Welcome to the GSX project.
Way back in 1980 some time I had a Honda 750-4 super sports and the seat on it was really bad, so I went to the local motorcycle shop to see about getting the seat re-covered. I went into the shop and there was a nice shiny new GSX750E, red in colour, (so it must be fast) registered and ready to go!
Being a local motorcycle shop the owners said take it for a test ride and keep it for the afternoon if you want. You don’t get offers like that any more do you?
Anyway I bought the bike and I rode it everywhere. I had it for nearly 10 years. Then the usual happens, you have kids and you have to sell your toys so you can build a fence to keep the kids from wandering off.
Fast forward 30 years and some local guys decide to form Highlands Classic Motorcycle and Enthusiasts Club. so of course you need a classic bike don’t you? Lucky in the last 30 years the Internet was invented and so was e-bay.
So looking on e-bay one day,what do I see? A GSX750E 1980 model. The only thing wrong with it was it wasn’t RED. So I put in a bid and wait. I was an e-bay noobie and didn’t really know how it worked but I won the bid and now I had to get the bike from Melbourne to my home.
I finally received the bike on my birthday but I was on holidays down the coast so my son had to get it and put it in the shed but that went pear shaped and the bike fell over and broke the blinker. Oh well…plenty more blinkers around. I now have 5 more just in case.
I get back from holidays and there it is. My youth memories have been returned. I turn the key. Press the starter and nothing happens. Bummer. Then I notice the kill switch is off. Flip the switch then try again. This time it cranks over and then it fires up.