1984 Yamaha FJ1100
Miles: 12,774
Clean Title
Firm: $750
Pick-up in Framingham, MA
SELLER
I’ve received 250+ inquiries in less than 48hr since posting – please see answers to common questions below before messaging me!
Selling my 1984 Yamaha FJ1100 in as-is condition, title in-hand. Everything on the bike is OEM (i.e. no aftermarket pipes or other parts).
My uncle purchased the bike brand new in 1984 and rode it up through circa 2012, after which it has sat inside his – and then more recently my – garage under a cover and not since been started. It will need a full overhaul from sitting so long, and I don’t know exactly what it needs, so it’s being sold in as-is condition.
I believe I have the original manual and repair manual for the bike, as well as an original cage mount for the back of the bike (not pictured) that he purchased new but was never installed.
Take on the project that I’ve never had time to work on! Pickup and cash only, price is firm, cannot deliver, sorry!
Q&A: Was it parked with gas in the tank? Yes.
Does the key open the gas cap? Yes.
Why was it parked / why did it go from being ridden to parked? Uncle bought a Goldwing and that became his new baby.
Does it turn over? Does it shift? Does it run? It has been sitting since 2012 and not started, I do not know much else about the bike, it is being sold in as-is condition. Was running when it was parked, but that was 14 years ago.
Will you take trades? No.
Do you have the title? Yes, as described in the first sentence of the listing, and the title is clean.
Can you send more photos? Yes, but not until at least Tuesday of this week when I am back from a work trip.
Has it ever been in an accident? No, never.
Is anything broken on the bike? The bike looks mint (for its age), except there is a crack on the fiberglass toe fender on the bottom of the bike from age, not physical damage.
RSBFS
An uncle traded a sportbike for a Goldwing sometime around 2012 and this is what got left behind. Do any of our readers look for projects? Please let us know if you like seeing these posts when we find them, or not.
The FJ1100 doesn’t get talked about enough. In 1984 it basically invented the sport-touring class as we know it, full fairing, upright ergonomics, real wind protection, and a chassis built around the bodywork instead of the other way around. Cycle Guide named it Bike of the Year. Yamaha squeezed the alternator in behind the cylinders instead of hanging it off the crank end, which is why the FJ is noticeably narrower than you’d expect for an air-cooled 1097cc inline-four making 125 horsepower. That trick, and the overall formula, is a direct ancestor of the FJR1300 decades later.
This one is a genuine time capsule. One owner, sat under cover for over a decade, gas still in the tank, title clean, and the seller is refreshingly honest that it’s a project: doesn’t know if it turns over, doesn’t know if it runs, hasn’t tried. At $750 that’s priced like the sitting-project bike it is. Limited photos so far too, more coming Tuesday per the listing.
Carbs, fuel system, brakes, tires, the usual “sat for 14 years” checklist. But OEM everything, clean title, and a fender crack as the only cosmetic flaw noted is a pretty clean slate to start from.
Would you take this on for $750, or is a bike that’s been asleep since 2012 more trouble than it’s worth at any price?
Good luck to the buyer and seller!
