I want what your smoking the 650 will destroy your Honda Gold boat with a fat guy on it. LMAO some people
i really want to ride!
Not entirely sure if i'm looking at the specs for the exact bike but well it's talking about near 3 second 0-60mph times. Call me dull but that seems pretty powerful and fast for a first bike unless he's ust talking about it being his first bike owned not ridden in which case it's not completely overboard. I learnt with my first car that it's dangerous to have power available when you're not capable of putting it on the road. Doh
You forget, in the 70's Goldwings didn't come with fairings or bags, just a Horizontally Opposed $ cylinder, like a Porsche, in fact bags and fairing were options on the Goldwings until 1984 when they went to the tuna boat 1200, that one was gutless, but prior to that the Goldwing surprised a lot of people. Depending on whos riding each bike, you might get me, but i have surprised more than a few crotch rockets with the "Gold boat".
I'de personally save some more money & buy a newer non fixer upper. You don't want your first bike to be a bad experience. The bike sat for a long time, it could be fine, or it could need a complete overhaul. I look somewhere else, it took me about two years to find my exact bike, but my model is rare around my parts.
Being a motorcycle mechanic i'll tell you this could be good if you do the work yourself, taking it to a shop your going to get screwed hard and have more than what is worth putting it back together. if the carbs were rebuild and not put back on the carbs would still be clean but if they were put on and ran then after 7 years they need rebuild again for sure. Not sure for that model( i work on honda's and yamaha's) but if it has four carbs, my shop charges an hour and half labor per carb(on the bike, an hour off) at $70/hr + rebuild kit running about $25, that's over $500 dollars just for the carb clean, ignition is a whole another thing if you can crank it over and it has spark then just replacing the key switch will probably be fine but if it dont have spark than you should pass on that money pit. Personally for me it would be a good buy if it had spark, being i could rebuild the carbs myself, but if you can't do it yourself or have a trusted friend who knows what he's doing pass it up, and find something that already runs and drives and only needs a few maintance items addressed otherwise you'll be spending more than it's worth.
This. You guys have it nice you can ride the middle in traffic out there right? for a while I kept ball bearings in the jacket for that reason, however titanium knuckle gloves are pretty badass
what I was getting at is a 17 year old sportbike is usually pretty beat up, however a 17 year old harley is usually well taken care of.
Yes this maybe true but.. the avg sport bike mileage in 50-100K in it's 17 years and the Harley between break downs and service time is 2-5K in 17 years. LOL.
