caseyjones955
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Yours has the 2nd gear thing too? Time for that XVZ13 trans/bottom end then, yea? :eusa_dance:
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Yours has the 2nd gear thing too? Time for that XVZ13 trans/bottom end then, yea? :eusa_dance:
No, ask on here for someone within reasonable range to you to help you to get it back on the road. I think you will get someone. Just don't take advantage of someone's generous nature who helps you fix it, and then turn around and sell it for a profit. Unless you pay someone for their time and knowlege. It would still be cheaper than a dealership or an independent shop's prices.
A good-running VMax is like few other bikes on the market, they are like a 356 Porsche, except much, much faster. By that I mean, they have personality, are somewhat rarely-encountered on the street, and generally provoke strangers to ask about it, and reminisce about a friend who owned one, or, perhaps they once did.
If you can get someone to help you return it to the road, I think you will be happy with the investment, assuming you don't spend $5,000 in-total to be there. If you're at or under $3K, total expenses, including purchase and repairs, I'd say you're into it for the right $, if that's the price to get it operating reliably and safely. Maybe a bit more, if you're planning to hang onto it, and need to buy some new forking by frank fork downtubes, because yours are scabby with rust, which will eat-alive a new set of fork seals. Never rebuild scabbed fork downtubes, it's not worth your time or $. Only replace them with perfect used ones (1985-1992, or 1993-2007 are the two sizes by years) which likely will be hard to find for something that old. More likely, replacing them is a better deal, and you might as well consider a new set of triple trees to fit the later larger diameter style downtubes/triple trees. At that point, you'll also be required to get the 1993+ larger-diameter front brake rotors, and the brakes that come with the front fork sliders to fit the larger diameter downtubes.
Fix the engine first.
A good-running VMax is like few other bikes on the market, they are like a 356 Porsche, except much, much faster. By that I mean, they have personality, are somewhat rarely-encountered on the street, and generally provoke strangers to ask about it, and reminisce about a friend who owned one, or, perhaps they once did.
If you can get someone to help you return it to the road, I think you will be happy with the investment, assuming you don't spend $5,000 in-total to be there. If you're at or under $3K, total expenses, including purchase and repairs, I'd say you're into it for the right $, if that's the price to get it operating reliably and safely. Maybe a bit more, if you're planning to hang onto it, and need to buy some new forking by frank fork downtubes, because yours are scabby with rust, which will eat-alive a new set of fork seals. Never rebuild scabbed fork downtubes, it's not worth your time or $. Only replace them with perfect used ones (1985-1992, or 1993-2007 are the two sizes by years) which likely will be hard to find for something that old. More likely, replacing them is a better deal, and you might as well consider a new set of triple trees to fit the later larger diameter style downtubes/triple trees. At that point, you'll also be required to get the 1993+ larger-diameter front brake rotors, and the brakes that come with the front fork sliders to fit the larger diameter downtubes.
Fix the engine first.
