he is talking crap down is on and to the side is off and up is reserve you can neva trust some of these shiffty no it all salesman as most of the time they no jack
I would like to know what year they stopped making cr500s they stopped making them because they were to dangerous they had to much power evil kinevil junior put a cr500 engine in a 250 frame simply because it was lighter and had plenty of grunt
could easily get over $1000 for it id say no more then $2000 i recon around $1500 is a reasonable price for someone to buy it see people these days sell there bikes or cars at the price that they have spent on it but if you spend to much its usually to hard to get it all back thats why u make...
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my bike was doin similar thing and found out it was skipping spark somewhere so i made up a new wiring lume and it was all good again let me know how you go if you try this