# Quick bike help/opinions please.

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**Category:** PittSpeed Automotive\
**Created:** [December 12, 2007, 11:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/quick-bike-help-opinions-please/194174 "2007-12-12T23:15:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 10:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/quick-bike-help-opinions-please/194174/4 "2007-12-13T10:13:55Z")

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> [@Rookies Car Show Pics...](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rookies-car-show-pics/33884/13):
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> depending on your price range, there should be plenty of bikes that are in perfect runniing shape, to get for a first bike.

yeah, you could probably get a similar vintage ninja running for the same price.

That being said, carb work isn’t that bad, if that’s the real problem. I would take $800 or $850 and be like “I have cash, bike doesn’t run. Take it or leave it”. Jets are like $5 a piece and whole carb rebuild kits aren’t much usually. Look to see if you can find the pilot air screw or the cover for the screw. Usually brass with a tiny hole in it. It could be that he just didn’t know what he was doing when he replaced the jets and didn’t change the amount of air / fuel the carb was getting. Real easy fix.

I think that Don guy who races, from Latrobe (name might be eurodad) on here, is pretty good with carbs so hit him up. I think there was a thread in the off-road bikes section that he was posting in.

chris

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