Can't make it but will put in a plug for the good old RF. I had one for six years, and my son had one too. Fantastic bikes. That ad says it's a 6 speed - its a 5 speed.
Great all rounders the RFs. That's about top dollar for one there, so I'd check everything, particularly finding out about whether it's had any alternator work. They have a rubber cush drive on the alternator that has a bad habit of breaking and leaving you stranded. If it hasn't had the alternator let go, it's due to.
Also, like all GSXR based engines of that vintage, 2nd gear engagement dogs are made of putty. Should be fine with that mileage but check. Push it hard in first gear (careful where you do it - they go to 135 in first...) and change quickly. If there's any thing weird about how it goes into gear or it sounds odd its got a problem.
Apart from that almost nothing ever goes wrong with them. I got 160,000 kms before my second gear went, and being a 1994 it didn't have the rubber cush drive on the alternator so it was less likely to tear the rubber.
You can give people on sports bikes a real fright with one of these. And your missus won't complain about not enough seat to sit on too.
If you can ride these are a great bike to come back to riding on.
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
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