The Woes of Buying a Used Bike

So being an impatient bugger and like a kid in a sweet shop, i decided to take the bike for a ride. It looked in mint condition and i felt happy with my bargain purchase. On the road. The big shock was how tall the bike was. Bearing in mind im used to riding a VFR 800 Vtec sports tourer. Almost dropped it at the first junction when my 6ft tall frame forgot to plant a foot in time LOL. I have to be honest and say I was very dissapointed. The bike didnt start too easy, the choke didnt seem to work, the bike kept stalling on downshifting to lights and generally felt gutless.

After getting home i started to think why all the above was happening. The bike had done 4700 miles in its lifetime and only 450miles in the last year. I was thinking a good service would sort this out. So I ordered some very good offroad tyres as recommended by my offrroader experienced mate, took them to TPG in Southwick and paid for them to fit the tyres, do a full service. In this time I had purchased an offroad lid, goggles, body armour, knee armour at Alfs in Worthing.

I collected the bike expecting to have all the problems ironed out. Paid the money, rode away cautiously on the brand new and very knobbly tyres. The damn thing felt a little better but still kept stalling and was still gutless. I resigned myself to the fact that I may have bought the wrong bike. Never mind, I can learn the basics on this and upgrade later.