1980 gs550 exhumed

[AA1QT]

Last week I was at a nieces yard party and while walking arround the yard noticed a cycle just standing upright in a combination of tall grass and leaves and vines. It reminded me of the time I found a Moto-Guzzi under a scrap pile at the scrap yard and dragged it home and revived it and rode it for six years.(I,m 60 years old) So I stared at this poor Suzuki that had now become home to chipmunks and creepy crawlers and decided I would look at all the important parts and see if they were all there. Sure enough everything was there and stock, never been touched. I engaged the owner about why it had become a cast away. He said he bought it for his wife and after her argument that it was too big for her an argument ensued and he parked it at the edge of the woods and there it sat for years never moved again. That was all I had to hear so I ask what would he take for it. He almost sais FREE but said he would take $50 dollars. I handed him the money. I had no way to haul it home about 40 miles so I said I would be back... I did and I got it running in one day. Didn,t look good but it ran. Now its runs mint and is actually unbelievable.

[speedzter2000]

It sat for years and you got it running in one day? WOW! That's great! Good score, BTW.

[rudy]

Come on! Stop holding out on us! We NEED pics! Good work on scoring a find like that, and getting it running in such a short time.

[Nessism]

Photos??? Great to hear about another GS brought back from the brink!