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Selling a bespoke / custom motorcycle (UK) - Websites?
Gruffalo Soldier
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My next door neighrbour has asked me to advertise and sell his custom motorcycle as he no longer has the money to support the (long-running!) project. He has put his heart into this bike over a great many years so I want to get him the best deal on it, as well as hopefully have it go to somebody who will appreciate the bike for what it is and complete the project.
The bike has a Honda CBX 1000cc engine and a bespoke frame designed around it by a well known man in the industry, and is genuinely unique to my (admittedly untrained) eye.
Given that the bike and I are both in England, does anybody have any recommendations as to good 'specialist' websites to advertise on, as well as the more obvious eBay / Gumtree / Craigslist / Autotrader. He esitmates the bike is about 70% complete, just needing a petrol tank, seat, brake discs and levers, and the electrics to make it run.
Basically, the advert needs to get to people who will know what they are doing and who will be capable of seeing the project through to completion, rather than the average Joe who wants a motorbike to drive home from the sale.
I have a great deal of of pictures and such but I don't want to turn this post into an advert for the bike so I will leave it at that!
tl;dr - I need to sell an incomplete custom Honda, in England. Any recommendations for websites that will get to a specific audience?
Thanks in advance for any advice!
The bike has a Honda CBX 1000cc engine and a bespoke frame designed around it by a well known man in the industry, and is genuinely unique to my (admittedly untrained) eye.
Given that the bike and I are both in England, does anybody have any recommendations as to good 'specialist' websites to advertise on, as well as the more obvious eBay / Gumtree / Craigslist / Autotrader. He esitmates the bike is about 70% complete, just needing a petrol tank, seat, brake discs and levers, and the electrics to make it run.
Basically, the advert needs to get to people who will know what they are doing and who will be capable of seeing the project through to completion, rather than the average Joe who wants a motorbike to drive home from the sale.
I have a great deal of of pictures and such but I don't want to turn this post into an advert for the bike so I will leave it at that!
tl;dr - I need to sell an incomplete custom Honda, in England. Any recommendations for websites that will get to a specific audience?
Thanks in advance for any advice!
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I'm just hoping to get as good a price for him as possible but I know bugger all about motorbikes and where to market it.
Is it even running, and road-registered?
£1000 if so.
His best bet would be parting it out, I would think. I would just go to the forums frequented by guys who like the old CBs. I don't have a CB but this is where I would start with a google search for "Honda CB forum" and start poking around there.
Thanks for the advice for the Google searching. Given the first hit was 'cbxworld.com' I think we can agree that my Google-Fu is weak today!
That's the same angle they came out of the original bike at, so probably? If the engine has been sitting for a long time, you'd need to 'kit' them all, though.
So it was. I am not familiar at all with the CBX (that is a lot of cylinders!). I thought the engine had been rotated forward a bit.