GS1100ES grabrails

[Dirk62]

I just purchased a well-used but nearly complete 83 GS1100ES. It has no grab rail on the right side, nor does it appear to have ever had one.

There is a conventional gloss-black steel-tube grab rail under the left side of the seat. The front end mounts to the shock, and the rear mounts to the lower surface of the subframe with a bolt that installs upward. At the corrosponding location on the right, there is not even a hold drilled in the frame, though there is a flat surface as though something should have been mounted there.

Weird. Any insights? Is the left one even correct?

Thanks!
Dirk

[billp]

GS1100ES grab rail

I just put together one of these myself.
The grab rail on the left is to assist putting it on the centerstand, there isn't one on the right side.

Bill

[posplayr]

The grab rail on the left is to assist putting it on the centerstand, there isn't one on the right side.

Never knew that

[TheCafeKid]

there is no grab rail on the ES, except for the one on the left to lift the bike on the centerstand (whats a centerstand? hehehe) That bike is what was considered a "sport" model, therefore, all the BS frills went bye bye. You're lucky it even as that queer little "oh sh!t" strap on the seat...

[Dirk62]

Thanks everyone!

Makes perfect sense -- if my bike still had a center stand, it might have occurred to me.

Looks like I'm wearing a pack for the commute...