How fast is is your old GS?

[wacky941]

are you crazy or just wacky ????

At that point in my life I would say both

I was young, dumb and thought I was bullet proof now, I'm older, wiser and amazed I survived.

 

[wacky941]

Top speed of an '82 1100 was 141 mph. That's with a 150 lb Japanese test rider on it, at sea level. Top speed in 4th at redline is 120 mph

All I know is the cop told me that his radar showed that I was doing 149, in fact the only reason he let me go was because I stopped when I saw him, I actually pulled over and waited for him to come and get me.

And just for the record, when this ocurred I weighed 131 lbs. now I look like a balloon and weigh in at 210 lbs.

 

[blowerbike]

you silly kids and your motersicles:-\\\

 

[Guest]

Must be a turbo

 

[Guest]

I know my '82 GS1100E does 85 at least, because that's what the highest reading of the speedometer is, probably good because it keeps me from trying to top it out, a kind of "why bother." I had a '78 Skunk that I got a 140 reading on when I topped it out, but that speedometer had so much
error in it, I was lucky if I was doing 130. That was when I was so much
younger, 70 seems pretty fast to me now, at least at a sustained speed.

 

[madman]

Old GSs Go Not Bad

Old GSs Go Not Bad

Had some GS 1000 s back when they came out. One with a wiseco kit ,andrews cams 29 smoothbores, ported head. I think it was the super ?? street kit? Put in Valve springs the oil pump gear mod (the 750 s) also crank welded. On our Highway one day coming from Toronto to Guelph Line saw 12,600 rpm on tachometer. It probably wasnt accurate BUT they never really are. I did give a quick glance downwards and saw the speedo needle at the m in the MPH logo on the dial. I had the 240 kph speedo and I think I was going faster than that that day due to being in a bit of a run with one of those wooden bumpered OPP cruisers which i left behind a ways. Back then we all drove funny. Now just track stuff no street riding. Im too dumb for street driving.

 

[ozman]

All I know is the cop told me that his radar showed that I was doing 149, in fact the only reason he let me go was because I stopped when I saw him, I actually pulled over and waited for him to come and get me.

And just for the record, when this ocurred I weighed 131 lbs. now I look like a balloon and weigh in at 210 lbs.

obviously the cop was using a KPH setting !!!!!













;

 

[Buddy]

Mine'll do 0-70 sometime this week.

Buddy

 

[Craig54]

fast enough to get a $330 fine after getting the valves adjusted and having flash backs to the 70's

 

[1_v8_merc]

zoooooooommmmmmm

 

[FreshStart]

fast enough to kill me

 

[trippivot]

0-160 in 8 seconds in 1320 feet not the fastest in the world but better than most.

 

[Jestercinti]

80MPh. That's all my speedo went up to

 

[1_v8_merc]

80MPh. That's all my speedo went up to

Yeah, there's nothing quite like maxing out the Speedo, but you still hear the RPM's going up-up and away!

 

[makenzie71]

My 1981 GS750E went 593mph once.

 

[davidduarte]

sometimes my Garmin Etrex Legend will say I'm going 180 mph, usually when going under a bridge or something. I don't think my 450 could hit that speed even if I rode it off a cliff.

 

[zmaxmotorsports]

fast enough to get a $330 fine after getting the valves adjusted and having flash backs to the 70's

:clap:

 

[GregT]

After a recent race meeting I heard a Ducati 851 owner bragging in the bar about seeing 230kph on his speedo at the end of the front straight.
I jumped in and asked politely - was that just before our GS1000 passed you ?
Reduced him to spluttering noises into his beer....grins all round.

 

[tas850g]

I've spun the old GS850 up to 115mph with a touch more to go, I think. At this age, of the bike, I don't need to be going that fast anyway.

 

[ArtByScars]

110mph in November @ 28 degrees in upstate NY, had more throttle, but was waaaay too cold!