Prince George Vintage Motorcycle Club
PGMCC BUY & SELL => BIKES & PARTS FOR SALE => Topic started by: Rusty Bucket on April 26, 2012, 09:39:29 AM
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Terry Miller bought this SR 185 to teach his wife to ride, a process now completed. He sold it to me for what he paid for it, and I will sell it for the same price to any club member with a similar need, with the understanding that the buyer makes it available for sale again at the same price after he or she is done with it, or bring it back to me where I will buy it back from you. In this way we will always have a cheap, reliable trainer available; unfortunately, it is not big enough to take an unrestricted license test with, but it should be up to the nuts and bolts of learning to ride. It is, I think, a 1981 Yamaha SR 185, and (only) has an electric starter, and is currently ready to do the business for $350.
May 10 2013 - it would seem the utility of this bike, in the club context, has dried up; Kawmeister has a 454 Ltd he thinks is suitable for the same intended purpose, and is big enough to do a final license test on, so I am going to try and sell it back into the community from whence it came.
May 28 2013 - and now it has passed from our hands and gone to a good prospect for the anglo/flat-track club, who used to flat-track a Triumph triple.
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Hey,
My friend Heath who works as an instructor/tutor at the university just passed his learners and wants to learn to ride. I told him bout this bike and the limitations of the test and that the bike must come back at same cost. He has ridden dirt bikes and such as a kid. We would love to get this bike for the purpose indicated in your description and could have it back to the club in a few months. Is that possible?
Daniel
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Yes, absolutely. If you think you might have a use for it, come on by my shop and have a look and we'll stick the battery back in it and you can try it out a bit behind the shop and see if you think it might meet your requirements. I can't remember whether it is Terry's name or Mike McLintock's name on the papers, but I think whoever it was signed a transfer form- we'll have to look. There is a fairly complete set of manuals for the bike as well. Number at the shop is 562-4815
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AWESOME, I just spoke to Heath. He is out of town but back on Sunday. He and I are both available to come check it out Sunday evening or Monday evening if you are free on those eves. I tried calling ya but there is no voicemail that picked up. You can contact me at 250-596-8955
Thank you.
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Daniel
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Put the little Yamaha up on the lift today and checked the camchain tension and valve clearances, then put the battery back in and the tank back on and rolled it outside to crank it up - fortunately Terry was dropping his bike at my shop today, so he was there to explain why the bike wouldn't crank; I had the clutch lever in, but I also had the sidestand down, and the bike thinks this is extremely naughty. After meeting the many requirements that complete safety demands, it started right up. There is a set of signed transfer papers from Mike McLintock (the last owner, though he owned it for a few weeks and never actually rode it) there as well. Terry says it got new oil and a filter less than 1000km ago, and Mike and I put a new front tire on in the fall. So it waits for a rider...
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Will Monday the 7th evening work for you?
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Done deal - One note for Heath; use motorcycle oil. And Bel-Ray Superclean chainlube is pleasant to use, though less-so to buy.
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...and now the bike is available again, just in time for summer, for the same reasons and on the same terms. Heath - remarkably sensible for a young person - reports the bike was a useful tool to ease the transition into street bikes ( he has a CB650 now). So crouch low, you Suzuki Hayabusai, and stifle your tremulous mewling - the SR 185 is back.
Whoops, and now it is out on the streets again with Fast1's daughter as of middle of July...
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Just to update, Heath has a Honda CB 650 and a Blue Kawasaki 650 he bought from a club member which he adores.
Looks like he is hooked on vintage. The club guys have been great at sharing skills, resources, and time/energy into helping us newer folk.
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...and now Fast1's daughter has had her way with the bike and moved on to a Shadow 600, so it is once more back at my shop patiently waiting for the coming of another motorcycling season, and another chance to prove it's nigh-invulnerability, all for $350...
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Russ , Twila would like a Smaller bike to ride , the Magna ia a bit too tall, she Tells me. Maybe the wee Yammie would do the trick??.
I guess for next year. whadda ya think ?
MAC
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Well, not my place to deny Twila access to any motorcycle - but I would say this bike is very small. Bring her by the shop and she can check it out - ride it, even, for the time being - and see how it compares to her needs. I would take any opportunity I got to upgrade this 185 to a 250/305/400 class bike, as long as it had electric starter, something that could be used for the test as well, but decent bikes in the sub $500 range are few and far between... the extremely modest investment is an important element in this endeavour.
The bike had two owners this summer - so it has been at least somewhat useful.
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I have a Yamaha 400 that is under the 500 $ range, but needs some TLC and dollars spent to make it roadworthy
It also has some paper issues as I have the owner signature on a BC Transfer paper, but she is the registered owner in Alberta.
If I find the interest to work on it over the winter and get maybe Kawmeister to slay his ICBC powers and get the papers worked out....it is available......( Or...someone could Flatrack it.....)
Pic is here......
http://fritz-bulldogcyclespg.blogspot.ca/p/for-sale.html
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Well, to me that XS400 Special looks ideal - but Fast1 probably wouldn't agree. If Parker brings Twila by to look at the SR, maybe I will press her for some opinions on what would be the requisite elements of a first bike... there was a Kawasaki KZ250 Ltd for sale this summer in town, and although I personally know the brakes on that particular model are not that good, in every other way I suppose it rings the magic bell as just big enough, just small enough, and just fast enough. Though I don't recall the price, I doubt it was cheap enough, however.
In the day we thought small trail-bikes, like KE's and XL's were the perfect starter bikes, but they did NOT have electric starters, and, even at their modest height, might have seemed problematically tall to some. Now that some of the trailies do have starters, they are undeniably up there...
One of those 305 Ltd's would be good, too. But this is what we have.
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Fritz, if the 400 is registered in Alberta then all you need to get it registered here in B.C. is a bill of sale. And it can come from anyone. Privacy laws in Alberta do not allow them to give out the name of any reistered owner of a vehicle. I found this out when I went to find the owner of the xt500 I bought last year. They said sorry can't help you. So I took the bill of sale from the guy I bought it from, and the bike, down to The agent in Spruceland , they looked at the serial number and registered it in my name. Easy peasy.
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So I took the bill of sale from the guy I bought it from, and the bike, down to The agent in Spruceland , they looked at the serial number and registered it in my name. Easy peasy.
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Good News...Thanks for that....
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Its always easier with no papers and out of province.
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where is the learner bike these days, may have a friend that might have an interest.
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Lat time I was at Russ' it was under the A-100. Methinks it's still there. CHEERS.
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yes the learner bike is still at Russ's. Saw it there last week.