[hogcowboy]

I think the best any of us could say about is it a good deal is, possibly. When the guy says the charging system doesn't work, that's a red flag. Exactly what is wrong? Did he completely fry every possibly thing in the electronics on it, then it's a very bad deal. There isn't that much to getting the charging system working so if there isn't something major wrong with then why didn't he just fix it. Max to get it working might be $300 maybe $500 so why is he dumping it? He knows that parts that old a bike is getting extremely hard to find. But you can look at it like this, education is expensive and this bike would give you a challenge and you would learn a lot. I really really question anything electrical on an older bike like that. Can he get it started even? Says new battery so he should be able to. It's a gamble at best.

 

[hogcowboy]

He said it runs it just doesn't charge. I want to go look at it because it's only a 30 minute drive.

Pay attention to what Offcenter says about where the alternator is and
is required to get to it. But it does sound like there is a way to get it going
regardless. That makes it possibly good deal but like has been suggested,
at a lower amount yet. Would depend on how long he has had it listed as
to whether he might come down. He should.

But it really is too much bike to learn on. Would be a shame for you to get
in trouble and get hurt or soured on motorcycling at best. Try to find a
smaller one to learn on. You can get your money back on those quite easily.