This may seem expensive for a bike of this age, but it’s a really beautiful example of a proper restoration with a couple modern touches with warning lights and such…really nice bike (paging Coldaccord’s dad)
truth be told I have a wierd soft spot/boner for these bikes…they’re so quirky and silly looking stock, but they cafe out SO well. water cooler, shaft drive…really reliable and smooth bikes. That huge fairing will be sellable to get your investment price down too…
discription makes the bike sound pretty beaten…but I’m also confused because he says it’s DOHC, which was not a technology developed in motorcycles until 1978-1979ish…so either he’s wrong on the year, or it’s not DOHC, or it has a later motor swapped in, or its a unicorn.
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has title and looks almost complete. This particular guy usually lists total heaps of non-titled garbage, but this appears different. worth a call to get a price…
Fucker. It’s got an old ‘rusty’ 2-1. If it isn’t too too bad a 2-1 could be nice. I am going to check it out tomorrow on lunch and i’ll prbably bring a compression tester to test the engine as well.
honestly, that bike is WORTH what he’s asking regardless if anything is wrong with it.
Things to check:
-does the kickstart move (meaning the motor is not seized)
-can you push the bike around just as easily AFTER using the brakes as you could BEFORE you used the brakes (are they sticking)
-is there gunk in the gas tank/does it reak like paint stripper
-are the tires dryrotted
-does the gear lever move through the gears (1 down, then 4 up…neutral between 1 and 2)
beyond that, if you have a compression tester that’s the only thing you can further check…but even with two dead cylinders that motor will run with a basic tune-up and carb cleaning.