Break or sale.....?

I get what you all mean about keeping an older bike on the road and costs involved, Barclays know all too well how far my Visa goes to buy parts. It's more this particular bike I've given up on I think. If it's not 1 thing it always seems to be another. I have spent countless hours cleaning, tweaking, replacing and never really making any progress. I don't think I came across the right way in my first post, sounded more like I didn't know there were costs involved or maintenance but believe me I do.

At the end of the day the bike is sitting there doing nothing and will be for the near future so I thought someone else might have time to bring it back to life better than I can. Can you see my point? I can't justify the time or costs needed until my situation improves so it'd be a crime for the bike to rot just because of that

[dizzyblonde]

The most annoying thing about any bike is when you start spending time, money and effort on something that causes it problems, not just cleaning tweeking and replacing. For a whole six months on the nine year old bike, I had a problem with blowing fuses. The damn thing had been rebuilt, polished, tweeked, mothered, pampered, and thats how she repayed me. Sometimes I could do 200 miles and then a fuse would pop, sometimes I could get to the end of the drive and a fuse would pop, I had to ride around with a bag of main fuses, sometimes I'd go through two in five seconds .....the whole wiring loom got a fine toothcomb over it by two people, several times, with every panel and sometimes subframe pulled off, to try and get the answer. Then one dry day after several hrs of frustration, and after I'd thrown my dummy out because of having to use breakdown...we found a common fault, and obvious.

I can understand when you feel like just throwing the towel in, stop spending money and just giving up, but sometimes theres a light, and you get a lovely beautiful bike again. It could happen to any bike. I had to make the decision between getting rid, or sticking with it.

Heres my thread with said bike a couple of years ago, its now the bike in my avatar that I am very proud of. I didn;t have a clue about nowt when I started it...luckily I have YC as a friend who was very patient and willing to help me out. The bike would have still been a pit if it wasn't for him. He learnt a fair bit too I don't doubt, although he was knowledgeable.

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.p...ght=suzy+bares

I suppose at the end of the day you have to physically want to do a bike up, its a flipping long haul, and its not easy. Had I not had emotional ties to this bike, I doubt I'd have spent so much money time and effort on her..and its unlikely I'll ever sell her. I don;t think I'd do it again, it gives you headache