Graham,
Gotta say - for rides under 100 miles - its an excellent
bike. Longer than that - well - it gets a bit rough.
On the other hand, if I were to swap out the shocks and
forks for newer replacements.....
-Joey
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Graham Rogers
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Joey, I've been working on my 79 GS1000 - I've got it running but still
> go a few niggles to sort out. It's getting there though, Graham
>
> On Mar 21, 2012, at 8:14 AM, Joey Kelley wrote:
>
>> All,
>> Some of you already heard that I rolled the bike (1978 Suzuki
>> GS-1000 with Windjammer SS Fairing and hard Vetter bags) out of the
>> shed last Sunday - pleasantly surprised to find that it fired right
>> up. I was disappointed to find however that I had no headlight, tail
>> light or marker lights. Obviously, one can't ride with that situation
>> (safely) so I began troubleshooting.
>> A very long (from Sunday afternoon until yesterday evening)
>> story made short - the fuse holder holding my headlight / tail light /
>> marker light fuse had all the solder melted away from one end of it. I
>> have no idea what caused this or why it manifested only after the
>> winter, but a bit of solder - and things were good.
>> A big shout out to my Cousin Mike for actually finding the
>> problem as I was slowly tearing the bike apart to get at the
>> electrical system and for the use of his butane fired soldering iron.
>> (No power in my shed.....)
>> Put about 15 miles on it last night - rode to work this morning.
>> Live is good!
>> -Joey
>>
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