Busa project Buy or not?

[gnappi]

There's an 01 busa in a local pawn shop that's been dropped several times so its fairings, and windscreen are toast as is the tank. It's $2500 out the door and I'd like a project bike and I'm wondering if I should leave it or get it. I'm going there tomorrow to charge the battery and get the mileage.

Anyone?

 

[GsxrBots]

DO IT!! Buy the $300 chinese fairings on Ebay and ride the snot outta it!

 

[DaBuzaBoy]

by the list of bikes you have in your description, it looks like you enjoy tinkering with bikes that have some age .. if motor, trans and frame check out.. i say enjoy...

but try and get it for $1,800...

 

[Big E]

Id offer a little less. Maybe $2k?

 

[dadofthree]

Make sure the frame, engine, and tranny are healthy and go for it.

 

[Lillblack]

Do it!

 

[BlueHaya]

Look over the frame if you are going to put it on the street. Is it a salvage? I think FL has some strict laws on salvage bikes.

 

[halen]

Beat the price down,how many miles....then u make it your own!

 

[Ludicrous Speed]

Make darn sure second gear is not out of it!

 

[1busa]

^^^ exactly....

$2500 might sound like a deal, hell even 2k but when you factor in all the maintenance needed 2 get it up and running reliably, fairings, and more than likely tranny needing undercut your quickly looking @ the price of a perfectly fine nothing wrong ready 2 turn key and go busa

So if your goal is 2 buy and slowly repair and build it back then perhaps but if U plan on buying and riding it in the immediate future U may want 2 take pause. With fixer uppers it's not the big expensive parts that kill you it's the little things that have a habit of creeping up in the most inopportune times nickle & diming you 2 death

 

[usmcab35]

agreed I would ask under 2k as long as the major parts of the bike check out ok.