our very own Leveller (sp?) has gotten some press for his website www.gs500e.co.uk in an Int'l magazine (Performance Bikes, base din UK)!  Competition between 3 teams given about US$1200 (850GBP) to buy a suzuki and race an 8 hr endurance race. One of which is a gs500 piloted by gs500e.co.uk members!
http://www.gs500e.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1043

note gs500e.co.uk sticker on bike!



COngratulations Lev and hope the team does well!

well if they need some long distance endurance advice im sure they will come by here..

make sure you win lev.. and congrats guys.

I wish I could make out what "Da Rules" are. If you can open the motor up balance that biatch. If Suzuki is as "tolerant" with the weight deviations on the crank, rods and pistons as they are with the other ever-so-slight shortcomings of this fine ride, it'll need it for an eight hour run. That will win the race for them.

When and where will the competition be?  

I wish American motorcycle magazines would do this kind of thing.  Instead, they tend to fill 90% of the pages with ads and "showcase pages" that are essentially ads.  The rest of the attention is usually given to either reprinting/rehashing European articles or running the latest crop of sportbikes around Willow Springs as fast as possible and then printing the lap times.

Very little attention to older bikes.

Adam

the problem is when you say "older bike" to an american motorcycle journalist, they think "2002"  They don't realize that most of the people who actually own an "old" 2002 still haven't finished paying it off yet.  oh well, guess I'll have to keep paying 8 bucks a pop of british bike mags which are only slightly better.

QuoteWhen and where will the competition be?

All the info's here guys...   http://www.gs500e.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=954




Sean

Sean, why the new member name/ID?

Forgot my old ID/password! Tried everything, gave up and re-registered.  

One day to go til Race day!  WOOHOOO!  




Sean

All sorted now!  


Thats better, I'm back up to triple figure posts again!  




Sean

WOOHOOO!

The GS wins!      

See the pics here...   http://www.gs500e.co.uk/gallery/Rockingham-Raceway-Performance-Bikes

     


Sean

this one pic says it all  





Lev

I don't think that any of us had a single doubting moment about the outcome of that contest  

Please pass on a hardy congrats to the pilots and the rest of the team.

God damn I'm feeling proud!  

Congratulations to the PB team.

great job lev....congrads

HA HA

That's sweet.

When is the issue with the race coming out?

Probably won't be out til April. I think March's issue should have the mods and the speed testing at Bruntingthorpe. So I'm guessing April. Really was a fantastic day out...   the magazine staff even treated us all to a BBQ!  Great bunch of guys.  




Sean

That is so cool
Looks like a big turn out from the GS crowd as well. I really like the black one with that crazy swingarm.

I love PB.  They actually have fun doing their jobs.  I've been reading that mag on and off for like 9 years now (usually standing in Barnes and Noble, cuz I'm too cheap to buy it).  I remember they once had a test between andold czech made bike (the Cz) and some french made 3 wheeled car/bike hybrid.  One of the funniest things I ever read.  


Instead we get treated to things like Stayin'  Safe and how to rebuild your Harley's carbs again and again.

Jake

what kind of mods did you do on the winning GS?
i like that fairing..how much was the fairing?