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From: B-12 on 4 Oct 2006 08:34 The Older Gentleman wrote: > I rode one to the bike show in Germany in 1986, and then on down to the > South of France for the Bol d'Or, and then back to the UK. A 2000-mile > round trip. I must say it bashed along at 80+ all day quite happily. > Nice torquey little engine. > > I never knew they raced them, mind. A bit like racing cruisers, IMHO. The GS-450L was a cruiser. It didn't handle well becasue the rear wheel was too large. But the GS-450 with normal sized wheels formed the basis for a popular box stock racing class. However, box stock racing in the early 1980's didn't live up to my GP imagination. I thought that a racebike should alternate between high dB screaming and 2-stroke cackling. I had a yearning for a TZ-250 or a TZ-350 but didn't know how to get one on a limited budget. When I saw the the hoardes of GS-450's and GPZ=550's circulating Willow Springs in muffled silence, I thought of them as electric utility bikes. I didn't gain respect for the unpretentious middle class box stock machines until they humbled my 1100, even in the higher speed portions of the racecourse. One of the GS-450 racers I knew bought the first Ducati 851 that I ever saw. He just had to bring it to the Griffith Observatory to try it out on the twisty park roads and show it off to the gang, but a motorist did an unexpected U-turn in front of him and his $12K Duc was wrecked the very first day.
From: Larry Blanchard on 4 Oct 2006 11:32 SoCalTom wrote: > > "Larry Blanchard" <lblanch(a)fastmail.fm> wrote in message > news:12i5236julgpha2(a)corp.supernews.com... >> And as long as I'm asking questions, I read somewhere that all of the GS >> group >> shared many common parts. Does anyone know of a website that covers these >> equivalencies? >> > www.thegsresources.com > Just took a quick look - looks good. Thanks. -- It's turtles, all the way down
From: The Older Gentleman on 4 Oct 2006 14:50 B-12 <flying_booger(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > but a motorist > did an unexpected U-turn in front of him They all do that, sir :-( -- BMW K1100LT 750SS CB400F CD250 Z650 GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60 ANORAK#06 YTC#3 BOF#30 WUSS#5 The bells, the bells.....
From: Mark Olson on 4 Oct 2006 15:37 The Older Gentleman <chateau.murraySPAMKILL(a)dsl.pipex.com> wrote: > B-12 <flying_booger(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > but a motorist > > did an unexpected U-turn in front of him > > They all do that, sir :-( Happened (more or less) to a buddy of mine this morning: "[He] said the woman in the lane next to him locked brakes and spun. He appartently tried to avoid her (She was in his lane backass wards) and doesn't remember much else." http://www.visi.com/~olsonm/whoopsie He's a bit bruised but apart from not remembering much appears to be whole. -- '01 SV650S '99 EX250-F13 '98 ZG1000-A13 OMF #7
From: The Older Gentleman on 4 Oct 2006 16:43
Mark Olson <olsonm(a)tiny.invalid> wrote: > http://www.visi.com/~olsonm/whoopsie That looks like it used to be a nice Wing. -- BMW K1100LT 750SS CB400F CD250 Z650 GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60 ANORAK#06 YTC#3 BOF#30 WUSS#5 The bells, the bells..... |