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It's from 1979 and has only done 22400 which really isn't that bad at all. I'm having a bit of a back and forth conundrum tbh. I keep swaying between picking up a cg125/cbr125, or a 2009-ish gt 125 Vespa. I live in Camden, so quite central and it would mostly be for arsing around on/ not having to use the bike or public transport to get everywhere.
What do you guys think? The thing I like about the scooter is the idea of wearing any clothes and just jumping on it to go somewhere, seems a bit less hassle free
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I would buy the Honda and leave it as unmolested as possible, had one when I was younger and they're quite fun to ride... that looks like a clean example and they run forever.
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To me, this looks too good to hack about.
Assuming you buy it: at what point might you want to sell it on?
Whenever I see a for sale ad with "custom" or "modified" in the description it means a number of things to me:
-Not what the manufacturer intended
-Higher insurance
-Amateur engineering / not how I'd do it
-Paying over the odds for someone else's preferences
-Maintenance issues
... and I move on, looking for one that hasn't been tampered with. Do you really want to take a nice example of a bike no longer in production, and turn it into something less desirable?
Assuming you don't go for any structural changes, can your intended modifications be done in such a way that they can be reversed? Save the original seat, chain guard, foot pegs, indicators etc. so you can restore it at a later date?
TM
MrE
How old is it? And how clean is it?
You're right that the old Honda CGs make great aesthetic tracker platforms but they've often been ridden into the ground. I bought a CB250 not so long back and granted it was almost 40 years old but it was basically unridable.