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It's expensive for a 24 year old bike that's not a "classic" of any kind.
I bought an '86 DR600 in late 1992 for £800 with 16,000 miles on the clocks. I turned in to a Supermoto using RGV250 rear wheel with 1100EFE forks, FZR600 front wheel, EXUP disc & GSX-R caliper. I cover about 48,000 miles on the bike. They're reliable & quite easy to work. Pretty smooth due to twin balancer shafts. They can use oil at higher rpms like al big singles do. Screw & locknut valve clearances make life easy.
Couple of major issues I had:
1. Splines wore away on the gearbox output shaft &
2. Kickstart shaft snapped
Both required a full engine strip & rebuild which I did myself, replaced camchain & balancer chain while I was in there.
My conrod also snapped around the big-end, it hoked up on the front balancer shaft & came out through the front of the engine. Another engine was the only solution.
Good bikes but at £1,400, it needs to be mint & low mileage.
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