Friggin bummer to be broke!!!

[XS1100 Newbie]

Saw an add on a 1980 Special with rear rack, and fairing. 30000 miles, nice shape, and i don't have $500.00 to buy it. It is nice enough, that i thought i should sell my MNS to buy it. Don't have time to do it. This is the second good buy in the last few months i have missed. My fear is someone will buy it and part out a perfectly good Special.

[CatatonicBug]

I hear you... There is a PAIR of decent XJ's across town from me for a really good price, but I just don't have the $$.

[FJ111200]

Yeah? Well if people didn't part out good stuff you'd be looking at buying scabby old pieces of crap.

[cywelchjr]

Yep, same here. Keep seeing them on craigslist, and don't have the money (or the trailer, or the vehicle to tow the trailer) to get them. I would even kick the Camaro out of the garage to make room if I got them. Oh well, maybe next year will be better (and maybe the Camaro will get on the road this winter too.).

[fredintoon]

You can't save them all.

- - - i don't have $500.00 to buy it. - - - - My fear is someone will buy it and part out a perfectly good Special.

Hi Newbie,
it's like going to the humane society and bringing a dog home .
You can't save them all.
You did your bit with the MNS and now it's up to someone else to save this one.
BTW, not having $500 to spare ain't being broke.
Sleeping under a bridge and scrounging food out of a MacDonalds garbage can, that's being broke.

[natemoen]

Thanks for putting it in perspective Fred.

[Lucien Harpress]

Pretty much. I'm not completely broke, but I'm not far off, either. My bike's sitting in the barn, more than likely up for the summer for want of $40 worth of new carb float valves to replace the leaky ones. I've just got too much money I owe for other things, and the motorcycle is (unfortunately) bottom of the list in terms of priority.