratter]

hi! this question might have popped up here and there on this forum but i can't really find it and i'm not sure where to put it so

i want to install a rearset on my 1979 GS850 but i don't feel like spending 350? on a tarozzi set...
i heared you can modify a cheaper gsxr or gsx rearset pretty easy but i would like to maybe see some pictures or get a few pointers from someone who has done it before!

or perhaps anyone knows a site where they sell rearset for a reasonable price? around 150-200 ?/$

thx!

Yeah not sure where this would go. Anyway, I'm doing a GS550 rebuild of sorts, not back to standard and have installed GSX-R1100 rearsets. I cut the heel plates off too, and rather an unconventional way of mounting too. since I cut the rear frame parts that hold some of the original mounting parts, I found that I used the original right hand front one coupled with drilling and tapping the swingarm bolt M8 and it lines right up, great position too!
As for the left side I drilled the rearset bracket 14mm and pushed the swingarm bolt through it and the other mount is where I cut off the gearchange linkage steady (I think thats what it was) not drilled and tapped it yet but it lines right up again. I got the rearsets from a local guy for NZ$25, so ut was a bargain and looks great, I will change the actual pegs and clean it all up/polish etc etc.
See pics, should explain what I have been gabbling on about
Hmm, can only seem to upload one photo sorry.

[Mad Ratter]

Left side.

[Mad Ratter]

hi! this question might have popped up here and there on this forum but i can't really find it and i'm not sure where to put it so i put it here!

i want to install a rearset on my 1979 GS850 but i don't feel like spending 350? on a tarozzi set...
i heared you can modify a cheaper gsxr or gsx rearset pretty easy but i would like to maybe see some pictures or get a few pointers from someone who has done it before!

or perhaps anyone knows a site where they sell rearset for a reasonable price? around 150-200 ?/$

thx!

Try Lossa Engineering or Dime City Cycles (Google them) for cheap rearsets.

[GS850]

i emailed the tarozzi guys, they can't tell me which set is compatible with the GS850 as they're only selling sets for the GS1000 and GS750...
i think i'll end up with a universal set of some kind and fabricate everything around it myself, shouldn't be too much of a hasle, just want it done quick with the summer coming and all...thx!