Thanks for the added info. I think the seat on the bike(non GK) is off an older 1000, hinges and latch removed. It is comfortable but I like the slight step in the stock seat. I’ll post some pictures if I can figure that out and give the old girl a bath, lots of road grime trailering it home in the rain for 400+ miles
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1984 gs1100gk
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Ah... stock GK seat doesn't have what would be called a slight step.
(see pics in two of the links in my sig line).
A G seat has what might be considered a slight step.
Maybe I am not understanding you complelty. Lets resolve that before I yack more.
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New member, and also new tinkerer of a gk. I'm attempting to replace the electronic ignition and I purchased a dyna s. I don't know anything about bikes but I'm mechanically inclined. I believe I got the wrong part. The bolt to fasten the rotor in place is a tad to small. Is there an adapter? Do I need to get a bolt with a shoulder?
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When I had an '84 GK, I replaced the stock foam and cover with the foam and cover from an '82 G seat. Frankly I found the G seat to be superior in comfort to the GK seat. There just wasn't enough room, it seemed to me, to move around on the GK Seat without raising way up onto the rear seat area. Just something to chew on in case you haven't done it yet.
I can vouch for the long-distance comfort of a plain G seat. However, part of that was simple endurance*. When I was riding the things day in, day out, it was comfortable, but more than once I was pushing myself to get back home the final 20 miles after a full day in the saddle. Of course, that was on the higher mileage of the two bikes, and the seat foam on that one had taken a pounding over a couple of hundred thousand miles, although it's serviceable enough still for local trips.
The other seat (currently on the daily user 80 bike) is about half the mileage, even though the same age, and it's definitely firmer to feel, so provided much longer term comfort when I swapped them over.
* Any time I was off the saddle for more than a fortnight, it took several days to get my ass broken back in to higher mileages and longer hours. At the end of a week I'd be back to normal.
The other seat (currently on the daily user 80 bike) is about half the mileage, even though the same age, and it's definitely firmer to feel, so provided much longer term comfort when I swapped them over.
* Any time I was off the saddle for more than a fortnight, it took several days to get my ass broken back in to higher mileages and longer hours. At the end of a week I'd be back to normal.
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