Agreed
Agreed
Mostly it's a good and accurate compilation of the GS family. But one must be aware that his perspective is of European models. There have been some subtle differences between US models and those that were produced for Europe, Australia, and even the domestic Japanese market. Keep this in mind when using his site as a reference.
But it's still pretty good, for something compiled outside the factory, and an excellent referance for noobs. I started learning about Suzuki's the hard way. I raced offroad cross-country, as a privateer, and otherwise rode nothing but Yamamhas, and never on a public road, from my teens, until I was almost 30. Traded an old van for my first road bike, another Y, an XK-400 twin (400 twin 4 stroke, I know... friend had an RD400 2 stroke, that was fun, too), which ran the bowls dry every time I rode it (winning the only respect from owner #1 of about 10 whod owned it, and were afraid of it, at least too so to run the bowls empty.. I had rigged a gas cap with a long rubber hose, so I could inflate the tank up by lung power.... #1 hooked me up with a 750 petcock!), but ran into a dead GS650 with a bobbed butt, apehangers wchich had to go, a tiny tricycle seat, but (the clincher, love at first site) mostly 4 into 4 chrome cherry bombs that ended about the pegs, or so, and traded up. Rebuilt that, and that was how I discovered suzuki's. One exception, I had a blue suzuki t-something 100cc, but I had a YZ100 at the same time, and sicounted the old blue suze as laughable: literally, in fact, my best use for it was something to let my buddies ride, and fall off of, well worth it, to have company, and slapstick comedy. I used the YZ100 for that, later, but thats just plain cruel, only a couple of bungholes deserved that kind of beating, the last one destroyed it. But you know what a "buddy beater" is, for further referance, now, right? Anyway, my 650 went 999 US miles, and I smoked it, too, found by sheer coincidence, a perfect running 79 GS1000, for exactly what I had, ohhhh, was that better, cherry bombs, or not, I sure wish that I had YOU GUYS and this site, back then. I didnt even have the internet, but I had free dennis kirk cats, and another really strange dude, I met on my 650, who, rather than trying to convince me of anything at all, showed me his fist, since the tattoos on his knuckles prooved that he'd been the mechanic model for the shoot of the clymer do on that same 650. And in fairness, he just said "look, and look in your book", I would have laughed my ass off if he'd just told me that, usually, reallity is just over the top unpassable, unbelievable, and useless to otherwise pass as even half-assed fiction. Like an Alfa-Romeo I had that after the 3rd of the 4 times it ever stalled, complained to it's disbelieving prior owner, that it kept doing it at the exsact same spot, like it just wouldnt go there. Prior laughed his butt off, said I was pulling his chain, till he asked me, and I told him (something he knew I did not) where: it kept doing it less than 100 meters before it's ORIGINAL owners house. I was the 3rd, the guy I got it from just got the "chicken skin", with his hair all up, and that gasp, when I told him WHERE that car kept stalling (and for absolutely NO actual reason). 4th time, same place, I LIED to that car, with all my heart, like, and it started right back up, and never did it, anywhere, ever again, it was the most reliable car I ever owned, actually. Swear that car was almost alive, but that story is just too out there, in fact, I dindt feel I had to disclose or warn the next owner anything about that car, it wasnt "haunted", and the details of why I sold it, were too much to believe. And besides, he had that same thing I had for that car, and it wouldnt matter, that car was very "Christine", he was going to buy it no matter what. I raked him for everything he had, for as long as I felt like like, he promised "whatever I wanted, on terms", I made him proove that I didnt have to feel bad about getting him addicted to the thing, and its moods, he was already done for.
