Motorcycles BS Thread 2.0

oh im sure, but i dont go looking for dirt bikes, but if i saw one parked maybe. but yeah unless they had a recent stack of receipts and the bike was in pristine shape id hit them like $1300, see if the take home price was in the $1500-$1700 range and then its party time.

 

Honestly, get a new Honda and let her run it for a year/season, then sell to upgrade. It's cheaper than buying used and keeping it because you can't unload it.

 

Aight gang photo dump from this weekend! Around 500 miles round trip to go camping with my club down in Florida. Excellent bonding time with the bike. I also got the chance to ride down the exact road I learned to ride a bicycle on. I haven’t been to that tiny little town in probably 20ish years.

 

Haha very true at that price it's hard to beat a cheap toy!

helll nah I can't justify new bikes the prices are stupid on a toy to me...

 

Well this is unique. $1600 for the set seems amazingly reasonable.

https://eugene.craigslist.org/mcy/d/springfield-1971-honda-ct-90/7755716794.html

 

Ahh dang! I'll be camping in ANF this weekend. Ride safe though!

 

Rode to work day

 

Welp, got to pop my "dropping the bike" cherry after 2.5 years riding.

Car signalled a right turn and then went left at a 4way. I was at the left side of the 4 way stop and had already started to slip the clutch. Tapped the brakes, and 542 pounds of a physics lesson said "nope". Literally just gently set it on its side. Didnt even rash the powdercoat on the crash bars.

Easy day picking it back up. Did the backsquat method and popped right up. Helped I had good footing traction on a paved road. But also pretty sure I tweaked my wrist trying to keep it up, and I leave tomorrow AM to go mountain bike British Columbia for 4 days...

A little ice and ibuprofen and should be g2g. Just annoyed about the whole deal.

 

Gotta love idiots on the road.

Glad it was minor.

 

It was literally 100 yards from my destination in a neighborhood and I had let my guard down a little, so def some lessons to be learned on my end.

Glad I was able to get the bike up so easily, as Id been struggling to get it up on its centerstand earlier this evening before i started to get the technique. AT is def a hell of a lot heavier than my old Triumph.

 

@BananaMan

 

do you get to park inside or something? i just get a parking lot lol

 

Dont be ashamed... never laid my old naked sportbike over at or near a dead stop in 13yrs of ownership. 1.5yrs on the super tenere i have dropped it I think 3x under 3mph or stopped haha... just tall and heavy when it gets past a point aint no saving it.

 

It's basically a cheap rental. You buy a bike for say $5K, use it for a year, sell it for $4K-$4.5K and put the money toward a longer term bike.

 

I can't imagine the crossover pipe just falling out suddenly.... if they were on the bike working fine for awhile I'd be more suspect of a stuck float and it pouring gas out of an overflow. As far as not wanting to tune it, I'd absolutely go through the trouble of vacuum syncing them if you had somebody work on them previously who didn't do the best work. Fuel mixture screw should be somewhere around the 2-2 1/2 turns out on each carb. None of the photos show the mixture screw so I'm not sure if the welsh plug has even been removed to allow access. If not comfortable with syncing the carbs, I'd recommend finding a shop that specializes in jap bikes.

 

I'm not super familiar with the carbs on the CB750 but would imagine the set up is similar to my CB400/4. On mine there is a T-fitting in between the 2 center carbs the fuel line connects to and then a single straight tube on the other side of the 2 mid carbs to feed the outboard carbs. Those feed tubes were plastic and had an O-ring on each end to seal them to the carbs. Those plastic tubes can get brittle and split after years of heat cycling and/or the O-rings can fail. The O-rings are JIS sized and I've personally known a CB350/4 owner who rebuilt his carbs and used standard O-rings and then had leaks until he finally installed the correct O-rings.

Not saying that's your leak but it's something to look at.

 

Eh, the depreciation on a new bike is pretty big, Id be inclined to buy a newer lightly used bike, plenty out there.

Also got to factor in taxes and fees on a new bike. If its 5k$ out the door theres probably 1k in fees on that, so you only have a 4k bike to being with, then take a 1k deprecation loss in a year, so you are out 2k.

Buy a used bike for 3k, pay nothing in taxes and fees for the most part, turn around and sell it in a year for MAYBE 500ish in a loss - we will say 1k for apples to apples. You are only out ~1k and you have had 2k extra in the bank the whole time.

 

5k i can justify anything over that i find a realllly hard time justifying it tbh.... when i was looking at bolts i saw a ton that were above what i wanted to pay that were in great shape and low miles and closer then mine. but they were around the 6-7k mark which overall isnt bad but i wanted 5k or less personally lol i can be a bit of a cheap ass when i want to be! also sadly there isnt maaany dirtbikes that are at 5k thats truly worth 5k to me. idk if the crf300 is still around that but that or the ninja 400 always seemed like a good deal to me on price and bike you are getting the rest including like the drz sitting at close to 8k new is just eh to me.

 

thast more likely something i would do tbh lol i dont buy new minus a few cars/trucks ive bought bikes ive always wanted to but man i cant justify the cost haha

 

I can tell you that the CRF300's are coming down on used prices. I've been keeping an eye out for a 300L. They're in the 5K-5.5K. I need them to get below 4.5K before I could do anything