If you’ve come to the RSBFS site today looking to find a hot and collectable motorcycle from this millennium, please indulge us for a few more minutes. Because today’s find is a very, very sano Suzuki GS1000S circa 1980, putting it firmly in the pre-Y2K era, and very soundly into the old-school cool category of what a superbike used to be. Big, bright, blue and bold, the air-cooled inline four with racy stripes and bikini fairing pays homage to Wes Cooley’s success in AMA Superbike competition.
1980 Suzuki GS1000S Wes Cooley Edition for sale on eBay
From the seller:
Suzuki GS1000-S
Wes Cooley Replica
Unobtanium In This Condition
Low Miles & Carefully Maintained
Absolutely Showroom New
Rare Original Mint Condition
The Holy Grail Of Super-Bikes
The Most Highly Collectible Of The Japanese SuperBikes
Looks, Runs & Rides Like New
On Display In The New England Motorcycle Museum
Previous Owner Passed Away
More from the seller:
Rare Opportunity To Buy The Best
Clean Title In Hand
Oregon Registration
Spare Key
Suzuki GS1000 Owner’s Manual
Suzuki Supplemental GS1000-S Owner’s Manual
Just Fully Serviced, Tuned & Detailed
PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO FOR DETAILS
More from the seller:
Carbs Cleaned & Tuned
Fuel Tank Removed and Flushed Out
VP Non-Ethanol Fuel Added
New Bel Ray MC4 Engine Oil
Mechanically, Cosmetically & Electrically a 10
New Battery
System Charging at 14.5 Volts
All Lights and Gauges Work Like New
Complete 100 Point Check Over
Full Rotisserie Detailed
Steam Cleaned, Hand Washed, Polished & Waxed
Ready To Ride or Show Today
We do not see these GS1000S models come up for sale often, and rarely do we see a bike quite this clean. The seller is a familiar entity in the collector world, and generally presents a clean and well photographed example. In today’s case we have a 42 year old, 7,500 mile example that looks to be pretty original. The OEM 4-into-2 exhaust has been traded for a 4-into-1 Kerker unit, which is period correct but looks out of place to me given the Cooley championship bikes in ’79 and ’80 were fielded by the legendary Yoshimura team. Other than that, this looks as good as we’ve seen. These bikes are not getting any younger, which means supply is dwindling with time. The internet appears to agree, as this one has been bid up to a strong $18,500 thus far; anxious prospects can still pull the trigger on a $25k Buy It Now option. You can check out all of the details here. Good Luck!!
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WOW, sold for $25K! BAT money! Most $ I’ve ever seen for one of these w/ or w/o stock exhaust.
Three things: (1) If only I had the foresight to have bought both the 1979 & 1980 GS1000S/Wes Cooley Replicas we had in our inventory back when I was the General Manager @ a Suzuki franchise I ran from 1977 to 1984 (having the opportunity to buy at Dealer Cost…which helped reduce the cost…but not enough at that time to be sensical)…(2) If only I had the “Disposable Cash” back then…when I had just bought my 1st house during those years…and, (3) at least I had the unique and fantastic opportunity to (through the graciousness of the guy who owned the franchise) use any and many bikes we had as “my personal demos”…and both the 1979 and 1980 were always 2 of my favorite mainly ridden “demo bikes” (until they were sold…which took longer than normal…due to me not reducing them at all)!!! GREAT FUN and MEMORIES!!!
With due respect, could we one and all stop referring to objects as “holy grails”? Frst of all, it’s blasphemous. Second, for those who haven’t done their research or are not familiar with the Bible, the Holy Gtrail has never been found, so its a bad comparison in that way as well.