Privately bought motorbike safety issue looking for advice
Discussion
To elaborate on the title.
Bought a nice, low milage 1160cc bike, 2 owners from new, with history etc.
Inspected the bike, broadly what i expected for a bike that had barely any milage and shoved in a garage.
The bike didn’t have an MOT and the seller advertised that it would come with an MOT. Fine.
Now of course sold as seen… this was written down on the day of purchase.
Rode home. Stopped off at a friends to show him the bike, used the rear brake upon leaving and the rear caliper rode up and into the swing arm. It only had one bolt in the carrier fixing it to the swing arm. It had marked the swing arm and the carrier had dug into the rear disc.
Now I did not believe the seller was trying to hide issues with the bike, my own opinion is that they are a bit s
t at reassembly after removing the side mounted number plate…. Or had a ‘cant be arsed’ attitude to fitting old parts back on the bike for sale.
But after removing the pillon seat this evening… more bolts missing… and its starting to worry me.
I took to much comfort perhaps in that the MOT which was carried out a day before would have found an issue with the brake?!
I of course know that when you buy privately you are potentially making an expensive mistake however if i had used the rear brake at 60mph it could have been fatal.
Thoughts or advice would be appreciated.
Lowpro
Bought a nice, low milage 1160cc bike, 2 owners from new, with history etc.
Inspected the bike, broadly what i expected for a bike that had barely any milage and shoved in a garage.
The bike didn’t have an MOT and the seller advertised that it would come with an MOT. Fine.
Now of course sold as seen… this was written down on the day of purchase.
Rode home. Stopped off at a friends to show him the bike, used the rear brake upon leaving and the rear caliper rode up and into the swing arm. It only had one bolt in the carrier fixing it to the swing arm. It had marked the swing arm and the carrier had dug into the rear disc.
Now I did not believe the seller was trying to hide issues with the bike, my own opinion is that they are a bit s
t at reassembly after removing the side mounted number plate…. Or had a ‘cant be arsed’ attitude to fitting old parts back on the bike for sale.But after removing the pillon seat this evening… more bolts missing… and its starting to worry me.
I took to much comfort perhaps in that the MOT which was carried out a day before would have found an issue with the brake?!
I of course know that when you buy privately you are potentially making an expensive mistake however if i had used the rear brake at 60mph it could have been fatal.
Thoughts or advice would be appreciated.
Lowpro
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