1985 Honda V30 Magna

I have a chance to buy a 1985 Honda V30 Mangna with 1600 original miles for
$900. It has been sitting unridden for most of the last 9 years and will not
start now. I suspect fuel system cleaning will take care of that, but what
else should I be looking for?

 

Replace the tires unless the bike has been sealed in a nitrogen-filled
baggy for 9 years. They will be hard and dangerous...

Brake fluid may have absorbed water or even crystallized in the brake
lines, master cylinder and calipers. I would flush the system out
completely...

Learn how the starter clutch works. if the starter clutch is one of
those centrifugal ramp and roller arrangements designed by Dr.
Frankenstein, the rollers and slip on the end of the crankshaft and the
starter will just freely spin, or the rollers could be stuck and the
starter could be backdriven by the engine when it firs up, and that
might wipe out the starter brushes...

If I was trying to resurrect an engine that hadn't been run in 9 years,
I would pull the spark plugs, spray some WD-40 or squirt some Marvel
Mystery Oil down into the cylinder and carefully turn the engine over
many times to make sure everything moved freely...

And, I would crank up oil pressure by turning the engine over with the
electric starter with the spark plugs still out of the engine to get
oil circulating in all the oil passages...