I went recently to look at a 4k mile CB550, over the phone the owner described the bike as showroom, almost perfect, stored in a basement, with only a crack in each plastic sidecover, recent tuneup, good tires; you get the picture. This was the description after several calls totaling an hour.
When I got there what I saw was a turd of a bike: bent rims, seized brake,rusty, the sidecovers were cracked into 3 pieces, barely running, you could have grown grass in the air filter it was so dirty, barely running. It was 'showroom' if your showroom was the weeds behind your shed. He was asking $1100, I offered $900 (don't know why). He didn't accept( thank god) and I left. While I was there another person came up and asked if this was the 550 for sale, I said yes, he looked at it turnedaround and left (he was told the same story). The seller was a junkyard, I'm sorry I spent 6 hours round trip to see this pile of dung. He still has it listed on CL but now it's down to $950, a**hole!
