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Originally Posted by JacRyann
Engine may very well have been abused. Might be on verge of self-destruct from over-revving and/or low-oil or infrequent changes. For something like that, at very least, I'd want a compression/leakdown test. And send out oil-sample to lab for analysis.
But yea, no more than $1000 for me. For just a little more than that $2k, you can get a 300 in much, much better condition.
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Sending the sample to oil analysis?
We're talking about sub $2,000 basic bike here...I might be wrong but even for high performance bikes it's a bit rare.
If it was a MV Agusta F4RR or some kind of high value vintage motorcycle, sure send it to $400+ full inspection.
But for something like this? I'd personally test drive it just like OP already did, and maybe rev the engine and see if there's any blue smoke, see if shows sign of rough idle, check the oil, unusual noise, etc.
Yeah like everyone said, maybe the engine will be dead next year, but that's the risk you take when you're buying a used bike.