Ok, I currently live in florida. The bike I bought currently lives in San francisco. The previous owner has been great, we're searching for a shipping company. Its primarily ridiculous to ship ups....so far i've talked to 4 different ups numbers...still no price. its looking like forward air, but get this....forward "AIR" isn't by airplane...as the name suggests. I mentioned that to the nice girl on the phone, she said that FA's trucks ride on "air suspension, thus the "air" part of forward air. hmmmph!
Anyway, the previous owner says he may be willing to crate it for me(at his motorcycle shop) Scuderia of San Francisco. A big help considering that Fa's policy is that "their" container must be ordered in order to be "at" the san francisco depot, something that could take 10 to 14 days. So, having him crate it for me, we save the time of waiting and are able to ship right away. Not as cheap as I thought though. About 500 bones.
I'm looking forward to getting on with the inspection of the bike. So far, its been abit of a risk. But so far so good. I've been wanting an NSR for about ten years. Doesn't make since to keep wanting something that long, and not have it. Just picked up a new zx10r(try not to hold it against me). Its been great, but its not a two stroke. I have a ysr50 stock and a project 200 blaster\ysr on the table. I don't know what it is, I just love two strokes. Distraught since the AMA, in all its wisdom, saw fit to remove 250's from the support class. I think they should be a main event. Nothing like 30 250's blazing by in the international horseshoe of Daytona(two hours north of us)What's wrong with the AMA? knuckleheads seems to come to mind as far as 250's go.
Thanks for all the help and advice so far. May take you up on your offers. You guys are a wealth of info...(I've been reading) I'm greatful. Will keep you posted. Thanks again. Cliff inFlorida