If not raining tomorrow, I'll ride HUHSKY to my dental appointment at the UW Dental Clinic then cruise around the campus to show her off.
HUHSKY IS NOT FOR SALE! I love her way too much.

hey addy, i know your one of the gods on the forum, i got some Model k 92-93 OEM clip ons for my 09 GS500, are they going to fit alright, i read somewhere that they do with minimal clearance! Any advice??

Quote from: pomme123 on March 18, 2014, 09:59:21 PM
hey addy, i know your one of the gods on the forum, i got some Model k 92-93 OEM clip ons for my 09 GS500, are they going to fit alright, i read somewhere that they do with minimal clearance! Any advice??

Well, I did to a full tutorial on them.
Insure your bars are not bent because there is tight clearance. And if they got bent, they are bend inward. Though you can file new notches and pilot holes for controls and rotate them. I havethem on Suzi. Really no issues once I learned to keep my right thumb off the starter button area when doing a full hard right turn.

your a champion addy, thanks so much (ps not to gush but 1 year ago your video on exhaust changing helped me so much in respraying my exhaust black)

Ordered the following parts.
2 Bridgestone Bt-45 tires.
Rejet kit from Buddha
OEM headlight with cheapo mounts
New fuel lines
Uni Air filter cleaner and oil precision screwdriver set and a mechanics tool kit to put it all together

NEWBIE

Next is a Shorai Lithium battery
And a chain and sprocket replacement

NEWBIE

Quote from: adidasguy on March 11, 2014, 08:15:42 PM
Finished the panniers for Suzi. Givi Trekker 33 liter cases.
Five Stars rack. I removed the SW Motech rear rack because the Five Stars is a set of rear and side racks. Still deciding what I want on the rear - a Givi or a soft case for daily use.
The Givi's lock on and pop off real easy (if you have the key for it)
Cases are cool - you can have them open a top flap (see one on right) or full open (left). Each case can be set for either way to open.
There are soft bags that go inside but they are not here yet.
I was happy that the Five Stars racks had all the correct mounting bits for the Givi cases (monokey mounting style)

That setup is SWEET. I'm guessing the pannier rack isn't something you can easily buy, right? Those panniers are also nice with the flip top vs side open design.

I love my GS but the lack of luggage options is what gets me.

Dinky:

I lucked out late one night and found Five Stars side racks for both the E and F models in Germany Ebay. Kappa and Givi mount the same.

You may have to search ebay.co.uk,  ebay.de  and ebay.nl

Five Stars closed shop a year ago. Some may still be available.

Also US distributors may have Givi and Hepco-Becker racks for the GS500F models.

So far this week I've ordered a new R/R (Polaris branded SH775 series type) and discovered my chain is completely shagged.

New chain and sprockets to be purchased tomorrow hopefully and will go on on Sunday.

Will have to wait a few weeks for the arrival of the R/R (prices here are obscene compared to the US).

I also need to do an oil and filter change... apparently the 450 likes to drink the Motul 5100 rather than just use it to lubricate spinning bits 

Enjoying riding the rental bike around central Oregon: Myrtle Creek, Riddle, Canyonville area.
Anyone want to ride Sunday or Monday?
Some pix or it didn't happen.


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Nice ride and nice area bro!! 

Chain and sprockets and an oil change today... old sprockets are had it:



New sprockets and chain:



Put some Threebond on the master link clip:



Spare master link and fuses now in the tool bag:



And swapped the oil for some of this to hopefully solve my oil consumption issues:

57 deg yesterday here in CT so finally a decent day to ride!  Potholes are brutal this year but it helped for practice on swerving.  2 hrs was all I could squeeze in and just kept it local while getting to know each other again.  The bike is an '02 with just under 6k mi and is running great.

Beautiful day in Washington so we decided to get a group ride going and ended up getting about 20 people to go out and ride the twisties near Mt Rainier. Ended up being almost 60 I think with clear skies

This was my first twisty mountain ride on this thing, was such a blast! I managed to stay close to all the guys with the liter bikes, and was in the front for the whole thing. Also my new Motegi suit is freaking awesome, super easy to move around on the seat while switching positions through the corners, and very comfortable when in an aggresive position. We had two guys go down, both on Yamahas... They learned their lesson, haha jkin. No body got hurt, damage totaled to a broken blinker on one bike, and a broken gear shifter on the other, and of course, scratches.

Heres some pictures of the meet up and some gorgeous views I saw when I left the pack.





This was when I left the pack to go home, had to stop and snap some pictures in a couple places.





Quality kinda sucks cause I only had my phone. Camera would have been too bulky for the suit.

Today was a good day lol. Totaled just shy of 300 miles, a whopping 275.

Course it's quick!! .. It's so red!!!!! 

But it's a Honda 

Jokin'... glad you're having fun 

saturday i started replacing my fork seals, right up until i couldnt find my fork oil. DOH! <smash head into wall> so here she sits

as i wait for a stupid bike shop to be open. for some idiotic reason just about every bike shop around here is closed on mondays.

sorry if the pic isnt quite sharp. took with my dumb-phone.

Quote from: oz353 on March 24, 2014, 01:01:51 PM
saturday i started replacing my fork seals, right up until i couldnt find my fork oil. DOH! <smash head into wall> so here she sits

Do I spy with my little eye a '77 Yamaha YZ80D in the background?

Cleaned Carbs, Cleaned chain and sprockets. Also, I found that a screw was missing on the bottom of the float bowl causing a vacuum leak 
Fixed it and now she runs better than ever...of course its raining!

Assembled my headlight now I just how to mount it and rewire everything and I'm on to changing my tires. Not sure if I'm do it myself or take the rims off and have a shop do it

NEWBIE