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  1. 850 Combat

    A new addition to the bicycling stable

    You can buy 27" tires, just not light high pressure fast rolling ones. A light strong fast rolling wheel set is the best upgrade you can give your bike, especially with high pressure kevlar bead tires. Low rotating mass and low rolling resistance are more beneficial than overall light weight...
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    A new addition to the bicycling stable

    Thanks for that, sir. I love every bit of it. Congratulations on your skills. Do you make the lugs? Are they commercially available? The badges are terrific too.
  3. 850 Combat

    A new addition to the bicycling stable

    Your own frames. I must say that is very impressive. I'm curious, after living in and working out of Alaska for 37 years, Why Kenai? It looks like a carbon fork, but you made the frame? That is incredible to me, I must say. What are the gigs like? I've no idea. As to a Tange fork, my...
  4. 850 Combat

    New GS1000 owner in Denver

    I think it is a 1980/1981 GS1100E tank. I don't hate the color really. Its a Throwback Thursday bike.
  5. 850 Combat

    A new addition to the bicycling stable

    Factory pinstriping off of a Raleigh. I bought the used fenders for $20. There is a Rat Fink sticker over the "Raleigh" name. I've got at least 1 set of new chrome fenders left. The fenders are actually nice in urban riding. They help preserve the "sheep" look too. Most of these China...
  6. 850 Combat

    A new addition to the bicycling stable

    I've never stopped loving bicycles. I sold my last road bike a while ago. I've been collecting some Schwinn Homegrown hard tails. I love to upgrade them. Lately, I have been into buying a certain model of China Schwinn beach cruiser that has an aluminum frame, and a junk 7 speed freewheel...
  7. 850 Combat

    POR-15 Fuel Tank Repair Kit - Lessons Learned and Proper Application

    I only used POR15 once, in the 80s. I had sent out the tank on a '68 Royal Enfield 750 Interceptor to have it rechromed and a couple dents filled with braise and ground down. When it came back, it looked fantastic, but it leaked a little in a seam. I used the POR 15, following the...
  8. 850 Combat

    1980 GS1000G - Smoke at start-up - should I buy?

    It looks nice, at least what you can see. That's worth a lot in my opinion. I bought a 60,000 mile 1100G a decade ago. A couple times, it had a real big blue smoke fest upon start up. It ran about 10,000 miles in my loaner fleet. I gave it to my brother after the last tour, which was over...
  9. 850 Combat

    First large bike: GS 550 - moped graduate from Lowell Massachusetts

    It isn't light, but it is compact. There are a lot of survivors, and I think that is because they are tough, not because they were cherished. It is a reasonable choice. Good luck with it. It sounds like you have prepared yourself well for it.
  10. 850 Combat

    Vetter windjammer.

    The windjammer is way better functionally than the package my BMW R80 RT had, and way better than the 2005 Concours 1000 I had. The protection with the Vetter was way better. The noise and buffeting with the Windjammer was way less, especially the ones with the eyeball vents in the windshield...
  11. 850 Combat

    GS1100GK engine rattle at low revs

    I have had carbs so out of synch that the primary gears rattled a lot. Charlie, my cam chains are probably messed up. Hey, there is a knob...Why not try twisting it?
  12. 850 Combat

    Replace stator as a maintenance item?

    I got rid of all of my GS850 except for one that I bought with 1000 miles, used it as a loaner, and it has been parked (and prepped for storage) for years with 11,000 miles. Stock except the Gold Wing R/R. I do have a couple GS1000G, one with an '83 1100G motor, and my brother's 1100G I try to...
  13. 850 Combat

    Replace stator as a maintenance item?

    On where I had up to four GS850, 1100, and 1000, on family tours, my plan was to buy a spare battery if I had a charging problem. Rotate the battery through the fleet so there is always a charged spare. Pull the headlight fuse on the non charging bike. The ignition it self uses very little...
  14. 850 Combat

    Washington state to South Carolina

    Personally, I would avoid interstates, Particularly any Interstates around the great Lakes. US 26 Runs between Seaside, OR and Ogallala, NE, which isn't that far from the GS Rally. US 20, which runs from Newport, OR to Boston, is too close to 80/90 around the Great Lakes. 224 or 30 are is...
  15. 850 Combat

    C/L Denver 1972 Suzuki 500 Titan 5600 miles $5500

    I know that the 4 leading shoe drum from the GT750 is sought after. I never heard the same about the brake from the Cobra/Titan. A Titan was the first fulll sized motorcycle I ever rode, back in maybe 8th grade. I remember you could buy new ones in like 1977 for $800 in the maroon and wight...
  16. 850 Combat

    From lurker to newbie - 2nd startup

    When that bike was new, I came very close to buying one like it. As a stock bike, it fit me extremely well. My brother talked me into keeping the bike I had. It was light metallic blue, with flat black in the horizontal panels on the side of the fairing. Do you have the Krauser bags for that...
  17. 850 Combat

    best place to attach battery tender cable

    Great photo,by the way
  18. 850 Combat

    best place to attach battery tender cable

    Whilr yoy are in there, I would consider grounding the solenoid mounting post to the battery, and to an additional location on the frame, like a battery box mounting post.
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    Terry Vance

    I happened to be up at Willow Springs with my nephews to watch some club racing. As it happened, both Muzzy Kawasaki AMA Superbike team and Vance and Hines team was there too. I was riding my TR25 from vantage point to vantage point. I happened upon Mr Muzzy and Mr. Vance by the pit wall...
  20. 850 Combat

    EBay 1981 Kawasaki GPz1100 Local Pick up Machesney Park, Illinois

    My nephew is looking at KZ1000Ps from the late 90s to early 2000s. Can't find a parts Fitch for those at the usual suspects. I don't want to remove cams for that job.
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