Hi everyone thanks for accepting me I am from Mandurah area WA, and I am a forced retired veteran.
Just purchased ex Police 6/2003 ST1100 with 91550 km on clock, was originally purchased at Police Auction seven years ago and owner had grand plans to tour Australia.
He stripped it down replaced timing belt, hydro-bathed and balanced carburetors and then it sat in shed until 2 days ago when I test rode and immediately purchased. In the last seven years he would have been lucky too have ridden it 2000km and has replaced battery several times.
He said everything else was good on bike, (he is old school mechanic).
I can't believe it was still available, and it was only due to the fact other buyers didn't do their research.
As soon as he told a prospective buyer it was 2003 model, they told him they were only made until 2002 and never even looked at bike.
From what I could research, Honda never released stock of 2003 model to public due to ST1300 model being released except Police who would get replacement stock until fleet was replaced with ST1300.
Was advertised at $1700 but negotiated to $1200 as current condition.
Bike rides smooth, no noises, pulls from below 60kph in top gear. It is cosmetically average scratched up panniers etc. Front footpegs scraped down to 45 so ridden hard by skilled Police, and crack in left side cover etc. It has been layed down as r/h pipe scraped scraped at about 30 degrees and plastic crash pad cover scraped.
So I will be after info on tyres and brakes and cheapest places for parts etc.
Thanks again for having me and video in link below.
https://youtu.be/_cYtE25DEu0https://youtu.be/4bP8ZvGY4lkPrevious Bikes owned: Previous ridden:
1981 Honda XL250 Honda K2 750 Four
1983 Suzuki GSX 250 Kawasaki Z1000
1983 Yamaha RD 250 Kawasaki Ninja 600
1985 Honda XR 250 Harley CVO Street Glide
1981 Yamaha XJ900 Indian Chieftain
2006 Yamaha XV250