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Ride a modern 1000 sportbike for a week and that should kill any thought that your 11000E is wheelie prone.
You are assuming that because it is not burning oil, it's just like brand new. Fact is, he did not get a dyno pull done this year in stock form before the pipe and jet so we don't know for sure how much hp it had. I can tell you though, when a friend of mine bought a 14 year old (at the time) GS1100E that ran just fine, no oil burning or smoking, and was pure stock, it definitely did not have as much hp as they did when brand new. How do we know? Trap speeds at the drags, we knew people who had these things brand new in the early 1980s and therefore knew what a fresh one was capable of back in the day.
There was also apparently large differences noted at the drags by otherwise identical bikes later attributed to manufacturing tolerances in head work. While I might tend to agree that aging might reduce up, 30 year after on this case the old gs seems to be improved with age which is less likely the case.
True, but we were comparing to actual people that we knew, not to the magazine articles of the day. It was far enough away from theirs that it was obvious the engine was not as sharp as new.
