So, last night I went for a ride to enjoy the sunset and gas up my GS500F.  'Got to the gas station, filled her up, looked at my trip odometer, 151 miles, and I put in 2.91 gallons (that's 51.89 miles/gal), went to reset the trip odometer and hey!  The knob is missing!  It's gone.  What the heck!   

Looks like I have to go to the dealer and order a knew knob.  Has this happened to any of you?  'Had a great ride though...

I do not believe you can order the knob separate from the entire gauge cluster. You may have to improvise and make your own.

Parts 2 and 3 here for $4.50. I didn't check prices anywhere else but this is where I usually order from. ( www.flatoutmotorcycles.com)

One twinner had a problem with these guy's shipping times (there is a a thread about it somewhere) which is usually a couple weeks but I don't mind because they are usually the cheapest.

http://www.partshark.com/fiche_section_detail.asp?section=92678&category=Motorcycles&make=SUZUKI&year=2001&fveh=2102

Hey, thanks dohabee for your help.  I just ordered one through your link.  I have added this link to my favorites.  You are awesome. 

Quote from: dohabee on August 31, 2009, 07:30:47 AM
Parts 2 and 3 here for $4.50. I didn't check prices anywhere else but this is where I usually order from. ( www.flatoutmotorcycles.com)

One twinner had a problem with these guy's shipping times (there is a a thread about it somewhere) which is usually a couple weeks but I don't mind because they are usually the cheapest.

http://www.partshark.com/fiche_section_detail.asp?section=92678&category=Motorcycles&make=SUZUKI&year=2001&fveh=2102

Sweeet! Good to know. I remember people in the past having problems with that. Maybe I was thinking of the little colored lenses for the indicator lights.

Quote from: Alphamazing on August 31, 2009, 04:10:23 PM
Sweeet! Good to know. I remember people in the past having problems with that. Maybe I was thinking of the little colored lenses for the indicator lights.

Oh god I searched high and low for those stupid lenses.

I even talked to several people at Suzuki corporate offices but could not find them.

I ended up making my own from radioshack parts and gave up the search.

I see you've already ordered the replacement. But I couldn't help but think... find a GS somewhere and take their knob - just like someone took yours  . Eventually it'll go round back to the one who took yours cause they couldn't find it. And if they couldn't find it they mustn't be a member of this forum.

Michael

P.S. I do not advocate taking other people's stuff. Just adding some humor.

I have lost the trip knob twice .  I was ordering them from bikebandit.com.  This last time, I put a little thread lock on the screw.

i made my own at work

'Got the trip odometer knob and screw in the mail today.  I installed them and now the bike is good to go.  Yeeeaaaahhhh!

Thanks again to dohabee for his link and his help.   

Yup, same thing here went one day to fill up the tank then no knob oh noozs of course ended up running out of gas one night just before it came in boy did that suck at 0300!

Mary

last time i went to set my trip odometer i realized my entire trip odometer had separated itself from whatever it was mounted to in there. unusable now, but the knob is still there, want it? 

Just lost mine too. For those of you with a 3D printer, I just modeled it and made it available on Thingiverse (here). Costs a few cents to print. Hope it helps someone out there!

(Sorry for digging up this very old thread, but this is the first Google result for "gs500 trip knob")

I figure I might add my own experience on this, seeing as the thread has been bumped up anyway.
My GS came from the P/O without a trip knob at all, but I figured out that the screw that usually holds the knob on is an M2 thread, so instead buying/making a new knob I just bought a small pack of M2 copper stand-offs (ebay search for "M2 Knurl Stand Off" about 20 or 25mm long. It cost less than $2 for a pack of 10, and it works great.