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It's time to check in again with Paul 'The motorcycle broker' Jayson and see what classic maching he has to show us today!
This week it's the classic Suzuki GS1000s Wes Cooley Special! - Авто та транспорт
Had the blue and white one. Best bike I ever owned. Fantastic long distance (1,000+ kms) tourer and capable of sustained high speed. Z900/Z1000’s couldn’t stay with them - way better handling and higher top speed. The only bike I have owned that I still have dreams of riding, and feel great disappointment when I awaken and realise it was only a dream.
Bought one new in crate and assembled it myself. Never known as a Wes Cooley replica. I road raced, hill climbed, dragged and toured it. There is nothing wrong with the clutch. It makes a rattle - that’s it. Very economical on tour - high fifties on Oz gallons. Most comfortable two up bike ever. Indestructible with very little maintenance. Once the valve clearances settled they never needed touching again. I did 70,000km on it. Probably the best motorcycle ever made in terms of all round rideability, reliability and value. Bought it for around $2200 AUD and sold for $1500. And I will regret selling it to my dying days.
I have a fully restored 1980 Suzuki GS1000g (shaft drive) behemoth/ sister bike to the Wes...I call it THE BLACK BEAST. 260 hours into the restoration...my little project. It is a monster, a balls to the wall untamed beast. It will grumble at you. I fear it's power.
Nobody I knew ever called them a “Wes Cooley Replica”, back in the day. They were just a GS1000S. More expensive than the E model and with the 18” rear wheel (as opposed to the 17” on the E), more limited in tyre choice but at least they didn’t have the not-so-great pneumatic shocks of the E. Back then and certainly in NW England, the S was very seldom seen, compared to the E, which is probably why they are now such a great investment....
Agree - they were never called Wes Cooley Specials in the USA either. Just GS1000S
It's us I have one for several years I've been riding it it's an incredible motorcycle but I have an 1100 cc motor extra that I have installed in that frame thank you for keeping me alive I send you the best for 2023
My first bike was a 79 gs1000s, had a bassani header and jetted carbs, fork brace, Metzlers, I bought it at a used bike shop in Oceanside ca in 1982, nice handling bike, ran very strong, 2nd bike was a 1980 gs1000g, bought from same bike shop, also a very nice bike, loved the shaft drive. 3rd bike was a 82 gs1100E, a beauty, rode ca to mi and back 2 times, best time was 54 hrs, basically gas stops only. My last bike was a 93 gsx1100G, also a very sweet ride, supertrapp header, ign advancer, stage 3 jet kit, and it would run a high 10 1/4 mile. Always a Suzuki fan, could only imagine twisting the throttle on a hyabusa.
I had a GS1000ST. Made for homologation racing in Australia. Bigger carbs and cams Also had more rearset pegs. Redline was 500rpm higher.
Always loved these ❤❤❤❤
I love these videos and learn so much from someone who obviously knows his stuff.
Great vid👍👍Nice to see what summer looks like.
Some nice nostalgia there... Thanks. 🏍
My dad had this bike - but red instead of blue. If I can recall, he had a Yoshimura exhaust system and clutch kit.
your dad was smart doing the clutch as one of our customers didn't listen and he lost his foot when the stock clutch basket chewed its way through the clutch cover and chewed his foot off like a meat grinder.....pop Yoshimura was the greatest tuner of motorcycles ever and the designer and champion very first Honda 125 Elsinore and went on to build all of Honda 250 2 stroke rx450l cr480
......I was introduced to pop Yoshimura back in the seventies r&d Honda training center in Milwaukee where the CEO for Honda said you're about to meet a man who can read your spark plug and tell you what you had for breakfast so congratulate your dad one more time on his choice of exhaust because that was designed especially for West Cooley and tuned by pop Yoshimura the only other choice of pipes back then was from Russ Collins RC engineering they were more oriented poor Rich makers of what you would run on drag strip let's wake up the dead and set off car alarms ....Yoshimura pipe first glance instantly see the difference as the yoshi pipe was much higher quality and workmanship RC engineering wasn't trying to win any bike shows they just wanted to win the quarter mile which reminds me of back then rest Collins was building drag bikes with 3 engines CB750 Honda 4-cylinder look it up on Google Russ Collins mechanics and Riders or the same two guys Terry Vance and Byron Hines over the last 10 years in a row won the National Hot Rod Association Pro Stock drag bike championships at the US Nationals right here in Indianapolis with Harley-Davidson V-twin racing against 4-cylinder Suzuki's
The GS750 first model year was 1977. The GS1000 came out in 1978.
I had one, totalled it after 3 months. Do wish I still had it.
I had cb750, kawa z1 900, GS550E, GS1000E, Honda goldwing 1000, but i have to say, GS1000 is unique and the best of beasts
i had one in 1982 , bought it at oceanside cycle, had a yosh header, and i put k&n filters on it, never could get the jetting sorted out. Nice handling bike, traded it in 1983 for a gs1100e
You had to raise the carb needles one notch for the K&Ns. Moving to that GS1000E was a big difference, to be sure!
A set of wes Cooley replica gloves might be a nice addition.
I have one of these in the same condition as the one shown here. The brakes are undergoing refurbishment but otherwise it really is an excellent bike. Greetings from New Zealand.
Looked through the comments. Can't believe no one has used the street name. It was the "Ice Cream Van" .. lol.. I've still got mine
I lusted for one of those when I had the base model with wire wheels and single front disc brake... which I hated. Bought the "S" fairing but it just wasn't the same.
there is an oil temperature gauge on the dash of the fairing after pulling the bike out of the shipping crate as it was myself who put together our very first one and the last one as I was service technician for a Suzuki/Honda dealer and when just taking on Suzuki franchise a customer had special ordered this bike so I'm handling this thing with kid gloves and was told by my boss to take my time with this one I get it serviced down time for the test ride. If you can imagine you are thirty years old with test rides under your belt starting with the old Norton 750 Commandos in the 60s and all of a sudden you realize this is not a ton up boy bike and there's way more riding on this than just my job as I haven't met the customer yet dawned on me that says no one around here even knows what this thing represents and if I scratch it I'm going to be the laughing stock from here to Indy and back ..so now I'm digesting huge monarch butterflies with my reoccurring acid reflux I cut short my test ride to a Mainstreet version of a Saturday night cruising The Bash and back to the shop and it's over without even one blip to redline knowing if I had of ten minutes later it would be st Rd 42 two lane black top with banked turns around a water shed lake Resort State Park call Cataract Lake Southwest of Indy ..so while I'm puttering main street the oil temp reads 320+*F ??? that's it im done and park this pressure cooker ...in thinkING high dollar wanna be and no oil cooler from Suzuki ' to bad...turned out it was as less than 5 months later I'm on the phone again arguing with an another Suzuki service rep who does not know anything about engines telling him we have to pull the the cylinder head off of this thing as I had just run a leak down using a self-calibrating Snap-on leak down tester you will only find on Gasoline Alley and I've got 65% leak down on number three about 50% leak down on number two around 25 and 30 on the two outside cylinders and this thing ain't burned a drop of oil according to the customers that tells me when I pulled the head I'm going to find some nice golden colored cylinder sleeves the service representative for Suzuki is asking me what the compression reading was of course it's going to read normal and was the main topic at the last Suzuki diagnostic training proving that you cannot trust a compression PSI test and he refuses to give me permission to look inside what an idiot so I had just left a Suzuki technical diagnostic School not two weeks before and one of the instructors gave us all a secret number keep it under your hat to call if you needed further assistance so I gave this inside above-top-secret phone number to the customer and said vent your anger here and give him a couple sucker punches from me while you're at it he grinned and said will do and the next morning I'm told to pull the engine down little did they know that my customer was a MotoGP engineer and this was his new play bike while his wife had inherited his old cb750f that hubby what is teaching her how to drag her knees on State Road 42 around cataract to Brown County Park State Park all in all it's like us129 Tail of the Dragon surrounded by the Nurburgring do this husband and wife team knows exactly what's wrong with their new Ace Cafe Racer and why and exactly what it needs before they brought it in and said it's down on power and highly appreciated my agitation to a $40K salary service dip shit that did not know his ass from a hole in the ground. my customer was there with me through this baby with respect like I'm a Suzuki service R&D and I'm like Yoshimura taken under his wing West Cooley showing off with all my Starrett micrometers dial bore gauges indicators measure twice double checked as handed my dial calipers to my new best customer double checking my calculations of piston to sleeve clearance that was textbook blueprinted when we got done overwhelming my customer as I could take all the time I wanted paid by the hour not by the job as my boss also knew the value this type of P&R creates maximum customer relations and why we sold over 2000 Goldwings each year as I was also they only Goldwing Factory-trained authorized technician certified through Honda...... next day the customer asked me is this the one you wanted and he's got me a Hurst Earhart oil cooler and when we're done we got a contender for the Superbike event at Daytona ... about the day after I get to meet his wife and she's a trim Rockstar rocket giving husband a ride to the GS and they go with never a problem again
I had one when I was 19 it was worked with a 4 in to one pipes and Geared up it would Blow away most Big Bikes to day and Beet all off the mark
Part of me scoffs at the mindset to return a motorcycle to bone stock when NOBODY was keeping them bone stock back in the day! I rather love Jay Leno's atititude to actually mod a machine up with things from the day that actually represents the era and improves rideability. Now this model for instance I would love to see a premium aftermarket pipe on, pod air filters and some high end rear shocks and then if those mirrors really are as awful as this man says? WHY use them? Surely there is something better maybe from another model bike that will both work and look like what should have been there to begin with....oh and espeically tires SCREW trying to put the original tires on collectible bike if you are actually going to ride it! Best rubber available I say....and for that matter if brakes can be improved without going crazy I would do that also
Frickin' A (I agree)
It’s not a Wes Cooley Replica...it’s an S model...S stands for sport model
like these vids fellas well presented
Very nice
Had gs 1000 when I was nineteen a rocket in them days m8 s were on peds and 100cc still got Suzuki now
And you still have all your appendages no artificial assistance? if so you win m8...back then I was your tuner at your local shop bragging at a whisper "careful I put the yoshi fast guy tune to her on this service check" it was a good time to be at the right place at the right time in the racing capitol of the world turning wrenches for Indy local bike shops when this sport was about to go viral ..even aftermarket harleys jumped in with things like Lucifer's hammer and an Indy local speed shops fanboy fad of looking bone stock street legal factory street tracker but with a tank badge that read "XR2000" as it hit you OMFG they didn't ..oh yes they did with Sputhe Engineering proving once again nothing replaces cubic dollars vs pounds of fun
Just had a brain fart but as I recall back in the 80s wouldn't have been quite awkward cruising the dog & Suds of trim super models on roller skates while you are riding on your Ace Cafe Racer leader of the pack of course followed by a gang of Tomos Sears Allstate majestics Hodaka dirt squirt all of which are the ring ding ding sonic resonant frequency drowning out your Yoshimura 4 into 1 ????? I mean how would you even avoid the severe understatement if you said they were just a bunch of wannabe fanboys as one of your carburetor slides was bigger than any of their Pistons and they're all muttering to themselves I'm going to be just like him when I grow up while you're trying to make out like "the fonz" to make time with the kittiest???? just the thought brings Alfred Hitchcock vertigo anxiety that was a Kodak moment I hope you got a scrapbook full of
Good job .end float noise on the cam shaft
???? Sorry, what do you mean? Not trying to be awkward?
@@GUNNERSIGHTZEROED Hi your comment confused me then realized it was from a year ago😁😁 Having owned the same bike for 38 years. At the7.10 minutes the sound you here while some is the clutch. The knocking is camshaft end float. It's where the camshaft moves a little left or right.. never heard it to be a problem will come and go.. do you have a GS?
@@victorkent768 many years ago. GS 750
oops this one has too many rpm test ...if you Don t get a Vance and Hines clutch for it you may get your foot chewed off when the clutch basket gets hungry and wants out ....we know one street racer who wishes he had listen but like we have always said , bad habits and poor judgement never last long at 100+HP doing 180mph hehehe0
Can someone tell me what that knocking sound is when he starts the engine at 7:00? I've got the same sound on my GS850 when idling and don't know whether I should be worried or not... It also seems to dissapear when the bike warms up, but not always / not completely
Clutch
maxim_sys clutch basket springs, they all do it eventually, doesn’t hurt anything
See my other comment above . Cam end float 100%
I thought the racers welded up the roller bearing crankshaft to stop them twisting
I had One of these back in 1985 (if I remember correctly) I still have a picture of me and my then Girlfriend on it, But I wish I could afford to buy another now! think I paid around £2k for mine, but more like £10 k now, would love to review One on my channel though 😁
I fear Paul is too good a salesman! *:O*
What's the knocking noise when the engine is running?I have the same on my gs 550e
It’s the springs in the clutch. It’s normal
If you got the carbs balanced the clutch clatter reduced alot
Have one in my collection but with Yoshimura exhaust
My best ever pipe wish I still had it. Is yours a very old one
ME too.
I just bought one
Front forks anodised? What is he chatting?
Ok where is Craigs latest build video!!.
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Es la moto que quiero
"Copied"engine..that says it all, try an Eddie Lawson Replica
I saw one of these bikes back in the early '80s. Bike was completely stock and smoked a guy on a '77 KZ 1000 with a pipe and K&N filters. The Suzukis had a far superior clutch system than the Kawis. It was typical for the Kawis to have the worm gear get dirty and the clutch push-rod got hot and dry causing the ball bearing to weld itself to the push-rod. The Suzuki clutch engagement was way smoother and required much less maintenance...
And Dave Aldana?
Was that the big end knocking👂🤔😂
Womanwolfrider I'm glad someone else heard that, certainly not clutch noise.
@@cj5156 Very difficult to tell (obviously) but on some GS1000's & 750's camshafts would knock from side to side movement in the head. Harmless but unnerving. Really didn't sound like a noisy clutch.
I had just had a recon clutch basket which we fitted and it whined like mad and knocked. So we exchanged it and it ran silently and didn't knock.
Im a bike courier in the city , im going to rate this bike for use as a despatch bike . 3/10 , IF IT WAS A SHAFT DRIVE ID RATE IT 5/10. basicly rubbish for a despatch bike. shit miles to the gallon too.
Not a valid point
"Wez" Cooley? WE "S" Cooley. Wez was played by Vernon Wells in The Road Warrior, lol.
Correct.
Wes, short for Wester Cooley.
You have just managed to make an amazing bike sound bloody boring
Seemed unusual to me to hear him call it a "GS Thousand S" ....
Disappointing lack of naughty nuns....
This bike was not built to replicate anything! The GS1000s is just a GS1000 with a faring. The moniker “Wes Cooley replica” wasn’t coined until after the Eddie Lawson replica came out! You idiots need to stop pushing myths!
It had bigger carbs. Stock GS 26mm. The S had 28mm
@@agylub Meaningless. The fairing added 11 pound’s and they both had 90 horsepower. My point was that it wasn’t a factory replica. That name was coined by the public much later. The reason the fairing was added was to homologate the fairing so it could be used in racing.
@@theoriginalmungaman agree. Only American exceptionalism coined the Wes Cooley name
The protective springs on the front brake hoses should be at the top , you will damage the front mudguard paintwork like this . Counter intuitive I know but rubber on the bottom , springs at the top to protect rubbing from fairing, fork clamps etc.