On a whim I bought a 2003 KX250 on E-Bay recently with the thought of making a Woods/Play bike or with an eye on maybe going back to the premix side. Figured the price was right and worst case scenario I could play the differences in the Canadian/US market and flip it for a profit up here should I decide not to keep it.
Price was right and the WI seller was willing to deliver it to Minneapolis for me to pick up on my way to Millville for a raceday so what the heck pulled the trigger since this was a top notch bike!
Here is part of the E-Bay description:
" I am a very particular person and I take very good care of my stuff. No leaky tranny or fork seals on this bike. I recently replaced the rear shock linkage. I also recently replaced the chain and sprockets. Clutch pulls nice and has plenty of grab. You get it. This bike is 100% race ready. As you can see from our rating we are a very trustworthy ebayer."
Picked up the bike from a 3rd party that he had left the bike with and the transaction was very smooth overall and the bike appeared at a quick glance to be decent. Didn't really go over it well at that time as being E-Bay the transaction was done and this was a third party just serving as a delivery point.
Now we get into getting the bike ready to ride, keeping in mind this is "100% Race Ready" so I figured just change the oil check the air filter and hit the track right?
So far in my tear down I've found:
- Left fork seal spewing oil
- large hole in bottom of front fender I somehow didn't notice in photo's.
- Torn air filter, although intake is clean.
- Sand packed so tight under CS sprocket cover I had to remove cover to get it out as one hardened piece.
- Left rad mounting tab broken off rad.
- One of two silencer mounts broken off subframe and hanging loose.
- Left Cylinder/Engine mounting bracket broken in half.
I'm not pissed about what I got from the point of view I could have not acted on a whim and bid last minute without time to do more research on the bike but seriously in whose world could this bike be considered "100% Race Ready" :laugh:
Should have just found some extra cash and bought Wolf's Zook!
Price was right and the WI seller was willing to deliver it to Minneapolis for me to pick up on my way to Millville for a raceday so what the heck pulled the trigger since this was a top notch bike!
Here is part of the E-Bay description:
" I am a very particular person and I take very good care of my stuff. No leaky tranny or fork seals on this bike. I recently replaced the rear shock linkage. I also recently replaced the chain and sprockets. Clutch pulls nice and has plenty of grab. You get it. This bike is 100% race ready. As you can see from our rating we are a very trustworthy ebayer."
Picked up the bike from a 3rd party that he had left the bike with and the transaction was very smooth overall and the bike appeared at a quick glance to be decent. Didn't really go over it well at that time as being E-Bay the transaction was done and this was a third party just serving as a delivery point.
Now we get into getting the bike ready to ride, keeping in mind this is "100% Race Ready" so I figured just change the oil check the air filter and hit the track right?
So far in my tear down I've found:
- Left fork seal spewing oil
- large hole in bottom of front fender I somehow didn't notice in photo's.
- Torn air filter, although intake is clean.
- Sand packed so tight under CS sprocket cover I had to remove cover to get it out as one hardened piece.
- Left rad mounting tab broken off rad.
- One of two silencer mounts broken off subframe and hanging loose.
- Left Cylinder/Engine mounting bracket broken in half.
I'm not pissed about what I got from the point of view I could have not acted on a whim and bid last minute without time to do more research on the bike but seriously in whose world could this bike be considered "100% Race Ready" :laugh:
Should have just found some extra cash and bought Wolf's Zook!
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