New 1982 GS1100G owner

[paulf]

G'day everyone,

I posted earlier on the forum about a GS1000G that i was planning to buy but ended up passing on that specific bike.

Today, I managed to buy a 1982 G1100G instead. Bike looks very original except for a 4 to 1 exhaust. It was an unexpected barn find...


The bike has done around 100 000kms and she sounds great. A bit of chain slap at idle but otherwise sounds very healthy.

Needs a bit of work cosmetically, but that is another reason i really liked the bike. I even got the original manual from 1982 and a box of spare parts.

Plan is to get her road worthy first and then decide on how much to restore her. I don't think I want to go the full resto route as she's got a lot of character and history behind her and i feel like I want to keep it that way.

Happy/safe riding everyone, Cheers

 

[rphillips]

Chain slap?? I'd hope not. Only chain in there is timing chain & auto tensioner should keep it from slapping. Would think probably the normal Suzuki clutch rattle. Seems you may have been set on a Suzuki "G". Nice looking bike, Congrats.

 

[paulf]

Chain slap?? I'd hope not. Only chain in there is timing chain & auto tensioner should keep it from slapping. Would think probably the normal Suzuki clutch rattle. Seems you may have been set on a Suzuki "G". Nice looking bike, Congrats.

Thanks for that rphillips.
Might as well be clutch rattle since pulling the clutch almost makes the noise disappear. I need to educate myself a bit more about the bike that for sure.

She's been sitting in a shed for a while too for the past few years while being started a few times a year so she needs a bit of maintenance work.

 

[rphillips]

Been sitting in a shed past few yrs. Get her sorted, I'm sure she wants, & needs, to be ridden. GS's have never been happy just siting around.