On my way to pickup another gs...

[rustybronco]

Yes its happening to me also, you buy one gs, you start to collect them.
sad disease isn't this affliction we call the gs series. !!!!

There was this 1980 GS850g listed in the parts bikes for sale section of this forum, by a user with the name of Nomad, who has had this gs since 83 and through a series of events has not been able to ride it for the last 9 years. Nomad (Mark) made me an offer I couldn't refuse, since I already was making the trip to Marshfield Wi to visit my brother in the hospital and it wouldn't be more than 200 miles off my original route , what the hey... add a new one.
I'll update this post with pictures when I pick it up later this evening, pictures of the bike, our trip, Mark if he will let me, and the bike as it progresses.
Dale

 

[DMB]

Met Mark last week when I picked up a pair of GT550's from him. He couldn't have been a nicer or more pleasurable guy to deal with. Just too bad what happened. Best of luck to him.

And that GS850 that you are picking up looks amazing.

 

[Billyboy]

This thread is useless without pics!!!

 

[80sGSfan]

Alright!

Alright!

Awesome - can't wait to see it! Good luck!

 

[rustybronco]

Met Mark last week when I picked up a pair of GT550's from him. He couldn't have been a nicer or more pleasurable guy to deal with. Just too bad what happened. Best of luck to him.

And that GS850 that you are picking up looks amazing.

So you're the one that picked the gt550's up last week.
The little time I talked to Mark last night, about setting a time to pick it up, I can tell he is a good guy, very accommodating for time, how long I could leave it before picking it up, offered to leave work if I needed to pick it up earlier, he seemed like a very good human being, and you confirmed it.

any pictures of the ones you bought?

 

[rustybronco]

This thread is useless without pics!!!

I'll update this post with pictures when I pick it up later this evening, pictures of the bike, our trip, Mark if he will let me...

patience...

 

[Billyboy]

patience...

Lookin' good!
I'd keep the fairing on it and ride, baby, ride....

 

[tkent02]

patience...

Nice bike, but how did you get the toolbox to levitate above the seat so high?
I can only get mine to come up about a foot or so, no matter how hard I concentrate.

 

[rustybronco]

Nice bike, but how did you get the toolbox to levitate above the seat so high?
I can only get mine to come up about a foot or so, no matter how hard I concentrate.

I'll ask mark when I see him, maybe he will share the secret.
about the only thing I can levitate is my hand.

on a second look, aren't those hooks on the tool box handle?

 

[DMB]

any pictures of the ones you bought?

Just arriving home with them. They were a bit wider than I had anticipated so I had to put one forward and one back wards on the trailer.

And here they are in my parking stall with the GS in the background.

Hopefully the GS will be running by July and then I can start on getting the GT running.

 

[80sGSfan]

Nice bike, but how did you get the toolbox to levitate above the seat so high?
I can only get mine to come up about a foot or so, no matter how hard I concentrate.

haha - lol!

 

[rustybronco]

Dmb, are your plans to restore one or both of them?

 

[Guest]

Nice bike, but how did you get the toolbox to levitate above the seat so high?
I can only get mine to come up about a foot or so, no matter how hard I concentrate.

Pfffff easy!
You just impart reverse Zeta potential impulse between 324 and 467 MHz.
Old trick.

 

[tkent02]

Pfffff easy!
You just impart reverse Zeta potential impulse between 324 and 467 MHz.
Old trick.

OK, that explains it. I only went up to about 300 or so.
Any higher and my head starts to hurt, guess I'm getting too much mercury accumulated in my brain cells.

 

[Zooks]

Yes its happening to me also, you buy one gs, you start to collect them.
sad disease isn't this affliction we call the gs series. !!!!

Don't fight it brother. I've got a shed full of old bikes and cars and now I have started collecting vintage engines and machines as well (agricultural stationary engines mainly). It's all good fun and you only live once.

Enjoy.

 

[Zooks]

Just arriving home with them. They were a bit wider than I had anticipated so I had to put one forward and one back wards on the trailer.

That's pretty standard practice when putting more than one bike on a trailer or ute (truck).

Nice score. It'll be good to see one (or both) of those old girls running again.

 

[Nomad]

Good Homes

Good Homes

Dave, Dale, enjoy the bikes. It was a pleasure meeting both of you. I know I did the right thing by selling the bikes through GSResources, good people. I'm looking forward to seeing the final products.

Dale, did the trailer pull behind all right? The storm that came up while loading the trailer headed south as you left. Have a safe trip.

As for the toolbox, it's for ice fishing tip-ups and only levitates above cycle seats. I'll have to set it on the shelf now.

 

[Craiger]

Great looking bikes. Congratulations rustybronco.

Nomad,

You sound like a great guy. One most of us would love to hang out with. I'm pretty sure I remember you posting several years ago. It's been about 4 or 5 years.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do for fun. Don't be such a stranger. I mean, you're going to need to keep an eye on these bikes from now on.

 

[DMB]

Dmb, are your plans to restore one or both of them?

The Plan is to restore one to its original condition with no mods or aftermarket stuff. Its the first two stroke that I have owned so that will be fun and different. Then depending on how many parts I have left I will either restore the second (probably find a third parts bike) or I will use some of the parts in a bobber/chopper project I would like to do. I know some of you won't like that, but I do. I like the old school bobber look, but they all have V-Twins and they all look the same. So I want to do something different and either put the GT550 engine in it or a new inline four from a GSXR or something so it looks a little different. But no matter what I do, there will be pictures.

 

[Craiger]

But no matter what I do, there will be pictures.

That's the important thing. LOL!

By the way, it looks like your bike has pee'd all over the pavement in your signature pic. )