Ontario winters suck.. but I can work on the bike !

[Mr Hyde]

HEHEHE.. SM2 came in today..   Zero Gravity DB is enroute..  Progressive springs , rear turn signals, and  15tooth sprocket are on order for this or next week..
Already chopped the rest of the undertail off.. most of the fairings and brackets are here..  all starting to come together..  Still thinking about my options with tires.. but we'll see..
Took the headlamp assy and F-16 off this past weekend..  the forks will come off in a week i imagine so I can fab up and weld in the bracket the birdcage bolts to... 


Like a kid in a cady store.

[Mr Hyde]

made up the bracket for the bird cage this past weekend and welded it on.. got the nose piece put onand hung one of the side panels.. got the Kat wheel painted and ready for rubber...  still waiting on the right side panel to come in  next week i hope.( was on back order ).. got the SM2 put on... WOW.. without even moving its a much nices riding position i thinks.. perhaps next weekend i'll get the left side panel mounted properly with the brackets ( the non F models you have to drill all the bracket holes) and get the progressive springs put in..  And .. ofcourse.. now that i already have everything to put the fairings on.. someone is parting out a blue F model on ebay.. doh

[GSRider]

You've been a busy beaver, eh?

All work on my GS is on hold until the weather gets warmer. (-20C?!?!? WTF?!?!?)
I had to put in a heli-coil in my valve cover - finding an M7 kit is hard.
That went fine, and the coil is holding well.

Now I just need to fix up a minor tachometer issue, and set the synchro correctly - but again, that has to wait until the weather decides to warm back up in a few weeks.

[Gookie]

I'm in Kitchener as well...

Not sure what happened to this thread, read the first page or so...

Bought my bike in april/may 2006. Since then I've seen ONE other GS500 around town. Guess there were a few more in hiding.

Some of you locals want to go for a ride, gimme a pm.

[Mr Hyde]

Might have been me.. dunno.. I bought mine a the begining of march last year..   Not much has happened to my bike since I last worked on it there.. still trying to source jets.. seems to be hard to do up here.. I can get the mains.. but not pilots or mids..

[WREX]

sounds like the bike is coming along well.  You'll have fun this season.

can't wait to get out again.  I went until the first week of Jan. this year (which was crazy for around here), but still can't wait until the snow is gone.

I grew up in Cambridge, and am now an hour over in London (Ontario).  I'll look for the meet thread in the spring and maybe will meet up with you guys some time.

later

[GSRider]

Gookie, WREX, MrHyde, I am making the meetup thread in a few days. Just got up for work
Danielah used to post here - he had a late model GS-F that was black/red/silver, though I haven't seen him post here in a long time. Recreational_Anxiety has gone to the dark side and got a SV-650.

When I bought my GS in 2000, I was the only one with one in the tri-cities. Now, it seems that everywhere I go, I see another one. 

[GSRider]

The meet up thread has started in the meet and greet forum...