SuzukiGSX1100G -

[Paul in NZ]

BS! It's the cleanest regularly used bike I've EVER seen.

You big fat liar!

You should have seen it when we came back from Raglan - erp!

[zooter]

I've done length of South Island three times and yet to encounter "Dreaded Shaft Drive Wobble". ( But I ride like a capable granny ) What the hell is it??

[zooter]

The gsx1100g delivers power like a wee V8!!!! 3 to 5 thousand rpm, nice : 2 thumbs up : ... 5 to 9 thousand, yee haar hold on to those bars, we're off....FYI Frosty, a turbine delivers power in an extremely narrow RPM range, no piston engine delivers power like a turbine, if it did it would be useless in a motorcycle. What you mean is turbine like SMOOTHness, courtesy of the balancer shaft added to the GSXR motor for the G version

[moko]

I had a GS850 years ago(so long ago I bought it new),shaft didnt cause any handling trouble,squiffy handling was down to the weight and soft suspension.Old Guzzis and MV`s dont handle too badly and if you ever want a real blast blag a go on one of the big GS BMs,you wouldn`t believe how something so big and ungainly-looking can handle so well.Always amazes me that there aren`t loads more bikes with shaft-drive these days,I get pissed off giving my bike a good clean then finding the back end covered in crap chucked off of the chain.

[pete376403]

The shaft wobble phenomenon (sounds like an old mans complaint) is nothing. The REAL problem with shafties is that (apparently) they can neither countersteer nor wheelie - something to do with the Coriolis Effect (look it up).
However I do know that with a pillion and a weight (an old turbocharger) in the topbox, my GS1100GK did a helluva wheelie away from the Korokoro lights and scared the shit out of me.

[marty]

it's not coriolis effect - that has to do with the earth rotation and how it effects the wind/pressure gradient. it's more likely to be centrifugal effect, which has to do with spinning discs, and is the basis of countersteer.

[moko]

The REAL problem with shafties is that (apparently) they can neither countersteer nor wheelie

http://home.t-online.de/home/anwibu/wheelie.htm

Looks quite impressive for a non-wheelie to me.There`s a bloke called John Paul Goy that does stunt shows in Europe featuring him wheelying all kinds of shaftie BMs,Ewan macgregor and John Boorman seemed to manage quite well on their trip as well.I wheelied my GS850 messing about one day,nearly shagged my clutch doing though so was a one-off.All time best wheelie I did was on my RD400,totally un-intentional and the passenger crapped himself,if I hadn`t had a carrier on the back he`d have been sitting in the road,not only did it rear right up it stayed up,luckily I was going in a straight line,not so luckily it was down the High Street on a Saturday afternoon and some people took offence.

[pete376403]

Yeah I know, it was supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek post but something musta got lost in translation. I recall some Euro guy used to do wheelie demos on 1300/6 Kawasaki shafties, which involved smashing rear guards and tail-lights, he got the bikes that far up.
But the non-countersteer/wheelie/shafty thing used to be a perennial on Rec.motorcycle usenet newsgroup in the pre-www days. Was trying to keep it alive.