Posts tagged Motorcycle

So a few weeks ago I got a new motorcycle. My previous Chinese scooter just all the sudden wouldn’t start, which is not the first time it’s had this problem. Last time I just wouldn’t start it cost me a few hundred dollars to fix. So instead of spending a few hundred to get a few more months out of the scooter (which already had over 10,000 miles on it, kinda high for a scooter) I threw around the idea of getting a full blown motorcycle. I started doing some research on what kinds of motorcycles exist and what features there were on each one. I also started checking KSL and Craigslist every day to see what prices motorcycles were going for so I made sure I actually got a good deal.
After all of this research, it came down to two options: getting a NEW Chinese scooter or getting a used motorcycle. Since it’s the end of the summer, both options were a lot cheaper than at the beginning of the summer. The scooter place I went to said I could name the price on the scooter. It was his last one and really wanted to get rid of it. Then I went to a motorcycle place and they said they wanted to get rid of their street bikes before winter. SO… I had this huge dilemma in my head. Do I save money and get a Chinese scooter again? I might be able to go a few years without problems, but historically, those Chinese scooters give problems after a few months and I was sick of having problems with the scooter. But they’re really cheap to own and cheap to insure, and if I don’t have problems, would be cheaper in the long run. But if it does have problems the cost to fix it would just even out to the total cost of a motorcycle. So I’d probably rather pay more for a motorcycle and have it work all the time.
So I decided I pretty much wanted the motorcycle. So then I started looking at motorcycles. The motorcycle at the dealership I went to before had a bike I was interested in at a pretty decent price that I could talk down with cash even more. But in the time it took to think about the purchase and feel good about it, and finding a way to get there and back with the motorcycle, they had sold it. So I started looking for another one. I noticed that KSL Classifieds online had one, but it was all the way in Ogden. But it was someone around my age who was selling it because he was getting married and needed the money more than the bike. So even though it was $300 more than the bike I was looking at, it was also 4 years newer and had 7,000 less miles on it (less than 5,000 total miles). So I didn’t mind spending the extra money to get a newer bike. So I decided I wanted that one and set it all up with the owner to make the sale.
Thanks to Clyde, my Mom and my Grandpa Robins, we (Clyde, my Mom, Becky and I) took Clyde’s truck with Grandpa’s trailer up to Ogden and got it. Hooray! Now for some pictures!