Buying bike wiht no owners manual

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Buying bike wiht no owners manual

#1 Unread post by flw »

Other than ebay or amazon, are there other places on the web that sell old (yr 2000) owners manuals?

It's for a 2000 Kawasaki 800 Vulcan Classic. I'm getting it from a dealer which is not helping on the issue as the previous owner didn't turn it in or lost it.
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#2 Unread post by MrShake »

Lots of places... (and yr2000 is not old), I would start with your local dealer.[/list]
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#3 Unread post by sharpmagna »

Yeah if you think that's old, what do you think of the bikes owned by MrShake and I :laughing:

Online dealerships may be able to get the manual too. ServiceHonda.com can get the manual for my '87, but I luckily found it on Ebay for much cheaper.
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#4 Unread post by Shorts »

Ah you big girls! If its a US bike you can find that anywhere! :wink:

Trying finding a manual for a JPN spec bike in english, in JPN, but maybe from AU...err UK, or even Spain....psshhh - do that easily, then talk about how hard it is to find a mainstream US bike that's only 6-7 years old :roll:

Man I swear, by the time we leave here we'll be finding needles in a haystack :laughing:
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#5 Unread post by sharpmagna »

Quit your whining Shorts. The manuals are there. It's not our fault you can't read them :roll2: :roll2:
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#6 Unread post by Shorts »

:laughing:


Ohh, but I can read them :mrgreen:


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#7 Unread post by Z (fka Sweet Tooth) »

I have a copy of the manual for my 2001 800 classic on CD. PM me offline if you would like a copy of it. Im assuming that there is not much diffrence between the 2000 and 2001.
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#8 Unread post by ofblong »

instead of getting an owners manual you may be better off going to the stealer and getting a service manual. that way you have basically an owners manual along with how to correctly do your preventative maintenance :D.
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#9 Unread post by logitech104 »

or try this site they have lotsss, motorcycles too. i got mine here :bliss:
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