These usually pull down three times the asking price, is the market falling or is this a difficult fix?
These usually pull down three times the asking price, is the market falling or is this a difficult fix?
Not something to flip.
Often need more than the value to be made reliable.
But fun machines and will run many miles when properly prepared and taken care of.
The fact that it says aftermarket front and rear fenders and no tank but the picture shows otherwise is a bit of a red flag. The older bikes of this vintage have a following, but reliability and leak resistance are not their strong suit!
Reliability? It's a Harley! Kinda makes a 80s Hyundai look bulletproof! And the lb/bhp is worse than my 58 bugeye.
Sportys are 2K, at best. And typically don't sell at all.
There was a mostly complete 2003 in the scrap yard when I bought the mini-bikes. It had been dropped and the tank was missing, but the rest of it was there. They wouldn't deal on it though.
Cooter wrote: Sportys are 2K, at best. And typically don't sell at all.
Especially AMF
Any bad influence AMF had on a bike has long since worn off.
AND they actually hold their oil quite well, A harley's worst enemy is it's owner.
Most mechanics hate them because they are usually so screwed up they are not fun to work on. Layers and layers of berkleyness.
At 40 to 50 years old, many have been through many hands, all have taken their toll.
There are 2 gears in the trans that break and exit the trans through the cases, and many think they are being nice by warming up their machine first letting it sit in the driveway and chug away making that cool potato sound. This starves the pistons for oil and they smear themselves up and down the cylinders and calls for "Top End Work".
Sound familiar?
Given that I love them. They have paid my rent multiple times. I am actually building one from the ground up to be my Hooligan bike.
I stock parts for them too!
They don't call me Ironhead Rick just because I am hard headed.....
"The mid-sixties XlCH is to motorcycling what a hooker's come on is to romance: crude, rude and unmistakable". Jim Miller Cycle Guide Dec. '84
I had a 1980 Sportster from 81 to 85. Loved it. only issue was a electronic ignition unit that died. I sold it at 24 k miles to a guy who offered me more money than it was worth. 1500.00 iirc. it wasn't as fast or handled as well as most of my bikes, but it made me feel cool driving it, no real advice, just reminiscing
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