Sell whole or break?

[.Chris.]

Right, my CB400N Superdream has just failed its MOT in mega fashion and it's not worth repairing (there is one fault - the steering lock stop being distorted - which I doubt can be repaired).

So the question is, to break or not to break? I want to claw back as much of the £195 I paid for it as possible.

Any ideas?
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Chris
1985 Kawasaki Z550F

[S1KE]

throw it away
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[J.K.R]

Think you could be struggling to make what you've spent on it.

If you reckon its not worth your time/money repairing i'd put it in your local ad paper/gumtree as a feild bike/project
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[.Chris.]

Hmm, I'm busy totting up what the various bits seem to go for on ebay and I might be able to get £150 if I broke it.
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Chris
1985 Kawasaki Z550F

[NSR Mick]

Could you not just get another lock stop welded on?
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[garth]

I vote worlds most unlikely track bike.
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[Type_Mo]

break it mate. but remember itll take longer, and ya gotta post stuff.
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[Kal]

A steering lock isnt required for an MoT. Take it off with an Anglegrinder - job done.
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1984 GB250 Clubman,1983 CB250N Superdream, 1999 GPZ500S

[holyman]

Looks to me like he meant lock stop, not steering lock.

Is the material there to drill and put a bolt through? Would that get through the MOT?

[.Chris.]

It needs a few more things like wheel bearings, sprocket carrier and an exhaust stud replacing plus some more minor stuff.

It would probably be possible to repair the lock stop by welding it, but I can't do that myself and it would cost too much to get a garage to do it.
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1985 Kawasaki Z550F

[MaybeGuy]

hold on chris, remember i have this whole load of CB250 parts! all interchangeable with the 400...

the frame could be sorted in a slightly illegitimate fashion...
i have a CB250 frame that has no frame number (they are identical to the 400) how about swapping everything into that frame and spot welding the frame number on?

the bike also has both front and back wheels (bearings and carrier).

also... book it into the garage near me called andersons garage if you want to use these parts, they got that 400 through the MOT with rags in the fork seals
it made it from cornwall to exeter, so if you can get it to scrape a pass, its probably not going to throw you off. when they did my 400 and SRAD, they didnt even check the sprocket carrier.

i genuinely didnt know about the problems you've listed, and if you want some sort of refund ill see what i can do, its the only decent thing to do i suppose.
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[scorps]

crikey i thought you were on about a bike that cost more than pocket money at first lol
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[Gazdaman]

Another vote for build it up with weld. You'll get a whole lot more money for a bike with 12 months MOT.

Gaz