Congrats on the bike. I really loved learning to ride on my GS, and the only time I really felt like I didn't have power was on the interstate or riding two up. I sat on one while I was shopping at the dealership with my buddy, who ended up getting a CBR600F4I, and it kinda made me nostalgic. I spent a lot of time on my GS, enjoyed every minute of it.

Quote from: SAFE-T on March 24, 2011, 12:36:23 PM
Now if only they would last more than 50,000 miles...

Mind you, that's ten years of riding for some people.

How many miles do they generally last? I plan to baby mine, in the hopes she'll last a long time. 

I find the position on the GS to be perfect. I did my class on a Nighthawk which is probably pretty similar, but sitting on cruisers at the store it felt just wrong having my feet out in front of me. I am sure I would get used to it, but figured at 24 I have plenty of years to ride a cruiser ahead of me, might as well start on something sporty .

As to weather... I took my MSF class in the snow. It was horrible. I just moved back from Moscow, used to live in Spokane (coldest I clocked was -22 degrees F) and I am not sure I have ever felt so cold in my life. At one point I had four of those little hand warmers shoved in my gloves!

Quote from: TCARZ on March 24, 2011, 03:52:34 PM

Quote from: SAFE-T on March 24, 2011, 12:36:23 PM
Now if only they would last more than 50,000 miles...

Mind you, that's ten years of riding for some people.

How many miles do they generally last? I plan to baby mine, in the hopes she'll last a long time. 

There's a guy on some other motorcycle forums who says his first GS he beat to hell and it went well past 80k miles I want to say it was?

I love my GS and that's one of the reasons I just elected to pay a friend to clean the carbs v. just running some cleaner through the system before I went to sell it.  I feel that I should give the next owner a bike capable of performing at the top of its game so they fall for it too.

I found the riding position to be just perfect.  The bike is so flickable that it makes riding twisties fun as hell.  I may not have the speed but I can still kick the shaZam! out of most sport bikes if we're going through corners.  I upgraded to a Triumph Street Triple R which has the same riding position but improves on the GS in every facet.

Congrats on the new bike, it's a great one.

Triumph Triple Rocket is a BLAST to ride! I demoed one a  few years back. Never forget the Gs! 

Quote from: TCARZ on March 24, 2011, 03:52:34 PM

Quote from: SAFE-T on March 24, 2011, 12:36:23 PM
Now if only they would last more than 50,000 miles...

Mind you, that's ten years of riding for some people.

How many miles do they generally last? I plan to baby mine, in the hopes she'll last a long time. 

Huh?  I wouldn't buy an air cooled motorcycle that wouldn't last more than 50k miles.  Put 80k miles on my 97 GS and it still ran good as new, I bought the 02 to replace it when the 97 was totalled when a kid in a S-10 pickup hit me.  My 02 GS just turned 85k miles yesterday and I fully expect it to go 100k miles if I can.   

Quote from: Vova on March 24, 2011, 11:59:34 PM
There's a guy on some other motorcycle forums who says his first GS he beat to hell and it went well past 80k miles I want to say it was?

Quote from: gsJack on March 25, 2011, 08:47:25 AM
Huh?  I wouldn't buy an air cooled motorcycle that wouldn't last more than 50k miles.  Put 80k miles on my 97 GS and it still ran good as new, I bought the 02 to replace it when the 97 was totalled when a kid in a S-10 pickup hit me.  My 02 GS just turned 85k miles yesterday and I fully expect it to go 100k miles if I can.   

Meet the "guy" . I was sure you were here Jack, just had not seen you yet to confirm! (JVRR)

54,000+ on mine, and still going strong.  Plan on keeping it til either it dies, or I die.  I fully expect to get 97k+ miles out of it, and that's with a 5 mile commute, and a once-a-month group ride, rain or shine, of 125+ miles.

Welcome .

Quote from: SAFE-T on March 22, 2011, 09:16:09 AMIt's just a standard, not a sportbike or a sport-tourer. It's the no-name vanilla ice-cream of the motorcycling world, which is both its greatest asset and greatest disadvantage.

Quote from: gsJack on March 25, 2011, 08:47:25 AMHuh?  I wouldn't buy an air cooled motorcycle that wouldn't last more than 50k miles.  Put 80k miles on my 97 GS and it still ran good as new, I bought the 02 to replace it when the 97 was totalled when a kid in a S-10 pickup hit me.  My 02 GS just turned 85k miles yesterday and I fully expect it to go 100k miles if I can.   

Quote from: The Buddha on March 10, 2011, 02:36:34 PM25K is 1 leg in the grave, especially if it wasn't maintained, and no you cant tell maintenance with pretty looks, my bikes used to look like crap.
OK fine bad example ... but I did drag a GS kicking and screaming to the 50K mark. It looked like crap most of the time. The rest of the time it looked worse.
Cool.
Buddha.