Hi All,

I am a novice and I am looking to buy a bike, whether it be local or across the country. So far all the used bikes I like are not in my state of Ohio. If I were to buy a bike in Arizona for example, and I wanted to get a bike mechanic to look at it, check it over, etc.
What is the best way to go about this? Call a local mechanic where the bike is, or does anyone here know mechanics in various states?

Thank you!
D-rock

As a novice, you want advice on how to get somebody to go check out a motorcycle for you?

What kind of bike do you want.

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Lol down boy....
Yeah I'd get a local mechanic to the bike to check it out before you lug it all the way back home.
If it's in Colorado I'll do it for a nominal fee! lol

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Have owned - 2001 Suzuki Volusia
Current bike - 2005 Kawasaki Z750S
MMI Graduation date January 9th, 2009. Factory Certifications in Suzuki and Yamaha

When I bought my bike last summer I told the seller that I didn't know enough about bikes to be comfotable with the purchase unless we wrote in a "not lying, no surprises" clause. He said the bike was in perfect shape, so I made a deal that I would buy it and have the (Harley) mechanic trailer it to the shop and if they found anything major, I'd get my money back.

We agreed that over $1000 in trouble would warrant the return. I didn't mind paying $150 for the check - and the guy did find some piddly things to fix, more maintenance than repair.

So I paid $400 and got great piece of mind. Just an idea

r

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2003 Softail Deuce
Started riding July 15, 2009

I did not see what was funny in my post.
I am very serious and think it is a legit question.
I am looking at Harleys and BigDogs.

Thank you!

No not you, JohnJ.

For a first bike I would NOT recommend a bigdog. And the only HDs I'd recommend are either a Buell Blast or a Sportster 883. You can also ask them to take it to a local shop and have the local shop do a "Pre-buy" inspection on it. Usually it's about an hour or two's labor and will tell you darn near anything bad or going bad with it. At our shop we even go so far as to pull the plugs and do compression and leakdown testing to see the internal condition of the motor.

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Have owned - 2001 Suzuki Volusia
Current bike - 2005 Kawasaki Z750S
MMI Graduation date January 9th, 2009. Factory Certifications in Suzuki and Yamaha

no more

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Teriaki Spam Musubi
Hawaiian Musubi is a form of sushi, and one of the most popular versions in Hawaii is made with canned Spam. You will see this snacked wrapped in cellophane for sale everywhere in Hawaii. TERIYAKI SPAM MUSUBI

Musubi Ingredients:
5 cups of cooked rice
1 can of Spam, sliced
5 or 6 sheets of nori
Furikake

Teriaki Sauce Ingredients:
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 clove garlic, crushed (optional)

Instructions:

Mix all sauce ingredients and stir until sugar is dissolved. Set aside. Fry spam until crisp on both sides. Pour sauce into the pan with the Spam, and turn spam several times to coat thoroughly. Simer until sauce thickens, and remove from heat.

Place a sheet of Nori on a board, place a musubi maker in the middle of the nori, fill the musubi maker with rice, and press. topo with 2 pieces of Spam. Remove the mold and wrap nori tightly over the Spam and rice. Repeat with remaining nori and spam. cut each musubi in half with a wet knife, and dip the ends of each half in furikake.

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