Two choices...
Good project... Piece it together using the route you outline and keep it for the foreseeable... It will be satisfiying, potentially annoying and usually about break even territory overall...
Fix it up as you outline and sell it on... possibly... and I mean possibly for a bit of a profit... Imagine trying to sell it on here with the UKGSer interrogation team at the ready... Or eBlag it with the usual crowd of chancers with the few potential buyers for a cheap Adventure... You would have to duck a few questions and if the buyer found out down the line, possibly a few more...
I and everyone else can readily check the MOT history of the donor bike before purchase of your completed project and see what doesn't fit the story...
Your choice... I have bought a Cat C...(old style)... It had obviously had a heavy frontal in a previous life and had 20k in its repaired state... There were a few niggles to sort out and it never felt totally right...
I have worked at a dealer where a demo bike was significantly written off in a rear end shunt... Sold off to a breaker who then lashed it up and sold it on... Irate buyer turns up at our door and starts wading into us until directly educated into the fact the bike left the dealership in two bits on a forklift... It was a lash of mismatched bits, cracked gearbox mounts etc etc...
If you buy inspect carefully if you want a full bike in the future... The bits are worth the asking price though if you potentially wanted to be a DIY breaker...
Eyes wide open etc...
Good project... Piece it together using the route you outline and keep it for the foreseeable... It will be satisfiying, potentially annoying and usually about break even territory overall...
Fix it up as you outline and sell it on... possibly... and I mean possibly for a bit of a profit... Imagine trying to sell it on here with the UKGSer interrogation team at the ready... Or eBlag it with the usual crowd of chancers with the few potential buyers for a cheap Adventure... You would have to duck a few questions and if the buyer found out down the line, possibly a few more...
I and everyone else can readily check the MOT history of the donor bike before purchase of your completed project and see what doesn't fit the story...
Your choice... I have bought a Cat C...(old style)... It had obviously had a heavy frontal in a previous life and had 20k in its repaired state... There were a few niggles to sort out and it never felt totally right...
I have worked at a dealer where a demo bike was significantly written off in a rear end shunt... Sold off to a breaker who then lashed it up and sold it on... Irate buyer turns up at our door and starts wading into us until directly educated into the fact the bike left the dealership in two bits on a forklift... It was a lash of mismatched bits, cracked gearbox mounts etc etc...
If you buy inspect carefully if you want a full bike in the future... The bits are worth the asking price though if you potentially wanted to be a DIY breaker...
Eyes wide open etc...
