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  1. Chuck78

    Delkevic Exhaust - I just installed another set and the fit is awesome.

    My biggest comment was, upon ordering this newest Delkevic pipe to replace my smashed/dented header the other day, I realized that really the price hasn't gone up that much, BUT the pipes cost over $30 more if you buy them on eBay +due to eBay's fees) versus buying direct from Delkevic's US...
  2. Chuck78

    Delkevic Exhaust - I just installed another set and the fit is awesome.

    I just wanted to post up my praise and recent experiences before I even searched and found this thread. I've had multiple Vance and Hines and MAC pipes for GS's, one old Yoshi GS1000 pipe, and more recently 2 or 3 Delkevics. I have a GS1000 megaphone Delkevic which sounds great and is awesome...
  3. Chuck78

    Yoshimura style hand bent short exhaust gs 550

    and by the way, Yoshimura definitely made a GS550 pipe, I had my hands on one in the junkyard, and my good friend ended up buying it and still owns it. It is not the hand bent style but it is the classic mass produced Yoshimura stove pipe type exhaust.
  4. Chuck78

    Yoshimura style hand bent short exhaust gs 550

    Marving are great looking. Delkevic are awesome as well, but as you know, don't make a pipe for the GS550 or 650. I'm not sure what it would take to modify a CB550 pipe to fit a GS 550, but I have seen a replica Yoshimura CB550 pipe installed on a GS550, with stating that some modifications were...
  5. Chuck78

    Frame bracing, boxing vs tubing.

    Looking great Mark & Spiff! Got any more photos or ideas on how to better brace the ignition coil & front tank mounting areas? While still being able to fit in the coils & stock tanks? This is one big thing on my agenda for my GS400 canyon carver / track bike build, as those frames & 550's are...
  6. Chuck78

    GS Big Valve head

    Rich Graver's last GS450 incarnation: Rich Graver, GS450 racer, Grattan, 1991: Graver-Rich-Grattan-91 by chuck_lambert78, on Flickr: An AHRMA raced GS400: GS450 racer: food for thought.... with the Wiseco pistons bumping it up to 449cc and ~10.4:1, Big Jay / APE's big valves and head...
  7. Chuck78

    GS Big Valve head

    Is this a customer's bike you are working on? Is it a vintage race bike? Or just a hot rod? Thanks for the additional inspiration/motivation, Big Jay! Just seeing this and reading your 2 topics in this twins forum on these has really rekindled my desires to build a 500cc GS400/425 with a...
  8. Chuck78

    GS Big Valve head

    Now we're talking! MORE INFO, PLEASE! I have a few 425 heads and I think a complete 400 engine and maybe a 2nd 400 engine for parts awaiting me. I've been wanting to build a hot rodded GS425 big bore for some time now. I was contemplating oversized valves, but figured maybe a street porting...
  9. Chuck78

    Eastern US Mountain Riding Adventures!

    Aside from the more southern stretches we touched on with this trip, some of my other other favorite eastern US mountain pass twisties are in the Monongahela National Forest area including US33, US250, Smoke Hole Rd, Sugar Grove Rd, Reddish Knob Rd, etc... Nearby WV-15, WV-20, and WV-39 as well...
  10. Chuck78

    Eastern US Mountain Riding Adventures!

    Grayson Highlands overlook halfway up to the top of the roadways through the State Park: signal-2020-09-10-134616 by chuck_lambert78, on Flickr Just over the ridge of Clinch Mtn to a gravel overlook at the beginning of a forest service road that goes deep into the backcountry of Jefferson...
  11. Chuck78

    Eastern US Mountain Riding Adventures!

    Here's a link of one of my favorites routes in the Eastern USA... More to come later, just uploaded a dozen more photos to my Flickr: https://goo.gl/maps/SNmDWwGzerePREg4A That's all the points Google will let me plot in one map link, but we usually head out of Parkersburg WV on the Ohio...
  12. Chuck78

    Eastern US Mountain Riding Adventures!

    We honestly did not expect to run into Killboy type photographers down there on Route 16, but it's gained massive popularity/publicity as a motorcycle destination in the past year since my last visit. They have a Back of the Dragon welcome center and coffee shop/cafe in Tazewell now even, there...
  13. Chuck78

    Eastern US Mountain Riding Adventures!

    And yes, those are the promo low resolution versions of the professional photographer photos that are now available for yet another of the Eastern USA giants as far as amazing roads - I plan to purchase the best 2 or 4 of the bunch, loaded in my shopping cart awaiting any sort of Advance Auto...
  14. Chuck78

    Eastern US Mountain Riding Adventures!

    Being in (fairly flat) central Ohio, the Appalachian plateau foothillls start rising up to fun and scenic proportions about 45 minutes or an hour Southeast or East of me... and there are a TON of GREAT motorcycle roads down that way that beat out the offerings of 75% of the rest of the USA for...
  15. Chuck78

    Labor Day Weekend Get Away

    Stormin' Norman! Geesh it's been at least 5 or 6 years since I rode with you on a Labor Day weekend! Tazewell, Tennessee? I went through Tazewell, VIRGINIA Friday and Saturday! Is there a TN city of the same name, or are we talking about the same place just north of that ripping triple...
  16. Chuck78

    Saddlebag support frames / stays

    I got a set of those pictured waiting for me to pick up from my buddy's house. Our wives both work for a big internet motorcycle parts seller company (mostly working from home due to the pandemic). Cost + 10% was surprisingly SIGNIFICANTLY less than the cheapest eBay prices, and for something...
  17. Chuck78

    Saddlebag support frames / stays

    Well... don't everyone go an answer all at once, now! https://saddlemen.com/s4-saddlebag-support-bracket-system-universal These look to be the best choice for my intended installation:
  18. Chuck78

    Shims for valve ajustment

    Time for a machine shop valve job and evaluation of the valve faces. When they are worn that much that you are at the thinnest shims, the valve faces are very worn and eroded, and your head will be flowing in a sub par manner.
  19. Chuck78

    Saddlebag support frames / stays

    I had been using a thick vinyl faux-leather set of rectangular straight cut saddlebags for years, thrown over the seat & tied to the rear turn signal stalks, with a 17mm hex socket with a 3/8" threaded rod welded into the 3/8" square drive ratchet holes, & a fender washer & locknut on the inside...
  20. Chuck78

    Saddlebag support frames / stays

    Has anyone had any luck with getting universal saddlebag support frames / stays to fit a GS? I'm looking to buy some premade tubular steel support brackets and modify them to work on my '77 GS750. Looking for any recommendations on which generic set may be conducive to easy modifications to...
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