I agree Cat. Friends of mine just bought a late 60's Bonnie at the big classic bike auction in Vegas. It's a nice bike in very good mechanical and cosmetic condition and they paid about $3600 for it.
That being said; it leaks both oil and gas from time to time, vibrates worse than a Harley, has questionable brakes, right-sided shifting and the electrics are always a crap-shoot. They only take it out occasionally and never more than 20-30 miles from home.
One of the guys above said "there's a reason everyone who has owned one of these for any length of time is a pretty good wrench". I think there's also a reason there are so many of them for sale everywhere; you can get pretty much the same riding experience with 1/10th the problems buying a new one.
I like to ride and I don't mind wrenching but I like them to be separate activities if at all possible.
Keith
