Here we go again. I don’t need another project right now as I still have two others I haven’t finished yet. But as we all do, I constantly monitor Craigslist and Marketplace for good deals when I came across this xs2. It was only about 40 minutes from my house so I reached out to go have a look. There was only one picture and little description other than it’s been sitting for 10 years.
The guy told me it is his father’s bike and the son was in town to help clean out his packrat garage. When I got there, I met his 74yr old father and he told me a little back story. He is not a mechanical guy, but he parked the bike many years ago when his wife got ill. The bike was exactly how he bought it, with extended fork tubes and high bars. The tank was already painted when he got it too. The son told me he probably smashed up the turn signals and headlight when he was riding it in the yard 10 years ago. With those forks I’m not surprised.
The bike was wedged in the corner against the shelves. It was tough to roll it out as the front wheel was locked up. The motor turned over with the kicker, but I didn’t press it to do a compression test. It was pretty crusty! I looked it over pretty well and the only thing missing was the left side cover. And it has a clean title! I tried to throw a lower offer, but he was firm on his price. We struck a deal and they signed the title over and we agreed I’d come back on a few days with a trailer. My truck is lifted a little, so with the locked front wheel on the bike it would have been very hard to load. The only thing left was to break the news to my wife !!!!
The guy told me it is his father’s bike and the son was in town to help clean out his packrat garage. When I got there, I met his 74yr old father and he told me a little back story. He is not a mechanical guy, but he parked the bike many years ago when his wife got ill. The bike was exactly how he bought it, with extended fork tubes and high bars. The tank was already painted when he got it too. The son told me he probably smashed up the turn signals and headlight when he was riding it in the yard 10 years ago. With those forks I’m not surprised.
The bike was wedged in the corner against the shelves. It was tough to roll it out as the front wheel was locked up. The motor turned over with the kicker, but I didn’t press it to do a compression test. It was pretty crusty! I looked it over pretty well and the only thing missing was the left side cover. And it has a clean title! I tried to throw a lower offer, but he was firm on his price. We struck a deal and they signed the title over and we agreed I’d come back on a few days with a trailer. My truck is lifted a little, so with the locked front wheel on the bike it would have been very hard to load. The only thing left was to break the news to my wife !!!!
