Oh no, another one.

[sinkankan]

Bought this today, on a whim. Trolling though Gumtree (online buy & sell) and I was looking for a set of carbies for the GS850, and lo and behold there was a GS1100GK for sale around the corner. I thought that it would be a good spares bike, and messaged the owner. Apparently it was his day rider and he's upgrading to a newer bike, he owns a little motorbike store and has been doing very well selling Chinese quads and bikes.
I was at his doorstep at nine o'clock and we both went though the bike circling it a few times, started it up and went though the desk top full of spares as well. A $1000 later and I went home, got the trailer and loaded it up. Damn heavy bike with all the panniers and fairing on it, but it rides and runs sweet.
Funny thing was there three phone calls asking if he still had, and a guy even came around while we were loading onto the trailer wanting to buy it.
What am I going to do with it, well it's too good a condition to strip for spares, so I'll probably bump it for $2000 at the local bike swap meet coming up, and see if I can double my money. It's just had three months rego paid on it, so I can see this going fairly quickly. There's a growing band of brothers and sisters here in Perth converting these for side cars, and the shafties are very popular. Funny thing is I'm back to square one looking for a number four carby, because the air screw mixutre jet broke in the chamber and we can't get it out.

 

[tkent02]

Looks like a solid GK. Slap a nice paint job on it ad get $4000. You need a #4 BS 32? Would it be worth the cost of shipping it to you?

 

[storm 64]

Nice Gumball machine...
Nice deal on the motorcycle. Good luck with the flip.

 

[sinkankan]

Looks like a solid GK. Slap a nice paint job on it ad get $4000. You need a #4 BS 32? Would it be worth the cost of shipping it to you?

If it's good condition, what's the carby worth? Or can we trade something?

 

[Redman]

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Looks like a complete stock GK, which is a rare find. Most have been dee-Kayed.

Complete, except for not having the rear top trunk.

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[sinkankan]

We have the top rear trunk, where do you reckon all the spares are hiding? What does one mean, dee-kayed?

 

[tkent02]

Like DeLed only not as important.

 

[Guest]

Haha! Yeah saw this one too. $1700 advertised as. Nice deal for $1g. I rang but you must have been there!! dee-Kayed - means stripped of all fairing, panniers rack etc. making it just a g not a gk.

 

[sinkankan]

Yeah, there were three phone calls on his office phone while I was there his mobile (cell) went straight to message bank.
I've already got it advertised in the side car enthausist crowd here in Perth, I might get a few bits over the weekend. A lady I know who raced Suzuki engined sidecars reckons she spent another $5000 turning a GK model into a cross country sidecar unit, even equipped with a winch. So reliable and tough these old girls.

 

[520eek]

Yeah, there were three phone calls on his office phone while I was there his mobile (cell) went straight to message bank.
I've already got it advertised in the side car enthausist crowd here in Perth, I might get a few bits over the weekend. A lady I know who raced Suzuki engined sidecars reckons she spent another $5000 turning a GK model into a cross country sidecar unit, even equipped with a winch. So reliable and tough these old girls.

I would like to see some of her sidecar stuff...or at least hear some of her stories!

 

[sinkankan]

Look up Debbie Barlow, probably facebook would give you a better insight into this amazing lady's side car career.

 

[sinkankan]

Ka-ching

Ka-ching

Just been talking to a few "experts" from the GS Suzuki forums here in Australia, and they reckon I should re-advertise it for $2500, before the swap meet on March the 20th. Their rationale is that if anybody sees it in the local papers for $2500 and if they go to the swap meet they are bound to buy it. Swap meets can be funny things, bit's and pieces you think wouldn't sell are snapped up before the thing hits the ground, and some buyers get sticker shock when they see the item, usually at half price.
I walked away with $1100 from the last one a motorbike/car one weeks ago, $400 for a JAWA motor was the biggest ticket item, and being a country one it attracted a big city crowd thinking they were looking at barn finds. Truth was I recognised quite a few city sellers that travelled up for the day, they must of known it was a popular swap meet, the crowds didn't stop all day.
This one we run for the Vintage club is a premium event for the motorbike crowd in Perth, and it gets a few bikes bought and sold each year, I'm guilty on both accounts.

 

[Charlie G]

Why not just keep it. I'd take it over an 850 any day.....

 

[Redman]

................... What does one mean, dee-kayed?

If take a 1100GK and remove the fairing and the bags and the trunk and the brackets, then it will be like a 1100G. SO I made up the term "dee-Kayed", as in removed the K. (but is also something of a pun meaning has been decayed.)

Most GKs that are around have had the bags and faring and stuff removed, maybe because someone just didn't want that stuff or maybe because of crash damage.
Is still a GK, just a dee-Kayed GK. Will still have the bigger fork tubes and wider apart, and a couple other things where a GK has some differences from a G. And it will not have headlight and will not have turnsignals (and the headlight from a G will not fit).

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[sinkankan]

Haven't got the cash resources or room to keep it, and the 850 has been totally rebuilt to use as club bike in the Post 70's group. If I was going to get another it'll be something to turn into a Wes Cooley replica or a Katana. Then I'd sell off the GS850 to fund that resto project. It's all about the almighty dollar at the moment.