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Hi all,
For those who did not read my first post, I bought my GS 650E 1982 in Feb 2010 without even start it. It was looking fairly in good shape. So last saturday I got down to Elgin Qc (100 miles from home) with the final payment for it.
I was there pretty early in the morning and the Po had just arrived with the bike, it was storaged at about 4 miles from his father home.
The motor was a little hesitant at first but once I put my welled charged batery on, everything sounded normal. I then hook up a voltmeter: 13v at idle and around 15 at 4k I was realy pleased. I just jump on it for a test ride.Right away I noticed something was wrong, after a few more yards I knew that the handle bar were bended at the right side. Fortunatly the guy next door owned a bike shop, I already had an appointment for tires change.
After the money and papers exchange, I went to Monte Cristo Bike shop with my new old bike, my tires and hope to find a new handle bar. Yves (the owner) had on hand what I was looking for, I was planing to change those bars anyway. I took the wheels off the bike myself while Yves was busy with his paperwork of the week. He came along just to unmounted/mounted and balanced the tires and I put the wheels back on. There was my first wrenching about 15 min. after having bought the bike
. Finaly I change the handlebar in front of the shop. All in all I have work on the bike something like 2 hours.
Here is the best part of the day. After having pack all my gears and secured it on the passenger seat I hit the road, a few miles away I knew that I was in love. The bike runs perfectly, no backfire, it pulls hard and have a nice sound. Everything work on it. 20 miles later I stop for gas and food. I make my way back on those small backcountry roads that I had never been on, I did not care to lost myself a bit at the time, and enjoy every minutes of it. Reach home at about 4 pm and I stop smilling at bedtime later that evening.
That's it for my first GS stories.
See ya.
André
For those who did not read my first post, I bought my GS 650E 1982 in Feb 2010 without even start it. It was looking fairly in good shape. So last saturday I got down to Elgin Qc (100 miles from home) with the final payment for it.
I was there pretty early in the morning and the Po had just arrived with the bike, it was storaged at about 4 miles from his father home.
The motor was a little hesitant at first but once I put my welled charged batery on, everything sounded normal. I then hook up a voltmeter: 13v at idle and around 15 at 4k I was realy pleased. I just jump on it for a test ride.Right away I noticed something was wrong, after a few more yards I knew that the handle bar were bended at the right side. Fortunatly the guy next door owned a bike shop, I already had an appointment for tires change.
After the money and papers exchange, I went to Monte Cristo Bike shop with my new old bike, my tires and hope to find a new handle bar. Yves (the owner) had on hand what I was looking for, I was planing to change those bars anyway. I took the wheels off the bike myself while Yves was busy with his paperwork of the week. He came along just to unmounted/mounted and balanced the tires and I put the wheels back on. There was my first wrenching about 15 min. after having bought the bike
. Finaly I change the handlebar in front of the shop. All in all I have work on the bike something like 2 hours.Here is the best part of the day. After having pack all my gears and secured it on the passenger seat I hit the road, a few miles away I knew that I was in love. The bike runs perfectly, no backfire, it pulls hard and have a nice sound. Everything work on it. 20 miles later I stop for gas and food. I make my way back on those small backcountry roads that I had never been on, I did not care to lost myself a bit at the time, and enjoy every minutes of it. Reach home at about 4 pm and I stop smilling at bedtime later that evening.
That's it for my first GS stories.
See ya.
André
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