Work on the GS Update...

So I was told by a friend online just today that the GS is a very finicky bike to work on. He was telling me that the rubber parts that hook to the carbs (the parts that I have to replace) are insanely difficult to work with if it's cold outside. He said that if it's cold outside, I would actually need to get a heat gun and heat them all up OR put a heating pad over the entire thing and leave it like that for about an hour.

Basically, he suggested that I wait until it gets above about 50 degrees outside to do any of the work that I had been planning to do on the intake side of things. He said it's not impossible to get the carbs in and out when those boots are cold, but it's definitely a TON more difficult.

So, seeing as I can't ride the bike until it gets warmer out anyways, I will be focusing some of my current time to work on the appearance things that I want to work on for the GS.

Starting out will be the seat. If you recall, I had a "king and queen" style seat on the bike...but I didn't really like the way that it looked. So I replaced it with a stock seat that I got from a guy over on GSResources. I think the stock seat flows with the lines of the bike quite a bit better.

That said, the seat that I got has solid foam, a solid pan, but a horrible cover. The cover is almost non-existent. It's all ripped up and damaged.

So I asked about recovering the seat over on GSR, and I was told of a place that makes new seat covers for old Japanese bikes. They sell them for about $70, which isn't too bad at all for a good quality seat cover. I will probably order one up pretty soon so that I can get started on some of the things that I CAN do to the GS while it's still cold outside.

This is what the seat WILL look like when the new cover is on.