dragging up an old thread.....but I am sure someone will be interested..
dragging up an old thread.....but I am sure someone will be interested..
History...I was National Sales Manager for Matichs in the 70s...I appointed Colemans as the Pirelli/AGV distributors for NZ...Then I spent 79/80 running around in a Kombi with one Dave Hiscock and a GSX1100E while we won every production race in Australia..save for the 6 Hour.......well today...reading all this stuff...I found in a shed..believe it or not..Number 274...Silver in colour...wire wheels..Black pipes..steel swingarm..etc...so I guess I better buy it...then shuffle it down to Newcastle to get Dave to tune it like he did all his proddy bikes....
I will let you know about the 18/19 stud cover and longer fins...the owner has paperwork from day 1 of ownership and deliver.
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Nice find, looking at the photo, which is a bit blurry, it looks like it has the wrong carbs on it!!, they look like the standard CVs??
"The road to Hell is really grippy with loads of run off & some wicked lefthanders"
the early gsx's had less bolts holding down the rocker cover than the later, wellington motorcycles asked the factory to put a rubber gasket in like the hondas as they were prone to sucking their gaskets into the engine, their response was an extra four bolts. finning was longer, but this was nout to do with the black pipers, just the evolution of the gsx
Previous owner...
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Bistard....I will have to check...tho I am not sure the Aussie ones got the same carbs as the NZ hotrods...lots of black magic done at Wanganui and Wellington M/Cs..what carbs were fitted to yours?
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Appears the Aussie bikes all ran CV carbs...our scrutineer was pretty savage ..and not all of them used/wanted the steel swingarm...the alloy one did look beefier..
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wheels...swingarm...pipes..not sure about engine bits ..was an airbox mod and clutch springs..so I am told...by some Kiwis in OZ..who were mechanics on them..
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Now I am thinking...if the first 300 were ET models......this one has 80/81 EX graphics..?..yes?..can someone confirm?..Dont want to throw my hard earned away..tho if the VIN is correct I should be OK...It comes with all original paperwork..
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