FA: GSXR600 SRAD

A mate's selling one. Though it has to be said, he's not a natural
salesman, and has the demeanour you'd expect of someone who wears
an ETA tshirt under his work clothes every day...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4563714206

The mind boggles.

 

"If you decide to come and see it, there is no need for you to bring
your m8s, mother in law, dogs etc... you come alone."

That comment alone would stop me bidding, even if it was some
ultra-rare beastie I'd be searching for all my life.

 

Good lord. The mind does indeed boggle.

PS: What's an ETA t-shirt?

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3500728.stm

 

oh, *that* ETA. I thought you were referring to a youth/fashion
thing.

So, he has the demeanour of a terrorist/freedom fighter [delete as
appropriate], does he?

 

But why the boggle? A bit excessive with the pics but it's an honest
description - I'd be more inclined to bid on that than on an auction
with a 3 line description and a fuzzy pic taken off a camera phone.

 

Would you really bid on a bike where "the cams have been put in wrong,
and now it rattles a bit" ?

 

"I am selling it because there is a slight issue with the valves.

Unfortunatly, I have misplaced the cams, slightly off... (just a tiny
bit), started the engine and heard some weird noises.

The engine RUNS, and I want to say it again: IT RUNS, as you can hear
and see on the video
The idle is perfect, just under 1000RPM, the problem occurs when on
high revs, above 4 or 5000RPM. The engine will start knocking, you
just need to down a gear and reopen the throttle. There is a tiny
exhaust leak too.

All you need to do to make that bike purr like a cat:
get it serviced (fully) re-balance the carbs, get those valves
sorted."

If that was all it needed, don't we think the seller would have done
so. It's fucked, pure and simple. Probably needs an entire new top
end. Nobody in their right mind would bid on it.

Then again, on ebay there's always one...

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If you decide to come and see it, there is no need for you to bring your
m8s, mother in law, dogs etc... you come alone... This is not a bike show.

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Would ;put me right off, as well.
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If it was cheap enough. Better [as a buyer] to know that than "it just
started knocking one day".

Not an example of super smooth sales patter, but you can't knock the
guy for being honest surely?

 

Krusty scribbled:

More so than the "I've put it together wrong, fucked the top end, bent
the valves and its shagged" bit?

 

ogden says...

He's a Spaniard? The bike'll be fucked then.

 

As it happens, yes. If you're looking for a bike with a shagged engine,
& it's described as having a shagged engine, that's fine. But ordering
people to come alone if they want to view it isn't fine - fucking nazi.

 

No, French. The Basque region spans both.

 

ogden says...

See, typical froggie, can't even make up his mind on nationality

 

Krusty barfed:

True, but I wouldn't take a blind bit of notice of that if I went to
view it anyway. I'd always take along someone "who knows" & as an
independant haggle-starting-point-pointer-outer and a cool head.