27-02-17, 05:29 PM
I bought my 51 plate Gen.1 Fazer last week and probably paid over the top for it from Nightingales at Rugby, but I bought it on mileage and condition rather than the plate on the back. Yes there are a few small blisters in the silver paint on the engine but otherwise the bike was almost as clean as it came out of the factory. It has 17000 miles on it and one owner from newer. There were cheaper bikes out there, both the same age and newer, but I went to look at one described by the dealer as excellent, £300 less than I paid for mine, it was far from. Every nut and bolt was rusty, it had been dropped on it's right hand side, the inlet rubbers were cracked and generally to say it was a nail was being kind. It's only how I view things but I prefer to buy on condition and service history rather than age and mileage. 