Suzuki Ignition GS750 GS550 GS850 GS1000 GS1100 GS1150 Built-In Timing Light

[cougar]

anyone tried this ?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Suzuki-Ignition-GS750-GS550-GS850-GS1000-GS1100-GS1150-Built-In-Timing-Light-/251108929405?pt=Motorcycles_Parts_Accessories&fits=Make%3ASuzuki%7CModel%3AGS1000C&hash=item3a77422f7d&vxp=mtr

[robertbarr]

These were common in bike shops around 1980 or so. They sure as heck weren't $115! I bought one set for my '79 850, and they were no better or worse than stock that I could tell. More of a novelty really.

[blowerbike]

points....bla
grab a dynaS instead

[cougar]

each to there own
I've had problems with dyna in the past at lest with points you can fault find on the side of the road and if needed limp back home on one set

points....bla
grab a dynaS instead

[cougar]

I have never seen them before
wouldn't pay that much for them tho if I was to get a set

These were common in bike shops around 1980 or so. They sure as heck weren't $115! I bought one set for my '79 850, and they were no better or worse than stock that I could tell. More of a novelty really.

[blowerbike]

true on the break down/get it home part with points but i have only seen one module at a time go on a dynaS....kinda of the same thing as your saying about limping it home.

[Grimly]

It was said, thirty years ago, that if an electronic circuit didn't fry in the first ten seconds, it would last for thirty years.
How true that was.
Only now are we seeing many of the thirty year old ignitors finally turning their toes up. I think they did a good job and for them to last thirty years is excellent. I can't count how many sets of points and condensers and sheer hair-pulling moments that ancient (state of the art at the time) ignitor design saved me.
For my '79 bike, I had saved the points if I ever needed them. I never did, and they've long since been lost.