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It's a '22. At that price ($8k out the door) I didn't see a reason to try and find a used one. Plus I don't know enough about motorcycles to know what to look for with a used one. I didn't want to end up with someone else's mechanical problem child.
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Modern bikes are incredibly reliable and hard to hurt. You can pretty much only damage them from crashing or not maintaining them. If you test ride a bike, just listen for odd noises, make sure the bike stops and shifts ok and doesn’t smoke. The best way to tell if a guy cared about his bike is if he’s not trying to sell it with a bald tire or stretched chain-the chain being something you want to check by pinching it with your finger and thumb on the sprocket and pulling it rearward… that will tell you if it is stretched or not.
Any damage On the bike suggesting a crash at all, tell them you want to see dealership receipts for the work done amd don’t buy it otherwise.
Never let someone take your bike for a test ride without full cash in hand, or trade without a copy of a license. That’s a common way to trade one stolen bike for a nicer one to part out. Happens a lot more than you’d think.