FS: OH - 2001 Suzuki GS500

[jdmskier]

Up for sale is my 2001 Suzuki GS500. I have had the bike for 9 years and put on ~13,000 miles since my ownership (~23k total on bike). I have never had a problem with it. I initially bought it as a starter bike but have kept it because I kept enjoying it. I am only selling it because I am moving abroad.

I think this is a great bike for beginners and for more advanced riders. It's light, quick, easy to maneuver and great on gas...I love it! Here are some highlights:

2001 Suzuki GS500
-23,xxx miles
-No modifications
-Everything works
-Seat is in great condition
-Minor cuffs and such from being laid down in a parking lot
-Regular oil changes performed
-Last valve adjustment completed ~6 years ago
-Would not hesitate to take on a long trip

Please contact me if you have any questions. Thanks!

[motoMechE]

Hey, just a heads-up... had your post in mind simply because I came across your ad in my area on CL before finding this! Would send my brother your way if I trusted him to stay alive on a bike.

Anyway, a dude on CL appears to be looking for a GS as a starter bike. Claims to not want anything "street fighter", and then proceeds to list (sorta-)street-fighter bikes . Might have some luck selling to him.

https://cincinnati.craigslist.org/mcy/6066341018.html

Good luck!

[The Buddha]

Oh no, the "street fighter" name has been pejorated to mean - I crashed this sport bike and forgot to fix it.
Much like "Bobber" means I threw this fugly a$$ crap together with my welder and I want 10X the stock original $$ for it.
"Murdered out" = I am color blind and I had mis matched body work from the fore mentioned crash and I painted it with bedliner paint cos they were selling that for $2.22 a gallon.
"Café" = I found this unsuitable BS of a goldwing  or other wide A$$ motored bike and I want a café cos I'm clueless.

Y'know crap like that.

One time back in 07 or 08 there was this fool in Tennessee who was converting a Katana to a cruiser. Then put it on Craigslist saying "he's started the conversion and up to the buyer to finish it" The POS had ape hangers and the Idiot was damn proud of the work he's done.

Cool.
Buddha.

[motoMechE]

(sorry 'bout the thread hijacking, jdm)

Buddha... my god is that accurate. Browse CL everyday just for the fun of window shopping, and man do you see some weird stuff (some guy was trying to pass off some rocks for dinosaur eggs last year... one of my better finds).

Some guy running an ad right now trying to sell his stock SV650 as a "cafe racer"... someone will buy it, though.

[The Buddha]

Or they give up and gently fade away, and re appear next year with an even bigger POS and a bigger $$$.

BTW, I have a factory café, designed by Brit Seymour Powell and built by East German MZ, with Paioli 41mm forks, full adjustable clip on's, brembo/grimeca brakes, Yamaha 5 valve water cooled motor with threaded adjuster, high end wheels with rear 4.5 width, plastic gas tank (no rust) etc etc literally everything you could dream of for a GS, that bike already rolled off the factory floor with - and it has a narrower than a GS perimeter round tube steel frame, and yet, as a Café - it still causes some cognitive dissonance - AKA - does not work to my eye.

I think a Café has to be a spine type frame with a single or parallel twin - nothing else works. You're not building something with a lot of "open to interpretation" - Something like comparing modern day rock and roll to a 200 yr old Piano concerto. You don't have all the loose ends to do whatever you please. IMHO.

Bobber - sadly this is open to interpretation and too many people interpret that to mean - what ever crap I have lying around that can be welded.

Chopper - Oooo Not a chopper until you cut the neck. Yea, sorry, that's the rules. Back a few yrs ago, theyd' cut a rear fender and label it a chopper. Ummm ... sorry, no.

Murdered out - OK, you may want to appear on CSI as the "Perp". You don't belong on a motorcycle. Maybe if you're lucky, when you're in jail for "murdering it" Bubba your boyfriend may be a biker. You can always hope.

Cool.
Buddha.

[The Buddha]

Oh, I also have another MZ660 as a naked - Ala GS. Much much better interpretation IMHO.
The naked has black body work and a silver frame, the café has a silver body and black frame, I've tried swapping the 2 so you "see the frame less" but the body set needs to be painted cos the tails and seats are different for the 2.

Cool.
Buddha.

[The Buddha]

(sorry 'bout the thread hijacking, jdm)

Buddha... my god is that accurate. Browse CL everyday just for the fun of window shopping, and man do you see some weird stuff (some guy was trying to pass off some rocks for dinosaur eggs last year... one of my better finds).

Some guy running an ad right now trying to sell his stock SV650 as a "cafe racer"... someone will buy it, though.

Oh, get this, this is IMHO the height of retarded a$$ bike building. And its so frucking common, on a 150K build, on TV no less, 50% of bikes are this way.
License plate hung from the rear axle (or some other equally retarded bolt in that vicinity)

Its a banner that says "I'm so retarded I didn't account for putting a license plate" while I plonked down 150K to some Idiot to weld up sheite ...

Cool.
Buddha.

[The Buddha]

Look at this crap.

https://nashville.craigslist.org/mcy/6074493566.html

Oh yea 5 grand. Totally worth it. Moron. Yea, take a $1000 bike, slap some 1/2 assed crap on it, move some crap around, take off other crap that works fine and call it a "chopper" when you don't have the brains to "cut" anything and weld it back and keep it from breaking off and its worth 5 large. Oh yea dumbass.

Cool.
Buddha.