Black Honda Transalp XL650V for sale in Cambridgeshire -- £2,600 - X registration (2000) - Matching Honda top box and panniers - MOT until August 2006 - Taxed until April 2006 - 18,618 miles - Centre stand - Scottoiler - Crash bars - New steering head bearings - Valve clearances recently adjusted - Metzeler Tourance tyres - HISS immobiliser, Smartwater - Garaged through this winter Pictures and contact info at http://www.bitesdog.co.uk/bike/ Apologies in advance if Google Groups screws up this message... I'm sure it'll manage to find something to interfere with... JW --
Chatteris. Worse than Wisbech? Not sure. Well into web-footed territory, certainly. And not my house, thank god, my girlfriend's parents' house. I only had to live there for a few months whilst we were temporarily between homes... JW --
It had a major service (6000 mile? 6000km? Not sure which interval Honda uses) in August and has hardly been ridden since. The valves were done as part of that service, and it had the steering head bearings replaced at the same time. The engine sounds (to my ear) very sweet. As sweet as a Transalp could sound, at any rate. Other than those two things, it hasn't needed anything doing to it. The service before that was about the same time the previous year, when I bought it from a dealer in Northampton. They swore blind that the first owner was a retired solicitor who'd only ridden it to the shops on Sundays, maintained it immaculately, that sort of thing, and who'd traded up to a Pan European. JW --
I've been lurking here for long enough to know that if that's the worst thing you can find to say about my advert, I've done well... JW --
Heh. It's a nice bike at the right price. No, I just have an antipathy to alarms and immobilisers on all bikes, although I grant you (and Ginge) that factory-fit ones are better than most. But until someone invents one that is proof against all the weather and crap that's thrown at a motorcycle, and doesn't cost an arm and a leg if you lose the key, card, plipper, or whatever, I'll rely on a FOAD lock. I've lost count of the number of people here who've been stranded by a dead immobiliser or a flat battery caused by an alarm.
Not sure -- they were on there when I bought it. They're quite simple ones, just a sort of braced triangle that covers the lower half of the fairing. You can see them in the pictures on the website. I've never crashed, so I don't know how well they work, but I do know they can be buggers to take off if you need to get at the engine and the bolts have seized up... (For any potential purchasers: the bolts on mine are new, not the seized ones that were on there when I got it!) Before I bought this bike, I looked at another, older Transalp (a 600) at a workshop in Fulbourn near Cambridge. The bloke selling that said he could order me some non-Honda crash bars for not very much money -- about 50 quid, I think they were. If you want to find out what he was offering, he was at M&S Autos, 01223 881831. JW --
I had the Hepco and Becker set on mine and they worked a treat the one occasion I decided to lay it for a rest. I'd sell them to you, as they're off the bike atm, and actually brand new powder coated, courtesy of a friend with the right company, but they are in Germany, I'm in California and you are in Spain (?). So not an ideal trading situation. ;-)
Thanks for the thought. I am actually in the UK, despite my posting name which originates from the Addams Family.
