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Originally Posted by yorkie_chris
What's it worth then? Seen a couple of CRF450's and the like for under a grand, thought about road converting a CR500, but not enough engine braking for slidey stupidity.
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mine owes me about £5k - but there's only a handful of road legal 560SMRs out there and finding one up for sale is pretty rare
There's the usual bunch of Honda/Yamaha 450s that make good motos, KTM also do the 450/525 EXC/SMR which are basically the same engine with smaller/larger bores/strokes than the 560, both have the same frame, swingarm etc etc except the EXC comes with all the road legal kit and 21/18" knobblies whereas the SMR comes with nothing except a numberboard and a spark only electrical system. Aprilia do the SXV450/550 and they're pretty mental performance wise (70bhp+) but fragile and expensive. KTM also do the 625/660/690 SMC which is a nice road going motard and comes road legal.
At the end of the day i looked at most of them and went for the racing four stroke KTM because it's light, powerful and reliable, if i did it again i might be tempted to get a 525EXC and convert it rather than road register a race bike, but it was a learning experience
you can probably expect to pay between £2500 and £4k for one, depending on age and condition obviously, £2.5k will probably need a bit of TLC, £4k will get you a minter