Worth fixing and restoring? Curvy.

Guys i have a massive (well.. to me) dilemma. My head is saying no but my heart and the sentimental value atatched says yes.

I have a 1999 curvy. 44300 miles on it. The body work is tatty as hell (cracks scuffs and scrapes) , the forkseals keep blowing on it although theres no
Pitting on the stanchions. Its leaking from the RH crank case (not from the plastic clutch cover but the side casing itself), the chain abd sprockets are fooked and its started backfiring again even though the carbs were stripped, cleaned and rebuilt only a few months ago. Ontop of that the callipers both front and rear need refurbed and new pads.

A long list of jobs to do as you can see.

I only bought the bike for £650. But from pricing up replacement parts alone ill be the guts of £600, which my brain says just punt it for pennies as the rapairs are almost what i paid for it. However i have a big sentimental atattchment to it (rode it 3000 miles round the UK in 7 days) which where my heart says restore it to ita former glory.

If you were in a similar position what would you do?
What is everyones opinions on doing a full on restoration?

[Bibio]

if you have the cash then move on.

[maviczap]

As Bib says

Turn it into a track bike is another option

[Crawling Finn]

If you would enjoy doing it up then go for it. Economically it won't make sense.
I keep my bikes going to 100K then sell them to breakers. £750 for CBR600F. Surely your SV would be worth more than that.

[andrewsmith]

Get rid or track bike
I've got a nice yellow sv for sale

[littleoldman2]

I agree with them both, sell it and buy another for £650.
I've seen many restorations turn into money pits.

[Bibio]

if you keep it then make it something special like TamSV's bike, that was worth being a money pit

[NTECUK]

Take some pics and out it

[Jayneflakes]

If you restore it to standard, it will still only be an old curvy, not worth very much and nothing special. There is still life in that engine and a major service could do it wonders, but is it really worth the effort involved in restoring it to standard?

I have a battered old K3, less than 30K on the clock and clear signs of having been used. However I have turned it into a bit of a project that suits me perfectly, customising where I can and replacing some of the parts. Chucking the amount of money at it that I have was a financial mistake, I will never recover what I have spent, but I have thoroughly enjoyed every moment of the build. It will never look like a standard K3 ever again and it has taken many months to get to where I am now.

Rebuilding a bike is a slow expensive process. When you start stripping them down, you find things that are worn out and so you replace them, then you change another part that is connected to that first bit and within three hours shopping on E-Bay you will have spent on one system what you wanted to pay on the whole bike.

Good luck

If it runs well eg no untoward rattles etc, I would say build something a bit special. You will never get back what you spent on it but you will enjoy doing it as a project. If you do things in such a way it can be put back to standard trim in later years it could become a future "classic", just look at the price of 70's 80's bikes fizzies for one, they go for £3000+ (for a moped)! Just my opinion.