How fast is is your old GS?

[GSXR7ED]

Fast enough to get me a 100mph state felony speeding ticket in NM....and not I have though been a couple times I should've of lol
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Ummm, yeah. About that triple digit/felony thing; doh!

We did some good speeds going to Gila.

Ed

[steve murdoch]

In 1984 at Sparta on my 1983 gs750e I did a 11.83 at 126mph. Bike was stock except for a 4-1 yoshi that I dropped the collector off at where 4 goes into 1. I weighed about 130lbs soaking wet. Beat the magazine time if I remember correctly.

That is big speed, Trevor.
My Kat had a Yosh, smoothbores and mild head cleanup from Fast by Gast. Best time was an 11.04, never got into the tens.
haha...130 pounds? Last time i weighed that i was 12.

[trevor]

That is big speed, Trevor.
My Kat had a Yosh, smoothbores and mild head cleanup from Fast by Gast. Best time was an 11.04, never got into the tens.
haha...130 pounds? Last time i weighed that i was 12.

I was the smallest boy in my high school of 1200. But I was fast! 😊😜

[storm 64]

Sparta or Cayuga?
I spent a lot of time at Cayuga in '86? with an '83 Katana.

Cayuga... I went there when the IDBA had a race there. It was around 86-88... I remember having Pea meal for breakfast. I thought it was some kind of oatmeal made out of peas.... You ever heard of Pea Meal?

[Guest]

My gs is capable of ludicrous speed lol

[steve murdoch]

Cayuga... I went there when the IDBA had a race there. It was around 86-88... I remember having Pea meal for breakfast. I thought it was some kind of oatmeal made out of peas.... You ever heard of Pea Meal?

Probably '88. I remember being at a bike only weekend and there was a lot Americans racing.
Terry Kizer and the white, turbo GSX1100 from Orient Express was the headliner.

Pea meal bacon is a common breakfast meat up here.
Sort of a cured ham, sliced and cooked like bacon Years ago it had a coating made out of ground peas but it is now a corn meal coating.
Tastes better than it sounds.

[80GS850GBob]

My 80 GS850G will do 85mph...then I'm out of speedo....so 85!{grin} That's what I plan on having to ever tell a police officer if need be- "{officer}Do you know how fast you were going?...{reply}...Yes sir, 85, cause that's all my speedometer says she'll do".{someone will be laughing after that...probably not him}

[Rob S.]

My 80 GS850G will do 85mph...then I'm out of speedo....so 85!{grin} That's what I plan on having to ever tell a police officer if need be- "{officer}Do you know how fast you were going?...{reply}...Yes sir, 85, cause that's all my speedometer says she'll do".{someone will be laughing after that...probably not him}

I got pulled over a year ago doing 90+mph. I showed the officer that the highest printed number on my speedo was 80, and he said, "Alright, I'll write you up for that." True story.

Now I'm a little worried, because I've switched to the '83 gauges which indicate 140 mph.

[80GS850GBob]

I got pulled over a year ago doing 90+mph. I showed the officer that the highest printed number on my speedo was 80, and he said, "Alright, I'll write you up for that." True story.

Now I'm a little worried, because I've switched to the '83 gauges which indicate 140 mph.

A) you have a half notch past 80, so she'll show 85.....
B) that was a nice guy for doing that...20 over is bad enough, cost wise...
C) "140mph speedo" - now your gonna be in trouble...me too soon{chuckle}

[shunnon]

LOL. Hold on. So my 1982 GS850g that has a speedo that only goes to 85 can go faster? I was under the impression that it had a governor preventing that to happen.

[GS1150Pilot]

It's called your right wrist.

[Sandy]

It's called your right wrist.

Unfortunately for many of us the right wrist is not connected to the governor in our brain.

[80GS850GBob]

Unfortunately for many of us the right wrist is not connected to the governor in our brain.

A)...an 850G ain't lite...over-all weight/tune is a possible factor.
B)...guys have two brains, as I recall....lol....neither are always that rational.

[GS1150Pilot]

Unfortunately for many of us the right wrist is not connected to the governor in our brain.

Too right. Thankfully, I survived the worst of that issue. I was far worse with the Turbo and the FZ1.

[jprice90]

Got mine up to around 110 before with a little more left, on the old tire, havent tried with new tire