Let me put this right up front- this bike runs great right up until it decides not to. For five years I’ve spent far more time cursing it than riding it and am now admitting defeat. I assume that someone smarter can fix it, but I offer no guarantees.
With that said, the positives are:
Low 27k miles
99.5% complete and original
Many parts replaced within past 1000 miles- front tire, fuel pump, fuel filters, injectors, plugs, good used computer, and an Odyssey AGM battery that I just wasted $140 on last month (April 2020).
Cooling system flushed April 2020, splines supposedly done @24k by previous owner.
Never been crashed, no dents in tank, all plastics are good aside from one side panel clip that’s been shoddily replaced (panel itself is fine), and road rash on the upper lid of a tragkorb that opened while riding.
ABS equipped and functioning, all gauges and lights work as they should. $70 LED headlight bulb, which is probably not ideal but is better than the bulb it had when I brought it home.
Currently registered and roadworthy, I have a clean SC title.
Little stuff already done for you- sidestand cutoff disabled, manual fan switch, USB charging ports, 4-wire tank plug replaced, mirror and side panel tethers, aux light mount set up and properly wired.
Cons-
Periodically decides to sputter and die for no reason once warmed up. Will restart and run again after sitting on the side of the highway for a while (or at least it has so far). Usually starts 45 minutes to an hour into a ride, at highway speed.
Many small nicks and scuffs from constantly being muscled around the garage and taken apart.
Original hazard light switch broken, and ABS switch is currently MIA somewhere in my garage. Right side “bunker” (big chunk of rubber to block heat from radiator) lost and replaced with a homemade substitute.
No tool kit (where DO they all go?)
Rear tire is getting on in years, although tread is fine.
Fog lights apparently hit the fender at full compression, and I butchered the plastic filler panel under the headlight a little to install them (fairing itself is untouched).
Located in zip code 29449, Hollywood South Carolina, about 25 miles south of Charleston.
Asking $2,000, which is an embarrassingly small fraction of what I’ve got into it. If you can fix it without spending a fortune or losing your sanity like I have, it’s a hell of a bike for the money, and in theory it's barely broken in. Won’t go a lot lower on the price before I part out the high cost/low effort stuff and ceremonially destroy the rest.
