john83
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I've been watching this thing sit under the carport of a house up the street from me for almost a year now and I've really been needing a bigger bike for two up trips. The girlfriend has never been happy with the back seat on my Thruxton.
I deliver pizza part time while I'm in school and just happened to get a delivery to said house one day. Asked the guy about it and he said he was trying to sell is, wanted to get $300 out of it. I said give me your number.
About a week later we got together and I managed to get him to settle for $275. Loaded it up and brought it back to the house. First order of business was to evict the wasp nest from the false tank but then I pulled the battery out of my other bike and hooked it up for testing purposes. Poured some gas in, shot some ether into the filter, hit the starter a few times and it fired up.
It smoked out half the neighborhood for the first few minutes but that stopped. It won't run without the choke on so I know the carbs need some attention but I think with a few parts and some elbow grease it's gonna turn out pretty good.
I deliver pizza part time while I'm in school and just happened to get a delivery to said house one day. Asked the guy about it and he said he was trying to sell is, wanted to get $300 out of it. I said give me your number.
About a week later we got together and I managed to get him to settle for $275. Loaded it up and brought it back to the house. First order of business was to evict the wasp nest from the false tank but then I pulled the battery out of my other bike and hooked it up for testing purposes. Poured some gas in, shot some ether into the filter, hit the starter a few times and it fired up.
It smoked out half the neighborhood for the first few minutes but that stopped. It won't run without the choke on so I know the carbs need some attention but I think with a few parts and some elbow grease it's gonna turn out pretty good.