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[Guest]

G'day Folks,

New member from Melbourne Australia. Have been hanging around this site for years, without officially jumping in.
I have a few GS bikes and a Water Bottle. Currently ride an original spec and immaculate early 1100 Kat. She gets lotsa use, with Krauser panniers fitted most of the time (touring with the missus).
Currently building up two other Kats, a 7/11 and a modded wire wheel which will become my regular ride.
I am keen to discuss engine mods with the resident experts, especially camshaft choices, Web cams or Yoshi?

Cheers Peter

[Rob S.]

Welcome aboard!

Three full size Kats, I'd say you came to the right place.

You might want to identify your bikes in your signature, (like me), so we always know what machine you're referring to.

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Welcome
I've heard of and seen pics of 1970's 2-stroke, 3-cylinder, water-cooled Suzuki GT750, nicknamed the "Water Buffalo". A Wikipedia search tells me the same bike in Australia was called "Water Bottle". I didn't know that. Also, in Britain, it's called the "Kettle".

In addition to what Rob S wrote about adding your bikes in your signature, a little tip about posting pics on the forum. Pasting a pic the way you did is ok. But, the limit is one pic per post, and it shows up small and viewers have to click on it to see it bigger. Many of us use an image hosing site like Imgur or Flickr. Pasting the BBCode from an image hosted on one of these sites will allow up to 10 images per post and you have options for what size you want the images to appear.

Using the search function works best when you choose advanced search, enter your keywords, and check titles only. Anything you want to do to your bike has probably been talked about at some point.

Again, welcome to this great site.

[alke46]

Peter, welcome to the site. A good looking bike you have there and also a beautiful backdrop picture. Good to have more aussies on board as there are a few already.

[GSXR7ED]

Peter, welcome to the site. A good looking bike you have there and also a beautiful backdrop picture. Good to have more aussies on board as there are a few already.

I'm all about the backdrop when posting photos of GS'!

Welcome Nuggetsdad!

Ed

[nuggetsdad]

Thankyou for the welcome and the great words of advice.
I will work out how to add to my signature and update with details as requested.

[dorkburger]

Peter, welcome to the funhouse. Sound like an awesome collection and project plan.
A GT is on my bike bucket list.

[nuggetsdad]

Thanks Glen,

The Waterbottle is a surprisingly good ride, quite refined for a 44yr old bike and very tourable two up. I find the GT and the Kat draw similar attention wherever I go.

[fastbysuzuki]

Nice bikes you have there, my son in law built a kettle up from scratch a number of yours ago turned out fantastic.

welcome to the site.

[nuggetsdad]

Thanks folks, most appreciated.
My first experience on a Kettle was in Leeds on the back of my eldest brothers bike, back in 1982, huge fun grinding off metal on all those roundabouts!

[Gorminrider]

You'll want to chum with pete up north! It's a ways but they have the same accent!

https://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/showthread.php?185599-anyone-go-for-a-ride-today-Pics&p=2576084#post2576084