05/02/2026
Customer states......
Do you have tires for my motorcycle?
I will spare you the long back and forth after that before it finally arrived an hour late....
He informed me it had been "so long since I have owned a motorcycle, but now I do".....
1) why isn't the bearing shielded and sealed??? uggg (it wasn't my first clue this was going to be terrible to "just install 2 new tires")
2) the bike barely steers!!! I mean it takes great effort to force the handlebars to turn, someone cranked so much steering head bearing preload in, I had to back off the nut a full turn to get it to feel even driveable! but of course now you feel the notch in the center where they are worn and need replacing
3) The front brakes. herculean efforts to squeeze but the result is only about 25% front brake application.. NOT SAFE TO RIDE, at best he has maybe 50% total brake between front and rear, means exceedingly long stopping distances...
4) oh the rusty crusties. of course the bolt snapped off, the axles needed pounding out with a brass drift and the caliper bolts needed the wire wheel (torch, l**e and the luck of having 3 protruding threads to grab onto, got the bottom half of the bolt out
It returns on the 15th for front brake rebuild and new steering head bearings......... as if my month was not already over booked enough.......
This is another example of a rusty crusty abused and neglected bike. I sure hope he got it for next to nothing, because that is what it was worth in the condition he received it!
and don't sellers feel any duty to inform a new buyer of some of the needs and features, like even to know where the sight glass is to check the oil level, or the dipstick on some bikes.
This seller should be ashamed of himself!
