Today was a very nice day, weather-wise. It was in the 60s with a bit of sun — a perfect day to finally take the GS out of winter storage and get it ready for riding. Since, it’s a 2001, and since it has 7450 miles, it was also the perfect time to […]

i live in atlanta and this past thursday, i decided to visit a friend in augusta. since it’s only about 160 miles each way, and the weather channel predicted 80s/90s partly cloudy, i decided to give the GS a roadtrip trial.
oddly enough i wasn’t concerned with the bike’s performance, as much as my own. […]

this is a very detailed writeup for installing Progressive fork springs onto (into?) a Suzuki GS500.

i did not get a chance to take pictures when i changed my springs out, so the numbers in parentheses refer to pictures in the Clymer manual (89-02) - format: (page #, pic #/letter ).