With just these updates, I hope you enjoyed five minutes of reading!
Sorry for the lack of substance…
The photos are a showdown between old and new. It’s not like I’m particularly a Suzuki fan or anything—I ride Suzuki out of necessity…
I guess I ride it because circumstances dictated it.
If it weren’t for Asakawa Speed, there’s no way I’d have bought a GS1000S!
I had zero interest in classic bikes back then ★
The reason I bought it was I happened to get in a right-angle collision (XJR1200) and had some money, so I was wondering what to do with it…
Then Asakawa told me there was a GS1000S available in America—want it? And I said, sure, I’ll take it ♪
So I bought it.
I had no particular dreams or anything about it—honestly, any bike would’ve done. I just wanted a learning project for myself.
It came from America, I hooked up the battery and it fired right up. I took it for a quick spin…
And it was unbelievably slow! The brakes wouldn’t stop it even if I grabbed them all the way! It wouldn’t stay in a lean at all!
I knew it would be different, but this much? I was shocked ★
But as I gradually worked through replacing parts and doing maintenance, I realized I’d bought a great learning tool.
I swapped the ignition points for a full-transistor system! It was my first time seeing a governor.
The fork is a pressurized type… pressurized? Really? Strange setup.
The chain was 630, and since there were no conversion kits back then like there are now, I adapted it down to 530.
I rode it almost every day. On days like today, after work when snow starts falling, I’d head out on the Kanjo 2nd Route—Dai-3 Keihin—Route 246…
The roughly one kilometer to Kanjo 2nd Route took thirty minutes each way, and then I’d come back and take the train home…
These days I’d just take the train without hesitation…
There’s something nice about it when snow falls ★
Pokio
