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Road trip with a trailer

Don R

Don R

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A friend put me in touch with a gs1100e owner that hadn't had his bike running in years. his health had gotten bad enough he was selling off his toys. We spoke on the phone and the next morning I picked up my big brother, a big coffee and his trailer and off we went to see a GS. I thought at the time guys are making videos of this kind of trip and getting paid. Anyway, it was a 3 hour drive on a 2 lane highway, we took a couple shortcuts going cross country. We arrived, the owner seemed pretty forthright, the bike looked good and the price was low enough I could afford the hit if the engine was toast. After a nice visit and some drag race stories, money and paper exchanged hands. We loaded up and headed for home with our prize. Along the way we stopped for lunch and a photo with the same F84 fighter jet where I got a pic of my old kz1000 when it came home.
 
Sounds like a great trip... Is it red, silver, black, blue, champagne, maroon, Bright red, or navy blue?... maybe we can figure what yr. model it is...WE WANT PICTURES... Then we can start the rest of the stuff. Oh yeah, Welcome
 
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Sounds like a great trip... Is it red, silver, black, blue, champagne, maroon, Bright red, or navy blue?... maybe we can figure what yr. model it is...WE WANT PICTURES... Then we can start the rest of the stuff. Oh yeah, Welcome
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I think those old fighters were generally all silver. :p
 
This one is black with the red and orange stripes. I'm working on posting pictures.
 

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Black with red and orange... tells us a "81" lunch box headlight model. Personally I like that style better than the later models, though I figure Rob will got to disagree. Looks pretty dang good, should hopefully be a very nice get her up and going project. Is those 33mm smooth bore carbs?
 
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Yes, 1981. The carbs are smoothbore Mikunis but I think they are 29's. I'm considering trading them in for 34 flat slides but I never get in too big of a hurry. I want to ride it a little more and get to know the bike.
 
OOps, I hit the wrong button, the "82" was the beautiful champagne color or deep red. Wondering if 29's would be an upgrade to OEM, 34's?
 
Congratulations - that's quite a nice find. That model came stock with Mikuni BS34 CV carbs (1150's had BS36 CVs). With the pipe and pods, whoever set up those smoothbores just may have had them dialed in (which is a bit of an art). I'd ride it first for a while and then decide on the flatslides (which isn't a bad idea either). Don't forget, it was the world's quickest production bike with CV carbs, an airbox and stock exhaust!
 
Oh geeze, that's my old Suzy, best damn bike I ever owned. Bought it new in '81, and rode the well oughta it till I stuck it in the side of a Chrysler in"86.Take care of that, and always have it pointed where you intend to go before you pull the trigger.
 
The guy I got it from had one for a drag bike but lost it in a divorce. Years later he saw this one and bought it just to make the point that he can have a gs1100 if he wants one. He didn't really ride it a lot.
 
Oh yeah, an EX for sure. Put a lot of miles on mine!
 
Don R said:
A friend put me in touch with a gs1100e owner that hadn't had his bike running in years. his health had gotten bad enough he was selling off his toys. We spoke on the phone and the next morning I picked up my big brother, a big coffee and his trailer and off we went to see a GS. I thought at the time guys are making videos of this kind of trip and getting paid. Anyway, it was a 3 hour drive on a 2 lane highway, we took a couple shortcuts going cross country. We arrived, the owner seemed pretty forthright, the bike looked good and the price was low enough I could afford the hit if the engine was toast. After a nice visit and some drag race stories, money and paper exchanged hands. We loaded up and headed for home with our prize. Along the way we stopped for lunch and a photo with the same F84 fighter jet where I got a pic of my old kz1000 when it came home.
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Great find, and story, too. :)

I feel chastened as I did not recall anything about F-84 planes. I actually thought it might be a mis-type for F-86 Sabre which I did know of as I had an old friend who piloted them.:o

For anyone else like me, here is the Wiki story of the F84:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_F-84_Thunderjet
 
My brother was working on WB50's (look that up) when the air force was still playing with those jets. He saw it and knew all about it, was a thunderjet then got swept back wings. The engines and airframe never caught up with the F86 though. The "weather" they were looking for was mostly radio-active weather, tracking nuke tests.
 

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