Salvage bike auctions

[Callum.mullac675]

Hi all
I’m after a project bike. Been watching too much YouTube and I want to get a project bike.
What good sites are there?
Copart is overpriced and I don’t understand how people can make decent money of it
IAA is good but not many bikes
EBay again is over priced
Facebook marketplace is full of time wasters
Gumtree hasn’t got anything good at the moment
What else is there ?
Thanks in advance and yes I know I’ll probably loose money but I want a bit of fun. After something under 1k close to 1000cc

[anhamgrimmar]

my local scrappy (Silverlake in hampshire) has a load of bikes up on something called salvage market, and looks like a couple of other scrapyards on there too. not a great selection, and to bid you need a membership. Might be worth checking if your local scrapyard is on there!

[Marquezs Stabilisers]

When my Dad wrote off his car I picked up the belongings inside from this company.

https://auctions.synetiq.co.uk/auction/items/motor...

[dibblecorse]

Callum.mullac675 said:

Hi all
I m after a project bike. Been watching too much YouTube and I want to get a project bike.
What good sites are there?
Copart is overpriced and I don t understand how people can make decent money of it
IAA is good but not many bikes
EBay again is over priced
Facebook marketplace is full of time wasters
Gumtree hasn t got anything good at the moment
What else is there ?
Thanks in advance and yes I know I ll probably loose money but I want a bit of fun. After something under 1k close to 1000cc

No offence but you're dreaming, anything under a grand will be an absolute basket case, I think you need to get out of 1997 and into 2025 !!

Whats making money got to do with it ? Do you want a project or are you trying to flip salvaged then repaired bikes ?

[srob]

dibblecorse said:

No offence but you're dreaming, anything under a grand will be an absolute basket case, I think you need to get out of 1997 and into 2025 !!

Whats making money got to do with it ? Do you want a project or are you trying to flip salvaged then repaired bikes ?

They're still out there, but whether you'd make much or any money's questionable!

I've noticed quite a few no reserve early 2000 era bikes starting to appear in some of the classic bike auctions. I suspect they're bikes the old boys have had in the garage when they've turned up their toes and the family chuck their whole classic/bike collection into an auction for ease.

Stuff like this nice Honda CB1000 which sold for under 750 quid.



Or a project like this 2002 CB500S which needs some fetting for under 350 quid.



Looking on eBay you'd maybe make a couple of hundred quid on each if you tidied them up, took some decent photos and listed them well, but that's assuming you can do the work yourself and you enjoy it as I don't think it would pay the bills!

Being in classic bike auctions I don't think the usual dealers are there to hoover this stuff up - yet.

Edited by srob on Thursday 7th August 07:10

[dibblecorse]

Fair play srob, each to their own oi guess..

[KTMsm]

The biggest problem you've got is that the parts are worth so much, frequently more than the bike

So there's always someone willing to pay a reasonable price as they intend to break it

[pherlopolus]

On FB marketplace by me you can almost have your choice of Pan Europeans for £800, most of them MOT'd!

Anything intersting is ridiculous though.

I picked up my '89 CB450DX for £450 - looked like it had been a field bike, and then spent another £400 or so (inc tyres) and it had an MOT 8 weeks later.

[crofty1984]

I'm budgeting for my next project bike. Will be trying (and probably failing!) to set some money apart for parts. Otherwise I end up taking years. £1500 for bike, £1500 for parts, do it up, sell, next. Not with a view to making much money, but if I don't lose too much per bike it's a nice hobby that nearly pays for itself.

[Johnny50]

I posted this in another thread, but i just finished my first ever project bike.
Bought as a non runner and lots of seized and rusted parts, old tyres etc..

If I wanted to, I could have got it back on the road spending £6-700 on it, but as I'm keeping it and not flipping it I went a little further and bought extras (mirrors, exhaust, bits of bodywork etc) and made it how I'd like.

But this is now on the road, MOT'd etc for just under £2k.

There's bargains out there!