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T-Nation Thread (My 2nd Thread) 3rd Overall (I think)

hello to my fellow 'T' owners! Spyder you have a really nice one, I plan to paint my T the same colour as you did. Also cut the back seat bump and cover it with leahter style fabric.$_27.JPG
 
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Here is the bad boy I picked last fall.
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Pb9717 said:
Still lovin my "T"...heres a most recent pic...just because I love this bike

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SimonCarbo said:
hello to my fellow 'T' owners! Spyder you have a really nice one, I plan to paint my T the same colour as you did. Also cut the back seat bump and cover it with leahter style fabric.View attachment 49858
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Very nice! Thanks for sharing your T's. Such a great bike to love and show off!


Ed
 
Well I am finally back on the road with my 82 1100T (7/11 Conversion). Took her out for a 30 mile ride around a local lake on Saturday. Happy with the results!!!

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Picked up a little project about a month ago.....1984 DR100. 40th Birthday gift for my wife. Bike needed a new CDI, which I changed. Started on first kick. Cleaned it up, rebuilt the carb and adjusted valves. Gave it to her on Saturday and she has gone on 3 rides so far!! :tickled_pink:

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The FIRST '83 1100T has sadly passed away 2 weeks ago...

She blew out her oil drain plug and burnt up before I knew it was happening...
She will be missed, but never forgotten.
She will come back from the dead next season as a 750 once again...
 
Damn!! That sucks! Wishing you the best of luck.


Spyder said:
The FIRST '83 1100T has sadly passed away 2 weeks ago...

She blew out her oil drain plug and burnt up before I knew it was happening...
She will be missed, but never forgotten.
She will come back from the dead next season as a 750 once again...
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It's been a while since last update. I suggested to a 450T owner to post here not that long ago...thx Norm, for reminder.


Ed
 
Very nice, Simon. Spring is almost here...and it's about time to ride!


Ed
 
Gs750tz

Gs750tz

An update on the 750T as written on this thread: https://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/showthread.php?250886-What-s-a-T

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To Suzuki, the GS750TZ is more than another new model, it's a solution. In the final analysis it might not prove to be the solution but for now it's at least a solution to a dilemma that the entire Japanese motorcycle industry, not just Suzuki, has been stuck on the horns of for the last few years: how to design factory-custom motorcycles to have precisely "The Look" that is so vital to their sales success without having them all look alike.


A Catch-22 situation, indeed, and the GS750TZ is Suzuki's response to it. The TZ is a decidedly conservative approach to the problem, though, not just in a way the bike looks but in the fact that it will be the only model in the company's entire 1982 lineup styled in this fashion (all the other customs will be in the usual L-model configuration). Apparently, Suzuki wants to test the waters of acceptance for a new generation of factory-custom motorcycles by cautiously dipping in with just one toe rather than jumping in feet-first. And instead of breaking any all-new styling ground, the TZ simply attempts to split the difference between customs and standard models. The styling still captures the essence of The Great American Street Cruiser, but some of the more practical ergonomic elements have been lifted from the standard-issue Suzukis.


What emmerges from this marriage made in Hamamatsu is a clean, simple, unpretentious motorcycle that almost looks more "classic" than "custom". There is, in fact, more than a hint of Triumph, circa late sixties, in the TZ lines.


Much of that Britbike look is no doubt due to the particular profile of the TZ's 4.5-gallon teardrop tank, especially with its Triumph-like color-contrasting knee cut-outs. But the overall effect of being a latter-day classic might be the result of the bike having an unfamiliar (for this day and age) combination of familiar pieces. The gas tank, for example, has the requisite custom-bike shape and the handlebar is conventional (read: not high-rise pullbacks) fare, but the two usually aren't found on the same motorcycle. Likewise for the stepped seat, fat 17-inch rear tire and simple rear fender (all custon-bike traditions); but the seat is not radically stepped, the fenders are not bobbed short and the front fork is not--and doesn't even look to be--extended (all standard-bike traditions). The difference, therefore, between this bike and the usual factory customs is that the TZ resembles a vintage Triumph before customizing, not after.


Mechanically, the TZ offers no such controversies, being essentially an E-model GS750 with major cosmetic differences and a few mechanical dissimilarities. Most of the latter are obvious (single front disc, drum rear brake, no anti-dive mechanism on the fork, different spoke pattern on the cast wheels), and the instrumentation was lifted directly from Suzuki's L-series street customs. Otherwise, everything else is identical to it's E-model counterpart.


That should assure the GS750TZ of being an extraordinary fast, fine-handling boulevard cruiser; but the issue at stake here is not how quickly it will move in the showroom. Suzuki believes, obviously, that the custom-styled market simply has to expand and that this is one of the directions it will expand in. It's our belief that there is a growing number of riders out there who will agree with Suzuki's philosophy. And for them, it can't happen a day too soon.



Ed

And for good measure...a pic of a 1983 model...the TD:

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Hello fellow "T" owners - just joined so I figure I would come post!
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Bringing this to the top. Any new "Ts" that want to introduce themselves by their owners?


Ed
 
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