06-29-2018, 09:55 AM
If the 82 was thoroughly restored it might be a very nice reliable bike.. if not you are dealing with 36 year old electrics (alternators etc), , switches, light bulbs, fork seals, fork oil, throttle and clutch cables, carb boots, acid filled batteries, brake lines, fuses, master cylinders, clutch plates, chain and sprockets, possible rusty gas tanks, fuel lines, wheel bearing and seals, .... and carburetors. Take it from someone who has owned a few "classics", keeping an old bike running on a daily basis is not as much fun as riding a new bike on a daily basis. If you don't ride much, a few hundred miles a month, 2000 miles a year, and don't mind working on them, then it's no big deal,. People LOVE looking at old bike, LOVE reminiscing about them, very few LOVE owning one, if it's their daily rider.