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Have a look at my thread, this bike cost me $1600 unregistered. I have done nothing but change all the fluids, brake pads and give her a good clean!
It passed its registration check (MOT) and was registered an hour later! 11111k's and a rebuilt engine 20000k's ago!!

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Have a look at my thread, this bike cost me $1600 unregistered. I have done nothing but change all the fluids, brake pads and give her a good clean!
It passed its registration check (MOT) and was registered an hour later! 11111k's and a rebuilt engine 20000k's ago!!

http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...516#post387838
Damn, that is a lot of miles. Like you pointed out in your thread, I guess half the battle is finding a good, genuine owner. I missed one a few weeks back, 1 owner, 6000 miles and it sold for £1800...
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That bike i pointed out is from a young lad called MIke, we got an ex army XT from him (sitting here) he gets them from auctions & flogs them off, he sold one the other week with around 1500 K`s from new (hardly run in).

He gets them all the time so worth asking him to keep a look out for a low mileage one, some come with rifle holder, paniers & black out lights. LoL

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Nuts! haha. I'd like a bike with a rifle holder.

This one looks like a beaut:
YAMAHA XT600E,,,OUTSTANDING CONDITION,,LOW MILES | eBay

If my clients weren't slow paying assholes I'd snap it up I think. Funny how you race to meet their deadlines and they take mooooooooooonths to pay.
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Ok here is my list:

Engine:
Carb Rubber Intake, prone to crack near cylinder
Oil filter bolt, fragile tread tend to worn out after many oil change,

Frame:
Bearing> Swing arm and front head look for play in both easy to check
Fork Seal leak on tube

Electrics Corrosion:

Starter Relay,
Main Fuse wires,

Exhaust Corrosion

Header and silencer, I broke dwon once because the silencer burst due to corrosion the super heated gas flow burned the air filter box, and lost almost all power

I found that the starter relay tend to blow when the battery is not charged enough/old...

Other than that the xt frame and engine is as basic as it can get and very reliable so nothing major can go wrong if engine is clean and not making any noise= no leak due to gasket, valve stem seals, guide.

i found that most porblem with xt came from corrosion!! to electrics,frame. Also battery charge not being optimum the starter relay tend to suffer when the battery is not charged enough/old...and will eventually fail.

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Thanks for that Gwel and others for input.

I picked one up at the weekend... Christmas came in August for me. haha.

Managed to find a mint one, 2 owners from new and the guy I bought it off was a very genuine old boy in his early 60s, bike was his pride and joy, barely used it for the last 5 years... 8500 miles on clock, 2002, totally stock, full MOT history, garaged its whole life for £1800. Rode 200 miles home on it and so far so good!

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Haven't read through the thread but -

£1,800 should get you a real beauty.

My 1999 mint (6,000 mile) XT is in my opinion worth £1,600 (bargain price).

Well done, you have picked the best bike for the job. It's powerful, simple and bulletproof reliable. As you know the XT series of bikes are lengenday RTW bikes especially for African adventures. Powerful enough to pull you and your luggage everywhere you need to go. It's a superb allrounder.

The bike can get a bit vibey on motorways but providing you cruise at 60 MPH you won't have a problem. Forget speeds over this, although the bike is capable of 100MPH (Just) you will end up ruining the bike by maintaining these speeds.

I wish you all the very best of luck. Enjoy your trip and above all STAY SAFE!

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