Some advice

[Guest]

I'm looking to buy this gs650 to wrench on this winter but I am pretty new to the world of bikes but pretty handy with the right know how. Anyways the guys asking 600 for it and just wondering if it's worth it. He has been doin work to it and with anything it's kinda frightening finishing someone else's work.

https://images.craigslist.org/00I0I_1lfYPmWnGFt_1200x900.jpg

https://images.craigslist.org/00303_c4irRny1Esu_1200x900.jpg

[Tom R]

Does it run, have a title, need tires, brakes, chain, sprockets, rusty tank, fenders, lights, wiring harness good shape???
Looks like he removed the fenders and put a hoop and seat on it... is it even mounted?
there's a ton of work left in that one... lots of time plus 5 or 600 in parts or more depending on your goals.

[Thefirststep]

He said it ran when he started the project has tittle but he didn't say how long ago that was. He said I'd need to put exhaust back on neaten up the wiring and get a battery box. There's definitely a lot of work that's going to go into it and I planned on working on it a good amount but not so much work that I'm sittin on the project for ever and getting in way over my head. But then again I'm a firm believer in built not bought.

[glib]

Look what someone just got for $1112 and then decide if that hot mess is worth $600.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1981-Suzuki-GS/391828571749?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

[dorkburger]

Hoop looks to have precious little clearance at the top of the tire.

[steve murdoch]

I would find something that needs a little less "work".
Offer this guy $1000.00 and go riding.

https://cleveland.craigslist.org/mcy/6172561506.html

[Steve]

I'm looking to buy this gs650 to wrench on this winter but I am pretty new to the world of bikes but pretty handy with the right know how. Anyways the guys asking 600 for it and just wondering if it's worth it. He has been doin work to it and with anything it's kinda frightening finishing someone else's work.

https://images.craigslist.org/00I0I_1lfYPmWnGFt_1200x900.jpg

https://images.craigslist.org/00303_...u_1200x900.jpg

Don't walk away from this one.

RUN!!!

Have to ask, just be sure, though, is he offering you $600 to take it or is he asking you to give $600 to him?

Unless you were there, watching him, maybe even helping him, do the work so that you KNOW what has been done, assume that it's all done wrong, if it's even done at all. There is so much that is 'wrong' with that bike just by looking at those two pictures, I would not even want it taking up space in my shop.

If it were all there, all together, but not running, it might be worth close to $600, but with all that stuff that needs to be put on the bike just to see if it even runs, I would not wish that on ANY newbie.

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[Big T]

On top of what Steve says, the upside down clubman bars are a warning sign of the "quality" of the work that's been put into this poor bike

[Thefirststep]

Thank you guys for all the advice I'm not gonna get.i was blinded by excitement and over looked a lot of what was wrong done wrong with the bike I saw the upside down clubman bars but didn't think to much into it besides just turning them back the correct way but then I started looking deeper into the photos. I'm gonna pull back the reigns and take more time looking into other bikes and kick a few tires.

[sam000lee]

Consider that GS550 that Steve posted below. My friend just got one and its awesome!

[AMK]

Consider that GS550 that Steve posted below. My friend just got one and its awesome!

+1
That windshield is worth more than the bike you were looking at.