1990 Yamaha Fj1200 on 2040-motos

Yamaha Other description

 I'm selling my bike which otherwise I would just store while I try to straighten-out another bike that I just bought.
I paid $1600 for this bike off eBay 3 years ago with 35k in a lot-worse condition.
It wasn't even coming close to passing Md state inspection when I got it. Now it would probably still pass inspection, at least with new front rotors.
Since then I've replaced the clip-ons, the upper triple-clamp, head-bearing, rear wheel bearing, the left airscoop, the chain twice (I just replaced the chain & both sprockets), both tires twice and painted it (it was silver & light purple before). Probably a few other things that I've forgotten. The valve-clearance and compression were checked about 2 years ago, it was within tolerances then. It has a new head-gasket behind that. The seat cover was punctured when a branch fell on it, I have seen seats in good condition on eBay for $40. Just never got around to getting one. i had planned to keep this bike and fix it up but I have just decided to focus on one bike and let someone else either ride it, fix it or part it. I did some cosmetic repair to the front fairing, though I've tossed the inner fairing liner that goes around the instrument-cluster. The engine is in good shape, clutch is ok. The paintjob is ok as far as I can tell, but the fairing has one minor crack that needs to be fixed right. It has a brand-new Zero Gravity windscreen and CBR1k mirrors that I cut the stalks down and drilled holes into the stalks to get them to mount. Slightly less than ideal positioning but still usable and they look great on the bike, much better than the stock mirrors which always folded back anyway in the wind. I'm including replacement used upper and lower triple-clamp and both levers.

I had the grips replaced when I got the replacement clip-ons but the shop didn't do a great job of installing them and they are loose.
Oddly I don't even notice that when I'm riding it.

The one real outstanding thing is that it pulls to the right when I ride it because of the bent triple-clamps. The wheels are not in the same line so it's a little tricky to ride.
I never ride it much over the speed limit and it's been like this all the time I've had it.
This bike has been knocked over a few times since *I* have had it, some people are careless, jealous...I've never dumped it, but I wasn't the original owner.
That was the next thing that I was going to get fixed but then I got stars in my eyes for a newer bike on eBay and bought it (so far it has turned out to be a nightmare).
But this bike and I have ridden a lot of places, a lot of miles in all kinds of weather and it's never left me stranded anywhere, I would love to keep it if I had the space.
I just can't leave it out in a cover forever rand I don't have a place to store it much less 2 bikes.

While the buyer is responsible for shipping, i have no problem delivering the bike within reason. The registration and insurance are current.
I can deliver it and just take the tag off it.

So if I can get something decent for it I'll sell it but if not I'll buy storage for it for now and worry about it later.
Because of all the things that are wrong with it I have known that it will not be an "easy" sale but unlike some people I'll tell you everything that I know is wrong with it, I won't tell you that it's in "great condition!" like some people have done and let you find out the real deal the hard way. Then run away with your cash.

It is an "as-is" sale, no question about it.
As it is already beat-up I'd be very reluctant to let someone demo it, I didn't demo it before I bought it.
I knew that I wanted the bike at the price, the guy rode it out to meet me and rode it back home, that was good enough for me.

Read the description and buy accordingly.
If you're really not interested let it go to someone who is.
If you are interested, I can only say further that I've commuted on this bike daily & it gets 35mpg, it sounds like a big heavy bike but it doesn't ride like one.
It just takes some getting used to and it will do fine as a beater bike if you only intend to ride it short distances or for long rides (250miles or so) every other weekend, it's just fine for that.
It's plenty fast enough without having to go real fast, and it pulls like a tractor. Just don't expect it to handle like a Gixxer 600.

There are 3 pics in the description. One is the bike now, the other with all the filler is one I took this summer while working on the paint-job, the 3rd with the tape over the fairing stripes and the fluid net to the kickstand is after I finished painting everything but the fairing (the dull haze is from a clearcoat that I tried to put on it, and failed miserably, so I had to repaint the whole thing & this time I didn't clearcoat it) but it right after I bled the clutch this summer. All the black that you see there is Rustoleum 500degF Gloss Black, with 1200degF paint on the headers. Many coats of it. I had to reconstruct the lower front fairing on both sides after some ahole knocked my bike over twice, and some of that work is starting to crack because the mounts haven't been completely fixed. All of that stuff I was planning to do this summer and then i got myself into an even worse situation with a newer bike. Actually this one is easy & cheap compared to that one. But then it's all easy & cheap when you know what to do to fix it, you do all the work and you have almost all the parts. Just replace the lower triple-clamp when you get new head-bearings (which will be in about 15k). I forgot to do that the last time I got new head-bearings, this past summer. And now I have no idea when I will put another 15k on it. Beyond that it just needs new rotors and pads, and some minor plastic repair-work and paint touch-up.
Bolt the fairing on correctly so it doesn't vibrate and crack the bondo under the paint. It should be good to go for another 30k at least before it needs any major mechanical work (like a new chain or head-bearing). I've never replace the front wheel bearing, I'd replace that too. The wheels need to be stripped and powder-coated correctly, they just have a thin coat of gloss black on them to cover up the hideous light purple stock paint. The rear tire has maybe 5k on it, I got it new 2 years ago when I got the valves checked. I haven't been riding it much, I don't have much time to ride right now, it's getting cold anyway, I got my car fixed so I don't need it now anyway, I have another bike on the way anyway and I don't have storage for 2 bikes. Otherwise I'd just keep it. In a few years it'll be a classic.

If you are still interested and you have ANY questions or doubts then please ask. Once I sell it I won't want to deal with it & I don't want anyone complaining that I screwed them on this deal.

I have put easily over $2500 into this bike in the 3 years since I have had it, but that is all money under the bridge. 35k on a bike does not come cheap.
But for a beater bike, or something to ride a few hundred miles on a weekend once a month or so, it'll do fine. It has a nice new Bikemaster battery and the starter and regulator are in decent shape. I did eventually get tired of push-starting it after the 3rd crank failed and had the battery and the starter-switch cluster replaced this year with all-new parts.  I'd still replace a couple of the wiring-connectors, though, which I can also point out if you actually want to buy it.

Basically not a bike for people who don't like to get their hands dirty & don't want to do some minor repairs and upgrades, but if you like to do that sort of thing, it would make a nice project-bike. I found a spin-on oil-filter mount which I was going to get for it just before I found another used bike that I decided to buy. Never got around to actually buying the filter mount but that's the kind of thing that I used to do to it.

Thanks.