Kidney for sale!! Need to fix my bike

[Dai]

Now I have your attention.

I need help.

Bike is a GS1200SS. Bandit engined retro bike.

I need a gear lever. My brothewr in law reversed his car into the bike and snapped the toe hook off the current one.

I also need steering head bearings for this bike. Top and bottom

I have just been to a bike shop and was quoted the following;

Gear lever = $125
Bearings = $150

Thats a grand total of $275.

What thoughts ran through my head I am too polite to type in open forum but as I am ex services I can assure you they were of the choicest.

So please will someone buy my spare kidney. Just like my lungs I dont really need two.

I thought Bill Gates was the only person in the world who contracted to take your first born for products. Obviously I was mistaken.

Seriously.

Can anyone out there in KB land help me?

Does anyone know the part number for the complete bearing set so that I can go to a company that manufactures such and get non suzuki parts.

To top it all off I have been having problems with the riding position on this bike and was thinking that a set of adjustable footpeg sets (rearsets) would help.

Do I have to trade my soul for these or do they just want a pound of flesh.

PM me if you can help.

[Drum]

Is it in good nick? (the kidney that is)

Have you tried the wreckers?

[Dai]

Is it in good nick? (the kidney that is)

Have you tried the wreckers?

50 years old, lots of abuse thrown at it over the last 35 years. still going strong. One of a pair.

Comes with certificate of authenticity. Made in NZ. Good Celtic stock.

As to the parts.

Will a 1200 Bandit gear lever fit? Help anyone.

[riffer]

You said the magic words. Celtic stock. Here's the Celtic solution.

You don't have to pay Suzuki prices for the steering head bearings. They are standard tapered bearings.

If you are game to do it yourself, pull the front off, and write down the numbers on the top of the steering head bearings. They come with the races. You can get them for half the prices from SKF, Schrodoco or a million other types of places.

Any engineering workshop should be able to pull the bottom bearing off for you if you don't have the tools. Likewise put it back on again. Hell, most of them will do it for nix if you are nice. But beer is good currency.

[SPman]

Can you get an aftermarket gear lever?

GSXR lever was about $145, but got an aftermarket one for about $65.

[bistard]

If you have only broken the toe piece off the lever,a temporary repair can be done by drilling a hole & mounting a bolt with an extra nut to hold it in place
have done this many times on broken race bikes,works a treat
If you want to get real flash,put some rubber vacuum tube on the bolt,so your foot wont slip

[FilthyLuka]

If you want to get real flash,put some rubber vacuum tube on the bolt,so your foot wont slip

or, if your really the man, youd nurl the bolt and paint it blue

[Dai]

What a sad state of affairs.

Couldnt get a gear lever here in NZ without selling my spare body parts or my first born child.

Get on the web and find just what I have been looking for in th UK.

$90 NZ total including post and will be here in a week.

Also found steering head bearing sets for 20 UK pounds plus 5 ukp for postage.

$75 for them delivered to me here 12000 miles away from the dealer.

I think the words "con and rippoff artists" should be applied to parts suppliers and factories

[Hans]

Bloody hell.