Buy your donor wisely for max return

[roadtrackrace]

I've just had a mail from a customer of ours called Andy who ordered a tR1ke late last year.

He works for Lotus F1 so obviously knows a good chassis when he sees one and is due to receive his tR1ke kit at the the end of this month.

What he has done in the meantime is stripped his R1 and sold all the parts to great effect and I quote "I have just about got most of the R1 sold and so far returned £1900 from the £2400 the bike cost me so im well pleased with that, so the garage is about empty enough for me to start"

So, more proof of just how cheaply you can build a vehicle that costs £76 a year to tax and has a greater power to weight ratio than a Pagani Zonda C12 which incidentally costs £1000 a year to tax

RTR

[speedtripledan]

think i,m going to do a similar thing just to get a spare engine for my atomic seems to be the cheapest way to get an engine..

[edwinwl]

For my tR1ke:
donor bike - sales of parts = 1100 Euro (GBP 960)

[erik]

1064,75 euro for my R1-R1parts. My 2001 R1 has only 20300km on it and one needs to take into account the carb engines have a weak coating on the cilinders walls which may come apart at higher milage. Because of this I added an oil tem gauge to have a proper indicator all moist will vapour out of the oil. My mechanic advised me to change oil every year because of this issue.

The injection engines have steel bushes now but the aluminium cases have been made lighter which reduced stability and increases maintenance, at least, that was what I have been told.

Because of this it doesn't seem wise to use a high milage donor bike which makes is a tad harder to get even. A donor engine can be purshased for 800euro (milage unknown or hidden on purpose!!). I think 1100 euro for the complete system is quite acceptable. I still have about 1200 euros of advertisements and will add a couple more when she is ready for MVSA.

I was lucky to sell the frame and front forks and a lot of other parts, but the side fairing and tank seem to be on hold. Not what I'd expected to qualify as left overs.

br,
erik


Btw, a few moths ago I met a Triumph Daytona owner and was very pleased with the rigidity of this bike. He opened up the engine at 100.000km and found no wear. Now the engine has run 150.000km and still going strong, only new batteries and checkups. Because he cannot sell the bike with this milage he decided to keep driving.
Nice engine and might be an exellent donor bike as well and bin all left overs .