New owner GS550E

[Guest]

Hi,
I would like to say hello to all GS owners,
My name is Tom, I live in Poland.
I just get the nice Suzuki GS550E '81, which need a lot of attention,
so it is nice to be here, and to find so many GS enthusiast.

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[steve murdoch]

Welcome to the site, Tom.
That is a beautiful bike. Always liked the Guilairi seat.
Repair manuals and how-to guides can be found for your bike here.

http://members.dslextreme.com/users/bikecliff/

[Tomi]

Thank you Steve,
BikeCliff's site was already very helpful and I'm sure will be in the future,
especially that I don't know previous owner of my bike, so every screw and every cover is a mystery

[steveb922]

Lovely 550! I don't know if it's related to your stator issue, but that looks very like a 1980 (ET) model.

[Tomi]

Yes, this is the bike with stator problem, and I think you have right about year of production, in papers states 1981, but this bike comes from Germany an they had different registration law, they use date of first registration as production date.
hmmmm... this is why I can't find any parts in catalog when I search for 1981 GS550E

[steveb922]

This might help. http://www.cmsnl.com/suzuki-gs550e-1...479/partslist/

E22 is the area code for Germany.

[Tomi]

OMG! there is so many variants for 1980 , I'm not sure is my GS550 dedicated for Germany, it has speedometer in miles ?

[steveb922]

Could be British - we still had a lot of servicemen in Germany in 1980. The code for UK is E02. In reality, the differences between the different areas are relatively minor, and usually involve things like light bulbs, headlight direction etc. Which way does your main headlight point?

[Tomi]

Good question, I will check tomorrow.