I was at work yesterday and a guy came around saying he had heard that I worked on 3&4 wheelers and asked me if I could work on a bike he had just bought. It turns out he had just bought a 200x in decent shape. It had the normal problems of sitting up for a while, no brakes, and it wouldn't run. He said the guy told him it just quit one day about two years ago so he just put it behind the shed. So he droped it off and on my lunch break I dove in and found that it wasn't firing so I checked all the connections and found one of the wires going to the cdi was unpluged. So I plugged it up and it started firing. So I pulled off the carb and cleaned out two years of crud and put it on along with a new plug and fired it up. I rode around on it a minute and noticed that the rear axle was shot. The sprocket was slipping on the axle splines along with the hubs every now and then. This thing ran awsome to. So when he came to pick it up i pointed out the axle problems and told him the proper way to fix it and I also told him to change the oil because they had been pouring gas down the carb trying to get it to crank and the gas was now about 80% gas. He came by with it today and asked me what was wroung with it, saying it wouldn't start. I went out there and the motor was locked up solid as a rock. I asked if he had changed the oil and he just looked down and shook his head. I also noticed that he had the sprocket and hubs welded on. I hate to see a bike with so much potential get ruined. I may buy it from him and put it up for a project down the road. He only gave $200 for it so I figure I can pick it up for a clean $50.

 

ouch man thats pretty rough..i would kill for a 200x or a R, i love them to death there so nice...whata guy seizes it[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/img]

 

What an idiot! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]

 

DAMN [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]

 

Why is it all the idiots wind up with the clean ones, tear them up and then i get them for a little of nothing and have to fix everything. I have 1 R that is junked all to hell ( my 84 ) and am about to pick up an 86 ( which is clean so i am gettin lucky there ). I am finding these R's and all i want is an X what give?

 

I had the misfurtone of seeing soemthing far worse, the guy brought in a super nice 83 250r, almost all original and............a 4wheel conversion kit. Well, don't need to say any more about it. I gonna hurl saying anything else about it.

 

serouisly...when you see your friend...SLAP him..and say its from your friends from the atv connection [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

I was looking in a old dirt wheels that i have laying around here somewhere and there was a guy that had a 350x ( well was a 350x ) that grafted a blaster front end onto it. If you want a 4-wheeler that bad, BUY ONE OF THOSE INSTEAD! dont waste a good trike! some people......

 

You preach the truth!!!! AMEN!!!![img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

I saw that pic in the magazine, it looked like ***. the guy looked so pround of it.