Welcome to our GTS group Doug and hope you'll love your bike as much as we do.
George ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 10:16 AM Subject: New GTS'er > Hello out there. I've just joined your group after buying a 96 Red GTS. I > live in a village called Freckleton on the Fylde coast in north west > England, between Preston and Blackpool. The bike is pretty standard except > for the Corbin King and Queen seat and a full set of Kappa touring luggage, > and has 23000 miles on the clock. The bike did have an alarm fitted but > the clowns at the dealers lost the remote to disarm it. Only solution was > to remove it completely, got them to reduce the price accordingly though. > > I fancied one when they first came out in the UK, until I saw the price > that is, about �10000 without any accessories as I recall. Guess that's > why they didn't sell many over here. Did a lot of research on the bike and > so far I haven't found anybody with a really bad word to say about the > bike. With all you experts on the list is there anything specific I should > beware of or keep an eye on? Is there any kind of Achilles heel on the > bike? (i.e. Honda VF's and their chocolate cam shafts). > > Done about 200 miles on it so far and am quite impressed. It joins the > stable of a 1979 GS1000S, which I can now spend a bit of time on restoring, > and a 1988 GS850GG with Squire sidecar on. Intended going on a run today > to a Classic bike show at Harrogate in Yorkshire, however the 80 to 90 mph > winds and trees falling down with the horizontal rain and sleet put me off > that idea, I'm not that keen to try out the ABS. > > Cheers, Doug Long >
