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VEHICLES => Bikes/Trikes/Choppers/Scooters & etc. => Topic started by: jabberwoki on November 25, 2018, 09:51:05 PM

Title: Remember these 1987 GSXR 1100
Post by: jabberwoki on November 25, 2018, 09:51:05 PM
https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/mcy/d/1987-gsxr-1100/6756868468.html
Title: Re: Remember these 1987 GSXR 1100
Post by: Rewind on November 26, 2018, 09:14:24 AM
That's a blast from the past!
Title: Re: Remember these 1987 GSXR 1100
Post by: goodfellow on November 26, 2018, 09:26:33 AM
Back in 1992 I was actually looking to buy that bike. It was (and still is a great handling ride), but I eventually bought a new 1993 Kawasaki ZX-11. Still have that bike, and will eventually rebuild it.
Title: Re: Remember these 1987 GSXR 1100
Post by: bonneyman on November 26, 2018, 10:12:46 AM
Wasn't that the later development of the GS 1000 (Suzuki's answer to the Kawasaki KZ1000)? I remember when those things first came out geez they were like wheeled lightning!
Title: Re: Remember these 1987 GSXR 1100
Post by: bmwrd0 on November 26, 2018, 10:21:06 AM
Ah yes, the perimeter frame. A beast in a slinky dress. In England, they like to take the fairings off, polish the aluminum frames and call it a street fighter.
Title: Re: Remember these 1987 GSXR 1100
Post by: jabberwoki on November 26, 2018, 06:46:57 PM
Quote from: goodfellow on November 26, 2018, 09:26:33 AM
Back in 1992 I was actually looking to buy that bike. It was (and still is a great handling ride), but I eventually bought a new 1993 Kawasaki ZX-11. Still have that bike, and will eventually rebuild it.

Nice , i had a 1986 GPZ100RX back in OZ the precursor to your bike, i loved it.
Title: Re: Remember these 1987 GSXR 1100
Post by: Papaw on November 27, 2018, 10:23:44 AM
Definitely a Go-Fast machine ! As was the Honda of the same type. I was Service Manager at Stubbs Cycles in Houston back then and saw many of them in the store, on the track, AND in the shop for repair!
Title: Re: Remember these 1987 GSXR 1100
Post by: bonneyman on November 29, 2018, 03:33:03 PM
Quote from: Papaw on November 27, 2018, 10:23:44 AM
Definitely a Go-Fast machine ! As was the Honda of the same type. I was Service Manager at Stubbs Cycles in Houston back then and saw many of them in the store, on the track, AND in the shop for repair!

As they say: The faster you go, the faster you blow!