Quote from: aqxea2500 on April 23, 2006, 11:05:52 AM
Ok sounds good. Do you know any good sites where I can buy the mirrors, headlight assembly?

Headlight assembly you'll have to get off eBay or someone on here. For mirrors, just go with OEM. Aftermarket stuff is usually junk anyways. Unless you go with Rizoma... Mmmmmm.

 Ok cool. So how much did you get your headlight for?

Ok Alpha this is your mission if you choose to accept it...... do a How to on changing the F to an E.

Quote from: ajgs500 on April 23, 2006, 11:17:33 AM
Ok Alpha this is your mission if you choose to accept it...... do a How to on changing the F to an E.

I dun wanna! I like having mine be the only one
Okay, maybe later...

Quote from: aqxea2500 on April 23, 2006, 11:12:13 AM
Ok cool. So how much did you get your headlight for?

I used the headlight off my old GS.
See: http://gstwins.com/gsboard/index.php?topic=21212.0

 DO you think its possible to take off the upper plastics and just leave the headlight there?? Would it look bad or unique?

Quote from: aqxea2500 on April 23, 2006, 11:41:06 AM
DO you think its possible to take off the upper plastics and just leave the headlight there?? Would it look bad or unique?

Impossible to do. How would it be held? It's held in place by the fairing. If you remove the fairing you remove the headlight.

It looks like the headlight is seprate fron the fairing. It also looks like the bracket holding the light is not part of the fairing.

Quote from: aqxea2500 on April 23, 2006, 12:57:03 PM
It looks like the headlight is seprate fron the fairing. It also looks like the bracket holding the light is not part of the fairing.

It does come in and out, yes, but the fairing is what is supported by the fairing bracket which attatches to the frame. Plus, even if you DID leave it on it would look stupid because it'd be a light sticking out 10 inches from the bike.

HAHA Yea it would look pretty crappy. I just need a headlight and some mirrors and im set I think.

Are you turning yours into an E also??

Quote from: aqxea2500 on April 23, 2006, 06:34:29 PM
Are you turning yours into an E also??

No, he just had the lower fairing off to fix and paint it after a lowside. If you go through with yours, yours and mine will be the only conversions.

ALRIGHT....Ive never seen a gs500F here in El Paso much less a naked one. People seem to like fairings around here!!

maybe you could trade your F parts for someone's E parts as I'm sure someone out there would like to turn their E into an F

i didn't see it mentioned here, but he could look in the faq thread about getting the beull dual headlight setup for like 60 or 80 bucks or somehting and mount those. It would take a little fabricating, but from what I've read it's not too bad.

sorry to be a dork here. but i just saw someones FS thread and it reminded me.. i thought E's ended in '00.  '01-'02 they were called soemthing else right? and in '03 there werent any made in the USA..  someone correct me if im wrong. 

Quote from: weaselnoze on April 23, 2006, 08:31:52 PM
sorry to be a dork here. but i just saw someones FS thread and it reminded me.. i thought E's ended in '00.  '01-'02 they were called soemthing else right? and in '03 there werent any made in the USA..  someone correct me if im wrong. 

'89 to '00 they were called GS500Es. '01 to '02 they were GS500s. They just dropped the E, even though it still was an E model.

MMMMmmmm....some dual headlights would look nice too.

Quote from: aqxea2500 on April 23, 2006, 09:54:52 PM
MMMMmmmm....some dual headlights would look nice too.

That's what I've been wanting to do, but a fellow rider (the president) in my club has the same thing, and I don't want to look like I'm copying him.

Quote from: AlphaFire X5 on April 23, 2006, 08:36:47 PM

'89 to '00 they were called GS500Es. '01 to '02 they were GS500s. They just dropped the E, even though it still was an E model.

so 01 and 02 models arent E's.  if they drop the E its not an E. besides its a whole new body style after '00