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Buying a salvaged motorcycle in California. The repair cost? re-register fees and all DMV fees?

January 13th, 2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

So I did a lil research and there are alot of things to do when buying a salvaged bike, to ride legally on the streets of california. I will be buying a r6 in the near future and might buy a salvaged bike and i was wondering how much of a struggle do i have to go through to legalize, to ride the bike after i bought it?

any past experiences or similar ones?

DO you know what you are doing? if you do not know how much repair that bike needs, or you do not have a machine shop and a shop full of tools, and everything from a frame jig to a welder, to spare parts, you can easily pay more for fixing it than you could have bought a good running bike that has a straight frame. Salvage bikes are no deal for the uninitiated, You need to know exactly what you are doing before buying, and there have been several horror stories in terms of people who buy salvage and cannot get the paperwork ligit. meanwhile the bike has been totaled by an insurance company for ever. Do you know what this means? it means that if you put 10 grand into it, and some old man runs you over, the insurance will not pay full price for a salvage rebuild, you may get 25 percent of value, if you are lucky. good luck,personally, I would not bet my life on a salvage bike being sound, unless I took it apart and checked every weld on that bike for cracks, I do not want a half cracked weld to come the rest of the way apart at 90 mph on the freeway someday.

  1. roger
    January 14th, 2011 at 00:39 | #1

    DO you know what you are doing? if you do not know how much repair that bike needs, or you do not have a machine shop and a shop full of tools, and everything from a frame jig to a welder, to spare parts, you can easily pay more for fixing it than you could have bought a good running bike that has a straight frame. Salvage bikes are no deal for the uninitiated, You need to know exactly what you are doing before buying, and there have been several horror stories in terms of people who buy salvage and cannot get the paperwork ligit. meanwhile the bike has been totaled by an insurance company for ever. Do you know what this means? it means that if you put 10 grand into it, and some old man runs you over, the insurance will not pay full price for a salvage rebuild, you may get 25 percent of value, if you are lucky. good luck,personally, I would not bet my life on a salvage bike being sound, unless I took it apart and checked every weld on that bike for cracks, I do not want a half cracked weld to come the rest of the way apart at 90 mph on the freeway someday.
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  2. Ashanti Macdonald
    January 14th, 2011 at 01:16 | #2

    I have a cheap form of transportation using my buddies electric bike scooters. They are handy to use for short trips.
    References :
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjab3eiWJRY

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