Bought my first motorcycle
 

I've ridden dirt bikes (250's and smaller) growing up, but I've never ridden a street bike before. I got a 1997 Honda CBR 600F3. It has about 18k miles on it, minor scratches, runs great. The guy had it listed at $3700, but I talked him down $400 ($3,300 if you can't do math). I wanted to get a 600F4 since that's when they started doing fuel injection... but I couldn't find one in the area for the price I wanted. I'm pretty happy with my purchase so far.

This is the picture the seller took... I don't have a camera at the moment.
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hell yea...i want one soooooooo bad.....im like you i have bunch of dirtbikes and 4wheelers but i never owned a street bike....i wanna get a gsxr 600-750 or r6 or cbr600rr..
i want something that is fuel injected....but nice ike and be careful!!!!!!

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Sweet. O0 Wish I could afford one :-\

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kinda sounds like you paid a bit much, my friend picked up a 01 cbr for 4k with 12k on it. Feul injection is the way to go.

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I bet there's a bigger market down in CA, though. Weather sucks in WA, so not a whole lot of bikes up here. I checked KBB & NADA, I paid under blue book... meh.

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Nice, I want one.

Hopefully after I sell one of the Hondas I can find one.

Looks good.

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sweet bike, i've also got a 97 f3. you're lucky to find an f3 in that great of condition, most of them are all rashed up. they really are great bikes, you should learn a lot on it.

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The only thing wrong is the high-beam is burnt out, so when you switch it on, the light will go out (dual stage filament). I used that as leverage saying I couldn't say for sure if it's a light bulb... could be a more expensive electrical issue (though I'm 99.9% positive it's just the bulb).

I was looking at the power difference between the F3 and the F4 (fuel injected) and it's rated 5 hp more with EFI. I believe the F3 is rated at 105hp @ 12,500... a little over 400 pounds for the bike... should be fun.

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thats funny, cause the low beam is out on mine, haha. i just roll around with the high beam, doesn't matter to me 8)

mines geared down a bit and also has a full system and jet kit. with those mods, mines a little faster than stock or maybe a slip-on f4i acceleration wise. of course it really doesn't matter when you get into the twisties.

respect the bike and it will be good to you. you've got more than enough power to ---- yourself up. ride safe man!

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yep you'll be very happy with the f3. i bought mines for 2k (i knew i got a great deal for it). had about 19k miles on it. FULLY maintence up and everything too.

ride the bike for awhile then i recomend doing a -1 front +2 rear sprockets. it'll throw off speedo but it'll ride on one wheel nicelly.

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uh oh, this is turning into post your f3. mines been riden harder than 45 year old truck stop hooker, but she just keeps on keepin on.

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Holly ---- where did you get that Non-Bananna goat ---- rear crawl for your ride. looks sweet.

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yea i was wondering the same thing...make the bike look 10x better..i hate the banana seat bullshit..thats the only reason reason that i didn't like those bikes.

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the only thing i got to admit though about the bananna seat is it's really confortable.

i mean really comfortable. probably the most comfortable moto seat i've ever sat on.

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it's a sharkskinz GP tail.......i actually still have the stock seat, but i ------ hate it. i put the gp tail on last track day and just never took it off. the stock seat seems to narrow and forces me to ride on my taint all the time. pretty sad when honda couldn't design a seat better than a flat piece of 1/2 inch foam. i actually rode all the way from sacramento to phoenix with the gp tail on.

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to each his own i suppose

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not an f3...but an f2 that i got for $1200, mint condition.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y45...0/Image005.jpg

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man i think they are way too affordable at the moment. i've had a few friends go down to the dealership and walk out with brand new ones for nothing down and payments from $100 - $120 a month and they even throw in a jacket and a helmet. makes me want to get one but i know i would kill myself

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f3's are nice bikes. all honda's have the shitty seat problem. after 30 minutes, it feels like you're sitting on a concrete pad. can't you swap f4 tails on these?

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My only problem with that is I don't like having payments on anything. Never have had to thus far on anything other than the unavoidable things like cell phones and the like, although I might bite and get one.

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the really shitty part about financing a bike is paying for full coverage insurance. even paying some crazy interest on a personal loan would be cheaper than paying full coverage.

a full year of liability is a hundred bucks and change for me.

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sweet.

im lookin to find another seca turbo that i can ride around. but im definatly not going to pass up a real good deal on a sport bike

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That's what I did... just took a personal loan for $2k, not getting collision (liability & comp for about $400 a year). Collision would have doubled my insurance premium. It's cheaper to pay the higher interest (only like 1% higher) on a person loan rather than an auto loan.

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Your credit sucks. :P
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i wanna get one of these

http://66.132.214.20/Features/2004/c...x_rhf_1024.jpg

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Actually its pretty good! I mean I have credit cards I use religiously (no puns:P), I barely use cash as to keep cash out of my hands. It usually goes, I sell something online, throw that to my bank account via paypal, buy stuff w/ credit card, pay it off electronically from my bank.... it should be okay I hope. My one credit line is about 5x more than anyone my age so I think I'm okayish. I just don't want to be stuck with 25% interest on loans.. cough :o :-*

BTW RS, that bikes hot. I love those years of Honda's

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Sweet inline 6 :P

I believe that's what my step-dad's Gold Wing has... that bike looks a lot lighter than his boat... I mean bike.

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youll like it man, now that the nice weather is rollin in i regret sellin my f2 had so much fun on that thing....

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gold wing's have boxer motors not I-6


you still got your beemer ?

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---- everybody's gettin bikes. I am still hunting one. I am kinda pissed because I passed up a Ducati Monster 750 that went for ~$3K. Meh, bikes are moving like water in a river around here.

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since we are posting picture of our f3's, here my bike

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and its for sale as well. havnt taken it out this year yet. 18k on it and runs like a champ

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With no installment accounts on your credit report you will be paying that much anyways. :P No credit might be a little better than bad credit, but it still sucks. :P
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thats what my bike USED to look like :6

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i just got my first bike too, an 86 zx9r, it was given too me and needs a new chain and sprocket otherwise its ready to get beat on :6

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As soon as i sell my crx im going to buy a DR-Z400SM :y

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..



>:D

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Yeah, still rockin the 325i daily. It's been a good car, so I hope I won't neglect it now that I got a bike.... we'll see. Either one is fun to drive.

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my baby. 83 magna v45 750 aka torquey ----------er
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