Hi!! newbie here looking to buy his first RTL 2020 or newer (preferably 2021).
I've seen two 2021s in my area with a price differential of 1k.
The more expensive one has 2600 miles. The other one is 11000.
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Thanks for all the advice!!!! the one I'm looking at is a 2022 with 2600... does not sound like it has been sitting idle for much time... I'm going to see it this weekend and we will see, but I'm already preparing the certified check.. LOL
I'm really handy and know my way around tools but ...How can a "nearly new" 500 miles bike could have all those problems?
Your later posts have contradicted what you originally posted emu, where you said you were looking at '
two 2021's...', and if it's a '21 that's only done 2600 miles then it could
easily have developed those sorts of issues from doing a fair bit of sitting around over its life, possibly as many as 29-30 odd months,
especially if what little milage it did (2600 miles ) was racked up early in the piece when it was new & the previous owner was all excited about riding their new toy and it hasn't been ridden much since then!! :shocked:
Sure, if you average out the 2600 miles that you told us over the maximum potential number of months it's been around/out there racking them up, the Spyder might
look like it's done
almost 100 miles a month or so; not a great deal more than that if it's 12 months younger; and
maybe close to twice that much if you only ride 6 months of the year like so many over your way (& not at all like us here in Oz, where we tend to ride all year road regardless!
) but how many people ride like that?? And how many new owners tend to ride everywhere on their new toy for a few months or so, then gradually ride less & less as time goes by?? :dontknow:
So I'd
STILL be more concerned about buying a bike that
may have only been ridden saaay, as little as just
ONE or TWO WEEKS out of its entire life and then it's been left sitting around in an uncontrolled atmosphere for all the paint & finishes & seats & controls etc to dry out, perish, & crack; likely standing un-moved on already dodgy OEM tires so that they develop flat spots & cracks or worse; with increasingly contaminated & corrosive oil sitting in the engine so that it can eat away at anything it's ever touched, like rings, pistons, bearings, seals etc; letting all the plastic & rubbery bits & seals etc stick to any nearby metals so that the very first time they're next get called into use they'll split or break; and probably also letting the parasitic power drain we
KNOW these things have kill the electrics &/or develop into stray charge that increases the corrosion rate in the cooling fluid, system, & radiators etc as well as just draining itself to death and basically creating a trap for the unaware rider who might
think they've bought an '
almost new bike' when in reality, they've got what could be a '
low milage but quite neglected bike!!' :gaah:
I've seen a fair few of these '
low milage but quite neglected bikes' with only a few thousand miles (or less) under their tires in the 2-3 years they've been around, and I've found that those bikes (including Spyders
) that get ridden more, ie.
at least a few hundred miles a week, or a couple of thousand miles plus a month, and that've been reasonably well maintained
almost invariably work better & outlast those lower milage bikes (& Spiders
) that are ridden for an average of something
less than that 'couple of hundred miles or so' a week, no matter
HOW WELL maintained the low milage bikes might APPEAR to be!! Basically,
if you don't ride them, they might LOOK nice, but they deteriorate much quicker than those that DO get ridden regularly, especially if the ridden bikes often do saaay, a hundred miles or more per ride!! :lecturef_smilie:
And the other thing to bear in mind is that
IF the Spyder you're looking at has effectively only been ridden a couple of thousand miles or so; or
worse, hasn't ever really had a good run beyond maybe going around the block a few times, then none of the contaminants that end up collecting in the oil will have
ever been burnt out, as they are if the bike is run for a couple of hundred miles at a time;
AND it may not have ever been ridden enough to reveal any of the major issues or any of those little niggling problems that many vehicles only develop &/or reveal in their first 4-5000 miles or maybe 10,000 miles.... Only if you've just bought an older bike with low milage and
ONLY NOW does it start revealing these things, you're either
almost or
already completely out of warranty! :gaah: :banghead:
So like I said earlier, unless there's a heap of quality evidence to suggest otherwise,
I'd be looking for a good maintenance record on the Spyder with the HIGHER milage and then going that way, simply cos it has at least been ridden a bit, and so it's had the oil and grease sloshed around the places it needs to have oil sloshed; and grease worked into & thru all the bearings etc; it's had the drive belt used and turned instead of left sitting there with just one little bit exposed to UV all the time & while it's been stretched over a pulley at that; and all those other things that riding and use do that are actually GOOD for machines like this! But it's your money, and if you buy, it'll be your bike, won't it?!
But you
DID ask for any opinions.
hyea: 
