Hi all..............from Essex....

[Guest]

Hi all.........my name is Rik....

looking forward to gleening and hopefully helping out where possible.

my new/old steed......

gs1

gs2

[Brendan W]

Hi Rik and welcome. Nice looking machine. Same colour scheme as my 850.
This is where a lot of info is http://members.dslextreme.com/users/bikecliff/

[Cyrano]

Welcome Rik, looks like a nice clean bike you have there. I like the MIcron fork brace.

[chedd]

welcome to the forum Rik,quite afew of us brits on here now,a great site with loads of info and willing members.

[Charlie G]

Welcome! Beautiful bike.

cg

[azr]

ohhhhhhhh..........chromed side stand...VERY nice looking bike. You European's get such nice paint schemes. Welcome to the sight. Sure would like to hear a sound clip of that Motad exhaust.

[Rikkd]

Thanks all for the welcome.......

great link to cliffs reference page....just bookmarked it.....azr....you wouldnt have Wanted to hear the exhaust this afternoon, it was like a bit of swiss cheese.....i was going to scrap it and splash out on a black marving.....but a young lad at work has just used it as a welding excercise......and made a grand job...looking forward to exchanging knowledge and chit chat with you all.....

[terrylee]

Welcome to great site! Very nice looking bike! Just follow the link Brendan W posted and should be good to go.

[michaelj_444]

Beautiful machine Rikkd and welcome to the site. Is it me or does it seem like the Euro bikes got all the cool paint schemes? :O)

Mike

[Rikkd]

Thanks terry...thanks mike.....

[GSXR7ED]

Essex County

Hey Rik, nice bike! Definitely like the paint scheme.

I lived in Braintree during the early 90s. One of the towns I party'd in was Colchester. Beautiful area for riding.

Ed

[Rikkd]

you right Ed.......there are some lovely roads and villages around there.........

Finchingfield is still popular.............

but feel you may have less cramped roads over there..........I'm jealous.

[GSXR7ED]

Memories

Yes! Finchingfield!!!

I was stationed at RAF Wethersfield in 1989 and I remember how quaint this village was/is. Who can forget a town called Steeple Bumstead? It would be challenging to ride there not seeing what's coming around the bend.

Thanks for giving me that quick run down memory lane.

Ed

[londonboards]

Hey welcome to another Brit with a GS. We are growing in number all the time.

My intention is to one day have a UK GS Owners meet somewhere. Would be great to meet up. I was in Essex a few times recently. Firstly my Aunt lives there so I go and visit (it's about 1:15 to Billericay) and then I've been going over there as I had my crankshaft sorted out at Chris Applebee Engineering in Thundersley. And I bought my GS1100G Road Runner bike from a guy over there.

Keep in touch with the UK gang by joining the UK GS Facebook Owners Group - the link is in my signature.

Greetings

Richard

[redliner]

nice to see a few UK GS owners on these boards! Are any of you SOC or VJMC members - never seems to be any activity over on their forums, and appeals for info seem to fall on deaf ears (or should that be non-tapping keyboards?). Hoping to get a bit of info for my own GS from here - its an ex-USA bike, so where better to ask?

nice bike, Rikkd - and a good investment for the future, perhaps?

(also, very rare to see a pre-1980 GS on the roads around West London nowadays ... somebody must be storing them away somewhere!)