[greg737]

....but it's not my fault.

I bought it in the summer of 2007 with 3,600 miles on it, so I've only had it for two years. I don't get to ride it every day because I travel a lot in my profession(s) (airline pilot, air national guard pilot).

It was owned from new by a woman in a nearby neighborhood who teaches 9th and 10th grade math at the local High School. She broke it in carefully, didn't ride it much, never dropped it, and had all the proper maintenance done on time. It was always garaged and lovingly washed and waxed.

I couldn't have gotten a better deal when I bought it.

She didn't want to sell it, and actually got teary-eyed when I paid her for it. Her husband wanted a big expensive Liter-bike and the money from the EX-250 sale was obviously going to help finance it. Her part of the deal in this Liter-bike action was that he was giving her his old, road-rashed, broken-fairinged, mangled-levered, dented-exhaust canned, Super Sport 600.