On my way to pickup another gs...

[rustybronco]

Yes its happening to me also, you buy one gs, you start to collect them.
sad disease isn't this affliction we call the gs series. !!!!

There was this 1980 GS850g listed in the parts bikes for sale section of this forum, by a user with the name of Nomad, who has had this gs since 83 and through a series of events has not been able to ride it for the last 9 years. Nomad (Mark) made me an offer I couldn't refuse, since I already was making the trip to Marshfield Wi to visit my brother in the hospital and it wouldn't be more than 200 miles off my original route , what the hey... add a new one.
I'll update this post with pictures when I pick it up later this evening, pictures of the bike, our trip, Mark if he will let me, and the bike as it progresses.
Dale

[DMB]

Met Mark last week when I picked up a pair of GT550's from him. He couldn't have been a nicer or more pleasurable guy to deal with. Just too bad what happened. Best of luck to him.

And that GS850 that you are picking up looks amazing.

[Billyboy]

This thread is useless without pics!!!

[80sGSfan]

Alright!

Awesome - can't wait to see it! Good luck!

[rustybronco]

Met Mark last week when I picked up a pair of GT550's from him. He couldn't have been a nicer or more pleasurable guy to deal with. Just too bad what happened. Best of luck to him.

And that GS850 that you are picking up looks amazing.

So you're the one that picked the gt550's up last week.
The little time I talked to Mark last night, about setting a time to pick it up, I can tell he is a good guy, very accommodating for time, how long I could leave it before picking it up, offered to leave work if I needed to pick it up earlier, he seemed like a very good human being, and you confirmed it.

any pictures of the ones you bought?

[rustybronco]

This thread is useless without pics!!!

I'll update this post with pictures when I pick it up later this evening, pictures of the bike, our trip, Mark if he will let me...

patience...

[Billyboy]

patience...

Lookin' good!
I'd keep the fairing on it and ride, baby, ride....

[tkent02]

patience...

Nice bike, but how did you get the toolbox to levitate above the seat so high?
I can only get mine to come up about a foot or so, no matter how hard I concentrate.

[rustybronco]

Nice bike, but how did you get the toolbox to levitate above the seat so high?
I can only get mine to come up about a foot or so, no matter how hard I concentrate.

I'll ask mark when I see him, maybe he will share the secret.
about the only thing I can levitate is my hand.

on a second look, aren't those hooks on the tool box handle?

[DMB]

any pictures of the ones you bought?

Just arriving home with them. They were a bit wider than I had anticipated so I had to put one forward and one back wards on the trailer.







And here they are in my parking stall with the GS in the background.



Hopefully the GS will be running by July and then I can start on getting the GT running.

[80sGSfan]

Nice bike, but how did you get the toolbox to levitate above the seat so high?
I can only get mine to come up about a foot or so, no matter how hard I concentrate.

haha - lol!

[rustybronco]

Dmb, are your plans to restore one or both of them?

[mcloud]

Nice bike, but how did you get the toolbox to levitate above the seat so high?
I can only get mine to come up about a foot or so, no matter how hard I concentrate.

Pfffff easy!
You just impart reverse Zeta potential impulse between 324 and 467 MHz.
Old trick.

[tkent02]

Pfffff easy!
You just impart reverse Zeta potential impulse between 324 and 467 MHz.
Old trick.

OK, that explains it. I only went up to about 300 or so.
Any higher and my head starts to hurt, guess I'm getting too much mercury accumulated in my brain cells.

[Zooks]

Yes its happening to me also, you buy one gs, you start to collect them.
sad disease isn't this affliction we call the gs series. !!!!

Don't fight it brother. I've got a shed full of old bikes and cars and now I have started collecting vintage engines and machines as well (agricultural stationary engines mainly). It's all good fun and you only live once.

Enjoy.