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mike the bike:
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Tomb:
The engine looks salvageable, I've got worse running again.

Last night I did 120 miles on an engine that was left outside for years with no starter motor or s'plugs, it was seized, full of water, snapped off spark plug in one cylinder and a bent valve, all it cost me to repair was a new set of valve guide seals and a WHOLE LOT of work. I certainly think theres £50 - £100 in this heap of junk if looking at it that way.

Its local to me too, if I was looking for a 750 motor I'd be bidding.

I guess my standards are a lot lower than everyone here, but a running engine is another one saved.

florence:
I admire your optimism, anything that can be saved from land-fill is a bonus.  I feel bad now, think I might have to go and get my 500/4 wheels from the scrap pile and put them back in the workshop, they're much better than the ones on the ebay bike.

Johnny4428:
That reminds me of a C90 someone delivered to me some time ago, put some petrol in and hooked up a battery and started and ran sweetly. The PO assured me that it hadn’t run for 30 years, took the engine out and dumped the rest. Ironically delivered to the recycling centre, can they recycle rust?

Tomb:
Predominantly members here do restorations, fair play to you all, I love looking at them and I'm glad someone is saving these bikes in standard trim. However that costs LOTS! as we all know. There are folk like me who love old bikes, I too have done ground up resto's costing a fortune but also take beyond salvageable economically and physically examples like this and build customs out of them.

Bearing that in mind, imagine you want to build a cheap chopper, have a CB750 hardtail frame bought cheap (probably from someone on here ;D) and you need an engine, wheel hubs, brakes + M/C, a few bits n' pieces like engine brackets/bolts, solenoid, yokes, coils, maybe even salvage the exhaust downpipes.........

It starts to look like £100 worth of bits all of a sudden.

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