To sell or not to sell

[masterchop]

In a bit of a quandary at the moment.

I have a few niggling problems on the bike and would prefer to spend a bit of cash on it and get it back to a good standard.

Would probably be looking at £300 to £400 worth of work.

Thing is the bike has done just under 41k. But is a quasar engine which are meant to be good for a fair bit longer with luck.

Things that need doing are:

New exhaust (never buy a GPR they are shite) and original exhaust is shagged.

Have a noisy transmission. Rattling. Its been looked at and apparently the clutch bell or something around there is worn and its the root of the noise. Its nothing to worry about but I think i'd need to spend a bit of money on getting that right. What does de-glazing the clutch actually do anyway? technically?

Last and very frustrating is the rear lights. 2 problems. 1) the two side panels held the clips that housed the area you could screw the back light plate in to. so i'd probably be looking at two new rear side panels. 2) The wiring is shagged and I have had to twist wires and solder them and then tape them up. the connectors to the real plate have broken and so some of the wires are hard soldered to the plate. I have a new wiring harness but would need a new plate. So all in all quite expensive.


So when I take that all in to consideration and with the bike having the 41K I don't want to end up spending all the money for the bike to give up in the near future.

Second option is a new bike but that would cost a lot more and I might really not need to do it.

So restore or give up? and sell as it is.

[MrGrumpy]

Well....the blunt thing is, with 41k miles, its effectively worthless - even in good nick. So the question is, do you like it enough to want to keep it? And do you like it enough to spend £3-400 quid on it? If its basically decent and you like it, you can argue that spending £400 on it is cheaper than buying something else which will cost more anyway, and might have its own problems.
But spending money on it to sell it strikes me as futile.

[masterchop]

Yeah I agree its not going to sell for much at this mileage. I wouldn't spend money on it to sell only to keep until the end.

The question is if it is worth spending the money on I guess.

Yeah I like the bike a lot apart from its faults.

Wouldn't agree it's worthless. Even broken down for spares it has a value.

[Funkycowie]

Honestly... it works, its old, so sell it as is get a few hundred for it and add that to your 400 you were going to spend on it... that'd be 800-1000 towards another bike along with what ever else you could afford and get a mk1 TMax or something.

[masterchop]

So two replies that both have different ways of going. So the quandary still exists .

Maybe I should just keep going until it dies. If I can bear the racket.

[monty9120]

i have a clutch you can buy if you want, have a spare shagged engine here with all the bits on

[ridinhigh]

i bet you could make a plate for back lights to sit on ,
exhaust will be dearest thing to buy,i reckon you will have a fair amount of change from 3 t 400 quid

[masterchop]

i have a clutch you can buy if you want, have a spare shagged engine here with all the bits on

Yeah? Cool if its in good nick I might have it. Thanks. How much would you want?

[masterchop]

i bet you could make a plate for back lights to sit on ,
exhaust will be dearest thing to buy,i reckon you will have a fair amount of change from 3 t 400 quid

Cheapest without going with poor quality is £200. And that's a turbo kit exhaust. Then going up from that arrow and gianelli under £300. Then above £300 is akropovic.

[monty9120]

its fine. my new engine came with one fitted

you can have it for 28 quid posted