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[DukeUK]

Hi all

Just introducing myself.

I've bought myself a bit of a project bike to give me something to do during the lockdown.

Its a 1982 GS1100GX without all the touring kit, its not in bad nick, but it's not brilliant.

So my plan is to give it a bit of a refresh and pimp it up a bit.

I'm in Leicestershire UK.

Got a few other bikes (Honda CBR600, Kawasaki Z1, Yamaha Super Tenere and KTM Superduke 1290 GT).

Kev

 

[Rob S.]

Welcome aboard! :encouragement:

Wouldn't mind seeing pics of the Kaw and KTM.

 

[salty_monk]

Nice collection of bike! Welcome to the madhouse!

 

[steve murdoch]

Welcome to the site, Kev.
Ditto on pics of the riding stable.
A buddy has a 1290 GT and i have ridden a 1290 R a couple times. Not sure i would still have my license if i owned either of them.

 

[DukeUK]

Thanks

Tried to upload a few pics, but it refuses to do it. Maybe there is a size limit or something? Any tips appreciated.

The 1290GT is a seriously powerful bike if you want to be a hooligan, but surprisingly enough it is also a really comfortable bike 2 up and easy to ride sensibly.

Kev

 

[Guest]

Thanks

Tried to upload a few pics, but it refuses to do it. Maybe there is a size limit or something? Any tips appreciated.

The 1290GT is a seriously powerful bike if you want to be a hooligan, but surprisingly enough it is also a really comfortable bike 2 up and easy to ride sensibly.

Kev

Welcome!

imgur.com is a good site for uploading pictures, then you just choose the "from URL"-tab on the picture thing, and it will show (and that lets you do high res too). Some prefer flickr (but its a bit fancy smanchy and requires an account I think).

I wish I had an adventure bike.

 

[Rob S.]

...if you want to be a hooligan...

Why were you looking at me when you said that?

 

[Redman]

Hi all

Just introducing myself.

I've bought myself a bit of a project bike to give me something to do during the lockdown.

Its a 1982 GS1100GX without all the touring kit, its not in bad nick, but it's not brilliant.

So my plan is to give it a bit of a refresh and pimp it up a bit.

I'm in Leicestershire UK.

Got a few other bikes (Honda CBR600, Kawasaki Z1, Yamaha Super Tenere and KTM Superduke 1290 GT).

Kev

THanks for intro Kev.

Did you mean 1100GK ....?

Pictures would be good.
Is best to host pictures on some other site like Imgur or Flickr or a few others, then use what they call their "share" function to copy the BBCode (maybe called IMG code), and paste that in your posting, will then show up as the photo image.

Welcome to TheGSR.

 

[DukeUK]

Quite right its a GS1100GK not a GX. Glad one of us is paying attention.

Trying to post a pic of the KTM, others will follow if it works.


Yeeeehhhhh .... This is the ktm at the Cat and Fiddle

This is the Z1 in the back garden

This is the Super Tenere in the Pyrenees last year

This is the CBR somewhere in the Pyrenees a few years back

And last but not least the GS1100GK as it is at the moment

 

[steve murdoch]

Oh man, how do you choose?
Some lovely hardware there.

 

[Rob S.]

The Kaw is a '75 (Z1B), correct? Anything not stock on it?

 

[DukeUK]

Yes it's a Z1B but a '74 model. It had a full nut and bolt restoration in 2007 by RWHS in Market Drayton. I bought it from them a few years ago. It's pretty much stock.

 

[DukeUK]

Oh man, how do you choose?
Some lovely hardware there.

Thanks. There is always a favourite but its never the same one for long lol

 

[allojohn]

Wow, living the dream!

 

[Redman]

Exceptional bikes there. Thanks for posting pics.

Pyrenees

Pyrenees

THe only time I ever expect to see the Pyrenees is when watching Tour DeFrance on TV.


Yep that is a GK (not regular G), I can see the extra gussets on downtubes for the fairing mounts. I have reason to suspect that is not a stock GK front end, maybe a G front end. I mention this only since the GK front end has larger diameter fork tubes (41mm not 37?38?) and fork tubes are spaced further apart (effecting tripple clamps, headlight mounting and front fender), and such might effect parts selctions, such as fork seals.

 

[Rob S.]

Yes it's a Z1B but a '74 model.

I'm a little confused. I thought a '73 (what I owned) was just a plain Z1, '74 an "A," '75 a "B," and a '76, a KZ. 1977 brought the KZ1000.

I also thought '73s and '74s came with black engines.

 

[DukeUK]

Yep your correct, it's a 1974 Z1A not a B. I think some of the early 74's came with the black engine, but they changed this because the paint kept coming off.

 

[DukeUK]

Wow, super impressed with that.

I thought it was a GK because of the fairing mounts (well that and the fact it said GK on the side). But this might explain something. I bought some s/s brake lines for a GK and they don't fit. The bottom hoses for the front are OK but the top one is about 100mm too long. Also I did a search on the forum and the consensus was the front bearings were 45mm diameter whereas mine are 42mm, although the Wemoto ones were also 42mm and fit fine, so I could just be getting paranoid. I've bought some fork seals so I'll let you know when they don't fit lol. The Wemoto brake disks also don't fit but I think that was just a cock up from their end.

I can certainly recommend the Pyrenees to anyone on this side of the pond who hasn't tried it. We ship the bike down to Barcelona and pick it up from there so it saves the 900mile motorway boredom.