I didn't mean to imply your bike has anything wrong with it. Quite the contrary, I am in the market for a SH myself, and wanted to know more about yours.

Unfortunately I am on a limited bike budget, and your price is higher than I currently have available to buy. I was contemplating trying to find a way to come up with the extra cash, but I want to make sure of what I’d be getting myself into first. Hence the question.

I had been looking for something within my budget, say a ’98 with some cosmetic damage. Something otherwise clean and well taken care of, just recently dropped, etc. A bike I could spend mostly time (and little $) fixing to ride now, and later as funds permit I could add the mods I want.

Your bike however already has the mods that I would do (shock, fork springs and Braided lines), and more. So that got me thinking, if I could come with the cash now (not eating for the foreseeable future, etc) , I could get it all up front with your bike. Before I go too far down that road though, if the bike would need any sort of mechanical repairs anytime soon, that would blow this idea out of the water.

If I’m gonna think seriously about this though, I need to feel good about the bike, so I just wanted to clear that up first. I remembered about the many Q-mile runs, and I recall someone said something about the clutch, so I wanted to hear about it from you. The tether thing also had me thinking of the bike as some sort of track renegade, but now I understand it was required to be fit to do those runs.