What are the most beautiful GS models? Aesthetic questions

[GS1150Pilot]

Without question -- the 1983 GS850 G L ---

-- one man's opinion

Ah man, this just turned into an oil thread and someone threw down with SuperTech.

 

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Ooh, gloves are off. Don't you be badmouthin' my Walmart oil.

 

[Wingsconsin]

How can you not love this bike ..?? Yes it has some modifications


https://imgur.com/ufCOzkt

 

[trevor]

How can you not love this bike ..?? Yes it has some modifications


https://imgur.com/ufCOzkt

I'll go....step seat, extended forks, pea size tank, terrible ridding position, high handle bars...but it does have a GS engine, so that's good.
Just kidding...sorta....to each his own.

 

[rphillips]

OOhh, I remember when I really liked the redheads... Now days it don't matter, I just scarf up what ever's available.

 

[oldGSfan]

I just can't learn to like the new black wheel fad that has taken over. Even new upscale autos have very nice stylish cast wheels, then the paint them black &, to me, ruin them. The early GS cast wheels were grey, they looked a lot better if grey was painted black, but the silver rim and spokes had to remain silver. Like Suzuki started doing in later yrs.

Fad? Fad you say? Why I oughta tan your hide, you young whippersnapper. In my day, you got black wheels and you LIKED it! You youngins just go for gee-gaws and doo-dads, and don't appreciate pure beauty.

Oh. By the way my son said try black on the wheels and I did, I mean it's like $10 of paint. I like the look. Of course I do, it reminds me of me ol' Model T!

 

[Rob S.]

How can you not love this bike ..?? Yes it has some modifications


https://imgur.com/ufCOzkt

My turn...

I leave my BBQ grill in the backyard. I don't haul it around on the back of my bike!

 

[rphillips]

Rob, some folks like BBQ waaay more than you do... Same with bikes some like the "Cruis'in for Burger" bikes way more than you.

 

[Rob S.]

Eating and riding = non sequitur. I like to travel light. The fumes on a gas stop were always enough for me. But if you're a 'foodie', why not stash a stick of gum in your pocket? (ONE stick, not the whole pack.)

Me and the old riding buddies once went over the river and through the woods (to New Jersey) for an 'all you can eat' Chinese place. Took maybe two cars, but one guy insisted on riding his new '75 Gold Wing. I said, "Mike, you're going to regret this." "Nonsense," he said.

After the meal...
"Rob, you want ride my Wing home for me? I think I'd rather go back in one of the cars. Scott? Barry? Anyone???"

Moral of the story: you either eat, or you ride. And we were 19 years old!

 

[rphillips]

Go to New Jersey to eat??? I'd think way more reasonable if you were in New Jersey, go someplace else to eat. When I's in NJ the odor would kill your appetite.

 

[GS1150Pilot]

Go to New Jersey to eat??? I'd think way more reasonable if you were in New Jersey, go someplace else to eat. When I's in NJ the odor would kill your appetite.

You haven't been to NJ, have you? So much of that state is stunningly beautiful.

 

[rphillips]

Only been to Sewaren, NJ. Uncle and aunt lived there. Always figured there had to be a nicer part of that state, the area around Sewaren sure didn't depict anything like a "Garden State".

 

[GS1150Pilot]

Try Morristown and Clinton for a chance to understand why it is called that.

 

[Rob S.]

Even though the Palisades Interstate Parkway, which weaves between NY and NJ is my favorite, I've always had a weakness for the NJ Turnpike, since Grandpa had an egg farm in southern Jersey. The southernmost, rural area is my cup of tea, but farther north on the Turnpike is a nice big refinery:

"Located in Linden and Elizabeth, New Jersey, this refinery is the northernmost on the East Coast. It's owned by Phillips 66 and processes crude oil into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, propane, and heating oil."

You can't miss it. The aroma, the eye-watering goodness, the eternal flames burning off waste and all those pipes practically touching the shoulder of the Turnpike really stimulate the appetite. Hmm...sulfur! :beguiled:

 

[Rob S.]

Only been to Sewaren, NJ. Uncle and aunt lived there. Always figured there had to be a nicer part of that state, the area around Sewaren sure didn't depict anything like a "Garden State".

Fun thing to do in Sewaren: make electricity! :watermelon:

"PSE&G's Sewaren Generating Station is a 538-megawatt facility on 152 acres (62 ha) along the Arthur Kill. The facility had five steam generators and one combustion turbine. Four of the steam units were installed during and just after World War II, from 1942 to 1951.[SUP][12][/SUP] Generator 5, which included a gas/oil-fired boiler and two turbine generators, came down in 2002.[SUP][13][/SUP] Seawaren Unit #7 was installed in 2018, 538 MW, combined cycle combustion turbine, with one combustion turbine, one heat recovery steam generator, HRSG, and one steam turbine."

Just make sure you're grounded! :eek-new:

Some people call it the Garden State. I calls it the Hydrocarbon State.​

 

[GS1150Pilot]

New Jersey is gorgeous in so many places. Well worth visiting. Rob, please don't pollute this thread so that it ends up in the Vortex.

 

[dorkburger]

N.J......
20170826_085300 by Glen Brenner, on Flickr

We even have vineyards and wineries.

20170826_094537 by Glen Brenner, on Flickr

 

[rphillips]

Dang Rob, are you an electrical historian? Lot of interesting info. about that stuff. I think I remember uncle taking us to Edison NJ where light bulbs were invented. Main thing I remember is that constant terrible stench.... Nope Glen, I never saw anything like that in NJ, did see the ocean in NJ once, it was nasty with sea weed when we were there, thinking Point Pleasant Beach.

 

[Grimly]

Even though the Palisades Interstate Parkway, which weaves between NY and NJ is my favorite, I've always had a weakness for the NJ Turnpike, since Grandpa had an egg farm in southern Jersey. The southernmost, rural area is my cup of tea, but farther north on the Turnpike is a nice big refinery:

"Located in Linden and Elizabeth, New Jersey, this refinery is the northernmost on the East Coast. It's owned by Phillips 66 and processes crude oil into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, propane, and heating oil."

You can't miss it. The aroma, the eye-watering goodness, the eternal flames burning off waste and all those pipes practically touching the shoulder of the Turnpike really stimulate the appetite. Hmm...sulfur! :beguiled:

I just love the smell of hydrocarbons in the morning.
That's the smell of personal transport freedom.

 

[oldGSfan]

Maybe we need an 'ugliest' thread? I know the ugliest Suzuki ever, the Madura. Or as I called it, the Manure-a. But I digress.