If you can touch the floor. fork seals. new/replaced/re-painted/stickered fairings. may indicate a drop. assuming you mean 125+ cc look for bolts with holes drilled in them, this can indicate wether or not its been a track bike etc. look at the oil level if its a 4-t check brakes, all lights.
whyd you change the question from bandit to big bike? gone off em all of a sudden :w00t: if you do get one the thing you wanna look out for is the weight because there heavy slags. IMO best thing to be looking out for is a very good service/MOT history, and an owner who knows his stuff so you know its been looked after and what parts are good and what parts are on there way out. give the engine a good listen for any obvious noises that shouldnt be there, and its a must to blag a test ride on it just to make sure. Another thing to keep your eye on other than oil level, is the chain and sprockets, obvious, but still its painful/expensive when the chain snaps on ya imp:
well shud b getin a bandit 400 now but didnt wana know any negative things about them :emb: lol ! is there anything in particular?
when you go to view a bike let the bike idle and listen very carefully to the transmission area, hold the clutch in and if you hear something stop rattling it could mean the thrust bearing is gone on the clutch, and whilst doing a job like that youre supposed to replace the whole clutch system its quite labour intensive, so make out the garage near you charges £300 for a clutch rebuild fork seals, ask if the bikes got a service history, when was it last serviced and by whom, press all the electronics and see if they work, it they could be expensive never ever go to view a bike in the night, andmake sure you feel the engine to see if its warm, if its warm go back another time as its pointless unless you can hear it start from cold, also try the electric starter from cold and see what noise it makes take the engine oil dipstick out and check and smell it, if it smells strong and sweetish/soury that means its got gearbox fluid init, some clever cunts try that trick to dampen sounds and crunching noises coming from the engine the main thing is testing it from cold and makes sure your test ride is at least 15 minutes or so, test it for a emergency stop also and a quiet road to check the condition of the brake pads and brake system and also skip through all the gears very quickly to see how they are you could run a plug test whilst your doing a test drive, switch into second gear and floor it along a long road, switch the bike off and unscrew 1 or 2 of the spark plugs to check the colour use your common sense and back out if it doesnt feel right at the end of the day your handing over your hard earned cash
