Its like Jeckell and Hyde... I got Mr. Hyde.
Bob and I work together, and that was one of two local bikes on craigslist when I was looking... The background story on both bikes was a little fishy... so I went to look at the cheaper one first.
I can't ride until I get past surgury, so I was looking for a cheaper entry point knowing I would do more work. The bike looked in bad shape, but ran. So I offered $800, thinking... "well, the thing does run ok as is, so how bad can it really be". I never even looked at "Bob's bike"...
A day after I bought mine, I dug into it and started finding things like stripped transmission output shafts, damaged spokes, cracked pistons, broken parts of the frame, etc ad nasaum.
Bob, a day after he bought that one, was looking at it idle in the driveway thinking "wow, that was really easy to get running". And did he mention the previous owner gave him a box full of FRP Offroad bits?
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