Damaged and Salvage Motorbikes, where from?
 

Where on earth do the insurance companies and riders sell there bikes after offs?

I want a project bike or something that just needs a little work after an accident.

Re: Damaged and Salvage Motorbikes
 

They get sold at salvage auctions, there are plenty of them on-line if you search. However, decent bikes don't get written off if they only have minor damage, IME it's nearly always more expensive to (properly) fix write offs than you would expect.

Re: Damaged and Salvage Motorbikes, where from?
 

Go on ebay, go to the "motorcycles and scooters" section, type "spares or repair" into the search bar along with a price range / your postcode and whack enter.

Re: Damaged and Salvage Motorbikes, where from?
 

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Re: Damaged and Salvage Motorbikes, where from?
 

Huskydog sv m/c salvage:)

Re: Damaged and Salvage Motorbikes, where from?
 

I don't see the attraction of buying anything from salvage dealers.They seem to want full good nick money for written off scrap.Buy privately if you want a project.

Re: Damaged and Salvage Motorbikes, where from?
 

bang on mate :)

Re: Damaged and Salvage Motorbikes, where from?
 

Absolutely.

Buy private if you have to buy at all. Personally I wouldn't bother rebuilding anything with a Cat C or D for road use or to sell on because the rebuild costs are too high and then the sale price is always too low to make it worthwhile. I'd rebuild a Cat C or D into a trackbike but that's about it.

Re: Damaged and Salvage Motorbikes, where from?
 

Not once have I ever known anybody bring a Cat C or D bike back to spec without breaking past the cost of a good second hand sale . If they did they had to cut corners with crappy spray jobs and Chinky parts off eBay .

Re: Damaged and Salvage Motorbikes, where from?
 

I rebuilt my own Cat D after it was written off. I had the fairings plastic welded, bought a new screen and levers and it was back on the road looking better than it did before it was written off. The insurance paid out 3 x times more than the buy back cost.

Re: Damaged and Salvage Motorbikes, where from?
 

I meant anyone that buys a bike from a Salvage company then tries to go back to spec , if you get offered your own then yeah , go for it .

Re: Damaged and Salvage Motorbikes, where from?
 

I buy and sell cat d bikes, they are anything but scrap. The insurers write off bikes and cars not because they are scrap but because of dealer prices and labour cost and the fact that any part with a scratch on it has to be replaced, making them uneconomical to repair.
There are tens of thousands of these vehicles on our roads today, not all sellers are honest and declare them as repaired. You also have to watch for cat x and u as these are not on any database, but are still on the road.
If you have third party insurance and drop your bike then you simply buy parts from ebay and repair it, if you have comprehensive insurance then you claim it on the insurace and they write it off and declare it cat D. The only difference between the two is that one rider had better insurance.
The salvage sites mentioned above are not true salvage sites, they buy them from the main salvage dealers and retail them to the public, so thats why you wont make money putting one of theirs back on the road.

Re: Damaged and Salvage Motorbikes, where from?
 

It's a bit different if you buy your own bike back from the insurance though; you inevitably pay a lot less then you would from a salvage dealer and you obviously know the history of the bike and it's good and bad points so you less likely to have nasty surprises when rebuilding it.

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This is the only time I'd consider it for road use. The SV650 K5S I sold to Rai86 wasn't written off but very nearly after I wedged it under a Honda Accord. I negotiated with the assessor to keep it off the register and did the work myself to keep the costs down far enough to make it viable for them to rebuild. I made money on that bike from the word go and again, it looked better after I'd rebuilt it than when I bought it.

Generally you end up paying too much for a rebuilt write-off that isn't as good as a pre-loved one.

Re: Damaged and Salvage Motorbikes, where from?
 

Have you tried here?