Blackbird

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv/mcy/5360378838.html

Thought maybe someone may be interested.

 

Nice bike but the seller comes across like and arrogant asshole. I've ridden a friends Blackbird. No lack of power from that puppy but I don't think I could ride it the distances I ride my VFR. Would make a nice third bike after some Adventure Tour bike of some sort, which is unlikely to happen either.

 

I agree with Randy very nice bikes but after owning a 99 and an 04 Blackbird I much prefer the Vfr for longer rides and so does my pillion

The blackbird has plenty in reserve but I used to find myself looking at the speedo whilst cruising along only to find go straight to jail speeds showing and it felt like it was just loafing along with a lot more to give and I actually like having a license

And the insurance was a killer

 

Comfort is a fairly subjective thing. I've ridden mine across Australia twice and its been good. Insurance is $360AUD a year for comprehensive.
Speed is a problem but electronic cruise control helps a lot.

 

It would be pretty funny if duccmann were the seller...

 

Hahaha!

IF??? I didn't think there was any question that he was...

 

OMG! Jerry Brown has moved Inglewood to Ventura. A halfmile West of Ventura was what the folks in CA were being told.

 

Hummmm. I've met the Duc. You might have something there.

 

Not sure how the seller comes across as arrogant asshole. He has good pictures of the bike, detailed description of work done. He says he is not letting anyone ride without cash in hand. Have you bought anything on Craigslist lately? Are you going to let anyone ride your bike in a test ride without some assurance of it coming back the same way it left. For what it is worth, in the early 1980's my friend, Ted was selling his motorcycle in San Jose and a guy show up with a buddy in the car, parked on the street. Ted let him test ride it, the buddy started the car and took off and Ted never saw his bike again. Enuf said.
Tom

 

Alrighty then my peeps.
Tom that just sucks.....

 

Total bummer on your friend's bike. Back then they did have 911 available. Did anyone pursue the fiends?

Read the post carefully. He indicated that he won't let an inexperienced rider buy it. Since when does a seller get to make that moral decision on behalf of the buyer? That is obnoxious.

 

Ya, probably alittle emotionally attached.

 

Maybe he doesn't want to feel responsible for some rookie's death? It's a free market, and he's allowed to turn down a buyer if he so chooses.

 

Agreed...
Love these sponsors,
Ben gay....is that SOW boyfriend?

 

Gotta agree it's not a rookie bike. About $500 to 1000 to high IMO with those miles. Though miles are kind of meaningless for that bike. It's an easy 100k+ machine.

I love my blackbird, it's my long long distance reducer. It did take awhile to learn how to just putt around on the thing and it's no different than the VFR in that respect.

 

"Cash in my hand before a test ride will be allowed...this bike is extremely powerful and tremendously fast and I will not allow an inexperienced rider anywhere near it; you will need to illustrate a clear knowledge of what you are buying before any transaction will be entertained."

Let's take the meat of what the guy says in his ad and look at it from a different angle. A dictionary will help those who seem the think all English words have one meaning. That's Latin and Latin is dead..

"Cash in hand before a test ride will be allowed" It's his fucking bike until a buyer wants to ride it or buy it. His bike his rules. "This bike is extremely powerful and tremendously fast......" ( all those dots mean the sentence is elipsed and incomplete as stated yet still a quote) The Blackbirds are fucking fast and powerful no shit! Then we got a sitrep where some noob rolls the throttle on, tbones a semi..and the owner is out his bike, his money and cometh a shitload of ambulance chasing lawyers in droves who will take him to the fucking cleaners for being liable.



"....and I will not allow an inexperienced rider anywhere near it." (more dots- I know, same meaning) One mo time, his bike his rules and this emphasizes that not only some fuckin looky-loo who wants to sit on it and pump the levers and pedals and make Vroom-vroom noises wearing a Levi Jacket (the type with metal button on it to scratch the tank, tip the damn thing over much less ride the bike without maybe even a California motorcycle endorsement or run off with a 5K+ bike.. This is SoCal not some fucking podunk of 65 population in North Dakota where everyone either knows everyone else or is related by blood.

".....; you will need to illustrate a clear knowledge of what you are buying before any transaction is entertained. (yeah I know more of those fucking dots including one that is really funny looking. This is a sem-colon not to be confused with something that some doctor removed from some guy in North Dakota but an element of punctuation kinda-sorta maybe indicating that the owner of the bike chose his words carefully in constructing the sentence and hence the choice of key words that the more unlettered might construe as having a single meaning or purpose.

The key words here are "transaction" and "entertain" . Withoot going to 347 pages of famous Latin sayings, a transaction can be the acting of a transaction, certainly not a finality. To entertain can mean to some going to see some asshole like Kanye West and be entertained or it can mean to consider, contemplate or think aboot.

If this is arrogance then this sort of means the dude has a badass nice bike and if you show up to kick the tires or want to go joy riding on his bike you best have credentials and a fist full of pesos.

I know, it sounds like a title of a Clint Eastwood pasta western but if ya look real close them wuz Pesos..

 

BB, you hit it on the nail
No inexperienced novice apply....my very best friend, bless his soul, passed away, offered his clapped out Bird when shopping for my next ride, After 10 years without a ride.. it didn't float my boat on the looks, and started looking for a VFR since that was my first street bike in 84..
That bike was scary fast. .
Didn't need that power at my age.....

 

Please don't regress to fewer ponies and go oot and buy a Harley..

Don't need one of those rocketships mself...The odd thing was that the "press" according to their finite wisdom implied the BlackBird didn't sell because of lack of HP comparing it to essentially, the Hayabusa.

Fickle fuckers..IMO

 

http://www.jimbronson.com/stories/Red90.png
Really was looking for one of these.....oh memories. ...

 

I didn't consider that arrogant, maybe a bit wordy for a Craigslist ad, but within his rights. Anybody who would sell a Blackbird to an inexperienced rider no questions asked is either a little callous, or a lot desperate for cash. You have to tuck in and pin it on a VFR to see 130 mph, a Blackbird hits that at around the quarter mile. And it's not how fast it is but how smooth and effortlessly fast it is. Memories. Just can't ride like that anymore and hope to keep my license but it was a good bike, and very comfortable for long distances. VFR's handle better though.