£500 bike?

[rac3r]

Is it possible to get a decentish bike for about £500? and by decent I mean mechanically and good C&S, Tyres etc. Don't really mind about the cosmetics for now
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[arry]

A few years ago I sold my perfectly useable condition GPZ500 for a couple of hundred rubs over that, so I'd go with yes.

[grant965]

[garth]

I sold a fully functional xj600n for £400, OTR too.

So yes, but look for the non popular choices.
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[deleted111]

About £500?

My CG cost me £530. Never once let me down, spot on. Put 15k on it and it's still going strong, use it as my work bike at the minute.

ZZR250, £650. Was fine, until it died.

ER5, £695. Fitted a new fuel tap and it's spot on now, no issues whatsoever.

[Dazbo666]

I bought my first bike, a GPZ500, for £495 - see the original pics as it was when I bought it
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[rac3r]

Thanks for the replies, what kind of bikes should I be looking at? Wouldn't mind something semi interesting

GPZ
XJ?
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[Frost]

[0l0dom0l0]

If you can hang on a bit... I might be selling my cbr.

All the consumeables are good.

I threw it down the road the other week on a roundabout. Was going a little to quick for the cold conditions.

As such the right hand side is a little scratched up (had a crash bung so its not to bad).

Hit the kerb with a bit of speed but not to much. I need to check that everything is still straight and check it runs but if it does and I decide to sell it I'll let you know.

It only owes me £500 so as long as I get my money back I'm not bothered.
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[Pernig]

At this kind of price point you want to be looking at the condition of the bikes rather than the specific model. You can't afford to be picky. Someone on here said a good example of a shit bike is better than a shit example of a good bike.

An unrestricted licence helps as it will open up your feasible choices drastically. For instance an XJ900 probably wouldn't be worth paying £500 then chucking money at it to restrict it, whereas 500 on the road and the freedom to ride it straight home would make it a decent buy.

While 125s might be cheaper to run the purchase price of these bikes is inflated which offsets this. I reckon this is going to become an even bigger problem once the new licencing laws kick in.
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[Pol Anorl]

Its not too hard, £600 is a better price for a decent bike.

Xj, bros, ntv, cbr 400, gpz you can pick up for <600 in a half decent condition.
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[rac3r]

Im not on a restricted license.

That CBR sounds interesting, im not in any rush as im busy for about a month and then I should be looking to get something hopefully.

I get what you mean about looking at the condition first at this price though
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[Bomberman]

My GPZ (see sig) cost me £500 - but then some for fixing. Just saw an identical one - year, colour everything - go for £130 on eBay. Exhaust was blowing and there was an intermittent ignition issue apparently but still! T&T! Kicking myself for not grabbing it for a donor for mine
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[0l0dom0l0]

DW I'll pm.
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[Maruchino]

[Bomberman]

[Reid]

As others have said, do-able but getting quite hard. If you want specific models to look for, XJ's are a decent starting point. The pre-divvy ones could almost be considered 'fun' too

[Rogerborg]

[Moxey]

£500 got me my MZ skorpion (got a pic in profile), usually bargains like that I find you hear by word of mouth or local ads hell just a few months ago I was asking on here about a running/road ready VF500 interceptor going for £325.

Tends to be either older models of common bikes or rare unheard of models like those I just mentioned that go for low prices.
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