new member and owner of chopped up 1980GS850GT- what up lugnuts

[Guest]

hey there just wanted to say hello and hope i can learn alot from the forum and its vets in the gs world i own a gs850gt i turned into a cafe streetfighter still in the works of customizing check out th album will have more pics to follow

[JJ]

Hi, and welcome to the forum.

Your album is empty.

I hope you know how to do more than hacksaw and duct-tape things, but judging from your avatar...

Punctuation is your (and the reader's) friend.

[mottacycle]

tried to upload from my phone could not drag them in so ill post pics from labtop when i get off work smartphone is dumb

[mottacycle]

well here are some pic i was able to upload check out the album now

[JJ]

Yep. Hacksaw, angle grinder, can of spray paint, a BFH, and duct tape...

The logos came out well, though.

[JJ]

Please read the forum rules concerning name-calling.

Again, welcome to the forum.

[chucksuki]

There is a ton of knowledge on this forum in regards to making these bikes run to their peak ability. That tends to bring along the crowd that doesn't tend to enjoy the more custom jobs. The arguement usually hovering over the idea that more time and trouble was spent on looks and less on performance, and in some cases mods making performance worse. The idea of a cafe used to be performance only, but they looked cool, so now it's a style. Looks like you are on the right path with getting it to look how you want, if you take your time to get the bike up to speed, bikecliff' website is a great place to start, you could have a really fast AND cool bike. New o-rings for the carbs, a dynojet kit for the carbs to get that baby enough fuel to account for the pods and headers. These bikes tend to like to have at least some back pressure, so a proper muffler of some type is not a bad idea. If you haven't, check and replace valve shims. It's an old bike, it probably needs to be caught up on regular maintenance. These guys can be rough, but not all are as rude as JJ was. To be fair though, a lot of clowns do find their way through here. I for one should know how self-righteous some of these guys can be, I own an "L" model and a chopped up brat. Both run great, as soon as I worked through the demons. For some of these guys though, I am the devil for cutting a 78 750e and an idiot for loving my L. Welcome man, good luck and keep the rubber side down.

[mottacycle]

sorry didnt realize that was youe name

[mottacycle]

thanks chuck i aprricate that welcome and the tips i have put alot of work into this thing and im no where near done i have alot to go!! i did do my research on the jets and putting my mac 2into1 on has gotten half of that done still thinking of goin with a 120 main jet also the headers where just for fun until i got the pipes in the mail!!! i do need a full rebuild on the carbs but i did the best i could low budget and soaked em cleaned and synced em. unpon getting her running i realized that my charging system needed a revamp so i just replaced the rectifier and stator with ricks. charges great then found out a have a dead cylinder on left side so that is my next without buying a new set of coils i think i can make it work with breakin the exposy on the coil and get a new wire and boot. also the seat came out good fiberglass resin and a bit of bondo the macs sounds great i love this thing the more i replace play with the more ideas i get like some old wrenches for highway pegs and timimg gears for the swing arm bolt covers lol ill post more and ask as many complicated questions i can but for now im workin too much to do more. thanks again for the reply i appriciate the advice

[GS1150Pilot]

Welcome, but as JJ said, punctuate and capitalize here at the least, please. The wordwall you just threw up is hard to read.

[alke46]

+1 on what ^^^he said.

[mottacycle]

ok guys i am usually on my phone for thia forum as i work 12 hrs a day. I will do my best to throw in all that good stuff