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  • XS1100 Newbie
    XS-XJ Guru
    • Jun 2009
    • 1106
    • Battle Ground, Washington
    #1

    Friggin bummer to be broke!!!

    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.
    1980 XS1100LG Midnight
    1991 Honda CBR1000F Hurricane


    "The hand is almost valueless at one end of the arm if there be not a brain at the other"

    Here's to a long life and a happy one.
    A quick death and an easy one.
    A pretty girl and an honest one.
    A cold beer and another one!
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    • CatatonicBug
      Master of XSology
      • Oct 2008
      • 6117
      • Clinton, UT
      #2
      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 $$.
      1980 XS850SG - Sold
      1981 XS1100LH Midnight Special (Sold) - purchased 9/29/08
      Fully Vetterized and Dynojet Kit added, Heated Grips, Truck-Lite LED headlight, Accel Coils, Irridium plugs, TKAT Fork Brace, XS850LH Final Drive & Black SS Brake lines from Chacal.
      Here's my web page devoted to my bike! XS/XJ User's Manuals there, and the XJ1100 Service Manual and both XS1100 Service manuals (free download!).

      Whether you think you can, or you think you cannot - You're right.
      -H. Ford

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        • FJ111200
          XStremely XSive
          • Oct 2007
          • 317
          • Crewe, Cheshire, UK
          #3
          Yeah? Well if people didn't part out good stuff you'd be looking at buying scabby old pieces of crap.

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            • cywelchjr
              XS-XJ Super Guru(Deceased)
              • Oct 2008
              • 4450
              • Sacramento, CA
              #4
              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.).
              Cy

              1980 XS1100G (Brutus) w/81H Engine
              Duplicolor Mirage Paint Job (Purple/Green)
              Vetter Windjammer IV
              Vetter hard bags & Trunk
              OEM Luggage Rack
              Jardine Spaghetti 4-2 exhaust system
              Spade Fuse Box
              Turn Signal Auto Cancel Mod
              750 FD Mod
              TC Spin on Oil Filter Adapter (temp removed)
              XJ1100 Front Footpegs
              XJ1100 Shocks

              I was always taught to respect my elders, but it keeps getting harder to find one.

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                • fredintoon
                  Master of XSology
                  • Mar 2004
                  • 6795
                  • Saskatoon SK
                  #5
                  You can't save them all.

                  Originally posted by XS1100 Newbie
                  - - - 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.
                  Fred Hill, S'toon
                  XS11SG with Spirit of America sidecar
                  "The Flying Pumpkin"

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                    • natemoen
                      Master of XSology
                      • May 2010
                      • 8640
                      • Fargo
                      #6
                      Thanks for putting it in perspective Fred.
                      Nathan
                      KD9ARL

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                      1978 XS1100E
                      K&N Filter
                      #45 pilot Jet, #137.5 Main Jet
                      OEM Exhaust
                      ATK Fork Brace
                      LED Dash lights
                      Ammeter, Oil Pressure, Oil Temp, and Volt Meters
                      Green Monster Coils
                      SS Brake Lines
                      Vision 550 Auto Tensioner

                      In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

                      Theodore Roosevelt

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                        • Lucien Harpress
                          XStremely XSive
                          • May 2009
                          • 213
                          • Adrian, MI
                          #7
                          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.
                          Currently XS-less.

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