05-06-14, 01:07 AM
There is you first major fault, Dark Blue is the slowest. :lol
Haggling points are:
Engine paint lifting making it look tatty especially the early silver engines
Exhaust header clamps are rust prone and bad ones means new downpipes or a repair job using split clamps
Seized EXUP valve as previously mentioned
Swinging arm linkage wear
Seized front suspension compression adjusters.
Anything over 25000 mile should have had a valve check.
Check for a repaired crankcase in front of the front sprocket. Easy to over tighten the chain and a high speed break with damage the crankcase. (Some botched repairs out there).
Standard suspension front and rear is very soft and a good haggling point.
The tzzzz tzzzz sound under the tank is the EXUP motor and if you turn the engine off with the ignition key it will tzzzz tzzzz next time you switch on the ignition and it you turn the engine off with the kill switch you will hear the tzzzz tzzzz and the next time you switch it will be silent.
Reason is that the EXUP return to the home position when you hit the kill switch and it cannot do so when you turn it off with the ignition switch so it returns to the home position when you switch it back on. There, now you know
Haggling points are:
Engine paint lifting making it look tatty especially the early silver engines
Exhaust header clamps are rust prone and bad ones means new downpipes or a repair job using split clamps
Seized EXUP valve as previously mentioned
Swinging arm linkage wear
Seized front suspension compression adjusters.
Anything over 25000 mile should have had a valve check.
Check for a repaired crankcase in front of the front sprocket. Easy to over tighten the chain and a high speed break with damage the crankcase. (Some botched repairs out there).
Standard suspension front and rear is very soft and a good haggling point.
The tzzzz tzzzz sound under the tank is the EXUP motor and if you turn the engine off with the ignition key it will tzzzz tzzzz next time you switch on the ignition and it you turn the engine off with the kill switch you will hear the tzzzz tzzzz and the next time you switch it will be silent.
Reason is that the EXUP return to the home position when you hit the kill switch and it cannot do so when you turn it off with the ignition switch so it returns to the home position when you switch it back on. There, now you know