Topic: Gerex ad.

[Don R]

I snagged this off of the internet for the Gerex fans.

[MRieck]

like how it says the "modern motorcycle engine" with a cut out pic of the 750 engine. Man....$200.00 was a lot of dough back in 77/78.

[Don R]

 I was a plumber apprentice, with 40 hours and changing oil in shop trucks on Saturday that's about what my gross weekly income was.

[newday777]

In 1977 as parts manager I was getting $180 straight salary for 2 weeks at 12 hr days 6 and 7 days a week, plus mandatory stay late to do set up parties until 1 and 2am.....
I burned out fast and by late October I got in my buddies pickup with him and headed west.

[NitroHunter]

In 1977 as a Navy E-3 I was hauling in a whopping $457 a month - before taxes. Purchasing a CB750 was absolutely out of the question.
So every time we were back in port San Diego, I'd find out which ships were soon heading out for deployment, and then spend time in their designated motorcycle parking area talking with the riders, finding out which bikes might be for sale cheap. Generally the closer it got to ships movement, the lower the prices would fall. In about 2 years, when I wasn't deployed on Westpac cruises myself, I bought and sold at least 20 different small street legal enduro type bikes. As long as it had a good tag I could ride the wheels off them and still flip it for a profit. I found most were really fun to ride and easy to sell to other sailors since most were pretty cheap. And as long as the tags weren't expired, I never had to pay to register anything. Profit, baby!
I was finally able to afford my first 750 well used - just in time to have to store it (!) as we left to takeover over Flagship duties in Yokosuka Japan.
But it was waiting there for me when I returned apon discharge, and I rode it for years.

[scottly]

In the spring of 1978, I went to work as an electronic test tech for a division of TRW, making about $6 an hour before taxes for a 40 hour work week. Shortly after I started, I went to the 4:00-midnite shift, which paid a 10% bonus. By early 1979, I had moved into a room in an old farm house, paying $100 per month, and by spring I had saved enough to buy the Seeley for $1900 cash. The Gerex is the box below the seat and behind the shock...

[Don R]

 I stuck a small MSD sticker on my Gerex to avoid the "what's that thing?" questions. I'd always answer that it's an MSD made before there was an MSD company.

[Don R]

  The Rat Race had a dead #4 pipe today, I swapped the 1 and 4 spark plugs which both appeared black and wet, and it seemed the same. I decided to pull the plug wire off to see if the rpm changed.
  HOLY CRAP!! I held the boot an inch and a half from the rocker cover, and I was seeing multiple lightning bolts simultaneously coming out of the silicone boot. The issue was for sure not the spark. I need to check the rocker cover for arc pits.
  I drained the float bowl and then rode it a few blocks, it seems to have cured itself.
  50 years later, that Gerex is still the Shizzle, giving those old cir-cycle coils a workout too!

[Jerry Rxman Griffin aka MuthaF'er]

In the spring of 1978, I went to work as an electronic test tech for a division of TRW, making about $6 an hour before taxes for a 40 hour work week. Shortly after I started, I went to the 4:00-midnite shift, which paid a 10% bonus. By early 1979, I had moved into a room in an old farm house, paying $100 per month, and by spring I had saved enough to buy the Seeley for $1900 cash. The Gerex is the box below the seat and behind the shock...

Not going to ask for a picture of NIB?? hehe

[MRieck]

In the spring of 1978, I went to work as an electronic test tech for a division of TRW, making about $6 an hour before taxes for a 40 hour work week. Shortly after I started, I went to the 4:00-midnite shift, which paid a 10% bonus. By early 1979, I had moved into a room in an old farm house, paying $100 per month, and by spring I had saved enough to buy the Seeley for $1900 cash. The Gerex is the box below the seat and behind the shock...

Is that a Piranha fairing?

[scottly]

In the spring of 1978, I went to work as an electronic test tech for a division of TRW, making about $6 an hour before taxes for a 40 hour work week. Shortly after I started, I went to the 4:00-midnite shift, which paid a 10% bonus. By early 1979, I had moved into a room in an old farm house, paying $100 per month, and by spring I had saved enough to buy the Seeley for $1900 cash. The Gerex is the box below the seat and behind the shock...

Not going to ask for a picture of NIB?? hehe

It don't do any good inside the cardboard box.

[scottly]

Is that a Piranha fairing?

IIRC it's a Camber fairing? I still have it, but the windshield was broken years ago and I wasn't able to find a replacement.

[Don R]

 Mine was mounted above the oil cooler, I moved it to the rear where Gerex and Scott suggested and put on the little MSD sticker so people could guess what it is.

[scottly]

Don, your Gerex looks different than mine and the one I got from Billy Bling?

[Don R]

 That's why I posted the pic. The Gerex name is molded into the case but you really need to look for it. I believe it is the CD version as opposed to the transistor only type. I read there were both types.
 The instructions mention a difference in the entrance location of the wiring between versions too.  Mine might be an earlier or later one.
 
MULTIFIRE
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 GEREX
torrance ca.
     
 

[Don R]

 I read in the directions that making a long spark won't damage the Gerex itself but may damage a coil. It's the same with an MSD, a friend at the track had a fresh tune-up but it was running badly, I asked if he turned the motor over with ignition on but no plugs in place. He had, so we checked the new rotor. It had a hole burned through it.
 I recently pulled a plug to check a cold cylinder and inadvertently made a long spark, I hope the coil is ok.