contact info ?
hi. i'm wondering if anyone on the list might have a way to get a hold of lister hugh hamilton. i'd like to get back in touch with him and don't seem able to reach him by e-mail. thanks! -- jim \\// (o o) -oOOo-(_)-oOOo--- Jim Guss [EMAIL PROTECTED] (505) 989-1725 bef. 9pm mdt 206 Tesuque Drive Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505-3838, USA .
shmarts
-Original Message- Hmm...the brains were in the trunk. (-0-) no. i have had it explained to me quite clearly that brains to be found in the car are located on the right-side passenger's seat. comes with real-time instructions and feedback on directions, rate of speed, etc. occasionally, displays are quite colorful. oh yeah, you can take it with you wherever you travel, and it's still always right ! -- obviates need for cartridges for additional external input data... so's i'm a-thinkin' e-map sounds pretty choice. 8*} btw, re tankbags: have recently been in touch with bagster in france. great folks, (at home office in france, NOT @ italjet in nyc.) manufacturer is reworking strategy for u.s. sales, including possibly selling direct, likely on-line. i know some listers have the bagster tank bag and bra set up. many like it a lot, and report it works really well for funny gts "gas tank lite" non-ferrous, odd shape, tough-to-tankbag center hump. seems like sweet set up, and direct prices may be favorable compared with those from other manufacturers. hope to have more gts bagster news to report soon. ciao, -- jim
back from limbo
hi y'all -- just got pc up and running after mother board and cpu fried and died. about five weeks of tech-support hell. also, about same time, slammed with serious illness. glad to be recovering from both. haven't meant to be blowing anybody off if trying to contact me, just no e-mail; (we were way-way-way offline.) look forward lots to more gtstuff near future. -- jim .
¡ hola !
hello list -- very happy to join you as active participant rather than virtual passenger. thanks terry for nice introduction, as well as for your warm hospitality and beautiful bike. i can't hope to come close to providing the wisdom terry has over time to the list, but i'm sure to enjoy the bike and being a member of the gts touring society. -- j . Jim Guss [EMAIL PROTECTED] (505) 989-1725 206 Tesuque Drive Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505-3838, USA
warm fluffy thoughts
hi guys -- wish all joyous holidays and happy, healthy new millenium. and, if there are any elves out there still trying to squeeze in some giving for their favorite gtsts member but have run out of stuff to monogram at land's end, i suggest in response to the recent thread about heated gloves that to the list be added a set of hotgrips, found at www.hotgrips.com. old set worked great; high setting too hot in light snow storm with old deerskin work gloves. new set has much better sounding insulation and a newly available, cool sounding, infinitely adjustable variable heat controller. for me, they went on easily; i just gave my mechanic $15 to install them while performing the rest of a full service on tdm. however, it sounds like the big challenge most experience doing it themselves is removing the old grips. and yes, i found with palms and pinkies cooking, knuckles and backs of hands happy and toasty, too. they are not so cool lookin' and stylin' as those hippo hands ;-) but there're no bulky mitts or extra wires to mess with hopping on to head out on the highway. i know it's not canada, eh, or minnesota, yah, but we are at 7,000 feet base elevation in santa fe and most twisties head up from here. morning commute and high road to taos both made much more user friendly with hotgrips -- helps extend riding season year-round, or close, the snow usally melts rapidly. good thing made even better. and still eleven shopping hours before christmas. anyway, my 2¢. best wishes for happy holidays. merrily, -- jim
disc locks
hi. what do gts list members do about disc locks? do they fit on front wheel? thanks, -- j . Jim Guss [EMAIL PROTECTED] (505) 989-1725 206 Tesuque Drive Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505-3838, USA
bags
saw a thread a while back about givi v. krauser, but i have little information about the 34-liter krauser bags. i'm wondering if they might be a good way to go, but wonder if i ought to wonder first, ;-) , for example, if they are at all available, and what other concerns i should take into account. does anyone know much about these? thanks, -- jim
¡ fluff ! ok, hi gang. and, thanks for kind repli
hi. been some time since my query a little while ago which generated such nice responses from so many of you. way too much time in hospital etc with wife, not nearly enough on the road in the wind. i'm happy to say, btw, that it looks like she'll be pretty much fine. anyway, i wanted to drop a decent note to say thanks for the warm welcome to your list. (and acknowledge i figured out a little late why plain text was so much smoother with a listproc than mime.) i was knocked out by your obvious enthusiasm for your machines. i think its a brilliant bike. i will be definitely be on the look-out to score a good deal on a '94 this winter if one comes along. i know -- there have been some sweet offerings of '93's recently -- but, i can't help it, i've just got a thing for blue bikes. and i had to turn down a '93 that just turned up ;-) in new mexico; some wise guy had gone to the trouble of over-painting it screaming zonker yellow. look forward to joining your ranks in the gtsts on radd wheels instead of just in spirit. but, here's to headin' out on the highway lookin' for adventure. i'd pipe up for stuff like the cool sounding special order air filter, etc., but i'm thinkin' it may be a little premature without any idea when i'll ever have the bike to need it. let's hope soon. thanks for the zestful, comradely response. -- jim jim guss [EMAIL PROTECTED] (505) 989-1725 206 tesuque drive santa fe, new mexico 87505-3838, usa
fwd to list of orig (snipped) newbie gts info req to weaver
hi. recently joined list. lurking a little to test waters, etc. i presently have a '93 yamaha tdm 850, (not a gts 1000,...yet.) i've been intrigued by the gts since learning about it about a year and a half ago, (not coincidentally about the same time i started riding.) i've heard james parker lives here in santa fe and hope someday to meet him. i just missed riding, and probably buying, a gts in albuquerque a while ago that had sat on their floor following trade-in for about three years, 'cause no one knew what to make of it. i did have a chance on a recent trip to california to ride a gts briefly and was _very_ impressed with its smoothness. one of the big draws for me is not the front end but its early success with electronic fuel injection; i have had a _ton_ of problems getting the jetting right on the tdm for our 7,000 foot elevation. i have found riding the bike to be great and much more fun than pushing it or getting stuck in the middle of no place. so efi reliability seems like it could be a big bonus. but it seems like getting one to me is still going to be a bit of a safari, which before i launch on it, i have a few concerns, and i'd value your thoughts. the bike seemed heavy and loath to flip from one tight turn to another. riding position is nice but hard hard on wrists. enormous complexity seems likely to make mechanic visits particularly painful. rarity points to fewer parts and less familiarity, not to mention _hard_ to find one in the first place. nice sounding ones, especially blue ones, are still, for me, _really_ expensive. (my wife is mid-stream in a torrent of health disasters.) the recent thread about abs difficulties makes me wonder about that and other mechanical problems that might have plagued the bikes and their owners. but for all that, boy do they seem cool. and i'm pretty smitten, so it's kind of a logistics thing. maybe this winter it will somehow seem easier and more do-able. but for now, i'm enjoying the list, but wondering how folks with more than twenty minutes on a gts feel about the good, bad, ugly and beautiful of living with one. thanks a lot, -- jim guss jim, elizabeth and pablo guss [EMAIL PROTECTED] (505) 989-1725 206 tesuque drive santa fe, new mexico 87505-3838, usa
