Help! FJ1100 Garage Find- What Should I Know before Buying?

[bartzld]

Perhaps not the best advice, but BUY THE BIKE AND LOVE IT!!

If you are anal about little cosmetic problems, you will never find a better bike than this one. Cosmetic it it one of the best I have ever seen. Give it a good service, replace the rubbers and enjoy it. Perhaps it is not the cheapest bike, but it is a unique one because of the low milage and new looks. You can buy a very cheap second FJ1200 (in Holland you can buy a good one voor 600 euro) and mod the hell out of it and use it to drive a lot. And use the FJ1100 as a show/sunday bike. Spend the money (perhaps too much) and enjoy the unique bike

[Rusty34]

Perhaps not the best advice, but BUY THE BIKE AND LOVE IT!!

If you are anal about little cosmetic problems, you will never find a better bike than this one. Cosmetic it it one of the best I have ever seen. Give it a good service, replace the rubbers and enjoy it. Perhaps it is not the cheapest bike, but it is a unique one because of the low milage and new looks. You can buy a very cheap second FJ1200 (in Holland you can buy a good one voor 600 euro) and mod the hell out of it and use it to drive a lot. And use the FJ1100 as a show/sunday bike. Spend the money (perhaps too much) and enjoy the unique bike

This gives me something to think about! I might actually need FJ1100s, a stock one and another with all the recommended update mods. Now if I can just get the CEO of Home Federal to see that.

[whyzee79]

I bought a really low mile RD400 once.  It looked perfect because it was never ridden and I bought it with emotion not wisdom.   I wanted to ride it and not use it for a display.  I had more problems with that bike then any other I owned.  Tons of rotten rubber issues and electrical problems.  I would rather make a perfect mechanical bike look like new when it is sorted out.  Paint is easy to do and makes any bike look like a museum piece at that point.  There are nice riding bikes out there for 2K or less if you are patient and look.  I found my 87FJ for 2K.  I looked for several months and two days after I bought mine, a bike with all the RPM mods was offered for sale at 1500 and looked really nice.  These were mass produced and there are still a lot out there if you can take the time to look.  I have been tracking bike prices for the mid 80's bikes for a while.  There are only a small handful of mid 80's bikes that will command that price and an FJ1100 is not one of them unless it is SN#1.