Long time since I was last here, I know. Life sometimes gets in the way of bikes and doing things. Such as sorting out GS1000's.
Way back in the day (1982) I owned a black GS1000ET with slotted disc's, square brake master cylinder, stepped seat and CV carbs. I rode that bike everywhere. It was a great ride even doing the 1983 FIM rally to a little village in Melk, Austria from my home in the UK. Sadly in 1984 an oil filter broke up spreading the contents of the paper around the block and caused a clutch rattle. This was put down as bearing failure due to lack of oil being sprayed from the crank back onto the clutch basket. So I sold the bike. She had done 20,000 miles on the clock.
Since that time and in later life I bought another GS1000ET as a memory of the old bike.
I have done some searching here in the UK and as far as I can tell the bike is still out there somewhere as the records show the number is still listed. This means its not been official scrapped or written off or broken up for parts.
Roll forward to today.
While on a facebook GS site I saw a 1981 GS1000ET in black like my old GS1000. It wasn't the one.
Not long after I was messaged by a guy asking me what was my old GS1000's number. So I gave it to him and with a few minutes he is on the phone claiming to have my old bike. Well, whats left of my old bike. Its been modded with different forks and is now has a GS850 motor, GS1000 head and running a shaft drive.
Now the technical question. To my knowledge you cant swap a GS1000 chain frame and make it into a shaft drive?
Or can you?
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