{"id":24867,"date":"2022-10-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=24867"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:45:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:45:49","slug":"the-shock-my-first-vintage-gs1000s-confusion-thoughts-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20221015\/blogs\/thoughts\/the-shock-my-first-vintage-gs1000s-confusion-thoughts-bike","title":{"rendered":"The Shock! My First Vintage GS1000S Left Me Bewildered\u3010Thoughts\u3011Motorcycle."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I was around 22 years old at the time when I got my hands on a GS1000S.
It wasn’t like I was specifically looking for this bike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Should I buy it?
Yeah, I’ll buy it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s the kind of vibe it was. The shock I felt when it arrived and I rode it for the first time\u2014I’ll never forget it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

I’d never owned a vintage bike before. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Well, of course not\u2014I was 22.
I’d never even remotely wanted a vintage bike; I was convinced that current models were obviously better. That’s what I thought back then. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the XJR1200 I was riding at the time had a bad starter clutch, and in winter I had to resort to the rough tactic of bump-starting it every day.
I was honestly fed up with it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then that XJR1200 got hit by a right-turning vehicle and was totaled (*\u00b4\u0437`) <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the intersection of Route 246 downhill and the Kan-Nana expressway.
I had the green light going straight, and I’ve had right-turn collisions about twice.

You might think it’s because I’m usually speeding.
But from my experience, I have these strange accidents.

Big intersections like that are super dangerous spots.
I can obviously see the right-turning vehicles, so when I enter the intersection, I slow down a bit below the speed limit.

But then I release the throttle and the right-turning vehicle also releases theirs!
Mysteriously, we sync up perfectly.
Right at that exact moment, we’re both opening the throttle, so there’s no way to avoid it anymore.

Boom! I go rolling (*\u00b4\u0437`)

The front forks bent into a V-shape, so of course it was a total loss.
*I’ve never broken a bone in my life. Apparently I’m pretty good at falling and have managed to stay alive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Property damage and passenger injury insurance paid out nicely (*\u00b4\u0437`) <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

So what should I buy next?
I’d get that clunker XJR fixed up just enough to run by replacing the fork…

And then someone told me about a GS1000S in pretty good condition!
I thought, what the heck is a GS1000S? and flipped through some magazines.
Oh, that’s the one with the bullet train-like color scheme…

Once I decided to buy it, I got all excited (*\u00b4\u03c9\uff40*)
I’d never ridden a 19\/18-inch bike before either… this was going to be fun!
With 1000cc, even if it’s old, 1000cc should be pretty quick, right?
My expectations were sky-high at 20 years old… so young.
Probably to be continued (\u00b4\u03c1`) <\/p>\n\n\n\n


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I was around 22 years old at the time when I got my hands on a GS1000S. It wasn’t like I was specifically looking for this bike. Should I buy it? Yeah, I’ll buy it. That’s the kind of vibe it was. The shock I felt when it arrived and I rode it for the first time\u2014I’ll never forget it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-24867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}