Please don't disown me, but I sold my last connection to this forum. I had a 1983 550 NH. I learned a few things from this place, and I contributed a few comments.
Last year I missed the buying season, so it sat in the middle of my shop waiting for an ever-increasing number of fix-ups. It needed a pair of watch crystals, fork seals, new battery (by that time), those irritating cam bore end plugs etc. I had tried powder coating the valve cover and the new gasket needed installed. By the time I did all this, of course it needed its carbs all cleaned out. Fortunately I did not need to re-sync the carbs. When I got it all done I wrote up a modest overview and gave the photos to my wife to put up for sale. She is the online buying-selling genius on our house. I just wanted the minimum for it, after all, there are 43k miles on it, but my wife said we would start at $1200. I said, OK, (shrug). I was so surprised when some guy called, looked at it, asked a few questions, listened to it start and run, waited around for his bank to open, did not even ride it, then paid full price. My wife told him that we would deliver it (10 miles across town), if he paid full price. (She is no dummy.) She says there were other people asking earnestly about it. The guy who did buy it let on that he had a few properties and he used them to store vehicles, probably nice ones. He told me he wanted it to ride as nostalgic, but bought the collectors plate at the DMV office. *ANYWAY...* So that's it. I'm kinda out. I hope you will not think any less of me. If I can find the good copies of the pictures I'll get them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
