Can barely walk after Day 1 !!
 

I just purchased my GZ250 on Sunday night 8/10/08 and yesterday I was out and about bright and early. I live along the lakeside in northern ohio, and I went from one end to the other and back, cycling for around 8 hrs. I had breaks in between of course, but my legs are like spaghetti today. I never had rode before and it was too much fun to stop. I took a couple of pics along the way, check the links below.

I got the bike for a steal, my buddy just purchased a new Boulavard and was looking to put the bike on eBay, for around $1200 bucks,as he wasn't able to get it started. The bike was almost new, a 2004 with around 700 miles on it. I became interested and asked how much would he take right now for it, he said $1000 bucks, I said SOLD :2tup: I said I would come Sunday with a my meter and tools and try to get it started. I then found this website and got the schematics for the electrical system. I showed up Sunday and within 15 minutes found a blown 20 amp fuse on the starter relay :neener: . Replaced the fuse and she started right up, the look on his face was priceless. He is a good friend though, and seemed pleased with how excited I was.

Looking forward to riding and sharing on here, this site has already helped me out and I am much appreciative of that.

Heres some pics along the way:

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Welcome Dman! You will find a wealth of information on this site, and the guys and gals here are great! Enjoy your new ride!

Hello
 

Welcome brother, beautiful color. And that ache thing will go away with time.

Now just practice, practice, practice.

:)

Re: Can barely walk after Day 1 !!
 

Welcome Dman! This is a great site with great people.

I am curious how you found the blown fuse. Were you able to eyeball and see it or did you check from the battery side of the fuse to ground? O_o

Thanks,

I agree with CountryDad, this place is way too informative in a great way !! You get the good, the bad, AND the ugly, and how to deal, fix, troubleshoot everything !!

Welcome from Newbie with just over 100 miles !! Of course, now I gotta get new tires.....DAMN !!

Re: Can barely walk after Day 1 !!
 

Just visual, funny thing I had a cheapo meter and the 1st thing I checked was the battery. Unfortuanatly I had the meter set to 1.5V instead of 9V and it blew the fuse on my meter. :blush: So yea visual inspection from that point on.

I'm jealous...
 

...Except for the color, your 2004 looks identical to my 2008, that I just forked over $4500 for. You got in at a very good price. If you decide to sell for any reason, you can probably get twice what you paid. In this part of the country smaller displacement bikes are at a premium (new and used) cause they didn't ship enough of 2008 250cc's.

I've had mine two and a half weeks and I'm almost at 400 miles. Lost a couple days to the service department (I'm also a little envious of your mechanical skills - I tightened my own mirrors and was damn proud of myself!)

I'm impressed you rode the thing for eight hours on the first day. What's the ride around the lake like?

Re: I'm jealous...
 

It's pretty nice, wish there were less 55 MPH zones though, this thing floats at 35 mph. I've always driven my cars kinda fast, but on the bike slow and steady, sit back and enjoy the ride ! :rawk:

Great find and nice story. Welcome to the forum.