Twin Cities Area Campfire BS Thread

$55 for a mounted wheel tyre change is pretty good really. Once you have removed your wheels, and we have changed the tyres and balanced them, you'll see that is a fair price, remembering the shop has overheads to cover, and also has to turn some sort of profit.

For your average motorcyclist, who puts maybe 3000 miles on in a year, this is reasonable.

Enthusiastic nutjobs like us go through rather more tyres, so it adds up fast, and also becomes time consuming, having to get to a dealer and wait.

So being able to do it ourselves makes a lot more sense.

Guy at worked just stopped in and said he's got a 1985 Honda Rebel 250 with leather bags and tassels ( ) he's looking to sell.

Ran when parked (we know this story - minimum it needs a carb rebuild) - low miles - good tires (yeah right) - blablabla

$350 :eek1

I was surprised. Usually when these goofs tell me about this type of thing they think it's worth a bazillion dollars.

That actually sounds like a pretty reasonable deal. Anyone interested, let me know.

And fork seals, fork oil, tyres, head bearings, cam cover gasket, front master cylinder rebuild, brake hoses, brake pads, brake shoes, engine oil and filter, carburettor intake rubber, air filter..................

Says the voice of experience

Clearly you need another project now that the rest of your bikes are fully sorted.

Correct. For any 200 to 400 dollar bike, assume that you need about 1000 bucks to make it run properly and safely.

Obviously getting it running in the bare minimum way is different. Only 950 bucks needed for that.

Oh - I forgot - battery.

They are all nearly finished. Just need gas, really.

Oh, I forgot that classic line in the pitch.

Am I the only one who gets these guys doing this?

His line: It has a brand new battery I bought a few years back when I was planning on getting it on the road again.

Me: Um... Yeah... you see... batteries can't just sit around, weathering winters and whatnot, and remain brand new

Technically, dousing them with gasoline and lighting them on fire is not "finishing" them.

Still, I do like fire.

I'd be interested in checking that out. The Mrs. roped me into finding a bike for someone on her team that just took the MSF course and got her license. She doesn't want to spend more than $900 :huh , so this should be... interesting.

I'll let him know and get his info to you. He's in River Falls.

I hear ya. Yeah the "it was a brand new battery 3 years ago, and I've never used it, so it should be good" line

That is for grills, although that FJ1200 could use a little of that treatment, before I succumb to (even more) foolish ideas of getting it running.

If she does end up with it Spike make sure you take the tassels off before handing it over. Chick owned or not, no bike deserves to have tassels attached to it.

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fixt

give me the tassels, I'll put them on the GF's bike when she's not home.

fixt

fixt

*sigh*

Should I go for a ride after work, or should I put the Tiger up on the stand and start tearing into it for its 36K maintenance / valve job?

Not sure I can be arsed to do any wrenching tonight.