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Old 07-16-2018, 12:31 AM   #244 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by woodsrat View Post
I guess I'm spoiled. I gave .99 for my Passport (no kidding!!) on eBay around ten years ago and thought I spent a fortune in gas at $80 going to pick it up. (Gas was $4 a gallon at the time.)
I did something similar back in 2007. I was living in Birmingham, AL and bought a 1979 KZ400 on Ebay that was located near Kokomo, IN. I spend more on gas and a truck rental than I did on the bike. The guy at Enterprise was shocked when he checked the mileage and saw I put more than 1000 miles on the truck in less than 24 hours!

The problem here is that junkers don't come with titles and a bike without a title is just a pile of parts. The only way to get a new title is for the person on record as the owner to file for a replacement title.

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Fuel injection is indeed wonderful until it doesn't work anymore....
I haven't had that experience with EFI bikes. Even when I left my BMW with gas in the tank for more than a year while recovering from a bad crash it started right up.

With cars a scanner and tablet gets down the the problem pretty quickly. I can't wait for OBD to come to bikes.
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