02-29-2012, 03:03 PM
So you want to buy a motorcycle?
You're looking for a project, or a track bike, or a first bike, or something else. You're okay with buying a motorcycle that needs some work to run again. Nothing big, just the usual faire of battery, gas, cables, lube, oil, etc. to come out of hiberation. This was my daily rider in 2006, but was phased out when I bought a couple other bikes. It has been on track. Several times. It has been crashed. Several times. But it is straight and is a perfectly capable rider.
There are no plastics on the bike except for the tail. The headlight is from a BMW R1200GS and has a cracked lens (how do you think I got it for $50?). It works fine. It's been painted black with John Deere Blitz Black.
I don't know how many miles are on the bike... the gauge cluster was replaced after I let the original sit out in the rain, upside down, for a while, and it broke. It's safe to say it's got at least 20,000 miles. Motor is mechanically sound. All the bits work as they should. It's ugly (my girlfriend saw it and thought it was cool, but I still think it's rather unattractive).
The last time I ran the bike was well over a year ago. At the time I'd installed a new cam chain tensioner. New sprocket and chain then, too. There's nothing preventing it from starting again - the carbs just need cleaned and fresh gas in the tank. Oh, and you need to put in a battery. All that sitting meant the battery died. The battery case has been creatively trimmed to make room for an Odyssey PC680. If you own a motorcycle, you know that OEM batteries are too small.
But I did say track bike, right?
Yes.
It comes with a set of track plastics. They're not in very good shape, but could probably be run as-is, or had a little attention and been made good again. And what's a track bike without spares? There's a lot of stuff I can't think of, but what I can is a spare FRAME (no VIN - not ground off, just never issued one), spare forks with triple trees, seat, various electronic bits, oil filter, spark plugs... I may have the original street upper fairing and headlight (may not... can't recall, and I'm at the office right now). And anything else CBR I've got laying around. There's a box full of stuff.
It's a drop-dead simple, drop-dead reliable motorcycle. I sort of wish I could keep it because my Triumph is overly complex and underwhelmingly reliable. But I can't. I'm just going to be losing my storage space for it, and I'd like to get it gone. Right now the gas tank isn't attached, nor are the carbs (I took them off a couple weeks ago because I planned on draining them and cleaning the carbs to get it running again - but now I don't have time). They can mount back on in minutes, but it doesn't make for a telling set of pictures. Either way, I'll take some in the next day or so and post them.
Come bring a truck and come get it.
And RJ, be quiet.
You're looking for a project, or a track bike, or a first bike, or something else. You're okay with buying a motorcycle that needs some work to run again. Nothing big, just the usual faire of battery, gas, cables, lube, oil, etc. to come out of hiberation. This was my daily rider in 2006, but was phased out when I bought a couple other bikes. It has been on track. Several times. It has been crashed. Several times. But it is straight and is a perfectly capable rider.
There are no plastics on the bike except for the tail. The headlight is from a BMW R1200GS and has a cracked lens (how do you think I got it for $50?). It works fine. It's been painted black with John Deere Blitz Black.
I don't know how many miles are on the bike... the gauge cluster was replaced after I let the original sit out in the rain, upside down, for a while, and it broke. It's safe to say it's got at least 20,000 miles. Motor is mechanically sound. All the bits work as they should. It's ugly (my girlfriend saw it and thought it was cool, but I still think it's rather unattractive).
The last time I ran the bike was well over a year ago. At the time I'd installed a new cam chain tensioner. New sprocket and chain then, too. There's nothing preventing it from starting again - the carbs just need cleaned and fresh gas in the tank. Oh, and you need to put in a battery. All that sitting meant the battery died. The battery case has been creatively trimmed to make room for an Odyssey PC680. If you own a motorcycle, you know that OEM batteries are too small.
But I did say track bike, right?
Yes.
It comes with a set of track plastics. They're not in very good shape, but could probably be run as-is, or had a little attention and been made good again. And what's a track bike without spares? There's a lot of stuff I can't think of, but what I can is a spare FRAME (no VIN - not ground off, just never issued one), spare forks with triple trees, seat, various electronic bits, oil filter, spark plugs... I may have the original street upper fairing and headlight (may not... can't recall, and I'm at the office right now). And anything else CBR I've got laying around. There's a box full of stuff.
It's a drop-dead simple, drop-dead reliable motorcycle. I sort of wish I could keep it because my Triumph is overly complex and underwhelmingly reliable. But I can't. I'm just going to be losing my storage space for it, and I'd like to get it gone. Right now the gas tank isn't attached, nor are the carbs (I took them off a couple weeks ago because I planned on draining them and cleaning the carbs to get it running again - but now I don't have time). They can mount back on in minutes, but it doesn't make for a telling set of pictures. Either way, I'll take some in the next day or so and post them.
Come bring a truck and come get it.
And RJ, be quiet.
When it comes to Ryan Jenkins, the story ends with me putting him in the wall.
2009 Speed Triple | 2006 DR-Z400SM | 1999 CBR600F4 | 1998 Jeep Cherokee
-Ginger
2009 Speed Triple | 2006 DR-Z400SM | 1999 CBR600F4 | 1998 Jeep Cherokee
-Ginger
