January 16, 2012
Although this post will be listed for February 23, 2012; on January 16, 2012 I bought a 2000 Honda Shadow Sabre 1100! Unlike the Goldwing this bike runs.
I bought the bike from a retired (45ish) Navy guy down in Alexandria. I was the first person to talk to him. He had it listed for $2500, I paid $2300, the bike has 40,000 miles on it.
When I went down to look at the bike it was a cold overcast day. He let me take the bike out for a test ride. The problem was that I hadn't ridden in 30 some years, well a couple of test rides here and there. This bike had a very different feel than my BMW, the front seemed to over steer at low speed.
I ended up selling the GL for $1100 to a guy in Lancaster PA, I may have lost $100, or I may have made $100! I delivered the bike for him. It snowed from the MD line for about 20 minutes up to York. Luckily, the rain and snow let up for the un-loading. I'm hoping that he gets the bike running.
I'm including some pictures of the bike when I got it home on January 22, 2012. Yes that is SNOW on the ground.
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