[Merkurwwu]

Thanks for the suggestion on YouTube. Great info!

We’ll take the old bike into the grass again tomorrow, lean it over, and give it a shot. I bet we’ll get it upright again no problem after watching those videos!

[Merkurwwu]

I really don’t spend *that much* time wrenching on it, but it does need work probably once a month that takes a couple hours. I mostly just ride it…!

My bike was a relatively low-mileage bike (that has been dropped a few times) and was well cared for by the last owner who had it 10 years. But since I’ve had it, I’ve had to bleed all the fluids as a precaution, changed all the filters, buy a new clutch master cylinder cap and just this week I noticed my fork seals are leaking. Beyond all this it could really use some new brake rotors and a thermostat.

Put it this way, these parts were: $20 for the clutch master cylinder cover, $35 for a thermostat, $50 for filters, $40 for fork seal kits, etc. but I do *all* my own work (I’ve grown up tinkering on Jaguars, Corvettes and Mustangs,) and if I had to pay someone to do all this work for me it wouldn’t be worth it. The fork seal job alone would probably be hundreds of dollars!

This Interceptor has some collector value as well and it’s been called a “neat old bike” by many passers-by so keeping it in nice shape is somewhat of an “investment,” though one with a poor return . I don’t know if the bike you’re looking at would be the same way.

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