Sellers' tricks...Tips for buyers

[flame]

I thought it might be an idea to start a thread to help new buyers with tips on things to look for, or look out for when looking to buy a new bike.

I'll start the ball rolling with this pic of a speedo that has been "adjusted"...the pic is from an imported bike currently for sale on Tardeme...... and dont think that digital speedo's are tamper proof either, they can be modified in bikes & cars as well, though it is harder to do and spot.

Well, um......I have owned such antiquated machinery from brand new off the shop floor.....and yes the dials were all wonky just like the pic you show.....after a few thousand brand new km's of course! so I guess that means my brand new pride and joys of the time wern't actually brand new at all! arrrrgggghhhhhhh ripped off huh!

[Conquiztador]

The first one I did wind back I phucked up too. It ended up all wonky so I had to go to a wrecker and get another one, but I was lucky, the one I found had 48,000K's less on it, so it all worked out well. ;-)

Now I am more careful and put my white gloves on too.

Remember a mate many years ago who connected a drill on to the speedo cable and run it in reverse for a day..lol.

[McJim]

Remember a mate many years ago who connected a drill on to the speedo cable and run it in reverse for a day..lol.

Doesn't always work. Best way is to gear the drill bit to the speedo cable so that 1 rev on drill = 10 revs on cable then run it FORWARD past zero and on to the approximate desired mileage. Lines the numbers up nicer too.

[Conquiztador]

Doesn't always work. Best way is to gear the drill bit to the speedo cable so that 1 rev on drill = 10 revs on cable then run it FORWARD past zero and on to the approximate desired mileage. Lines the numbers up nicer too.

I knew I woud learn something here. ;-)

[boomer]

We already have a good thread in Online Trading with more useful suggestions than yours thanks.

whats this 'WE' business..??

get over yaself ya cock smuggler

[jrandom]

cock smuggler

Would you prefer he carried it openly?

[boomer]

Would you prefer he carried it openly?

Without going into the details of this bike...I'd prefer he wouldn't speak for others.

[McJim]

get over yaself ya cock smuggler

Watch out - that's how H5N1 spreads....

[steved]

I dont question your qualifications, it's the generalisation that pisses me off ya tool!!!

A mate of mine was recently selling the mintest GSXR1100 I've ever seen, and it was bought up that the speedo wasn't perfectly in line. I would stake my life that the k's are real, and yet you imply it should be stayed away from.

Here's a friggin tip for ya, kill yourself, the rest of us will have more air, more space to move, and less of a que at the supermarket.

Hey Drew. As requested.

IMO, your last sentence of this post goes too far. I don't see how it is shit-slinging with ya mates. That was my only point.

[Pancakes]

please do pop a chill pill dude, I'm running into un needed abusive posts from you all over the place today. Have a cup of tea and a lie-down maybe? (Or does the fact that you have more posts than me mean I don't know uninformed abuse when I see it)?

Hope your day gets better.

[Conquiztador]

please do pop a chill pill dude, I'm running into un needed abusive posts from you all over the place today. Have a cup of tea and a lie-down maybe? (Or does the fact that you have more posts than me mean I don't know uninformed abuse when I see it)?

Hope your day gets better.

U will all wish U said something else when U sober up... :-)

[boomer]

please do pop a chill pill dude, I'm running into un needed abusive posts from you all over the place today. Have a cup of tea and a lie-down maybe? (Or does the fact that you have more posts than me mean I don't know uninformed abuse when I see it)?

Hope your day gets better.

i've taken enough chill pills to fuel a Columbian arms war and i hate Tea.. tea's for gurls.

[Drew]

Hey Drew. As requested.

IMO, your last sentence of this post goes too far. I don't see how it is shit-slinging with ya mates. That was my only point.

Might have been over the top, but dont take anything I say too seriously. If I'd said it in person, It would have been clear it was a joke from the stupid lookin grin on my face.

[James Deuce]

That bike is about to roll over to 30000kms. Vehicles I've owned from new have all done what is shown in the picture just before rolling over the next 10000km lot of numbers. Some of them do it in increments of 100kms. Depends on whether or not the analogue Odo has plastic or metal gears I would suggest, as to how precisely the numbers line up. Or whether it was made by Honda or Suzuki suppliers. Honda has much more exacting tolerances than some of the other manufacturers.

I think that was probably a bad example to use Heathen.

[Fatjim]

Might have been over the top, but dont take anything I say too seriously. If I'd said it in person, It would have been clear it was a joke from the stupid lookin grin on my face.

Your never serious are you?