84 Yamaha Venture!

Well it looks like I may be the proud new owner of a 1984 Yamaha Venture Royal. A guy here had one up for sale for $500 all parts there, complete new exhaust, side bags. The guys been working on it but no longer has time for it, wife wants it gone. You know the story. I'm hoping to pick it up on Saturday.
Oh the price $300.

 

Nice find. I can tell you I really like my Venture for the long rides or even for the short daily rides. Be warned it is a heavy beast especially in the parking lots (slow manuvering)

 

It may have a full touring package by the looks of it. The guy I'm dealing with is the owners son. He doesn't know a whole lot. Just says his old man is a long haul trucker and is in California most of the time. He was tinkering with it bought a bunch of new parts and ran it around the block.

 

If it runs $300 is a steel. The TCI (if functional and the diodes are not corroded) can sell for $200 or so. if you’re missing the faring and trunk It could get expensive to replace those. Hopefully he has them to go with the bike.

 

ALL parts are there just not on the bike and it's a 1200.

 

I can see $300 worth of chrome accessories in the pic. You're not going to get hurt on it at all.

Biggest issue with that bike is a weak 2nd gear. If 2nd ain't broke you might want to baby it. Replacing it requires splitting the cases.

It's time to add another forum to your links: www.venturerider.org

 

The 2nd gear issue is the reason I'm only willing to pay $300 he wanted $500 but I said if the 2nd gear had not been taken care of it just a 1000 pound anchor. He said fine, so I'm supposed to go Saturday and pick it up......if he doesn't back out. But I could always fix it, for the price it would be worth it.

 

I think, (and what does that really matter) that its well worth the time to fix it if it doesn't have the dealer mark indicating it's been repaired. I take it that the PO knows it's bad or doesn't think it's been previously repaired? It's a well-appointed, powerful, smooth bike that will easily go 100k. That alone makes repairing a viable option.

I've been seeing those going VERY inexpensively as of late.

Congratulations GH, you done did good<LOL>!!


jeff

 

Thanks Jeff. Yes I think it is well worth the effort to repair. What do you mean by "the dealer mark indicating it's been repaired"
One thing I'm not afraid to tear her down. Wont be the first time.

 

I gathered from your other posts that this wouldn't be your first rodeo.....which is important with this engine. It's big, heavy and complicated and over the head of a lot of mechanics.

I would have to go back in my papers but I seem to remember that Yamaha honored some kind of a fix or repair for the XS1100'sthen later for the V4. Usually, when there is a manufacture sponsored "fix", be it a recall or service bulletin, there will be an instruction to the mechanic to leave a special mark in a special place so that in the future, a company rep or other mechanic can tell in an instant if the repair had been done. Like I said, I'm not positive about this but something is nagging me about it.

jeff

PS- if you have 34mm forks on your GT750, could you please measure the center to center between the tubes for me. I want to see if my 180mm fork brace will work....thanks!!

 

The dealer mark IIRC is a punch mark next to the short vin on the engine case. Mine does not have it.

 

Thanks tcoop I'll look for it.

 

Thanks for posting it TC, I thought there was....but with so many bikes over the years, they are beginning to jumble together in the memory channels<LOL>!

UB daMAN!

jeff

 

Great find for 300$, I rode my Venture for a year with no second gear. Wind it a little faster in 1st then double shift past 2nd.

 

Seller backed out! The old man came home and found out his wife was selling his bike!!

 

Bummer

 

I might as well post here - - I'm in the market for a set of Venture carbs.

Cancel - - bought some from a running bike.

 

Holy Crud!! Man, you dodged a bullet, possibly literally!! I think that the last thing you'd want is some pi**ed off husband banging on your door screaming "give me my GD bike back you sob"<LOL>!!

Sorry that you missed the deal but there will always be another, always!

I ran into something similar a couple years ago....the Craigslist ad read something along the lines of:

"Victimized ex wife selling EX husbands 2008 Harley CHEAP! $2200 and he can't do anything about it cause its in my name!"

I sure was tempted if only to resell it but I just couldn't get past the thought of a bullet coming out of no where from that angry ex-husband who saw ME riding his bike....life is too short to worry about stuff like that.

jeff

 

I got a similar deal on a boat once. Listed at $3,000 and nicer than any at twice the price.

I went and saw it (on trailer) and told the woman that if it would run I'd take it. She told me she didn't have keys and would have to wait until husband came home.

That evening the husband called me, made it kind of clear he wasn't eager to sell it, but would make arrangements to meet me at the lake. I told him running it on a muff would be ok but he insisted it needed to go into the water. We agreed to the next evening.

He and his son show up for the test drive with fishing poles and bait. After a quick test run he took us back to the dock and told me I could pick it up the next evening. Then he and the boy went back out.

Turns out $3,000 was the exact amount his wife needed for the above ground pool she wanted.

 

That sounds like it turned pretty darned good then. Finding a GOOD used boat is harder then a good used bike because they break and the owner does'nt want to get it fixed, so they sell but you're often playing roulette if you buy it that way. My daughter and I drove up to PA to get ours, from the Chief of Police for Lancaster....it had only seen fresh water and ran great.

jeff

 

It is not the lead weight that you need to watch out for. It is the 40 ton leathal projectile that will get you!!

Ghost