So for a little over a year, I owned my 98 Blaster with a Trinity 240 engine. I loved it as a yard quad, but didn't want to drop the money in suspension to make it fun out of the yard. I raced it at 2 GNCC's and took her to a few other places.
I told myself the blaster was for my woman to learn on but she did nothing but complain about how hard it was to ride. So I put it up for sale after the Ironman GNCC. I was getting offers like "hey I have a 86 RM 250 I'd trade you straight up for your blaster" So the other day I ran across an ad for 3 bikes for $1000. 02 XR250, 90 XR200, and a 86 XL250 as a parts bike. Immediately I thought an XR would be a perfect starter bike for my woman and my buddy wanted one for his woman. I called the guy, turns out its an old man that wasn't looking for a sport quad and the bikes need some carb cleaning and the 02 had a fouled plug. After some talking he said drop by and he would look at it. As soon as he took it for a lap around his yard he was interested. I looked at the bikes and saw the 02 was in amazing shape and wanted the trade bad. So after a little bit of BSing, I signed the title over, he signed over 3 separate bills of sale, and I was on my merry way.
I sold the 90 XR for $300 before it was even off the truck to my buddy. I took the XR home and tried to start it for a while. It sounded like it had spark, but wasn't firing. So I told my woman to pull the blaster out and tow me down the road to bump it. I shed a tear when I realized I didn't have it. Took my brother's YFZ out instead to bump it. Towing it, I can hear it trying to fire but sounds flooded. So on the return trip, I reach down and flip the choke off and it fires up. Plug was good I guess. Runs, doesn't idle and a little hard to start after that.
Next day I pull the carb and go through half a can of shop-solv cleaning the carb. Put it back on and now it runs like a clock and woman is in love because it doesn't try to kill her like my YZ250F tries to when she rides it.
The XR200 must have a bad spark advance (buddy's words, he's the one rebuilding) but I got my cash.
TL;DR: I traded my Blaster for 3 bikes (one being worth more than the blaster in today's market), 2 run.
I told myself the blaster was for my woman to learn on but she did nothing but complain about how hard it was to ride. So I put it up for sale after the Ironman GNCC. I was getting offers like "hey I have a 86 RM 250 I'd trade you straight up for your blaster" So the other day I ran across an ad for 3 bikes for $1000. 02 XR250, 90 XR200, and a 86 XL250 as a parts bike. Immediately I thought an XR would be a perfect starter bike for my woman and my buddy wanted one for his woman. I called the guy, turns out its an old man that wasn't looking for a sport quad and the bikes need some carb cleaning and the 02 had a fouled plug. After some talking he said drop by and he would look at it. As soon as he took it for a lap around his yard he was interested. I looked at the bikes and saw the 02 was in amazing shape and wanted the trade bad. So after a little bit of BSing, I signed the title over, he signed over 3 separate bills of sale, and I was on my merry way.
I sold the 90 XR for $300 before it was even off the truck to my buddy. I took the XR home and tried to start it for a while. It sounded like it had spark, but wasn't firing. So I told my woman to pull the blaster out and tow me down the road to bump it. I shed a tear when I realized I didn't have it. Took my brother's YFZ out instead to bump it. Towing it, I can hear it trying to fire but sounds flooded. So on the return trip, I reach down and flip the choke off and it fires up. Plug was good I guess. Runs, doesn't idle and a little hard to start after that.
Next day I pull the carb and go through half a can of shop-solv cleaning the carb. Put it back on and now it runs like a clock and woman is in love because it doesn't try to kill her like my YZ250F tries to when she rides it.
The XR200 must have a bad spark advance (buddy's words, he's the one rebuilding) but I got my cash.
TL;DR: I traded my Blaster for 3 bikes (one being worth more than the blaster in today's market), 2 run.
