You guys and gals in the USA are very fortunate to have so many bikes, and old (pre 1980) cars for that matter, come up for sale at reasonable prices.
I am occasionally surprised by how cheap some bikes are. You cant build them for the asking price. If it's running good and can ride it, why do people argue about a couple of hundred dollars?
I'm still not sure why riders wont travel a couple states away to buy a bike? I've bought a couple 2,000 and 3,000km away and rode them back.
No big deal and part of an adventure.
Yeah it *@%^$*@%^$*@%^$*@%^$s me when the tight arses buy an old GS bike and only to put cheapest oil in and wont spend $200 on new good tyres.
They whinge and complain about high prices of new OEM parts. Eg- a gs switch block from Suzuki for $150. It's new and will last 30+ years. But nope, they will pay $20 for a 40 year old part or some cheap Chinese crap. ugh.
Obviously there are some that have had bikes for so long they forget it's not 1989 and parts prices went up. haha! Even I realize that, and comparatively, my wages haven't gone up that much in 30 years? ha!
GS bikes are good quality, ride well, get good horsepower, reliable. There is still plenty of them around. Easy to work on.
I can find out about almost everything on a GS, mainly, actually wholly thanks to this forum and links, for the huge wealth of information available that has been imparted on us from the older members over the years. Thank-you to you all for the time and effort.
Will the gs bikes go up a lot? Maybe. I hope not. Great ones cost more than they did a few years ago, but nowhere near the prices of Honda 750/4 or the Kwaka z900. Oh well. I never bought bikes for investment.
Cheers.
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