For breaking. Seems a crying shame to break it, because it's a lovely runner. Really, really sweet engine that doesn't rattle. Fitted with electronic ignition, too. But it's an early F with an F2 swinging arm in it, so it's got no pillion pegs, and sourcing an early F swinging arm with aforementioned pegs will not be easy. And it's been roughly re-painted. And the frame paint is iffy too. But the expensive chrome (OE exhaust, front and rear mudguards, chainguard) is in brilliant condition. OE seat, instruments, switches, etc. even got the tool tray (but not the lid). The rear wheel rim isn't so clever, but that's not a hard thing to sort. The front wheel has recently been re-spoked and re-rimmed, from the look of it. It's silly, really. The tinware is worth many hundreds of quid on its own (seat of the pants says £200+ for the exhaust, £100 for the rear guard, £60 for the front one, £40 for the chainguard). The seat's original, in good nick and worth another ton, the front wheel £70, the engine £150, and so on and so on and so on. In short, in bits, it's worth a grand all day long. As a bike..... maybe £750, if it had an MoT (it's SORNed). To put it back to 'really smart' condition would need a total repaint, which means taking it down to the bare frame. I suppose that would cost about £300-400 for paint (Beav?). Swinging arm? Probably easier to buy a dead early F and nick it from that and then sell the rest on. Hassle rather than expense. You'd want to renew the rear wheel - that'd be about £150 for rim, spokes and labour. Hmmmm.....
