What to look at when buying a bike

**Sniper** · 23rd March 2005, 10:05

Originally Posted by Stevo

My bike was low sided and custom repainted. But fooked if anyone is gonna buy it cos it is now my baby. Nothing mechanically or structurally wrong with it so Lucky me

But then it is a mighty Honda.

Like the man said "If it's got the Honda logo and wings on it............... will fly

So you going to let me race it?

**inlinefour** · 23rd March 2005, 12:24

Originally Posted by Jim2

The only time that works is when the mechanicals have been reco'd or restored and have receipts for the work associated with it. As soon as anyone mentions "repaint" in the bike world it loses value because of the crash association - fairly or unfairly. My first question when someone says they've repainted is, "How bad was the crash?"

That's my natural paranoid reaction, especially when it involves handing over cash. Been burnt once or twice you see.

I allways only purchase a bike if it still has the original paint sceme on it. Never really knew why, until now...

**Stevo** · 23rd March 2005, 22:57

Originally Posted by Sniper_CBR

So you going to let me race it?

Dream on little boy!

Hahaahahahaha

**onearmedbandit** · 24th March 2005, 01:11

Another important area to check is the steering stops. These are located at the bottom of the frame around the triple clamp area (front forks and spigot(?)) and, as the name implies, stop the steering (for lack of better term and keeping it simple). If they are badly marked, dented, etc this could indicate the bike has been down hard as generally when a bike falls hard the bars will turn very sharply.