January 31 2009, 71,500

My little finger has finally healed and I wanted to awaken the XJ from its wintersleep. Very hesitantly and with aid of my car it finally started. To stop running after a little while. As it turned out the fueltank had been leaking and the tank was completely empty. I guess the bike had been running on a little gas left in the carburators. A leaking fueltank is one of the weak spots of the XJ900F, and now it happened to mine. This, together with the extra hole in the exhaust, made me decide to buy another commute bike. I had already been looking for a follow up for a little while and found the BMW R850R a worthy replacement. I knew one that met my demands almost completely: heated grips, ABS, windscreen, hard cases, low mileage.

A small testdrive convinced me even more: nice throttle response, very flickable, comfortable (so far as being noticable in a short ride), stable, gear change quite good. Only negative thing I could find was the rather weak frontbrake. I told this to the shopowner and he promised me he would change the breaking oil and replace the pads. That should suffice. After a week or so I can pick it up.

So the venerable XJ is for sale. Any takers?