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You should never pay more than 18-21% of NADA book value for a salvage bike. $4700 is WAY TOO F**KING HIGH......
My 2011 bob has a salvage title!!! It has 372 miles on it,,,buddy got hit 2 weeks after he bought it,,,,they wouldnt budge from 5k so i paid it! Took 500 to fix her up like new..(new bike 14k) But i went all out and bought th pipe this that and some more of that so im in it alot more than 500. I didnt want it back to stock!
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Originally Posted by Vinsil
Pictures sucked, but yeah, I see more now that you pointed that out.
I think one guy on here bought a road king and put a few hundred into it to make it "streetable" again. That is who I was thinking of. It can be done, just gotta find the right deals.
That be me! Front was smooshed about like the picture. I put ~$700 in parts into it, that included paint-to-match fender, tubes, lowers, lower tree, bells. Love my bargain RKC, don't give a rip about the branded title.
If you got it for $3500 it might make a good donor for a project bike. Often when building a bike you think in terms of the largest components, like frame, motor, transmission, and primary, but it's all the little things, like brakes, rotors, pullleys (or sprockets), and oil tanks, plus hand controls, lights, etc, that take you to the poor house.
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