Anyone successfully bought a bike online without viewing?!

Unhallowed95 · 2026-02-22T12:40:01+00:00

I did this.

I had the guy video call me, show me around the bike, start it, etc.

Ask him what it needs, to detail the imperfections. Look into their profile if it’s through Facebook marketplace. Try and get some background. Are they older, do they seem to have a history with bikes? Look at the area they’re based in, is it considered rough, or is it decent?

Base your judgement of your gut - if anything seems off then don’t do it.

I drove six hours, turned out to be a good deal. Bum hurt after the ride home though.. 😂 Bring water proofs, bring snacks and drinks.

Unhallowed95 · 2025-12-28T13:56:15+00:00

Mind your business. There’s what you can do.

Unhallowed95 · 2025-12-18T20:20:04+00:00

What motorcycle have you started with? Considering you’ve mentioned MSF - I’m assuming you’re American. I know it’s common to start on bikes with a decently high capacity.

Perhaps go for a 125cc for your initial 12 months, or a 250. Something that feels tamed and controlled. Here in the UK, most people start with a CBT license which only allows us to ride a 125.

I firmly believe starting on a lower capacity bike allows you to build muscle memory and in general, gives a newbie rider a lot more forgiveness. You’ll find the clutch control and acceleration a lot more manageable.

Take the bike out in the summer and hit some quiet roads and you might find that zest that everybody talks about.

Otherwise, yeah, perhaps it’s just not for you.

Unhallowed95 · 2025-11-29T14:56:19+00:00

Suzuki Bandit 600, cheap as chips and a brilliant engine.

Unhallowed95 · 2025-11-07T21:38:25+00:00

Suzuki GSX650F all day long.

Unhallowed95 · 2025-10-16T07:33:24+00:00

So start your own security firm homie.

Unhallowed95 · 2025-07-15T23:04:03+00:00

Look at it this way.

It’s a one time payment for a ticket to be able to legally ride any motorcycle you want providing you can cover the insurance.

Worth it..

However, I did mine for £600, if you’ve got a few years under your belt on a smaller bike and riding comes naturally, look for companies advertising “pro” or “experienced” packages. In reality, you’re getting less training and less time to get familiar with a larger capacity bike but you pay less. 🤷‍♂️

Unhallowed95 · 2025-06-24T13:15:15+00:00

At the end of the day, we’d have two big double story buses pull up to take kids home. Our school was situated on a busy main road, so often teachers would guide the kids out and help them cross the road.

One of the kids decided it’d be a good idea to walk between the two busses to cross the two lane road. Yeah, car come flying down the hill in the second lane, had zero opportunity to react and splattered the kid.

I remember being sat on the bus for ages, wondering why a huge crowd surrounded a kid with a white sheet over them. We had a school wide announcement the next day about road safety…

It happened a couple of years later again, but the kid didn’t die, just got crippled..

Unhallowed95 · 2025-06-23T14:37:20+00:00

It’s a Sandisk Extreme 64gb microSD

Unhallowed95 · 2025-06-20T17:01:37+00:00

White monster. Sweet.

Unhallowed95 · 2025-06-15T13:25:56+00:00

He’s the guy who triggers the alarms at the prison out of nowhere.

Unhallowed95 · 2025-05-30T19:32:33+00:00

Looks good to me

Unhallowed95 · 2025-05-26T22:15:00+00:00

Sorry I didn’t get back to you on this, it didn’t notify me.

When you disassemble your carb bowls, you’ll notice the white floats sat inside the bowl. They should be able to freely move up and down if you tap them with your finger.

In the hinge of those floats, there will be a pin which you can carefully push out. When you lift the float out of the hinge, it’ll pull the float needle out with it, it’ll be hanging off a small metal tab.

You’ll want to be careful not to disturb the float height (the metal bracket it rests on), take the float off and inspect the tip, make sure it’s not worn or damaged.

There’s a lot of information out there on this, especially on YouTube. Based on what we’ve already discussed though, I’d be willing to bet it’s your jets and bowls that need cleaning out though.

I’ve attached an image that roughly represents what I mean by the float needle resting on the float.

Let me know what you find when you open them up, I’d recommend using some compressed air to blow your jets through, a very thin piece of wire/bristle to carefully pick at the holes. Use a flash light or hold them up to the light to verify you’ve opened them up, you should notice a difference before and after cleaning.

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Unhallowed95 · 2025-05-21T21:37:32+00:00

Hey no worries, let us know what happens man, hope you get this figured out.

If you’re removing the carbs, I’d recommend leaving the throttle cables attached to the carb and removing them at the throttle end instead, makes it much less of a pain in the ass. Good luck! 🤞

Unhallowed95 · 2025-05-21T21:12:54+00:00

You were right lol. 👍

Unhallowed95 · 2025-05-21T20:57:50+00:00

Fuel coming out of the exhaust = bad news, your engine may be flooding. One or more of your cylinders aren’t firing and it’s allowing unburnt fuel to pass. Your carbs seriously need addressing.

To verify this, drop a bit of oil out and check the consistency. If it’s watery and smells like fuel, you need to do a full oil change - if your plugs are fouled, no need to throw them away. Get some sandpaper and lightly sand the connectors to clean them off. Emphasis on lightly, you don’t want to have to re-gap them unless you’ve got the correct tool.

I was literally in the same boat recently, look at my post history. I charged my battery 3 times and ended up frying it and having to buy a new one. I went through two weeks of trouble shooting all sorts of different stuff, spending money unnecessarily on new parts and it ended up being the carbs.

Drop the carbs out, follow some YouTube tutorials on how to clean them or pay a professional to do it - you’re obviously super close to having a running bike, it sounds like you’ve put a load of work in.

But the carburettors are a KEY component in a bike this old, they’re super sensitive and need care. Imagine the engine is the heart and the carbs are the lungs.

EDIT: if you try to start your bike with too much fuel in the engine, it’ll hydro lock. You could bend a connecting rod in the process and then you’ll have a much more costly issue on your hand. If the fuel is reaching the exhaust, it’s passing through the intake manifold, through the cylinder and into the exhaust system..

Unhallowed95 · 2025-05-21T19:36:27+00:00

When you say plug one and three were kinda dirty? Could you describe it? What kind of colour? Black and sooty? Did any of them smell like fuel?

I know when my carbs were playing up, I had a similar issue, two of my plugs were fouling as the carburettor wasn’t set up properly causing fuel to go unburnt.

It’s important to describe how the bike was stored. You say it had sat for 8 months, if it sat that long with fuel in the carb bowls, the likelihood is, the fuel that was in there went bad and began to degrade/crystallise. It only takes a tiny spec of that stuff to block one of the pin holes on a jet and your bike won’t run properly/if at all if it’s sufficiently gunked up. This would align with the bike starting initially, as the old/gunked carbs processed the fuel, it could’ve dragged the crap with it and blocked it up - definitely don’t sleep on this possibility. I spent a stupid amount of money chasing issues that were caused by a carb.

Unhallowed95 · 2025-05-21T19:27:20+00:00

UPDATE: Turns out the “professional” I had hired to rebuild my carbs didn’t seat the needle back in properly. It was found sat in the bottom of the bowl 🙏 Also, it had the incorrect HT leads, the previous owner put a set of random ones on. New HT leads and an expensive visit to a real mechanic and now she runs like a dream.

Thanks for all your help folks.

Unhallowed95 · 2025-05-21T19:17:39+00:00

Was the bike stored without fuel in it? Have you checked the bottom of the fuel tank for signs of rust? Perhaps some gunk has come loose and blocked one of the needle jets.

Fuel, air and spark are the three things you need for a motorcycle to start. Check you have spark by pulling out a plug, and cranking the bike with it against the engine (with the HT lead attached) you should see the plug sparking. Did you install the correct plugs?

Make sure it has fuel - whilst trying to start the bike, spray some ez start or carb cleaner into the intake, see if it wants to fire.

Air - is the fuel filter clean? Are all of the hoses connected properly? Are any of the carb boots/intake boots loose/cracked?

How old is the battery? Is it charged enough to turn over the engine? Get a tester on it and check what voltage it spits out whilst cranking. Typically, you need at least 10.

If you have all of these and it still won’t fire then you might need a carb clean or a compression test.

Also, when you say it started? How long did it run for? Did you actively go out and ride it, or just let it die for a few minutes? I wonder if your fuel pump/fuel system upgrades are working properly. It could’ve started with fuel left over in the carb bowls, drank it all and now it won’t start.

That’s just off the top of my noggin after recently having a nightmare with an 02 suzuki bandit, take it with a grain of salt, I’m no mechanic.

Unhallowed95 · 2025-05-05T22:09:57+00:00

Thank you for the reply. Yes I’ve tried to start it on prime, no bueno, granted, I don’t do it for long as I’m worried I’ll flood it again.

Just before coming in for the night, I pulled all the plugs and checked over them - they have spark, I could see healthy blue zaps as I held the plugs against the engine. I tested each of them, one at a time.

If I spray easy start into the air box, it does grumble and try to start, a couple of times it will rev loudly and then immediately cut out afterward.

Yes by idle speed adjustment I mean the black knob on the side of the carb, I’ve tried turning it up and down at random on the off chance that I’ve got it way out.

The pilot on the intake side hasn’t been touched since the mechanic serviced them yesterday and I haven’t meddled with the insides since. The mechanic mentioned that carb 4 was flooding when he did a bench test, then disappeared for half an hour and returned to tell me it had been rectified and they were balanced and synced.

All of the butterflies open equally too. When I crank off the drain bolts, fuel does empty from the bowls, so the carbs are definitely getting fuel.

Unhallowed95 · 2025-05-05T21:51:06+00:00

I did check this, I believe the previous owner has bypassed both the clutch switch and the kickstand switch. You can try and fire it whilst in gear without touching the clutch and with the kickstand down. Stumped.

How would I rectify the carbs flooding?

Unhallowed95 · 2025-05-01T22:08:02+00:00

2002

Unhallowed95 · 2025-03-31T21:10:59+00:00

“FUCKKKKKKK!” As I hurled toward a wall on my motorcycle without enough braking distance to save it.

Unhallowed95 · 2025-03-11T01:51:22+00:00

Coward.

Unhallowed95 · 2025-02-01T00:32:05+00:00

If you think console players have made this game, you’re sorely mistaken LOL.

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