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  1. gtem

    New Rider.

    Congrats on the new bike for the newly minted rider! A dual sport (a cheap chinese one at that) is a GREAT first bike IMO. Not much to break if he drops it, not too much power to get in trouble, plus they're just plain FUN with the upright seating and nice wide handlebar and low weight. That...
  2. gtem

    New Forum Member and Questions Regarding My "New" 83 GS850L

    FWIW I've mounted up 4 pairs of Shinko 712s in the last two years and have liked them just fine, jury is out on longevity as I don't put that many miles on any of my bikes currently but they mount up and balance well (minimal weight needed, sometimes none), and seem to grip the road well. Brian...
  3. gtem

    anyone go for a ride today? Pics?

    Did another "shakedown" jaunt up the old Michigan road on the XS1100, made it 35 miles north up to the small town of Burlington IN, turned around to top up at a gas station then zipped back home. Arguably some of the more boring riding you can do: just buzzing past cornfields and through tiny...
  4. gtem

    anyone go for a ride today? Pics?

    Took my 78 XS1100E for a nice evening shakedown run up the Michigan Road (Route 421) north from my house to Kirklin and back. I think the jetting is finally just about spot on. Amazed at how smooth and torquey this thing is! Sorry to say I enjoy it more than my old GS1100E, even with the...
  5. gtem

    what did you wrench on today??

    I take it you're a bit of a Chrysler 300M enthusiast then? I always liked those cars. Comfy mile eaters.
  6. gtem

    Oil cooler kit for 1980 GS1000?

    I have an original Lockhart cooler with some sort of Kerker bypass(?) unit along with the correct oil pressure switch adapter that I pulled off a '82 1100G I resurrected. Let me know if you're interested I can dig it up, clean it up and take some pics.
  7. gtem

    what did you wrench on today??

    Have been tinkering with two of my new(er) to me bikes: a '78 XS1100E and a '80 Harley FXS80 Low Rider (shovelhead motor). The Harley got all of the (many) rubber oil lines for the oil tank, primary lubrication, and oil cooler. bwringer graciously mounted up the new Dunlops up at his place...
  8. gtem

    anyone go for a ride today? Pics?

    Didn't take a single pic but bwringer and I rode out to the Tulip Trestle railroad viaduct over near Bloomfield IN yesterday (the largest of its kind in the world it turns out!). Brian was on his FJ-09, I was astride my Bandit 1200. It was a fast fun ride, grabbed some lunch at the YoHo...
  9. gtem

    000,003 mile 79 1000S on BaT

    The '80 XS850G is a pretty rare bird, they sold a WHOLE lot more of the 750/850 Specials than the standards. Wouldn't mind having one myself to be honest. I helped my brother buy a clean '79 XS750F two years ago, 4k mile original bike that had sat for the better part of 40 years. The Triple...
  10. gtem

    1/2 price conventional 10W40 Castrol motorcycle oil at O'Reilly Auto Parts

    oh man I've got a few Oreilly gift cards burning a whole in my pocket, this would be perfect. My fleet currently gets fed a steady diet of Rotella 15W-40 T4 diesel oil that all the bikes seem to run well with.
  11. gtem

    My new 1982 GS1100G

    I've been buying tires from Chaparral regularly (three or four sets of Shinko 712s in the last two years), both through Amazon and nowadays directly through their website. Zero complaints. Tires are priced well, arrive quickly, and I've not had any complaints about quality or how they ride...
  12. gtem

    anyone go for a ride today? Pics?

    Some warm (enough) weather here the last few days, blew the cobwebs out on the '81 GS1100E (for sale, if anyone's interested), did a few short rides on my tired old Yamaha XS500. For short rides on country roads I'm finding more and more that I enjoy the low-power Yamaha that's happy to doddle...
  13. gtem

    The Fear of Failure (First time restoration woes)

    I'll join the choir: leave that poor bike alone. Brian is spot on: too many of these builds are motivated entirely by aesthetics, which lead the owners to turning a nice running stock bike into un-rideable, poorly running junk. I'd focus on getting the engine/fueling sorted out 100% before...
  14. gtem

    GSX1400…Anyone got one Stateside?

    Sorry can't be of any help with your actual question, but I will say that if they DID sell one of these bikes stateside, I'd say I'd already own one! Love the Big Bore Suzukis, my current "fix" is my naked 2002 Bandit 1200.
  15. gtem

    Comparing a GS650 to GS850, 750, 550 etc…

    I commiserate completely. In fact, I have a middleweight 500cc UJM (my Yamaha XS500), a Suzuki GS, and a Bandit 1200 in my fleet. I won't even mention the Yamaha XS1100E I picked up this summer lol. I'm likewise doing some soul searching to figure out how to best thin the fleet. I...
  16. gtem

    Comparing a GS650 to GS850, 750, 550 etc…

    IIRC the 650 head had a sort of two valve variant of the twin-swirl design (single swirl?) that allows them to run a flat top piston with higher compression ratio than the older 8 valve GSes and get really good mpg (Cycle World saw just short of 60mpg with their 650G).
  17. gtem

    Comparing a GS650 to GS850, 750, 550 etc…

    I just sold a nice low mile 81 GS650G last month, my impressions having recently ridden/owned a 1100E, 1100G, 750E is that the 650G was a good bit lighter than the others, shorter as well which made the stock tall-ish handlebar feel even goofier than on the other bikes. If you're tall, I'd...
  18. gtem

    what did you wrench on today??

    Not yet for the moment I screwed it right back on. I'm convinced it's some kind of lean carb condition, though a dodgy spark plug wire that starts acting up under load(?) could perhaps give the same symptoms. Blogs not contributing at idle seems to be the most obvious thing to go off of at the...
  19. gtem

    what did you wrench on today??

    An update on the 650G, well I sorted out the rear brake and rolled out for a quick ride (wearing boots! and a helmet!). Something is definitely off about how it's running. Can't tell if one of the cylinders isn't full contributing, just seems to fall on its face under load. It sounds fine...
  20. gtem

    what did you wrench on today??

    Well, I took the 650G out for its maiden voyage around the neighborhood under somewhat dicey circumstances: in the dark, in flip flops, with the original 41 year old rear tire, rear brake in-op (rear master cylinder not pumping fluid after the rebuild... might have a passage plugged up with...
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