rc46.... nope didn't think you were having a go at all.
Given that someone on here may want to bid I would have happily told our side of the story and the facts/history of the bike as we know it anyway. As far as we are concerned the bike needs at least one new, or at least used replacement cylinder, maybe two if you wanted to play safe. Given how long it has now stood for I would also want to verify the state of the crank in case it has dried out as well.
That means any new owner needs to be looking at rather more work/expense to get it going than just simply getting the cylinders replated again as the seller is suggesting.
The sellers view that the bike was "perfect until it let go" is, lets face it, a little short of the truth given one cylinder showed clear signs of five replates before it seized on him and the other I think had been done either two or three times. Obviously the bike has a history of problems which he inherited from the previous owner, but to say it was "perfect" until he asked us to replate the cylinders is well short of the mark. If it was "perfect" then he wouldn't need a replate as it wouldn't have seized on him to start with.
Anyone who might be interested in the bike can obviously easily verify all this for themselves just by taking a look at the cylinders for all the serial numbers stamped on them when they have previously been replated.
Jo
www.apexleisure.co.uk