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How I got this bike

At the end of the summer of 2014, Andy calls me and says he's tracked this bike on Craigslist and sees that the price has dropped . We go to Broadalbin to check it out. The owner was young guy who never registered or rode it in the few months he owned it. He was more of a 4-wheeler type. We both take it for a test ride. It looks good and sounds even better with the shorty exhaust. The front tire is worn. Just 8,700 miles.

I can't resist making an ever lower offer (after agreeing with Andy to split this deal), and it's ours. Go back with the trailer a few days later and it's registered the next day.

With Carl and Andy

It turns out that Dana and I had seen this bike at Troy City Garage the previous fall (2013). From the paperwork with the bike I determine that it was sold to another guy who only had it for a few months before trading for a pickup truck from the person we bought it from.

Winn Preserve - Aug. 2014

We immediately enjoy riding this bike. I ride it to pick up the Suzuki Bandit in Schoharie. Andy rides it around town and his wife rides it to work in Loudonville.

Thacher Park - Aug. 2014

I sell my half of the bike to Andy so that his wife Wendy can ride it. I'd added a small windshield to make the ride a bit easier and it looked good and worked well.

Lenox Road

Shopping in Predel's Scrapyard - May 2015

Andy sells this bike in 2018 for $3,000. They used it for nearly 4 years and several thousand trouble-free and enjoyable miles. He had even put the stock rear fender back on.

Suzuki Gladius 650 (2009)