How fast is is your old GS?

[wymple]

Careful with that - cranks can get wrecked running for too long with seriously unbalanced forces on them.

The GS stuff is tough tho. I had 1/2 of an early Dyna S quit on me on a road trip to Kentucky, and couldn't find anything. I blocked off those two carbs and rode it home to Iowa. Never saw where it did any sort of damage. Sure was poochy, tho.

I don't know about 8000, but at 12,600 its moving pretty good. Saw that one day on the 401, the funny thing was the speedo needle went all the way to the m on the mph on the speedometer. I was quite a way in front of the Wooden Bumpered Car (??OPP??) trying to Race me thats all I cared about that Day. Since have spent more energy on sprint (drag) Bikes, Lot safer, anyhow those old GS done up a bit went rather quickly. Mike

How fast is 8000RPM in 5th gear on a 1000ST with stock final drive?

ANS: Faster than the 78 KZ1000 that I pulled away from.

Well now that she's runnin on all 4, 70mph with plenty of room left in the throttle in 5th gear. The DIY gm ignitor really does the trick! And since she's firing on all 4, plugs 1 & 4 now have a chance to tell me where she's at with the tune. 1 & 4 look great, with nice tanning around the ceramic insulator. I need to get new plugs to see where all 4 are at now

Careful with that - cranks can get wrecked running for too long with seriously unbalanced forces on them.

That's why once I found out it was running on only 2 cylinders I started digging into the ignition system and found a shot ignitor. Fortunately I found one on ebay for $50. And incase this one doesn't work or dies on me, I ordered everything to build the gm hei ignitor

[Grimly]

So far on my gs650g, 65 throttle pinned running on 2 cylinders, didn't know about the 2 cylinders until after I got to work. I can't wait to see what she'll do on all 4

Careful with that - cranks can get wrecked running for too long with seriously unbalanced forces on them.

[GS1150Pilot]

Except for the fact that it was stock ...

[posplayr]

My old gs750 (78) I ended up losing my liecence on got clocked doing 230 kph (143mph) in a 50kph (30mph) zone (just got off highway after giving a Kawasaki Z1300 the rear end view) bike was pretty stock apart from chain and sprockets.
(I really miss that bike) started my love of GS's

That sounds like an old 78 7-11

[GS1150Pilot]

I had my much-modded FZ1 over 150 far too many times, and had my wacked 750 turbo up to about 160 before the fear of the afterlife's irreality kicked in.

I've had the big GS above 100 a couple of times, but not far and not for long. Once, just to stomp on a kid in his WRX when he tried to pass me at the merge on an onramp, the other time, just for grins after a carb sync.

[dorkburger]

Many,many, many, moons ago I had the 1150es in the 120s for a brief instant at the top of 4th gear before backing off.....

Yes it was dumb......I giggled....

[GS1150Pilot]

My old gs750 (78) I ended up losing my liecence on got clocked doing 230 kph (143mph) in a 50kph (30mph) zone (just got off highway after giving a Kawasaki Z1300 the rear end view) bike was pretty stock apart from chain and sprockets.
(I really miss that bike) started my love of GS's

My Zuma would do about 125 flat out.

should get at least another 10 mph on 4 !!

So far on my gs650g, 65 throttle pinned running on 2 cylinders, didn't know about the 2 cylinders until after I got to work. I can't wait to see what she'll do on all 4

Waze is the other app I have, like gas buddy for gasoline prices, users report speedtraps, accidents, etc and it is a full service map/navigation app.

Waze has quickly become my go-to app for travel of any sort. The real time traffic speed data is priceless for getting where you need to go on time, my only problem is finding a decent way to operate the tablet while on the bike.

My old gs750 (78) I ended up losing my liecence on got clocked doing 230 kph (143mph) in a 50kph (30mph) zone (just got off highway after giving a Kawasaki Z1300 the rear end view) bike was pretty stock apart from chain and sprockets.
(I really miss that bike) started my love of GS's