The cheapest bike you've ever bought

[GeorgeB.]

After picking up my latest bike for £550, which I thought was a fantastic deal, I was wondering what the cheapest fully working bike you'd ever bought was.

Here's mine (not actually my bike in the picture)
1994 Honda CB400SF Project Big One. Wapanese import, absolutely fantastic bike

https://img413.imageshack.us/img413/9190/9cb400sf2005.jpg

What's yours?
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Current: '99 Fazer 600 | '99 Range Rover P38 4.6 HSE
Previous: Keeway TX125 | CBF 125 | CB400SF Project Big One
CBT 04/12/12 | Theory 03/12/13 | MOD 1 06/01/14 | MOD 2 13/01/14

[nowhere.elysium]

125 Superdream, £160. Worst purchase I've ever made.
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'10 SV650SF, '83 GS650GT (it lives!), Questionable DIY dash project, 3D Printer project, Lasercutter project

[P.addy]

Good choice Colonel.

Cheapest, Bandit 400, free. Worst purchase.
Cheapest after, I suppose, working, KH125, £180.

[GeorgeB.]

Why were they so bad?
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Current: '99 Fazer 600 | '99 Range Rover P38 4.6 HSE
Previous: Keeway TX125 | CBF 125 | CB400SF Project Big One
CBT 04/12/12 | Theory 03/12/13 | MOD 1 06/01/14 | MOD 2 13/01/14

[nowhere.elysium]

Because it's a superdream; lardy and underpowered by 125 standards, which isn't that great a combination. That and the fact that it was suffused with knackered screws, and had thirty-year-old electrics.
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'10 SV650SF, '83 GS650GT (it lives!), Questionable DIY dash project, 3D Printer project, Lasercutter project

[Nick 50]

£200

https://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn6/ElScampio/541006_10151388102157037_1256157742_n_zps2be5036f.jpg

Stood 3 years. Put some fresh fuel in, fired up instantly! Though brakes seized and fuel tank leaks. But wont take much to get back on the road.
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Current Bikes: ZX7r 97 (Black Beauty), VFR400 NC24 (The banana)
Previous Bikes: Aprilia Tuono 03 (The Beast), CBR600f (97)
First bike: A GZ125 Lemon.......

[nowhere.elysium]

[pepperami]

Cheapest road going bike that was all there and worked = CZ 125 for £65

Bestest cheap buy = Suzuki PE 250 with a tuned engine and a Bing carb (kin ell! that thing was dam quick) £150
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I am the sum total of my own existence, what went before makes me who I am now!

[kerr]

£550 for the af1, with a 3 month old MOT(dodgy one) as there was a hell of a lot needing fixed.
A lot of time money and effort turned it from this :
https://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii265/BIGKERR/photobucket-30073-1365977399499.jpg

To this :
https://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii265/BIGKERR/20130806_125501.jpg
The amount that needed replaced/fixed the bike actually cost me a fair wedge.
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aprilia 125 Af1 Futura >> Suzuki gsxr 600 srad >> J1 zx6r >> cbr 600rr >> Speed Triple

[P.addy]

[Poseidon]

I'm yet to buy a bike that doesn't need work to get it on the road.

Bought the trumpet for £700, cost me around 200 to get an MOT on it. Brilliant purchase. Great bike, lovely to ride, easy enough to work on, easy to get parts. She's showing signs of her age now though and is awaiting a strip down to get her purdy and purring again.

Bought the ZX9r from boundy on here for a good price, he'd fallen off it. Can't remember how much it cost to get it back into one piece, but it wasn't much. Then I fell off it. It's still in storage in Ireland. It only needs a couple of parts to get it rolling again, I really should make arrangements to get it home.

I'm genuinely excited about the day I hand over money for a motorbike, get given the keys and ride away.
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1977 Honda CG125
2002 Ducati Monster S4 (currently restoring)

[SteveZZR]

CG 125
£80 and some car speakers.
https://youtu.be/amSv66yOTno

Fantastic fun machine!

[The Shaggy D.A.]

CB100N cost me £385, but I did swap it for the CB250RS once I passed my test.
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Chances are quite high you are not in my Monkeysphere, and I don't care about you. Don't take it personally.
Currently : Royal Enfield 350 Meteor
Previously : CB100N > CB250RS > XJ900F > GT550 > GPZ750R/1000RX > AJS M16 > R100RT > Bullet 500 > CB500 > LS650P > Bullet Electra X & YBR125 > Bullet 350 "Superstar" & YBR125 Custom > Royal Enfield Classic 500 Despatch Limited Edition (28 of 200) & CB Two-Fifty Nighthawk > ER5

[Kai.Wilson]

[mudcow007]

£100 royal ponds

https://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/mudcow007/20130611_200146_zps39358646.jpg

[UnspeedySam]

Some serious bargains in here. A bandit for £100, what's the catch!?

Cheapest bike I've bought is my Bros 400 in 2010. £330 with what must have been a dodgy MOT. Needed a new battery, brake rebuild all round, carb cleaning and tyres to replace the rock hard ones on it from 1998!

Since then it's needed basic servicing and a couple of valve seals when it started burning loads of oil. That was surprisingly easy to do. I commute on it every day and still love it.
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Riding: BMW R1150RT `02 bought mildly crashed
Fixing: Also the BMW as I get less broken bits
Gone: ZZR600 '00, TRX850 '97, RXS100 '93, JS125-6B '07, BMW R1100RS '93, Kawasaki ZX-6R-J2 '01, Honda Bros NT400 NC25 '88

[stinkwheel]

I was given this for free by my local motorcycle mechanic who was doing a shed clearout:
https://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/stinkwheel/front.jpg
https://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/stinkwheel/left.jpg

Some assembly required. About a days work as it turns out. Too it back to him for an MOT the following weekend:
https://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/stinkwheel/onroad.jpg

Pained it and did a few rally on it.
https://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/stinkwheel/paintjob.jpg

Piece of shit and far too expensive. I should have held out for another £20.
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Clutchy]

£150 for a Suzuki 2006 AY50 moped, had to re-build it two weeks after.


Had a viper exhaust on it though
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Malaguti F12 Phantom-Dead, Suzuki AY50- Dead, NRG power DD LQ, CBR125.
*33 BHP restriction up on 10/12/14* Current bikes/car: SV 650 S/ MKIV GOLF
Guide to pass your test with no lessons!

[UnspeedySam]

Yeah I lied actually. Cheapest bike I've got is my MZ ETZ 251 for £180. But it was stolen recovered and still has a LOT wrong with it. Never again shall I buy a soviet bike. NEVER!!!
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Riding: BMW R1150RT `02 bought mildly crashed
Fixing: Also the BMW as I get less broken bits
Gone: ZZR600 '00, TRX850 '97, RXS100 '93, JS125-6B '07, BMW R1100RS '93, Kawasaki ZX-6R-J2 '01, Honda Bros NT400 NC25 '88

[FergieinFranc...]

BSA Bantam, paid £2.50....Past me test on it..1964..

Px'd it for a Norton 88, got a fiver for it.....
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You don't scare me....I've got a daughter...

[mudcow007]

oh an i also got given this

https://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/mudcow007/20130831_193643_zps2777bd73.jpg


https://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/mudcow007/20130831_193648_zpsb6b7456e.jpg

https://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/mudcow007/20130831_193700_zps8d22d34d.jpg

https://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/mudcow007/20130831_193653_zpsc67af210.jpg


as the kids would say...."it's sick lad"

[Fladdem]

CHeapest My latest GPZ550, free, although isn't without flaw

Next, my old C70, £50, fresh plug and fuel, second kick!
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Current:1991 Honda MT50 (Soon to be a H100/MTX/MT5 hybrid), 1976 Honda Cub C70, 2005 Honda Varadero 125, 1993 Yamaha TTR250 Open Enduro , 2010 Road Legal Stomp YX140, 1994 Honda CRM 250 MK III, 1999 Cagiva Mito 125, 1992 Honda CB400 Super Four, Stomp T4 230, 1984 Honda H100s, 2009 Sym XS125K
Past:2003 Aprilia RS125, 1982 Kawasaki GPZ550(FREE BIKE!)
I'm having more fun than a well-oiled midget.

[kawashima]

Used NS50F for 600. It was really fun toy.
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own:2020 Serow 250
owned: 2012 YB125SP, 2008 TDM900, 2005 W650, 2002 LS125R, 2002 CB400SF, NS50F, C50 / Trip to UK(2009), Hokkaido touring(2013)

[Renegade]

I got an XS400 for £20 after selling the spares. Still need to build a bike out of it.

[N cee thirty]

Yamaha Rxs 100 for £180 or around that, later sold for £430 after spending about the same again on it, so made abit of profit on it.

https://i825.photobucket.com/albums/zz176/robyarr/bike%20stuff/DSC00907.jpg

https://i825.photobucket.com/albums/zz176/robyarr/1503326_10202267611765068_748276857_zpsa3f52f99.jpg
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'00 Aprilia RS50 > '92 Honda CG > '99 Yamaha Fazer > '91 Yamaha RXS > '79 Suzuki X5 > 01' Honda Cg > 07' Honda Cg > 82' Kawasaki Z200 > suzuki gsxr 400 gk73a > honda vfr 400 NC30 Mod 2 Passed 09/06/2011

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