$300 gs on Craigslist.... wish i wasnt at work right now

JB848 · July 13, 2009, 01:35:59 PM

OK I am all for the Dremel but you are assuming there is power available there qwertydude

Jared · July 13, 2009, 03:06:59 PM

Take a furniture dolly or a skateboard and bungie it to the back wheel- Leave it in gear. It'll roll well enough for you to move it.
Take help for the truck part and just muscle it....

$300 for a non titled bike is a little high. Get a Bill of Sale to CYA...

Buy a titled frame ( after you get it running and sure its all good..) and swap it over if you can't get a title.

Look up abandoned vehicle titles for your state....Here in MD it has to be 6 months ( I THINK )... You fill out a form with the dmv...send a registered letter to the last known registered owner...wait til it come s back undelivered ( or they reply )...if no reply you post an add about the bike in local paper (doesn't state which paper...so you can be creative...IE in papers that maybe not alot of people read..) for so many days...
If no reply I think you get it signed off to you.... Each state varies...

You may also ( if you know any Law Enforcement officers ) just get someone to run the vin for you and get the last know info and try to contact them...
Tell em they owe storage on the bike or in lieu of that - get a title to you. Or some variation of that....

bucks1605 · July 13, 2009, 04:53:19 PM

Quote from: krypto35 on July 13, 2009, 01:18:16 PM
the VIN number is posted......

what can you do to look it up? Carfax???

I know in Ohio you can look up the vin on the bmv's website. You might want to check your states site.

annguyen1981 · July 13, 2009, 05:11:47 PM

I'd recommend taking the VIN to the local PD and asking them if it's stolen.

blade · July 13, 2009, 05:32:34 PM

I wouldn't touch it, period. I got screwed over by an almost identical situation years ago. I bought an abandoned bike from landlord/friend that told me the bike had been left by a former tenant several months prior. Fast forward 2 months after I spent quite a bit of time working to get the bike roadworthy and about to go get it licensed and my so called friend calls me up to say the bikes former owner had showed up to pick up his bike, when he found it missing he called the police. I said that I had a bill of sale issued by the landlord for an abandoned vehicle, landlord denied it as he had been getting money from former owner for storing the bike. Needless to say it was my word against his, the police gave me the benefit of the doubt and did not press charges but I was out the price of the bike AND the repairs I made. Since the bike was all fixed up the owner would not consider selling it to me either.

rydethis · July 13, 2009, 06:26:11 PM

Quote from: annguyen1981 on July 13, 2009, 05:11:47 PM
I'd recommend taking the VIN to the local PD and asking them if it's stolen.

Thank you ... voice of reason!!! I thought i was the only one here who thought this thread went the WRONG direction 300 bucks for a bike. seriously!! If there is nothing wrong with the bike... any smart person would legally own it by abandonment.... sell the bike for more that a measly 300 bucks!!! Now if I ever wanted to steal a bike WHICH I WOULD NEVER DO... i sure as "not heaven" would know where to come if I needed to know how!!!

Just because he says it's not stolen... that's like a woman saying she came everytime she had sex with you... and we know that .... well take that how you want to!!!!

annguyen1981 · July 13, 2009, 06:42:26 PM

Quote from: rydethis on July 13, 2009, 06:26:11 PM
Quote from: annguyen1981 on July 13, 2009, 05:11:47 PM
I'd recommend taking the VIN to the local PD and asking them if it's stolen.

Thank you ... voice of reason!!! I thought i was the only one here who thought this thread went the WRONG direction 300 bucks for a bike. seriously!! If there is nothing wrong with the bike... any smart person would legally own it by abandonment.... sell the bike for more that a measly 300 bucks!!! Now if I ever wanted to steal a bike WHICH I WOULD NEVER DO... i sure as "not heaven" would know where to come if I needed to know how!!!

Just because he says it's not stolen... that's like a woman saying she came everytime she had sex with you... and we know that .... well take that how you want to!!!!

I believe it was Jerry Seinfeld that said something like:

"Here's our (men) take on women faking orgams... we're fine with it"

lmao

rydethis · July 13, 2009, 07:11:59 PM

Well if that's all you got out of my post... well no wonder they started a thread to try to get you laid!!

annguyen1981 · July 13, 2009, 07:17:43 PM

Quote from: rydethis on July 13, 2009, 07:11:59 PM
Well if that's all you got out of my post... well no wonder they started a thread to try to get you laid!!

rotflmfao

krypto35 · July 13, 2009, 08:18:59 PM

ha, nice, guys.

Anyway, decided against wasting my time driving into the city to struggle with this bike. The guy is set on getting $300 for it. I told him I'd come remove it for him for free... didn't think he'd go for it, and he didn't. Too much of a hassle and danger. O well..... I do have MY current GS up for sale though.... fully modded, slightly banged up from learning.... but still a decent ride with many extra parts.... new tires, brakes, oil..... $1700 obo

ohgood · July 13, 2009, 09:08:25 PM

Quote from: qwertydude on July 13, 2009, 01:32:55 PM
Everyone is suggesting the big guns yet I have never seen a lock that can survive a dremel wheel or two.

$20 angle grinder + $4 worth of abrasive wheel = no more lock. or no more fork. or no more tar. hell, nothing can withstand the powa of angle grinders besides chuck norris.

either way, someone is going to loose a bike soon.

mister · July 13, 2009, 10:09:41 PM

Quote from: qwertydude on July 13, 2009, 01:32:55 PM
Everyone is suggesting the big guns yet I have never seen a lock that can survive a dremel wheel or two.

Ditto. Read of one guy who had Hardened Steel Chain locked his bike to some pedestrian handrails things. In the morning the bike was gone, the handrail was not damaged. There was a pile of grinding metal. Ease as with a portable grinder.

There is also a vid on Youtube of a bike getting stolen in all of 20 seconds. Disk lock on the front. Minivan drives by at 15 seconds in, reverses and pulls up. Guy gets out, walks along the path to the bike. Van drives next to bike, another guy gets out and they lift the front into the van. Second guy then lifts the back in, hops in himself, and off the van drives. Vid goes for 4 minutes - but the actual theft-in-action is all of 20 seconds, the rest is the slow lead up to how the thieves Cased the bike http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D96QM-lzLM8

But a guy who supposedly Lost the key - and back up key - to a krypton lock. That's red flags raised to me.

Michael

JB848 · July 14, 2009, 08:01:50 AM

For those of you wondering.. I ran a check on this VIN and it is not valid. So either the person trying to sell it on CL is an dyslexic idiot or the bike is stolen!

Run it yourself if you like

annguyen1981 · July 14, 2009, 08:25:56 AM

I'm not experienced with VIN's, but aren't M/C vins different than cage vins? I could be completely wrong tho.

krypto35 · July 14, 2009, 08:42:59 AM

That VIN was missing a character.... seller got back to me with this one :

JS1GM51A2T2100384

anyone wanna pull a report or know where to get a free one? I started the carfax process and got to "There are 2 records for this VIN" and I assumed that's a bad thing.... cuz all my other bike VINs only had 1 record

bassmechanicsz · July 14, 2009, 08:48:39 AM

having a carfax that says it has 2 records doesn't necesarily mean a bad thing. I could have just had 2 owners cause each title transfer i believe is 1 record.

JB848 · July 14, 2009, 08:49:48 AM

Under that number I found the following:

Vehicle Record Summary VIN: JS1GM51A2T2100384 We found 1 record(s) for this vehicle
Year: 1996 Style/Body: Unspecified
Make: Suzuki Motorcycle Engine: Unspecified
Model: Street Gs500e Country of Assembly: Japan

tripleb · July 14, 2009, 09:16:41 AM

how are you running the VIN? is there some free service you're using or do you have access through work or something?

annguyen1981 · July 14, 2009, 09:22:08 AM

I just visited my local PD. They said that in order for me to check to see if a bike is stolen or not, I have to visit the RMV. I would imagine it'd be the same in all the states.

JB848 · July 14, 2009, 09:30:55 AM

You can run VIN's at several sites like http://www.vinquery.com/
http://www.autobaza.pl/

But in order to find out more info you must pay the scum sucking sites like carfax and autocheck. They can KMA!

It should be of public record and no scum bags should be making money off of it IMHO!

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$300 gs on Craigslist.... wish i wasnt at work right now