Simple old school + new school, call it pre skool

[Zweihammer]

Hey, Redneck, I suspected from your avatar you might play knock about on the weekends! Well, I decided to pull this out of the corner and back to the center of my shop. Last night I cut off the subframe tubes I had so far as I thought it was too far in the air and gave it a stance like a stinkbug. Cut my aluminum seat apart to narrow it up as much as possible and start making the sides to wrap it around the top of the tubes. Here is how she sits as of last night;

Cheers, Erick

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[Charlie G]

Nice to see your still at it.

cg

[Redneck]

You really need to make some more progress on this bike because I am truly curios to see what the final product is going to look like. <impatient, maybe>

Paul

[Zweihammer]

I had a couple of hours last night, so I made a little more progress on my tail section.

[Charlie G]

Nice lines!

[Zweihammer]

Well, after piecing this tail section together several times over the last couple of years!!, I shortened it by whacking 4 inches out of the middle and narrowed the waist another 2 inches and told myself if I don’t quit screwing with it I will never ride this again. So I plowed ahead with finishing this up.

I plan on doing the seat in two pieces with just black close cell foam glued to the removable trays for now.


Does anyone have a simplified schematic for an ’82 gs1100? Something generic perhaps, as I am debating unraveling the stock harness to make my own or starting over. It ran before I tore into it, but nothing is going back where it came, and I am looking to update the charging while I am at it. I really don’t like electrical.

Cheers, Erick

[MAJikMARCer]

That's looking good! Once it's all painted up that should look really sharp!

[Charlie G]

Glad to see your back at it. I'd check with Posplayr on the electrics. It seems he was involved helping someone with a simplified one once. Could be wrong.

cg

[Billy Ricks]

Here's a link to Jim's wiring diagram that should give you what you need.

http://www.mtsac.edu/~cliff/storage/gs/550_Schematic.pdf

[psyguy]

That's looking very sharp mate, thanks for posting!

[5t341th]

wow looks awesome. good thing u are returning to it again. i want to see the final results

[Tim Tom]

That tail is absolutely gorgeously shaped. I love how the lines flow perfectly from tank to tail. I've always liked this build, keep up the great work!

[Zweihammer]

Thank you everyone for the encouragement! I appreciate the schematic, Billy Ricks, that will be very helpful! Now I need to refresh myself on the options everyone has come up with to replace the R&R with something more modern and readily available. I was following a few threads about that a couple years ago.

[Billy Ricks]

Here's the list of R/Rs that will work. If you have trouble finding one for less than $50 let me know. I have one from an '05 CBR1000RR I can hook you up with.

[80GS1000]

Great looking bike. Something about a big round headlight on USD forks with a big aircooled motor looks just right.