What do I do with an expensive babyblade?

Polarbear · Super Spammer Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Karma :

no, I won't let you take it off my hands for a tenner!!!

I bought it for my daughter and it was probably my worst buy for a bike.

£700 and got it home. Then to my friendly mechanic and £500 later for service, tyres, total overhail of brakes etc. £180 for new exhausts plus £100 for a can.

Now my daughter has given up biking Sad

She dropped her 125, then it got nicked and torched and she is now doing driving lessons.

So I have a CBR400RR NC23 that has cost me £1500+ and I still need to get it mot'd.

What do I do with it, sell it at a huge loss? Track it (do they track well) or stick it in the shed for 20 years and hope they become a collectors item.

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kestrel · Nearly there... Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Karma :

I'll take it off yer hands for a tenner Laughing

MinhDinh · World Chat Champion Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Karma :

Try a gumtree advert on what you can get for it. Juat be honest on what has been done and spent on it.

You may get a good offer right?
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Polarbear · Super Spammer Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Karma :

CaNsA · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Karma :

Pics dude.

Of the bike..... and of your daughter if they are available Wink

Im hoping to get another 400 in the next couple of months Very Happy

Sam_Y_93 · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Nov 2009 Karma :

I believe that they do take the track fairly well, may as well have some fun out of it, as you say if you sell it it will become a huge loss.

Could always put up an ad and see what sort of interest you get from it, and if something a bit closer to the 1500 mark then sell it on. Or look at what people will swap for it?

I have the same problem with my NC30, bought a poor bike spent loads of time and money on it and I still need to spend a bit more... It has now become a bike I shall never sell, and one day I will turn it into a mint example
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MinhDinh · World Chat Champion Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Karma :

Gumtree is free and you can get some good buyers.
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Teflon-Mike · tl;dr Joined: 01 Jun 2010 Karma :

Barnardo's.... see if they'll do you a trade-in.....
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Polarbear · Super Spammer Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Karma :

MinhDinh · World Chat Champion Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Karma :

No doubt that teflon is more useful than me, but surely some of he stuff he writes is irrelevant. :p
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Polarbear · Super Spammer Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Karma :

I'll try it but Ive spent a fortune on the things you dont see, brakes, exhaust tyres. Im not hopeful.
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MinhDinh · World Chat Champion Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Karma :

Polar, some things don't add value to bikes, but some do. I think you could get more for the bike by writing your extras in it.
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Polarbear · Super Spammer Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Karma :

MinhDinh · World Chat Champion Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Karma :

Do you have the old parts? Re sell the parts you bought perhaps a d hope to get 700 for the same bike. I don't think being 1 year older makes much difference on a 400 at a guess.
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CaNsA · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Karma :

Polarbear....

Dude get some pics up.
You are talking about selling it..... I will be looking to buy a 400 in about 8weeks.....

Polarbear · Super Spammer Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Karma :

CaNsA · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Karma :

That's just not good enough Wink

lozzypop1 · Certified MILF! Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Karma :

It's even a more expensive NC23. It's not a Babyblade, that was the NC29 (1992-onwards).
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Wafer_Thin_Ham · Super Spammer Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Karma :

Break it for spares?
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Carl_steveo · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Jun 2008 Karma :

I read the thread title as bayblade, I was thinking why would a grown man buy expensive beyblades. Confused

For those not in the know this is a Beyblade. https://quizilla.teennick.com/user_images/H/HU/HUN/HungryXVampire65/1188086580_esBeyblade.jpg
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Polarbear · Super Spammer Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Karma :

Pics as requested
https://img21.imageshack.us/img21/8686/1000141lm.jpg

https://img23.imageshack.us/img23/7296/1000143m.jpg

I'm waiting on the new can and rear indicators arriving.

Big_Ham, It's too nice to break and I haven't got the time or incliation to go down that route, even if it would net me more money.
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