Project ?

[JackDaniels]

hi guys

my mate has just done his full lisence and got a cb1 400 he said i can have his 125 scooter Honda NES125 for £100


The scooter has alot of fairing damage but has just had an engine rebuild do you think this could be a good project as im not 17 till august ?

If so where would i go about getting some plastics ?
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[Frost]

Engine rebuild is of course a good thing, but at that price i'd expect lots of things wrong with it. Provided it is all alright and just needs plastics, ebay will be the place to get them. Perfect condition plastics will cost a fair bit, but you could possibly get some scrtached ones and spray them or something.

[Teflon-Mike]

Project bikes often dont work out any cheaper than buying a runner, and if its not a bike you'd actually buy, as a runner, you could be just wasting time, money and effort for no real saving, and little joy at the end.

But, if pennies are tight, and it is a bike you'd consider, and you fancy the challenge of a project... AFTER working out the odds and changes and pottential costs..... go for it.

Remember, get that bike now, and by the time you are ready to ride it, it'll probably need MOTing and Taxing which adds £50 to the price, before anything else, and risk that you'll have 'hassle' if you've missed anything fundemental, important or just plain silly in the build.

As for the plastics. On a budget build, and with eight or nine months before its shceduled for the road.... personally I'd buy a cheap soldering iron, save scrap plastic, learn to plastic weld, apply patience, and use it as a way to while away long winter evenings of being broke, saving up the pennies for the expensive stuff.

Boring, but compared to playing X-Box at least you have something to show for it at the the end of the milenium!
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[N cee thirty]

is that the honda dylan by any chance ?

such a ''granny'' scooter its unreal,a mate has one and he gets lol'd at,even by the girls
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[Teflon-Mike]

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