Worth it?

[serbianstunna]

http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/mcy/345818481.html

I found this bike while I've been looking at used bikes.  I have been planning on buying a katana or fzr (600s) but this came up.  I'm wondering what you all think i would most likely have to put into it...IK its hard to say w.o actually seeing or riding the bike, but I just want a general idea before it even check it out.  Thanks.

[manofthefield]

i bent the forks back as best i could, but the drawback is there is hardly any front suspension

Sounds like it at least needs new forks, plus I'd go over the whole bike with a fine tooth comb to see what other partial fixes hes done.  Sounds like an ok price though, maybe a bit hight.  It looks pretty cool

[TragicImage]

Problems I see are that he:

Bought it for stunting
Saved money by just puting on a naked front headlight when lots of stuff was cracked ie the Gauge Cluster which brings me to my next point

You can't know how many miles are on it, and most likely will have to register it with an "Unknown Mileage" indicator, and as I understand it this is similar to a salvage title.

He painted it from the blue color to a custom color, not entirely a bad thing, unless you want to find replacement body parts for it at some point down the road, and you'll have to color match, which is always a crap shoot.

[MikeNW]

I guess I've spent way to friggin time fixing junk over the years....
I would rather buy something new, even if I had to extend myself a little, or get something a little less, than fix something with an unknown maintenance history.  And unknown damage too.

All of the cars and bikes I have bought new, I have had few problems.  I know their history etc.  I would not hesitate taking my Saturn cross-country tomorrow, despite its 101,000 miles, because I know its history.  For example.

Good luck whatever you decide.

[frankieG]

i would be cautious, it sounds like that after the accident it was not properly repaired.  it could have all kinds of engineering problems

[darb85]

I purchased a streetfighter front fairing not for the purpose of stunting, but just saving money on buying all new front plastics, headlight, guage cluster, ect. i have painted the tank and fairings black over the previous owners paint job of an off-blue color.


wasnt bought for stunting, but if the front forks need to be replace might be scary.  looks awesome though.

[TragicImage]

that "not" word isn't important in the least.....


so you can strike that from my comments.