Need 82 GS1100EZ stock color scheme info

[Anonymous]

My engine actually is black on all the side covers, probably an aftermarket paint job. And my forks are black also. Don't know when that happened.

Michael

[mcycle-nut]

The quickest way to tell between a 82 and 83 is the engine color. 82's came with a polished aluminum motor and the 83 was black.
Only if someone painted the motor would this be different.
I think maybe the fork legs were polished on the 82.

Besides the internal differences.

Which are

[Mysuzyq]

The quickest way to tell between a 82 and 83 is the engine color. 82's came with a polished aluminum motor and the 83 was black.
Only if someone painted the motor would this be different.
I think maybe the fork legs were polished on the 82.

Besides the internal differences.

Which are

Airbox design is different on the '83....I think the clutch too is different in the # of plates/thickness of the plates.....the fork legs on my '82 are black, not polished.

Tony.

[Anonymous]

Whine...

Gods I miss my 1100EZ. Somebody kick me for selling it, please? i was young and stupid.....

OK consider yourself Kicked :twisted: :P [-X

[Dink]

What is the buikd date of your "82" if it 7/82 or after it is actually an 83 model , which would explain why it has a black motor and fork legs.
Dink

[Anonymous]

What is the buikd date of your "82" if it 7/82 or after it is actually an 83 model , which would explain why it has a black motor and fork legs.
Dink

Date 12/81: Model year 82.

7 months younger than me.

The motor itself is not black. Just the breaker cover, clutch cover, stator cover and the other cover that hides something I don't know. The whole body is blue, so I'm not surprised that it's a bit quirky on the other paint too.

Michael

[Dink]

Be careful they may have been painted to hide crash damage.
Dink

[Anonymous]

Be careful they may have been painted to hide crash damage.
Dink

No doubt it's been laid down a couple times. But it runs today, and that's what matters.

There is what looks like a pile of aluminum from a MIG welder on the left of the crank case. I assume the road nearly rubbed through on the crank cover and they piled some material on it to make it a bit tougher than if it were still thin. Whatever. When I go cosmetic on the bike I'll double-check it from the back side then file down the weld to match the case. Nobody will ever notice from the outside. Being a metal sculptor pays off in the bike restoration.

Just for fun: In the last 24 hours I've accidentally wheelied and burned out for the first times. Both were very small. I'll bet I've been lifting the front wheel up previously, but it happened at a corner, and the wheel skipped out an inch or two so I knew it happened. I'm glad it wasn't any sharper a corner and that I wasn't going faster or I might have had a problem. As for the burnout, I was curious about my 0-60 time so I used the stopwatch feature on my new BC 1200 and gave it an I-mean-business start from a highway stoplight. Let out a little squeak but I think my time was about 4 seconds. It was amusing -and that's all I was looking for.

Michael