justin_o_guy2
Serious Thumper
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What happened?
Posts: 55279
East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.
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Miles, mods, how have they been maintained, does one have a rear brake that'll lock up if you sneeze on the pedal, OEM tires or has someone replaced a rear tire? I don't know of a crappier tire than the OEM. Look around for rust, RTV, Ask what they do when they start it up. Do they fire it up and let it warm up while they get their gear on? Is the idle speed right? Either color is nice, I prefer the white, but that was the first one I saw. It was on the showroom floor in 05. I put 20,000 miles on it,then decided my body was finished with riding.. I recently bought an 02, silver, and I would not have bought silver if there were mechanically equal options, But, I've really come to dig it. Anyway, my suggestion is , study the machines and try to pick the one that will be more likely to not need a cam, etc.
If the spokes look like crap, they don't clean up well or easily. Nothing wrong with getting down and rubbing the rim, feel for tiny bumps. The chrome on these isn't the best and I don't think it's real consistent, like the reports on rear brake action. The 05 would lock up before I could feel pressure on my boot, the 02 works great. It lived in Galveston Texas a while and has some freckles. Even though I have cleaned and polished and they are invisible now, I can feel them. How and where they were stored matters.
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