Paydrow
Junior Member
Hi everyone!
Just thought I'd drop in and extend a warm thank you and perhaps goodbye to all you wonderful people who provided me with invaluable resources to maintain my motorcycle.
I tried to limp my way over the 100k mile mark, but at last, I must throw in the towel 12k miles shy of my goal.
I went down Aug 3rd of 2016. Mostly cosmetic with a dash of pride.
I zip tied it together and rode it a month and a half later after deciding my insurance wasn't going to do squat.
Well shortly there after, it began failing. Would die at lights. Would stumble on 3 cylinders unless I pinned the throttle. Time was tough to come by, so I bit the bullet and took it a local shop.
7 MONTHS later, and $1200 worth of "guessing" it turned out to be a coil, which I had suspected from the start and had mentioned it upon delivery but was quickly dismissed.
I put another 1000 miles on it before the problem returned.
This is a photo of the last 400+ mile trip I took before it failed on me. Can't even tell it's zip tied together!
This time, I took it down to the Yamaha dealer and within a week, found out my bike was not worth fixing.
Compression numbers are terrible. Cylinder 3 has a 16% leak!
The reason I'm writing this is because I'm having a hard time deciding on what to do with the carcass of my bike. The plastics are junk, the front fork is leaking, and the engine doesn't work. I found an engine for $700 with 37k miles on it and I was curious to know if it was worth fixing up with the intention of selling it. It probably won't get touched till next year, but I really don't know what one does with a piece of junk.
've spent the last few weeks searching for a new(to me) motorcycle.
The s1000xr was entirely too much motorcycle for me.
The low 1200gsa was PERFECT, but way too expensivo ($28k) and also, a bit of an overkill.
Shooting to take the Tiger800 and maybe possibly a Tracer GT out for a spin. Thoughts? I love crunching miles, hitting the occasional fire road, and riding 2 up.
Just thought I'd drop in and extend a warm thank you and perhaps goodbye to all you wonderful people who provided me with invaluable resources to maintain my motorcycle.
I tried to limp my way over the 100k mile mark, but at last, I must throw in the towel 12k miles shy of my goal.
I went down Aug 3rd of 2016. Mostly cosmetic with a dash of pride.
I zip tied it together and rode it a month and a half later after deciding my insurance wasn't going to do squat.
Well shortly there after, it began failing. Would die at lights. Would stumble on 3 cylinders unless I pinned the throttle. Time was tough to come by, so I bit the bullet and took it a local shop.
7 MONTHS later, and $1200 worth of "guessing" it turned out to be a coil, which I had suspected from the start and had mentioned it upon delivery but was quickly dismissed.
I put another 1000 miles on it before the problem returned.
This is a photo of the last 400+ mile trip I took before it failed on me. Can't even tell it's zip tied together!
This time, I took it down to the Yamaha dealer and within a week, found out my bike was not worth fixing.
Compression numbers are terrible. Cylinder 3 has a 16% leak!
The reason I'm writing this is because I'm having a hard time deciding on what to do with the carcass of my bike. The plastics are junk, the front fork is leaking, and the engine doesn't work. I found an engine for $700 with 37k miles on it and I was curious to know if it was worth fixing up with the intention of selling it. It probably won't get touched till next year, but I really don't know what one does with a piece of junk.
've spent the last few weeks searching for a new(to me) motorcycle.
The s1000xr was entirely too much motorcycle for me.
The low 1200gsa was PERFECT, but way too expensivo ($28k) and also, a bit of an overkill.
Shooting to take the Tiger800 and maybe possibly a Tracer GT out for a spin. Thoughts? I love crunching miles, hitting the occasional fire road, and riding 2 up.
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