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Tire bead question
- Thread starter wilsonsandy07
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My 1980 GS850GL had tubeless on the bike when I bought it. Replaced with the same. Have had no issues until I left it sit in my garage for several years and it did go flat and break the bead. Had to use a ratchet strap to get it to fill with air again.
The parts drawing do show a tube for mine.
The parts drawing do show a tube for mine.
1980 and 1981 front wheels were the same PN.
I haven't owned one, but I've done other work on at least three or four other examples of '82 and '83 GS1100E. None had tubes by the time I saw them, and none had any issues.
"80" & "81" front have same part # except color code at end, 80 grey, 81 black. All 850GL front wheel description says (N19xMT 1,85), even when part # changed for "82" & "83" the description stayed the same, all have the MT. "80" diagram shows an inner tube, part #17 on list says inner tube (3.50x19). The "81" diagram shows no inner tube and in the parts list there is no inner tube nor valve stem mentioned. After the part # changed in "82" none show an inner tube, but all show a valve stem... This all from Suzuki Parts Monster diagrams.
KiwiAlfa156
Forum Mentor
Interesting to note that the 80 and 81 OEM tyres listed in the parts diagrams for 850GL have different part numbers. 55100-45155 for the 80 (T) and 55100-45350 for the 81 (T).
It may be that the 80 bikes were delivered with a tube-type tyre and tube on early tubeless (MT) rims.
wilsonsandy07
Forum Mentor
awesome info from everyone, should be getting the new rubber mounted today so well see how she does tubeless! fingers crossed 
