FS: 1999 CBR600F4 Project

[Ginger]

It's time. I'm moving and have lots of debt and don't want to take it with me.

Once, it was a streetbike I rode everyday. Then, it was a streetfighter I rode sometimes. After that, it did a lot of sitting. For the last year, it's been in my living room and I've taken a few hours here and there to get it close to running again. It starts with a dash of aerosol and will rev up, but doesn't hold an idle. I've got six quarts of the best carb cleaner you can get that will go with it. Have fun. Technically, everything you need to make it a running [very unapologetic looking] streetbike again is included. But things like the gas tank were put away wet and now are. Well. Not so great. There aren't any plastics. But the levers are brand new CRG units.

Clean. Title. In. Hand. That might be the most valuable thing to it.

What you do get is a bike that with some work you could ride and not every worry about. Drop it, it doesn't matter. Probably won't break, either, because it's a Honda. And you get a lot a lot a lot a lot a lot of spares. Even a spare set of front forks. And a box of parts, many still in OEM Honda sealed bags. Things like jet kits and master cylinder rebuild kits and pads and valve shims and seals and assorted special bolts and cables and switchgear and most of a wiring harness and so forth.

$800. It's in Reston, VA (20191) and you can have an Ommegang extra big that I took from RJ's wedding reception. Oh. And it has a lot of miles. I don't really know how many. I'll leave it blank on the title and you can make it up. asteele2 at gmail if you don't like forums.

[SlimKlim]

UGH. Old non-running, carbureted sport bikes are my fetish. Someone buy this and let me help them getting running so I can catch a carb cleaner buzz without having to put skin in the game.

[Senor_Taylor]

UGH. Old non-running, carbureted sport bikes are my fetish. Someone buy this and let me help them getting running so I can catch a carb cleaner buzz without having to put skin in the game.

$800 and like 10 miles from you. No excuses, Joey.

[SlimKlim]

Yeah but I also have a black thumb when it comes to the old, non-running, carbureted bikes I love so deeply. If someone else buys it it'll be a quick fix, if it's my money the Gods will not be so merciful.

Also, my girlfriend has this weird selfish thing of not wanting me to get smeared down rt 28 because some dickmonger in an Infiniti wanted to move some stocks around on his phone at 65mph. :dunno:

[Senor_Taylor]

None of those reasons are valid. You can only be young and stupid once, well, you can only be young once.

[Ginger]

It's a great bike, as they go. But I have two more and no energy or desire to work on this anymore.

Also, for what it's worth, motorcycling isn't any more dangerous than you make it. Be a reasonable, alert, aware person that doesn't act irresponsibly and study your craft and there's a pretty good chance you'll be fine. I don't buy in to the "it's the other people you have to worry about" argument. Even texting drivers are surprisingly predictable. I'm not a very smart person and I've made it this far, after all.

[SlimKlim]

It's a great bike, as they go. But I have two more and no energy or desire to work on this anymore.

Also, for what it's worth, motorcycling isn't any more dangerous than you make it. Be a reasonable, alert, aware person that doesn't act irresponsibly and study your craft and there's a pretty good chance you'll be fine. I don't buy in to the "it's the other people you have to worry about" argument. Even texting drivers are surprisingly predictable. I'm not a very smart person and I've made it this far, after all.

Yeah the only bad situations I ever ended up in on a bike were ones I put myself in because I was fucking around. Surprisingly, that explanation doesn't make her any warmer on the idea of me having another one.

And before the pussywhipped comments start rolling in, I don't actually want the bike. I mean I do, but if I had $800 burning a hole in my pocket I'd put a new clutch in the E36. It's just more fun to say "the gf won't let me" than say "there's no room in the budget."

[Senor_Taylor]

I'm just giving you a hard time, Joey, don't worry. None of the married men on this forum have the right to call anyone whipped.

[Ginger]

People that don't ride seem to be pretty rigid in their beliefs about what riding is like. I'd say it's funny when my coworkers try to tell me that I don't understand the dangers of what I'm doing, but it's really just pretty insulting.

[.RJ]

Joey, if you buy it I'll help you get it running

And, by help you get it running, I'll heckle you on the internet.

[Ginger]

Price is a bit negotiable, too. And if anybody has a gun or ipad with good battery life or laptop or something like that, we could talk trade.