What would you do?

[Nick 50]

So I have a bit of a dilemma and wanted others opinion.

I have a ZX7r which I bought a couple of years ago for £1250. It has been very reliable and ridden all year round, its my daily workhorse.

2 years of british winters have been fantastic for kawasaki's quality....

The bike needs a major overhaul and would like to do the following:

Stainless Exhaust System
Valve Clearances
CCT
Calipers
Chain and Sprocket
Tyres
Rear Hugger

Never done Valve clearances or the CCT before and don't have the time to do it myself, so would get it done at the garage.

All in, i'm looking at a bill of over £1000 to get the bike to a decent standard.

This leaves me with the conundrum of:

1. Get the work done and carry on.

2. Sell bike as is for £600'ish add on the £1000 and maybe another £500 giving me a budget of £2100.

Over the winter I saw loads of options with that budget, but coming up decent weather and the prices getting hiked up.

So what would you do??
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[BravoCharlie]

if it were me and I felt like i had both the cash and £650 worth out of the bike, i'd sell it for the £600 and buy something else, but I'd buy soon as i found last year prices shot up around Easter time!
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[Nick 50]

[Beehive Bedlam]

Sell it and buy another if you like it so much you are contemplating blowing a grand on it.

[bikertomm]

That's a tough one.

I'm in a (kind of) similar position myself. Everything needs doing at once.

But it has FSH so I shouldn't lose that much overall anyway, and will get the whole of summers use out of it - justifying it to myself.

I say watch a few bikes you would want on ebay now, and if you really want a new one just do it.
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[P.]

600 sounds good. Buy it now.

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Teflon-Mike]

It does the job you need it to do; you are happy enough with it, giv or take as is; you know what's good about it; you know what's ot so good about it; you have the cash to sort out the not so good you are'n't so happy with.....

What you can crape together to get something else, is only going to be the start, and takes a good few months and a fair few miles for you to get a handle on what you bought; start a 'jobs list' ad then start de-niggling it, hoping you take more jobs of the list than you add as you go.

Why go buy problems?

THAT is what the sensible side of me says, and it usually wins out... which is why still have the trials bike I bought n 1985, and I'm still riding the same road bike after ten years..... and every time I see "Shiny".. it sort of looks at me with Droopy-Dawg eyes and makes me feel guilty that I might even THINK of replacing it.... a-n-d s-o the collection of scrap interesting and quirky 'classics' grows

Bottom line; do you WANT a change?

If so cash out as best as; buyers are unlikely to value your effort to fit new bits, any ore highly than they will the new bits, that'll be 'second hand' moment you open the packet... then go see what you can get.. b-u-t.. hold back enough for that soon as you get it home service and the end of the first moth de-niggle week-end.. cos its an unknown quantity and they ALWAYS seem to want 'something' as you get familiar with'em.

If not, stick with it and enjoy the familiarity of a long term relationship with the thing, rather than Paddy-Flings.
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[Ste]

Sell it and buy something else.

[Wull]

Try and do a swap with someone as well,they might want to downgrade,need a bit of cash etc.

Someone who can do the work themselves will manage that all themselves,easy.
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