Damn Robert, that's a lot of plastic repair for a machine with just 3k miles.
I do not recall the whole story. But it was something like the bike got dropped off and the mechanic wanted to take it for a test ride. I think he said it was on the ground before he left the parking lot.
The carbs were destroyed as well, I don't know if it was the same mechanic or not but they busted off ALL of the float pin towers inside the carb body. That was one of the reasons for such a long haul trip. He had, had the bike to several different places and none of them could get it running and some of them wouldn't even touch it to begin with. I told him we could get it running, most likely in about 30 minutes, if the bike was running when he parked it and the tank was clean it was most likely carbs; unless one of the other mechanics did some crazy diagnosis and opened the motor up for some reason but with so little miles on her, I was pretty confident.
The first thing we did when he got here was put her up on the lift took a set of carbs of one of our bikes and installed on his bike, hooked up a fresh battery, and she started right up. At that point he said that he knew he had made the right choice.
