I have a new sports bike that I bought a few weeks ago. It is a Honda Trx450r. I bought it from a guy named Mike Baldwin. I bought it for $5900. The bike had two previous owners before Mike.
The two previous owners did not really take it out riding much. Because they didn't ride much the bike was just sitting their rusting away. The first owner of the bike was named Dustin. And the second owner was named Ilarion.
Mike Baldwin had the bike for about a year almost before he sold it. The whole time he had it he was working on it. He had it up and running good in the beginning of the summer. I saw him riding it and i told him that i wanted to buy it.
I had to work as a baiter this summer to get the money to pay for the bike. I started baiting around the middle of the summer. I am still baiting somedays after school. I only bait on certain days because some days if it is ugly out the crew wont take the boat out to go fish. Baiting is the highest paying jobs you can get on this island as a youth. But it is the only job that still goes on after summer is over.
The bike has a push start on it so it doesn't have a kick start. It is a bike that uses a clutch. It is a very powerful 4-wheeler. The person i bought it from completely fixed it up. He bought it from someone who didn't really take care of it.
It has a new engine on it. And a brand new exhaust pipe. Half of the nuts and bolts on it are stainless steel. I have the other half of the stainless steel bolts and nuts i just have to put them on. I also have some heel guards for it that i have to put on.
Everything on my bike is pretty much brand new. It is white and black and it has a brand new red powder coated frame on it so that it doesn't rust. It runs really good and it works well on the beaches and tundras. I used to ride a Honda 420 but that was a utility bike so I couldn't really do anything fun on it. I bought my new bike because it is made for racing and jumping.
The bike only has two wheel drive. I can only really drive it around in the tundras while there is no snow. I could ride it around town in the winter but I probably wont. I wont because it would be difficult to start because of the cold. Also it would be pretty dangerous to ride around.
The bike originally costed about $6900. The price dropped from $6900 to $5900 because it needed a new battery, one new headlight, and a new chain and sprockets. I already bought a new battery and headlight for it. I only need to get the new chain a sprockets. I also got a new brake line for it to because the old one had a slow brake fluid leak.
I want to get some nerf bars for my bike. I want to get nerf bars because they make it a-lot safer to jump with my bike. Nerf bars are little frame like things you put around the foot pegs. Nerf bars prevent your foot from slipping of the peg. If your foot slipped of the peg when you didn't have nerf bars you would get sucked under the tires.
My bike is a high maintenance machine. I check the oil on it every time before i take it out riding. You have to change the engine oil every 20 hours of riding. And you have to change the transmission oil every 40 hours of riding. And it is usually good to make sure that all the nuts, screws, and bolts are nice and tight every six months or so.
I've taken my bike on most of the beaches on my island. I've taken it in the dunes on the island. And about half of the trails that are on my island. There are many dunes, beaches, and trails on the island that i can take my bike on. I haven't taken my bike on any of the big dunes yet.
I have only taken it out riding like 20 times. I will usually only ride it on really nice days but sometimes i will take it out on a rainy day. I will ride it to school only on really nice days though. When i take it out riding i will usually only take it out for a short period of time. The only time i'll keep it out for a long time is if i am riding with other people.
My bike is a-lot faster than most of the other 4-wheelers on the island. The only person on the island that has a bike that could possibly be faster than mine is the guy i bought it from. My bike is one of the fastest because most of the people up here only have utility bikes. All the other sports bikes up here are almost all broken down because the owners never really took care of them. When i was young almost everybody had a sports bike.
I really like my new bike because it is a sports bike. It's performance is a-lot better than a utility bike. It is smaller than utility bikes. I hope that my bike lasts a really long time. This is all i have to say about my new trx450r sports bike.
