best deal you've got on an xs?

[COOL TOM]

Bike prices

First 82XJ paid $100, clean adjust carbs, brake pedal froze in frame, put on new tires, sat for 10 years. Guy just wanted to get it out of garage, taking up too much room. Daily Ride.
79F paid $25, sat in guys back yard for 8/10 years complete, no title. Parts bike.
78E paid $65, guy was moving and could not take it with him, bad TCI unit, had gas tank apart, needs carb kits, rebuilding it for son.
82XJ gave to me rough shape been knocked over and broke turn signals and brake light, motor/trans bad corrosion, gas tank dented, taking up space in girlfriends garage tires flat, parts bike for me and other son, he bought 82XJ from this guy also for $400, this guy is on this site.
80SG paid $200 for this bike full dresser, needs repainted and put back on fairing and bags, and new seat cover, fixing up to be spare Daily Ride.
All of these bikes were found within 25miles of my house, also guy i know told me his inlaws have one in garage that is in an estate sale that they want to get rid of, all he knows is that it is a Yamaha 1100 and has been sitting for 10/15 years, he will let me know when they get ready to sell it. Hope it is a 81 model so that i will have one of each year.

[Bamper]

I paid 50 bucks for my XS1100 SF knowing it needed to be rewired and he said the timing was off. But was only the coil pickup and runs mint now.

[79XS11F]

I was given a 1979 special. The lad even trailered it to my house for free. The engine is in pretty good shape on the inside :-)
Rob

[BrianB]

WOW I guess I overspent on mine. $1200 last September but the bike is imaculate. Everything works great and have only spent money on plugs and for oil changes since.

[Paintman]

best deals

I bought my 79 MNS brand new had it for 11 yrs and sold it. Next i bougth a full bagger from a memeber here in like new shape. 1700$ last one i got was from a kid who owed me money so he gave me a 80 MNS with 3 spare engines so io ahve a few spare parts.

John

[Dads11special]

best deal

I paid $650 two years ago for my 81 special. Needed nothing at the time but tires with 8000 on the odometer. He was the original owner and only rode once a week to keep things working.

[tarzan]

My first one I traded an old chevy truck that had sat for 20 years at my uncles.The bike I got out of that also had sat for about 7 years and was rough but I went through carbs ,brakes,and some electrical and it ran great.It had over 60,000 on the clock.Sold it a few years back ,then regretted selling it.Iknew I would find another one.
The one I have now i got from an estate sale last fall for $400
with 588 miles on it.The guy bought it brand new and apparently
scared himself on it.It hadn't been licensed since 1983.I went through the carbs(which had been drained before the hiatus.But the tank had 20 year old gas in it.The tires were like brand new!But were hard,so I put new tires on.This bike rides like new.I am still cleaning the aluminum up but have put about a 1000 miles on it in the last 2 months.I hope to have this one for a long long time. Money well spent.

[Da-Bubble]

Tarzan, I'd love to find a super low mileage Eleven at an estate sale...that's almost as good as finding a (insert classic car here) under a tarp in a barn!!!

As for my treasure, I paid $650 for my '79 Special with 30k miles. It ran ok but I took the whole thing apart and redid it my way. I've got about $2800 in it now and no one believe's it's a 30 year old Yamaha!

[thewiz]

I bought a 79 XS11F Std with 40K mi for $300. It needed Carb and Brake complete rebui

wonder if Earnie remembers this one?



bought it from him for 700 bucks, fixed a bunch of stuff, carbs, rear brakes, new bars, rebuilt the forks, major tune up, new pin washer twice? .... rode it a bunch for a year and sold it.

At about the same time I bought Earnies F I also bought this G .... for 200 bucks. Lots of work and a few hunderd later, It's now my number one bike

[madmax-im]

too much

You guys are making me sick...I Had to buy new...paid damn near $3500 for my '82 XJ1100 in 1983...but I still have it!!!Now I just bought an '81 XS1100SH and I'm not gonna tell ya how much I paid for that...its alot more than you guys paid...but the bike is just abt as clean as day one...Un-restored nearly flawless condition...'nuff said...

[NemisusDM]

79 Special, 300 bucks on Ebay...

[bigb9582]

50 bux for my 79 standerd. sat outside 8 years uncovered. had no seat, tank rotted, no title. 400 bux to get it road legal/ready.

[bikerphil]

ridden hard

'79 Standard, bought it in '89 with 7200 mi., $600, 76,000 mi. now, runnin' on straight 70 wt. oil.

[wayneshrt]

how much paid

I went xs nutty and bought one (1980 xs1100)for 1000.00 in great shape then another (1980 xs100 sg) for 850.00 runs great and then over the next two weeks I bought 5 more for parts at a total of 1150.00 ( all 5 were xs1100's with one in pretty good shape) I need help!

[theslow00]

about a month ago i bought my 1982 xj1100 paid 500.00 for it and needed to the tranny fix clean carbs and lube it up it was sitting in the weather for 2 years but it runs good now, it only has 30,800 miles on it.