How much did you pay?

He's not laughing at a joke, he's laughing at all of us on the east side of North America who're trying to find xj parts ... he gots them ALL! "

 

Lol I would believe that. Those scoops go for a pretty penny. But you got me curious

 

Fixed shorty fairings and belly pans are available on ebay Europe sites, ebay.co.uk and ebay.de in particular. For some reason, the XJ900F was very popular in Germany, and there's no shortage of parts. There's a Facebook group run by an XJ specialist and he's always got a barnful of stuff available. The European pre-Divvy XJ600 and XJ900 shared the same fairing, fyi.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/269411836464469
This is his website - speaks good English. http://www.biketeileshop.de/index.htm

 

Shipping kills the deal everytime though. Believe me, I tried. I would love to make mine look like the Euro style Might have to get the fiberglass out and get creative!!
Sorry to divulge from the topic of the thread.. Here is the add I replied to. He didn't budge from the price but the wife thinks I paid 400

 

Engine apart..... you should have paid $300 (I'd have probably given him $500 too though).

 

She's right, too. " yeah, honey-- can you believe it?!?!?! Only $400!!!"

 

Got my first 1982 XJ650 RK for Au $1012.00 in January 2012
6 months later purchased 2 parts bikes for Au $700.00, 1 x 1980 XJ650 with a blown engine and an 1983 XJ650 with front end damage and a bent frame, swapped the 83 engine into the 80 frame and have been riding it ever since.
In mid 2013 while searching for something with larger engine capacity, I got a 1983 XJ900 "doer upper" for Au$624.00 and a few months later found a 1985 XJ900 in pieces for $350.00,
Then in September 2014 got a second 1985 XJ900 for Au $500.00 complete and running.

 

I was given an 85 XJ700X from an friends dad. Probably because he felt sorry for me, as my car had just burned up on the side of the freeway in Flagstaff, AZ AND the "quick I need wheels" purchase was going to be more work than planned (isn't it always?!)

 

Canadian $, bikes I've purchased in the past year:

1985 xj750 maxim $250 - needed tires and the front caliper rebuilt. I sold it for $2200 after riding it for most of the summer.

1984 xj750 Seca $120 - complete bike I'm planning on using it for parts.

1982 xj750 Maxim $0 - my dentist thought it would be funny to give me a new toothbrush, dental floss and the keys to his Maxim. This will be my street ride for 2016, if I can pry myself away from restoring my motocross bikes..

1982 xj650 Maxim $200. Running

1985 xv 1000 $200. Running

There are more (non-XJ), so I'll stop there.

 

Bought my 82 XJ550R Seca for $250. Coolest thing about it was I bought it off the original owner, who was right around my age (19) when he bought it from the dealership back in the early eighties. He put 48'000km (30k miles) on the bike then life got in the way and it sat parked in his garage since 1991. He told me all the cool memories he made while riding the bike, how fast he got it up to, how he beat cb750's in drag races - all the good stuff... and now I'm able to make memories like that all over for as long as I'm riding this bike.

Also I had the bike running within a day of owning it, sent a video to the previous owner and he was astounding that it started. Guess he forgot it was a Yamaha.

 

More than I should have, less than I would have.

 

THIS!!!!! Haha purchased my 1985 700 airhead for $700 non-running (I was going by the one dollar per CC "standard"). $200 for the starter, $200 for the rear tire, $3 can of carb cleaner (to clean the carbs to get them started). I just spent $170 on the fork seals and front tire mount&balance. Spent another $90 on eBay for an OEM air filter and a replacement speedometer drive unit (the unit at the front wheel hub). $15 on headlight bulb. $25 for speedometer cable. $95 for the battery. Main relay cost me about $40-50. Tune-up was cheap, around $20 (4 spark plugs, one cap). I was lucky enough to find really damn good carb boots for $125 for the whole set (as opposed to the $90 per SINGLE boot that whoever is in charge of the XJ4EVER site wanted). So let me put it this way, I invested around a grand in my bike, and I stopped counting since that.....

The worst part is: I'm not even done!!!! I am 90% sure my valves will need adjusted, after looking at the price of a shim kit alone, I figure it'd be worth the $200 for the local shop to do it, because it comes with a free carb sync afterwards. My clutch is going out. I pretty much need to rewire the whole bike because it's such a gosh darn mess!

I say I have invested around a grand, because no matter how much I hate this bike for costing me so much money, it's worth it. This bike is blast and will put smiles on my face until either the day it dies or that I die....or both.........

 

I don't keep track

 

I've noticed that with each successive purchase, the price has risen.
Started a decade ago with a SECA 750 which I got for $250, and then paid a local mechanic $400 to NOT fix the carbs. (Subsequently discovered XJbikes.com and XJ4ever.com). Never did get it titled/registered. It's now a parts donor.
Another SECA 750 for $500, came with a full factory fairing and was my ride for a bunch of years.
A couple of XS 1100's, $400 apiece. Still in process of rehabbing. Garage is full, may get rid of 'em.
Three 900's in 2015, prices started to go up, and up. But so much more fun to ride than the 750! And better looking.
Piece de Resistance- end of Nov.- a '93 FJ1200 w/ ABS, in beautiful condition. $2400. The FJ and the 900 are comparable off of the line, but from 75mph up the FJ is a bear.
Like many of us (ahem, Dave) many probably won't ever become too many.
I'm thinking of starting a local MA (Motorcycles Anonymous) meeting.
"Hello, my name is Ross and I buy Yamaha's".

 

Hi, my name is Dave, and I .. I.... Umm.- Uhh.........