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MikeL

Social climber
Southern Arizona
Oct 9, 2016 - 07:18am PT
Excellent video.

Had to be a BMW.
Peater

Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
Oct 9, 2016 - 07:50pm PT

Can't compare my trips with riding down to Chile but I rode this thing across the US and Canada twice (1979 and 81 I think). Never visited Texas on it or Alaska but pretty much everywhere else.

My big gripe with the bike (550 Suzuki) was that it didn't have folding foot pegs. So going around corners had to be taken with some degree of caution.

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pud

climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
Oct 9, 2016 - 08:10pm PT
peater,
One of my favorite rides of all time was my 3 years on a '79 GS550.
It was my 'adventure' bike long before it was all the rage.
I once traversed a mile long landslide on it above Big Sur on highway 1 with CHP yelling profanities and threats at me for skirting their barriers.
Good times!
Peater

Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
Oct 9, 2016 - 09:23pm PT

Hi PUD, Mine was a 78 GS550 that I bought new. I was mostly interested in canyon racing at the time and it was fast but didn't handle very well compared with my other bike (350 four Honda), go figure? I could beat other 500's with my 350 but couldn't with my 550.

So that led me to my touring days.

I've rode the PCH so many times I can't recall. We may have passed each other on that road.

So many tales to tell on those trips but that was before GoPro and digi cameras.

For I think 8 months on my first trip my address was my bike. I traveled 6 and spent 2 in the valley loaning it out once to some base jumpers so they could make a fast getaway.

Thanks for the reminisce.
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