Good Banshee buy?

[banshee8]

im not sure if this buying experience is good or not but im pretty sure its good bcuz a mean machine like a banshee for $2045 has to be a steal

[Banshee]

depends on the codition of the banshee

[world is round]

if it even ran i would buy it for that price..

[RagunCajun]

ditto, before i bought my bike, i looked for banshees. I didnt see a decent one under $3500!

[flotek]

gotta be patient and willign ot get a fixer upper and do some elbow grease i bought my 97 trail banshee for 700$ recently and just traded it for a stroked 88 250r

[ky 2stroker]

You kinda have be carefull when lookin for a cheap banshee to buy. yea most of all the good ones I see they want around 3500 or more. but sometimes you get lucky and find a good one cheap.

our second banshee we got, traded a nice running blaster for it. it was pretty ragged out, i mean you could tell somebody rode the shit outta it, and the guy only wanted 1500 for it. but it had a couple nice extras like TCS front shocks and pro circuit exhaust and some other things. it ran but the motor was on its last leg. lol we didnt even ride it when we got it home, just rolled it from the back of the truck and into our shop to started disecting the bitch. it turned out alittle worse than we first thought. the cylinders were really fucked up and I think bored .80 over or more. somebody drilled out all the head studs and used bolts to bolt the head on. they even drilled down into the exhaust ports and the water jackets . and it had some heavy case damage from a chain derailment and every thing in the flywheel side was pretty fucked up too, looked like somebody took a hammer and beat the shit out of it.

we ended up buying some new jugs on ebay off a 2005 bike, got a new crankshaft and new topend and everything and a few other things and shee's running great now. I'd really like to find some new top and bottom cases that aint busted though.

but whats funny is we dont know what year it is . the number on the motor is ground off, the number on the frame is like a 2000 or newer, and its got a rear end of a 87 (different carrier and sprocket hub than the newer years). and it has yellow and grey fenders like on a 96 or 97. they guy we got it from said his guess was that its a 97 from going buy the plastics, so thats just what we call it

[99honda99]

When i bought my cr it still had the original back tire. paid $4800 canadian

[Banshee]

A perfect looking banshee is only as good as the motor. You could find out 2 days later that the motor is fried and the cases junk. THen your screwed with a 3500 pile of shit. I rather get something like evil that is known to be a pile of shit then make it nice

[Fast03Banshee]

Originally Posted by Banshee

A perfect looking banshee is only as good as the motor. You could find out 2 days later that the motor is fried and the cases junk. THen your screwed with a 3500 pile of shit. I rather get something like evil that is known to be a pile of shit then make it nice

Ture, it's easier to get something when you know exactly what it is, so you can spend less to get it, and then put the money into it to make it a bad ass machine

[370banshee]

i like buying them in boxes, blown up, wrecked, or cheap...... haha bought one expensive one..... and i have 2 years left to pay for it.....