How fast is is your old GS?

[81GS750]

145 ish on the 1100E and it still had more. GS550E topped out around 120-125, 750E don't know yet, it's not finished.

[posplayr]

I picked up a street race with a 2005 gsxr 750, we just rolled full throttle after a stop light on a long straight away with no side streets,we were a equal distance apart till my bike started to sway at about 160ish, my bike was a 82 gs1100e with a 86 gsxr1100 motor and 88 gsxr front end

Nice bike ; did you do any bracing? Is the 1052cc stock?

Also sounds like an interesting race. The 1052 must have more torque than the GSXR 750, but with the GSXR full fairing once you hit 100 mph the advantage would be gone.

[wacky941]

I got busted in 1983 on my first '82 GS1100EZ for doing 149 in a 40 while on one wheel flying down NAVY rd in Millington Tennessee I had the rest of fourth and all of fifth to go.
I don't have a clue as to the top speed of the bike but in 82 I pulled it up at 120mph and sped off from a friend who was in a car, finally backed off the throttle when the helmet I was wearing began choking me due to the pressure from the speed, don't know how fast I was going because the speedo stops at 85.

[posplayr]

I got busted in 1983 on my first '82 GS1100EZ for doing 149 in a 40 while on one wheel flying down NAVY rd in Millington Tennessee I had the rest of fourth and all of fifth to go.
I don't have a clue as to the top speed of the bike but in 82 I pulled it up at 120mph and sped off from a friend who was in a car, finally backed off the throttle when the helmet I was wearing began choking me due to the pressure from the speed, don't know how fast I was going because the speedo stops at 85.

are you crazy or just wacky ????

[Guest]

I got busted in 1983 on my first '82 GS1100EZ for doing 149 in a 40 while on one wheel flying down NAVY rd in Millington Tennessee I had the rest of fourth and all of fifth to go.
I don't have a clue as to the top speed of the bike but in 82 I pulled it up at 120mph and sped off from a friend who was in a car, finally backed off the throttle when the helmet I was wearing began choking me due to the pressure from the speed, don't know how fast I was going because the speedo stops at 85.

Top speed of an '82 1100 was 141 mph. That's with a 150 lb Japanese test rider on it, at sea level. Top speed in 4th at redline is 120 mph

[wacky941]

are you crazy or just wacky ????

At that point in my life I would say both

I was young, dumb and thought I was bullet proof now, I'm older, wiser and amazed I survived.

[wacky941]

Top speed of an '82 1100 was 141 mph. That's with a 150 lb Japanese test rider on it, at sea level. Top speed in 4th at redline is 120 mph

All I know is the cop told me that his radar showed that I was doing 149, in fact the only reason he let me go was because I stopped when I saw him, I actually pulled over and waited for him to come and get me.

And just for the record, when this ocurred I weighed 131 lbs. now I look like a balloon and weigh in at 210 lbs.

[blowerbike]

you silly kids and your motersicles

[Guest]

Must be a turbo

[Guest]

I know my '82 GS1100E does 85 at least, because that's what the highest reading of the speedometer is, probably good because it keeps me from trying to top it out, a kind of "why bother." I had a '78 Skunk that I got a 140 reading on when I topped it out, but that speedometer had so much
error in it, I was lucky if I was doing 130. That was when I was so much
younger, 70 seems pretty fast to me now, at least at a sustained speed.

[madman]

Old GSs Go Not Bad

Had some GS 1000 s back when they came out. One with a wiseco kit ,andrews cams 29 smoothbores, ported head. I think it was the super ?? street kit? Put in Valve springs the oil pump gear mod (the 750 s) also crank welded. On our Highway one day coming from Toronto to Guelph Line saw 12,600 rpm on tachometer. It probably wasnt accurate BUT they never really are. I did give a quick glance downwards and saw the speedo needle at the m in the MPH logo on the dial. I had the 240 kph speedo and I think I was going faster than that that day due to being in a bit of a run with one of those wooden bumpered OPP cruisers which i left behind a ways. Back then we all drove funny. Now just track stuff no street riding. Im too dumb for street driving.

[ozman]

All I know is the cop told me that his radar showed that I was doing 149, in fact the only reason he let me go was because I stopped when I saw him, I actually pulled over and waited for him to come and get me.

And just for the record, when this ocurred I weighed 131 lbs. now I look like a balloon and weigh in at 210 lbs.

obviously the cop was using a KPH setting !!!!!













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[Buddy]

Mine'll do 0-70 sometime this week.

Buddy

[Craig54]

fast enough to get a $330 fine after getting the valves adjusted and having flash backs to the 70's

[1_v8_merc]

zoooooooommmmmmm