sirch345 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 8:11 pm
Rob, you've had some cracking bikes there over the years, and still have
Quite a hairy machine the KX500 with it being a 2 stroke I imagine.
The GSThou takes me back to when I had mine, although mine wasn't a shaft drive.
Fantastic you have so many photo's of your old bikes, I wish I had a lot more of my old bikes,
Chris.
its happy memories chris looking back . that shafty thou was lovely but handled like a ferry .
The kx was just nasty. even pulling 130 mph gearing you couldnt use first or second i tried and woke up in the ambulance
sirch345 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 8:11 pm
Rob, you've had some cracking bikes there over the years, and still have
Quite a hairy machine the KX500 with it being a 2 stroke I imagine.
The GSThou takes me back to when I had mine, although mine wasn't a shaft drive.
Fantastic you have so many photo's of your old bikes, I wish I had a lot more of my old bikes,
Chris.
its happy memories chris looking back . that shafty thou was lovely but handled like a ferry .
The kx was just nasty. even pulling 130 mph gearing you couldnt use first or second i tried and woke up in the ambulance
Great Rob to have all those memories
I didn't think my GSThou handled that bad, but mine was a chain drive, and that was back then
I owned the GSThou for 20yrs and took it to the IOM TT.
I had 4 GSs, a shafty thou, a chain thou and 2 850 shafts...and all the shafties where like boats but still loved them. brought me all over Europe a few times without bother , i did manage to stuff the last one into a car, actually right inside the car
fabiostar wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 9:20 pmI had 4 GSs, a shafty thou, a chain thou and 2 850 shafts...and all the shafties where like boats but still loved them. brought me all over Europe a few times without bother , i did manage to stuff the last one into a car, actually right inside the car
Now why doesn't that surprise me, I see a bit of a pattern going on here with certain bikes
Back then the Suzuki gearboxes were the best, so slick. I'm not sure if that is still the same with today's bikes or if the other 3 main Japanese manufactures have caught up