Hi All
I need some advice
I was knocked of my Yamaha ybr 125 by a car and he admitted fault.I have just found out that his insurance company has written the bike off and I will be receiving a cheque I want to sell the bike as I get to keep it but is it possible to sell a cat d bike and what you reckon I could ask for it?
I don’t want much as I have made my money back through the payment from insurance.
I just dont have the time to get it fixed
Any help would be great
asking how much a bike is worth without seeing it is impossible.
a cat D write off is no issue at all, normally nothing substantially wrong and no problems selling it on.
put pics up and an idea of what you would like for it and go from there
I have taken some pictures
The right foot peg is bent and the rear foot peg and its bracket is bent.The back right shock is also bent and a few other scratches. I think it is also idling a bit high but have not run ot long enough to know if thats an issue.
More questions
Do I have to tell my Insurance that is is now cat d and and do I have to apply for a new v5
Unless your insurers have taken the v5 you don’t have to re-apply
All looks rather minor but it is imposable to check all is straight with only photos to go on
As is as a damaged reparable I guess £100 ! repaired new MOT a good clean £1000 ++
You might find a buyer as Is but few would want to pay much
DAve
his insurer should tell your insurer about the write off.
I’d buy it back, repair it and re-sell it.
the high idling might be all manner of things though. if it had a choke I’d say the cable was pinched but it’s fuel injected isn’t it?
Yeah its fuel injected.
Im going to get metropolis to check it over and see how much to fix and then will sell it once it’s road legal.I dont have to buy it back as they have effectively paid me out and minus a scrapage charge and then I keep the bike.
I dont want it anymore and would be happy with a couple hundred quid to get rid of but not sure if someone would buy it
well as long as you make more than the cost of buying it back then it’s all good! 
Heck yeah I don’t think that would cost a fortune to fix. I’d be interested in buying it myself. My son and I recently repaired the things that you show being dinked (the exhaust and the peg) and it is the sort of project he could do over a weekend. As has been said though - it’s not worth too much, but maybe enough for a weekend away (Butlins not Dubai).
PM me if you want to sell it.
dont understand how was that bike a write off in the first place. doesnt look like it from the damages shown.
Damages are not that bad and Im also surprised they wrote it off they valued the bike at 1600 and paid me 1200 for it.
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seeing as it was the other blokes insurance i would have insisted it was repaired
Don’t take it to metropolis! They will quote too much and rip you off. Scum they are!!
+1
The training is great and I think its fairly priced but the service charges are INSANE
consider it’s not based on buying an old shock off ebay, it’s based on the price of a pair of new OEM shocks probably plus a new set of mounting bushings.
I picked the bike up today. I think the reason they wrote it off was a scratch/scuff to the front fork, not shown in the photos because it wasn’t part of the accident damage. Paul knew about that before the accident BUT the insurers probably included that in the repair estimate and that would have put the repair bill up significantly. Anyway, the bike is going to be a little project for my son - he’ll do the work and then we’ll probably sell it - other than the damage shown it really seems a great little bike and Paul had just recently had it serviced - so it starts and runs as it should.
Its a great starter bike. Your son should do well on it!
He has a Malaguti version of the XT125R at the moment - so I suspect he’ll stick with that. Once he has the YBR shipshape, we’ll sell it (unless he has written off the Malguti by then.
Wife is wondering why we have four motorbikes here, so I hope this project won’t take long…
