1999 superhawk
 

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location....price....condition?????

lazy way to try and sell a bike

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I thought there was a minimum # of posts before you could use us as a yard sale.....? There was for me and I wasn't trying to exploit.......

sorry guys...I WAS going to sell the bike...then I began to read all the stuff here...and before I knew it I fell in love with the machine...I was desperately trying to delete the post when all I did was change it to the stupid article you see before you...now I know why we're called squids...forgive me...

I know why we're called squids
 

sorry guys...I WAS trying to sell the bike...a 1999 SH which didn't run right...
but then I began to read the stuff on here...and before I knew it I had it running pretty good...took it out and it BLEW my mind...

discovered the $1800 SH I'd bought covered in dust actually had only 10,500 miles...and someone had done lots of the stuff you guys teach here...
I fell in love with it...
please forgive this justly titled "squid"

So with that out of the way welcome aboard, I used to have the same bike. Looks pretty nice and sounds like a sweet deal. Take some better pics and tell us about it. If that snapon box in the background is your's you can't be TOO big of a squid ;)

yeah that's my box
 

thanks...
yeah...its my box...been a mechanic on cages for 35 years before earning a Ph.D. in American History in 2007...now I teach part time at Columbia College Chicago and wrench part time at Midas Muffler...
I know...people always ask why I would wrench with a doctorate...truth is you can't quit....at least I couldn't...my body started messing with me...six months after strictly teaching I felt crappy for the first time in my life...tae kwon do only helped a little...HAD to go back to wrenching 12 hours a day just to feel "normal" again....

according to what I learned here...the SH has EBC rotors, CRG levers and steel braided lines...zero grav screen...micron cans...Hy Per Pro ASC Steering Stabilizer...and that's about as far as I got...
took it out and although it runs real lean...it came up on me at about 5,000 rpm and I never felt anything like it in my life...even my 98 R1 never felt so solid...
needless to say...it was love for such a beautiful piece of motorcycle art...
I'll get out my Canon 7D tomorrow and shoot some pics...
ray

That's awesome, you'll fit right in here :) That's funny that you say that, I've found that wrenching on stuff put's my mind at ease as well. I always hated way back in high school how I was told working on cars "wasn't for me" because I did too well in school for that...whatever...fast forward and I still love fixing stuff today. Again welcome aboard.

thanks a bunch
 

thanks...
ray

Lol, pretty funny. You are like "delete delete, dammit delete!", and still get yelled at. :)

As I said before, welcome!

i paid $2250 for my yellow 98 with jardine highmount cans, k/n, some kind of jet kit as it runs flawless and pulls like a freight train.
guy gave me a matching helmet and leather too with it.

Anyway I think you got the best deal i have ever seen in my life on any set of wheels. And I thought I got a smokin deal.

Enjoy!!!!!!!!!

Thread moved.. Carry on...

That is a smokin' deal. gotta love the VTR for its "bang for the buck" factor.

thanks guys
 

thanks for the welcome guys...