cb500

Peeps I now have a spare cb500 with 7 thou miles. Just wondering if I break it can I make any money atall on it. The faring is pretty poor with cracks and broken tags. the rolling chassis has a nice DHL reg and gold wheels the electrics seem good and every thing works. The forks have some corrosion but the travel area is good. Please let me know is it worth breaking or should I try to get the bits and build it into a road bike again without the fairing.
               Joe

Build it back, the world needs more cb500’s on the road…..

With such low mileage you would have thought that it was worth it to get it back on the road

Rob the dog wrote:Build it back, the world needs more cb500’s on the road…..

Rob the dog
Thanks for that. Yes it is a nice bike and sounds really sweet one carb needs tuning. But it is finding the bits these days. I am sure you have seen how long i searched for a tank for my 500 and the only one i got was as bad.
            Joe

Al1040 wrote:With such low mileage you would have thought that it was worth it to get it back on the road

Al1040
Again it is finding bits. I searched for ages for a tank and in the end purchased this one just for the tank. But i may end up keeping it if no one is interested.
                         Joe.

Can't disagree with you on that one Joe, esp as they are getting a little long in the tooth!
A ready spares pool might just be the job then as you have said finding the parts is becoming tricky, so there should be a reasonable market for them?
I may need a few bits once I get hold of the old mans bike and start its restoration (thankfully should not need a tank,fingers crossed).

Al1040 wrote:Can't disagree with you on that one Joe, esp as they are getting a little long in the tooth!
A ready spares pool might just be the job then as you have said finding the parts is becoming tricky, so there should be a reasonable market for them?
I may need a few bits once I get hold of the old mans bike and start its restoration (thankfully should not need a tank,fingers crossed).

Al1040
Thanks for that. I am told by just about everyone that the tank over flow breaking is very rear and almost unheard of. I was just a tad unlucky. But sure if you let me know later and I have the bike and decide to break then we can talk.
                   Joe.

If you do decide to break it, I would be interested in the indicators if their original ones and undamaged.

You might be able to make some money if you break it, but there will be a fair bit of work involved (not necessarily with the dismantling, but all the ebay selling/posting etc that is required to get rid of all the bits) so it might not work out well in a £-per-hour type way.

So, personally, I wouldn't break it unless you really need the money (as others have said it is better keeping it on the road).

Assuming you don't fancy keeping it for spares, then you might as well get it go well (even if the cosmetics are somewhat challenged), get it legally on the road and sell it to someone who wants it - if ebay is to be believed then even the ugly ones sell well.

eternally_troubled wrote:You might be able to make some money if you break it, but there will be a fair bit of work involved (not necessarily with the dismantling, but all the ebay selling/posting etc that is required to get rid of all the bits) so it might not work out well in a £-per-hour type way.

So, personally, I wouldn't break it unless you really need the money (as others have said it is better keeping it on the road).

Assuming you don't fancy keeping it for spares, then you might as well get it go well (even if the cosmetics are somewhat challenged), get it legally on the road and sell it to someone who wants it - if ebay is to be believed then even the ugly ones sell well.

eternally_troubled.
I would love to keep it bit don't have the space to store it. And there are people out there that can do this great bike justice. It was well kept at one time.
                Joe

Rob the dog wrote:If you do decide to break it, I would be interested in the indicators if their original ones and undamaged.

Rob the dog
Yes will keep that in mind
              Joe.

Rob the dog wrote:Build it back, the world needs more cb500’s on the road…..

Just have not got the time
                Joe

Al1040 wrote:With such low mileage you would have thought that it was worth it to get it back on the road

Yes it's a job for someone who has the time and passion.
                 Joe

eternally_troubled wrote:You might be able to make some money if you break it, but there will be a fair bit of work involved (not necessarily with the dismantling, but all the ebay selling/posting etc that is required to get rid of all the bits) so it might not work out well in a £-per-hour type way.

So, personally, I wouldn't break it unless you really need the money (as others have said it is better keeping it on the road).

Assuming you don't fancy keeping it for spares, then you might as well get it go well (even if the cosmetics are somewhat challenged), get it legally on the road and sell it to someone who wants it - if ebay is to be believed then even the ugly ones sell well.

Used to do eBay till i sold a set of engine cases for a T140E to a creep in Glasgow. He sent eBay some pictures of damaged cases which i believe were his own  he wouldn't show the crank numbers and eBay would not check  he refused to return them even if i paid and eBay backed him with the aid of PayPal I lost my cases and my money so its the last time they will do that to me.

If you don't do ebay then it might take you even longer to get rid of the bits So it's probably best to try and sell it.

You said you haven' t the space to do it up. Does it actually go at all?

If you can get it to the point where it will get to the MOT place 'under its own steam' (and get an MOT) then it will be worth (I reckon) about x1.5 or x2 what it is worth without one... don't worry at all about anything other than getting it there are passing the test - the cosmetics can be sorted by the next owner - if you have to gaffer tape (or cable tie) things on then so be it.

Where would we be without cable ties….. surely one of the best ever inventions known to man

eternally_troubled wrote:If you don't do ebay then it might take you even longer to get rid of the bits  So it's probably best to try and sell it.

You said you haven' t the space to do it up.  Does it actually go at all?

If you can get it to the point where it will get to the MOT place 'under its own steam' (and get an MOT) then it will be worth (I reckon) about x1.5 or x2 what it is worth without one...  don't worry at all about anything other than getting it there are passing the test - the cosmetics can be sorted by the next owner - if you have to gaffer tape (or cable tie) things on then so be it.

Eternally Troubled.
Yes it runs really sweet and has mot till mid 2022. All in all it is a nice bike and was well kept once and not to long ago.
                Joe.

If you were anywhere near to me I'd be all over this. I'd say advertised at your asking price on the local tree of gum you will get plenty of interest and without much further ado a buyer at the price you've offered here to members, at least.

joe mc donald wrote:

eternally_troubled wrote:If you don't do ebay then it might take you even longer to get rid of the bits  So it's probably best to try and sell it.

You said you haven' t the space to do it up.  Does it actually go at all?

If you can get it to the point where it will get to the MOT place 'under its own steam' (and get an MOT) then it will be worth (I reckon) about x1.5 or x2 what it is worth without one...  don't worry at all about anything other than getting it there are passing the test - the cosmetics can be sorted by the next owner - if you have to gaffer tape (or cable tie) things on then so be it.

Eternally Troubled.
Yes it runs really sweet and has mot till mid 2022. All in all it is a nice bike and was well kept once and not to long ago.
                Joe.

I've seen the pictures (see the for sale section) - I don't think you'll have a problem selling it. The only snag is that, if you don't want to use ebay, you need to advertise it somewhere else - so that would be facebook marketplace (I don't like facebook, but lots of people do...) or gumtree (as someone else said).