Back from a 10 hr day in the car. Drove up to see the 2002 model, seller is a nice guy but being he is a REAL GOOD old BOY ya gotta take what he says with a grain of salt .
The story of how he came to own the machine had a couple of different versions. I'm no spring chicken so I listen and file away what I think is important.
So we push the bike outside and not with standing it was a big heap dirty.
( never understand why sellers don't put as much lip stick on the pig as possible to make a good first impression)
I ask about maintenance and when the last oil service had been done. He begins to get a little vague
.So I ask if he has the owners manual, he does so I thumb through looking at all the sparkling clean pages
Come to the part where maintenance is recorded and to my surprise the last oil service was done in 2016 at less miles than currently shown. So a bit of a red flag , but I don't want to badger the dude . He assures me that he had an oil service done no more than 1500 miles ago . So I ask if I can pull the dip stick , just want to make sure something is there before we fire it up.
He say's sure go right ahead and he proceeds to bully some of the after market plastic chrome panels off. Unfortunately that's not where the stick is located. My wife shows him in the owners manual where it's located. He starts to tell me that he's no mechanic blablabla.
We talk a little more and I decide that no matter how much he is willing to drop the price , I'm just not feeling it and I'll pass.
I know the right one is out there and I'll keep looking . Interesting day to say the least.