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Old 23-03-13, 10:41 PM   #21
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looking pretty gd, bodywork looks taken care of
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Old 23-03-13, 10:49 PM   #22
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thats mint, what year?
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Old 24-03-13, 02:55 PM   #23
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thats mint, what year?
Late 1999.

Bodywork is good, few bits could do with a bit of a tidy up as you'd expect for a 13 year old bike (mainly around the rear suspension linkage), but on the whole its pretty nice.
Its a lot different to the SV, takes off into "oh my god" mode when the SV would be settling down into "that's your lot" territory.
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Bodywork is good, few bits could do with a bit of a tidy up as you'd expect for a 13 year old bike
Certainly looks mint for a bike of that age. What sort of mileage has it done?
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27K, which seems to be genuine from the service book.
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That is in very good nick!
Get the back end tidied up and greased. Its from the period when Yamaha didn't use grease at all!
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That is in very good nick!
Get the back end tidied up and greased. Its from the period when Yamaha didn't use grease at all!



Wasn't aware that *period* had ended !
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Wasn't aware that *period* had ended !
they do now 100g per 250,000 bikes
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