Clymer for new bike

[icius]

Ok, I'm one of those types that likes to research the crap out of something to feel comfortable with it.  Plus I want to make sure we do everything right with our new GS500f.  So I would like to get a Clymer book for it.  However the Clymers seem to stop at '02 GS500E.  Is the bike essentially unchanged since then?  Will an '02 GS500E Clymer book serve me well with an '06 GS500F?

I know it will probably be many miiles before I would even need to do anything to the bike other than the normal checks, but I want to start reading early

[flyingbeagle71]

Clymer does stop at 02, they still haven't updated it for the 04+ bikes.  Most things are unchanged, but the 04+'s do have a few new items, oil cooler and fairings (duh) just to name a couple.  If you want something that includes the new changes, try getting the factory repair manual.  It's pretty good and lists all model years.  I've got both and prefer Suzuki's manual over the Clymer...

[annguyen1981]

I just purchased my Clymer by clicking on the link on the main page (www.gstwin.com).  I used it to remove the front and rear rims so far, and had NO problems.

BTW...  If you use the link above, it helps this site out

[Egaeus]

Don't buy a clymer.  No matter what they say, they only go up to 2000.  It's a shoddy piece of work.  They should be ashamed of themselves. 

[papiocho]

Don't buy a clymer.  No matter what they say, they only go up to 2000.  It's a shoddy piece of work.  They should be ashamed of themselves. 

what?
does anyone else support that, cause i'm in the market for that very manual. it would be really helpfull to know what to buy so i dont blow 20 something bucks on a pile of paper i cant use?

[Egaeus]

Don't buy a clymer.  No matter what they say, they only go up to 2000.  It's a shoddy piece of work.  They should be ashamed of themselves. 

what?
does anyone else support that, cause i'm in the market for that very manual. it would be really helpfull to know what to buy so i dont blow 20 something bucks on a pile of paper i cant use?

I enumerated its carburetor problems somewhere, but I'm too lazy to search.  Seriously, it's a pile of donkey shaZam!, at least when it comes to the carburetors.  You'll never get them right by reading Clymer. 

[tussey]

Don't buy a clymer.  No matter what they say, they only go up to 2000.  It's a shoddy piece of work.  They should be ashamed of themselves. 

I have both. My haynes is falling apart from so much use. My clymer is in mint condition sitting on the shelf. I'm considering selling it.