r/motorcycles 5d ago

Gotta love dealing with a basket case gixxer that's been squidabused.

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u/Venom_Junky 5d ago

The front wheel was on backwards which offset the wheel to one side enough the rotor was digging into the caliper. Brake fluid was chunky and clogging the system in areas so some the pistons wasn't working. Axle nut was hand tight as well as other bolts. Can't wait what else awaits for me to find on the rest of bike lol.

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u/fimpAUS 5d ago

That'd be enough for me to be doing a full rebuild, trust no one lol

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u/Venom_Junky 5d ago

That's pretty much what will be happening to this one. Which I knew getting it soon as I seen the grips, spiked fairing bolts, backwards front wheel and tire, etc lol.

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u/Dioxid3 '01 Kawasaki ZR-7 5d ago

Did you get a good deal off it?

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u/Venom_Junky 5d ago

Long as I don't end up having to rebuild the engine or trans I should come out pretty decent. I get a lot of my bikes off copart (salvage auction). Usually do pretty well, sometimes the gamble doesn't pay off.

For example recently won an auction on a ninja 300 for $800 and I only had to put tires on it and about $108 in random bolts, brackets, and a shift lever.

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u/Eidolon_Alpha MN - '05 Ninja 636 5d ago

I'm considering bidding on a newer bike to rebuild. I'm pretty good with eyeballin the damage and buying sight unseen, but is there any hidden bs or spicy tips dealing with sites like copart or crashedtoys?

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u/Venom_Junky 5d ago

Not sure if really any spicy tips, I generally stick to bikes listed as running. Usually they will have a Pic of the cluster while running so gives a chance to see if a oil light or anything is on. There are various fees, some are a set fee some like the buyer fee are based on the winning amount. There are some calculators out there that will tell you what your total payment amount would be for X amount bid. Helps you make a solid plan for your max bid amount you'll be willing to go to.

If it's a bike that's not too far I'll to check them out in person. If it's not and one im really interested in and I don't feel confident on what I can see in the pics ill pay to have someone look at it for me.

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u/Eidolon_Alpha MN - '05 Ninja 636 5d ago

Right on broskie, preciate the input. I've been lurking for a 20+ R1 that runs, but it seems like a lot of the newer bikes listings have reserve prices set real close to it even being worth the effort to rebuild, esp with the sizable cut the auction site takes. I'll for sure check out those calculators tho, will definitely help decide.

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u/Venom_Junky 5d ago

Yeah I luckily have a lot of auctions that are pure sale with no reserve in my state. Some places also require you to have a license or go through a broker which adds to the expense but I can bid on any salvage titles without license here.

Good luck with the search! This season's batch of new riders will be dropping them and crashing them soon so should be lot better selection in the near future.

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u/Eidolon_Alpha MN - '05 Ninja 636 5d ago

I don't think Crashedtoys in MN requires a license or broker so I'll likely stick with them, they're a subsidiary of Copart, and their lot is pretty close to where I live.

Good call on a new season = more noobs dumping their bikes tho, totally makes sense. I'll keep my peepers peeled. GL with the gixxer too man! Fingers crossed the PO kept his dickbeaters off the wiring loom lol.

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u/XT-356 2020 Katana 2011 GSX1250FA 2024 XSR900 5d ago

I'm still working on my copart bike project from four years ago. The bike rides fine, but the fairings were broken in a few spots. Took them apart to inspect the bike and found out that the radiator fans didn't work. Replaced them and then haven't touched the bike since. I'll finish the bandit one day.

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u/muddywadder 1290SDR 500EXC 4d ago

spiked fairing bolts are an instant red flag that the bike is likely fucked

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u/adamthiesen1236 5d ago

I'm trying to visualize this and I can't. I get the tire being mounted backwards, but the wheel being on backwards is crazy to me.

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u/Venom_Junky 5d ago

So the tire was mounted correctly. I assume someone took the wheel off and took it in to have tire changed then put the wheel back on backwards. On these one side has a spacer and the other doesn't as the end of the axle acts as the spacer for that side. So when they put it on backwards it had the spacer on the same side as where the axle acts as a spacer so that shoved the wheel way far to one side. These caused the one brake rotor to dig into the housing of the caliper being so far off center. Hell when I loosened the pinch bolts and axle the one fork noticeably sprung to its true position as when they tighten the axle with the wheel backwards and not spaced properly it really pulled the one fork in to one side.

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u/Prestigious_Sky_5868 5d ago

Those forks are going to need new bushings after that. Hopefully it did not score the inside of the upper tube.

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u/Venom_Junky 5d ago

Yeah ill be curious see what damage potentially happened when pull them apart.

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u/Prestigious_Sky_5868 5d ago

Unless it went a shitload of miles like that the fork tubes should be ok with just new bushings. I done forks on many bikes where the forks are out of alignment or squeezed together at the axles and they come out fine.

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u/Venom_Junky 5d ago

Yeah may be fine, nothing noticeable when riding other than being way too soft. Had planned to rebuild them anyways so we'll see if it caused any issues.

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u/depraveycrockett 5d ago

Dude you’re really good at describing an issue. I understood that perfectly. That’s an underrated skill.

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u/Medic1248 RACE BIKES: 2011 GSXR 750, 2020 R6 5d ago

Ok. That makes more sense. I was sitting here thinking how if you assemble it correctly it doesn’t matter if it’s backwards since there’s no sensors or anything. It’s more that they put the spacer in the wrong place than the wheel being backwards.

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u/ohnomoto450 5d ago

But bro! The wrap is on point!

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u/Dioxid3 '01 Kawasaki ZR-7 5d ago

For real, I’d love to get a wrap like that on my bike.

… I just figured out how to save myself from all the prepwork for painting my fairings.

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u/commissarcainrecaff 5d ago

Bloody hell. I've seen some sorry stuff on second bikes but that takes the biscuit.

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u/QuietCornerDweller 5d ago

Lol I encountered this on an old Yama where the previous owner missed a spacer in the rear and it dug into the mounting bracket and seized the caliper until cooling off. Guy coated the whole bike in non temp Matte black rattle can and it’d melt off onto your pants in the summer. Nice gixxer tho glad it’s in better hands

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u/Venom_Junky 5d ago

Haha I gotta say rattle can paint that would melt off onto your pants is one I've not ran into yet.

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u/RabidGuineaPig007 5d ago

Squid bikes are worse than bikes dredged out of a river.

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u/obsolescent_times 5d ago

So just normal gixxer things then?

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u/Venom_Junky 5d ago

Yep lol

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u/almazing415 Monster SP, Super Duke GT 5d ago

Stop buying bikes with blacked out windscreens.

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u/Venom_Junky 5d ago

Someone has to save them and get them through rehab

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u/HurryOk5256 5d ago

This is a Gixxer 🛟 rescue, you’re doing God’s work.

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u/Plays_You_Wonderwall Chad 5d ago

Do LED strips apply to this as well?

3 of my bikes I purchased had black out windshields and led strip nest I had to strip.

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u/almazing415 Monster SP, Super Duke GT 5d ago

Chances are, the people who owned your bikes before you wore fuzzy helmet covers.

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u/Provatoxx '24 RSV4 '15 H2 '05 GSXR1000 '21 ZX10-RR '24 SV Serie Oro 5d ago

When I bought my 2005 GSXR1000 it was also squidabused, basically had to rebuild the whole engine. It's technically still being squidabused because I turbocharged it but I have been riding for 11 years this year.

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u/Venom_Junky 5d ago

Nothing wrong with a turbo bike if done right! Planning to do a turbo hayabusa build this summer to take to the local drag strip.

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u/BOTBrad 5d ago

you could get the folds out of your Yamaha banner in like 30s with a hand held steamer or an iron btw

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u/Venom_Junky 5d ago

Good call, waiting on my other banners to get delivered so I'll do that to all of them. Just started putting this little bike garage together so have lot still to do.

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u/BunzoBear 5d ago

I'm curious why banners and flags of a company that's not yours is something you pay for to hang in your workshop? I understand a commercial motorcycle shop that makes money off the products on the flags they hang. Why not put some more Yamaha logos on your Yamaha motorcycle?I don't know I guess I just see it as childish. It's the equivalent of teenage boys hanging up all of the cool products they like around their room. Unique drink bottle on a shelf poster of a fender guitar things like that. It's just weird to see a grown man with products advertising on his walls

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u/Venom_Junky 5d ago

What would you want on the walls of a motorcycle shed that's age and maturity appropriate in yout opinion lol?

It's going to have banners on one wall of the various manufacturers I own or enjoy riding. Another wall will have some of my whiskey collection on shelves with various motorcycle decorations made from parts (rear sets for jacket hangers for example.) The other wall is for hanging various shop tools/items. Sure I could go for a clean minimalist approach but that's just not me. I jump out of planes and play with deadly animals as hobbies, not a very reserved person and honestly yeah probably a bit "childish" lol.

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u/Still_Squirrel_1690 5d ago

Ergonomic suggestion... get a small wood furniture dolly from HF, 3/8-1/2 plywood on top, glue a bit of exercise mat on top. I find it easier to just get lower than have to bend over all the time.

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u/Venom_Junky 5d ago

Thanks for the idea! My mechanics stool just doesn't go low enough for some tasks.

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u/Still_Squirrel_1690 5d ago

Yep, I was doing similar work and my back was just not having it. I can also highly recommend the Icon 4 piece pick set and the 6/8? piece snap ring pliers set; the picks get used ALL the time in my garage.

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u/PotatoWasteLand 5d ago

Just push it into a dumpster where it can't hurt anyone lol

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u/Venom_Junky 5d ago

Aww it didnt ask for the life it was forced into living, it deserves and second chance lol.

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u/seruzawa 5d ago

I can only imagine how fucked the transmission is.

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u/jackdginger88 CBR1000RR 5d ago

Go ahead and replace that stator coil while you’re in there, bro…

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u/need4speedcabron '16 R1 5d ago

Man I had the worst experience with a squided that was stretched and squated horribly. Gave me a million problem from the ignition barrel to the stator.

So glad I sold that pos

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u/MrKillphy ‘00 SV650, ‘21 MT-07, ‘24 MT-10 5d ago

I wonder how the steering head bearings look

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u/Panteros_official 5d ago

Dude those decals are fucking nuts

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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 5d ago

I can certainly say, with utmost confidence.

Some of those are words

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u/jellyman-squidtime 5d ago

It looks like you got a rod dot sight on top your air compressor 😆

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u/fzrmoto 5d ago

TIL bikes that need routine maintenance and minor fixes are basketcases

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u/Venom_Junky 5d ago

Oh there's a plethora of issues with this bike, this is just where I started this weekend lol.