Honda Magna

[PoorSucker]

Been offered a Honda Magna 250.

Anyone have experience of this bike?

[thaicbr]

Yep its a Phantom on steroids(admittedly not many steroids) .weak points are the exhausts and swing arm rust and the brakes sieze. but if its cheap(30-40thou) in good condition and has a book then ok. Allan

[PoorSucker]

Yep its a Phantom on steroids(admittedly not many steroids) .weak points are the exhausts and swing arm rust and the brakes sieze. but if its cheap(30-40thou) in good condition and has a book then ok. Allan

So 60K is not a good price?

[JSixpack]

Yep its a Phantom on steroids(admittedly not many steroids) .weak points are the exhausts and swing arm rust and the brakes sieze. but if its cheap(30-40thou) in good condition and has a book then ok. Allan

So 60K is not a good price?

No unless it's in mint condition. Do you KNOW? The likelihood is that it will need a lot of repair if it's been owned by a Thai. You could easily spend another 50K. Parts hard to find, have to hassle w/ independent shops and their ripoffs. Cool-looking bike but probably not worth getting unless you have lots of money and patience, IMO.

[barrybike]

Yep its a Phantom on steroids(admittedly not many steroids) .weak points are the exhausts and swing arm rust and the brakes sieze. but if its cheap(30-40thou) in good condition and has a book then ok. Allan

wont rust if you look after it

[BSJ]

Definitely not the buy of the century, unless of course it's in mint condition. But I doubt that's the case.

[thaicbr]

Barrybike these are a Japanese ike only they were not sold anywhere else. and unfortunately they were built to a price. I have seen 2 with badly rusted swingarms and one of those the exhaust connecting pipe was rusted through. To the OP. At 60thou it needs to be bloody sparkling mate. get him down in price or find something else. a cb400 with book would only set ya back about 70-80 thou.

Allan

[Wong!]

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Edited March 19, 2009 by Wong!