That’s my term for scouring CL for deals. Dude Diligence and if you put in your time (with a bit of luck) you can score a sweet bike like this one owner 1980 that is so unmolested however not perfect. Why luck? Because I usually switch off the “dealer ads” but this day it was set to “all” otherwise I’d likely not seen this LTD at all. I called the place — located a scant 3+ hours away and spoke with the owner. It belonged to a friend of his, 64 YO going through a divorce...yada yada... and doesn’t ride it anymore. “So, I sez, has there been much interest”? “Hell yeah”, he quips...but they are all EXPORTERS and wanna beat me down”!!!
“No, no”, I sez, that bike can’t leave the country. I know they are doing this and so I wanna buy it right now over the phone”. And so I did. And before anyone asks (because I know it’s coming...2K) LOL, yeah. I’m kvelling and I ain’t even Jewish! It was quite a trip too, picked up a few LTD seats in great condition from a man 20 mins away from my destination that had, get this, 18 or so 73 to 82 KZs, MKIIs and a ZR1 some stock and some complete with upside down forks and swing arm mods. The PO took great care of the bike, not inferring anything about his marital (or mine for that matter) situation but Damn the Torpedos Man this thing has the stock exhaust and those add on chrome covers bits and Allen screws. I’ll be kvelling for weeks, months maybe, and I haven’t even started it.