(18-03-13, 01:36 PM)simonm link Wrote: Wow negativity central :eek
Thanks for sharing your concerns anyway. I thought that even if I scrapped it I could make my money back and in the meantime I can dress up my kosha fazer with new fairings, new exhaust and a bellypan.
Nevermind.
Not Quite Negativity Central.....just being realistic. :rolleyes
The owner of my bike sounded very genuine to me too....aren't they all!! These guys are hardly not going to butter you up to get you to part with your hard earned cash...so I'd take that with a grain of salt. Afterall, he nearly took the bike off ebay due to lack of interest so he would be bulling to sell it.
I had a little camchain rattle on my bike as well. Not alone was the camchain goosed, but the tensioner had been welded on the tip to take up the slack. If I drove it on, I would have wrecked the engine. I can't find the thread, but a guy on this forum did exactly that and wrecked his engine. Both the camchain and tensioner had to be replaced at a total cost of £170 parts and £200 labour. So much for my genuine seller!!
Then the discs were worn beyond the limit which I had no tool on me to check when buying...another £350 was poured into the bike. There was other stuff too after that. This is not negativity. This actually happened to me and my reality. I'm just sharing because it could easily be possibly yours or anyone elses reality too.
I agree that it may be a good buy for you as you have the fallback of using it for spares if you wish for your other Fazer. I didn't have that luxury as my other bike is a Bandit 12. This Fazer was meant to be my workhorse while keeping my Bandit fresh.... so I had to make it work out for me and put the money in... or else take a huge hit to sell it for scrap.
Anyway....I hope the bike is ok. But I'm at a bit of a loss though on how you have come up with the idea that you could get your £970 back with a pile of stuff stripped off it when this guy could barely sell as it was with all the stuff on....doesn't make sense!