Bike Breakers

[Jewlio Rides Again LLB]

Over the last week or so I've visited a couple of breakers, one which I got my first ever bike from (a 125LC), and one which is well known up here for being a bit dodge. Both used to have a good selection of whole bikes they took in px or whatever, and were punting them out again at relatively reasonable prices.

Now there's maybe a half dozen bikes in each, nothing overly interesting in either. Is this the end of finding a bargain in the breakers yard?
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[Skudd]

Was the dodgy one Blacks by any chance?
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[Sister Sledge]

Memories of Westgate Road, Newcastle.
Go in for a mirror for an LC but they don't have one - they tell you to come back in 30 minutes and they'll have one for you. Parts stolen to order..

I've seen similar in breakers too. I'm wondering if actual car breakers/scrap yards get bikes in and sell for cheaper prices these days?
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CCM 404 DS

[Easy-X]

Maybe they're all getting sold on-line before they get a chance to sit about?
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[pepperami]

There’s not half the number of bike breaker as there used to be.
We have one around here , sadly he wants silly money for anything and is absolutely no help whatsoever.

I bought from him once, he’s such a shark, I vowed never to buy from him again.

There’s one in Colchester that’s a bit bigger and has a few more bikes, but I’ve never bought from them.
A few mates have bought from them and not complained.
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[BenR]

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[chickenstrip]

[Sister Sledge]

You have no idea how hot LCs of any size became. Have another true story:
Went with a mate to Westgate Road on our 125s. He had a two week old LC125 - a white one. We parked in bike spaces on a normal week day and locked them up with chains.
We'd been gone 15 minutes and returned to see my bike with the cut chain hanging through it and his bike gone. Nearby, a breakers shop had two lads stood in their doorway looking over and laughing.
Mate was frantic and it was obvious who was linked to the theft but the police didn't want to know - bike could have been taken away by a van anyway.
That mate never bothered with bikes again.

Afraid I can't help with other breaker ideas but do feel that they've time on their hands and basically restore/rebuild some bikes they get just so they can survive and still trade?
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[Polarbear]

Westgate road.

Bought my Suzy GT500 from a shop up there in 1976 or 77. It had issues from day one but as soon as it was out the shop they didn't want to know.

Mind you, that was probably the norm with bike shops back then, customer service?

As for bike breakers, I have never used them as I'm sure half the stolen bikes ended up there, especially before ebay became popular.
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[chickenstrip]

[Sister Sledge]

Have another LC story:
A mate had a black 350 (non-powervalve) and it was stolen from his work place one evening (a ship yard near Wallsend. Says it all).
Insurers paid out, he went to cars instead and forgot about it.
Must have been 15 years later and the police contacted him. A force somewhere down south, Kent comes to mind, had raided a repairs workshop for vehicles - cars, bikes etc. Among the crap lying around, they'd found a bunch of cut out engine numbers from various machines. My friends LC350 engine number had been found and police were simply following up things - in the days when they did!
The workshop were stupid for even holding onto those numbers mind. Makes me wonder why they even thought it a sensible idea..
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[chickenstrip]

I really can't think of any other bike that compares to the phenomenon (there really is no other word for it) of the RD-LC.
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[pepperami]

Two sides to every coin and all that.
In all the time I had my RD 250lc it never got vandalised or as far as I am aware no one tried to steal it.
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