Billy's 78 GS1000 mods

[derwood]

curious as to how the windshield is held on?

[Billyboy]

I re-used the mounts from an old spit-fire windshield. The black circles at the top corners are part of it. The bottom was shaped to rest on the top of the lower triple tree fork bolts, them zip tied to the tree.

I'll get some pics up of the mounts tomorrow. It snowed today so I took the van.

[derwood]

I have an extra fairing from the deersmashed bike that can be cut down, but the windsheild on your bike looks like the screws are missing

[Billyboy]

Good eye. They are. Most anyway.

[derwood]

all the screws and rubbers are still available from suzuki

[Billyboy]

Well, the wifey is away for the weekend. She took the van, and having the girls here means no riding, so I did the next best thing.

I spent about 3 hours tinkering, adjusting, polishing, shining, buffing, rubbing....:?

Looks pretty good anyhow.

I also relocated my horns from under the tank to the oil cooler mounts. Seems to make a difference in the audibility. I think now that they're visable they should be chrome. :-D

[Billyboy]

Wow. I was just looking though my old pics.
I went from this:



To this:

[Billyboy]

To this:


This was part of it somewhere along the line.


Then finally this.

[Billyboy]

I've had my spare, (rusty) gas tank n the bike while my buddy painted it. He had some trouble and setbacks, but he just called me and said to come get it!

I'm excited.

[8trackmind]

That coul, Billy! Poust pictures as soun as you can. :-D
(I learning to speak Canadian in my spare time)

J/K Actually, I can't wait to see it! :-D

Oh yeah, put something soft around the throttle cables that come out right under the grip so you don't bugger up the tank...I bashed mine last night rebuiling the petcock...:-|

[derwood]

I've had my spare, (rusty) gas tank n the bike while my buddy painted it. He had some trouble and setbacks, but he just called me and said to come get it!

I'm excited.

good, now you get get rid of the ugly one on your bike , I wasn't going to mention it for fear of offending you. relieved to here you'll have one not so ratty

[Billyboy]

Yeah, the one on it was my practice piece. I put the new one on and, baby, it makes the rest of the painted parts look like they were done with crayon.
I got a cool pic of the tank with a perfect mirror image of me shirtless, camera in hand.

[Billyboy]

Copy and pasted from "Post a pic of your bike" thread.

I took a few new pics with my freshly painted tank.

[solo suzuki]

lookin' good, but then again it more or less looked that way in the older pics :?...

in the close up ,the tank looks new so i'm sure it must be stunning 'in the flesh' :-D

i see by your reflection that it got warm up there!

[Billyboy]

Thanks Claude.
Yeah, 30 degrees today. Same last weekend.