My dumb@ss bought a bike with title issues.
If you have a junk bike or a bent up frame, I want to buy it. Actually, a certain 4 inch piece of it. No need for crazy shipping charges.
No junk/salvage title, and it must be in your name.
I can pick up if you live local to central NC.
no you need a good frame with a good title not and bad frame with a good titile. your going to have to swap everything over to the good frame.......you cant move the vin from the bad from your yours you have to move your parts to the titled frame. if you want to ride and not goto jail. :thumb:
Haaa haaaa haaaaa haaaa ...NC dmv strikes ... again.
I've been bitten on a sale one time ... but I have been very very cautious after that and never got shafted on a purchase after, call me lucky, very very lucky ... cos they have seriously twisted rules that will leave a perfectly good bike as a paper weight. I always skip on the iffy title ones, or do 1/2 the money at purchase and 1/2 when title is handed to me (only that 1 time last year on a savage that the guy has to get me a title for cos that meant 200 bucks) ... muhahahahahha ...
I often see bikes with this crap on CL, I call the seller and tell them of my plan to pay 1/2 now and 1/2 at the time title is handed to me, and they refuse, and a few days later the bike is sold ... now I know who buy em ... atleast 1 of them.
I have bought parts, parts off people who have been shafted this way ... I cannot tell you how lucky I am, I sold the bike with that iffy title a few days later to drifter8844 in this site and he got it titled, no problem, and was so very careful from then on ...
Anyway, frame with title wont do, unless you plan on well, cutting the numbers into your neck (old numbers can be still xrayed out, even pinging it wont work, the cops can still get the numbers, and its still fraud or larceny or whatever) or doing a frame transfer ... which all I can say is more work than its worth, I know I have 3 bikes I did it to, and 2 were GS'es and its not worth it. The third was a GR bike and well, there is 1 more that I have to do it on, which I am nearly sure I'd cuss my way through.
Now for reference ... I ahve done it to a seca, and I'd call that as difficult but worth it especially with an extra helping hand, an R1 which was my returning of the favor to aforementioned helping hand and an SV1000 which truly is a excercise in patience and tedium (which I have plenty of) but not especially hard. GS is the opposite, its hard, finger crushing work, but not that complicated.
Cool.
Buddha.
I do have a frame with a title that is for sale. But don't get your hopes up, I'm pretty far away from you and not sure it will makes sense money wise... Pm sent :)
Quote from: The Buddha on March 08, 2009, 05:56:04 PM
Haaa haaaa haaaaa haaaa ...NC dmv strikes ... again.
Been there :2guns:
Titled frame is not even 1/10 of the game.
The frame transfer is the real deal.
BTW powdercoat the frame, heck weld its open welds shut so water dont get in, grind off the splattered welds smooth and then powdercoat it.
I've done drifter8844's bike before and I am just getting the jetswing bike (which is actually mine - used to be his) off on a reassembly project.
It wont rust - ever. I used to weld it all for like 150 and coating was ~200
Cool.
Buddha.
so i guess u have a gs500 with no title. man i would do a number swap. as long as u didnt steal the bike or something u will get away with it. who is gonna check a 1500 dollar bike to make sure the numbers all match up? it would be hard to tell anyway. do wacha gotta do to get a tag. feel free to ignore my advice but its what i would do.
-calvin
someone might check it if you keep posting in a public forum!!!!
Quote from: The Buddha on March 08, 2009, 05:56:04 PM
Haaa haaaa haaaaa haaaa ...NC dmv strikes ... again.
I've been bitten on a sale one time ... but I have been very very cautious after that and never got shafted on a purchase after, call me lucky, very very lucky ... cos they have seriously twisted rules that will leave a perfectly good bike as a paper weight. I always skip on the iffy title ones, or do 1/2 the money at purchase and 1/2 when title is handed to me (only that 1 time last year on a savage that the guy has to get me a title for cos that meant 200 bucks) ... muhahahahahha ...
I often see bikes with this crap on CL, I call the seller and tell them of my plan to pay 1/2 now and 1/2 at the time title is handed to me, and they refuse, and a few days later the bike is sold ... now I know who buy em ... atleast 1 of them.
I have bought parts, parts off people who have been shafted this way ... I cannot tell you how lucky I am, I sold the bike with that iffy title a few days later to drifter8844 in this site and he got it titled, no problem, and was so very careful from then on ...
Anyway, frame with title wont do, unless you plan on well, cutting the numbers into your neck (old numbers can be still xrayed out, even pinging it wont work, the cops can still get the numbers, and its still fraud or larceny or whatever) or doing a frame transfer ... which all I can say is more work than its worth, I know I have 3 bikes I did it to, and 2 were GS'es and its not worth it. The third was a GR bike and well, there is 1 more that I have to do it on, which I am nearly sure I'd cuss my way through.
Now for reference ... I ahve done it to a seca, and I'd call that as difficult but worth it especially with an extra helping hand, an R1 which was my returning of the favor to aforementioned helping hand and an SV1000 which truly is a excercise in patience and tedium (which I have plenty of) but not especially hard. GS is the opposite, its hard, finger crushing work, but not that complicated.
Cool.
Buddha.
right now my 97 has a tag, for my 96 frame, my 97 frame was a writeoff. im transferring everyhting over as soon as i pain thte 96 frame JD yellow, ( the john deere project)
Cutting numbers into the frame is not only hard it also is easy to detect even if they take a cursory look.
BTW the neck has the 2 bearings and the whole stem and what ever in it. You have to pull it to be able to do it without ruining the bearings.
The cables, wires and everything else needs to be out of the way as well.
Having said that, it is doable and will pass the first pass visual inspection, especially on a dark night when you're not stopped for anything major :thumb:
If you're getting a frame I'd powdercoat and get that frame cleaned to perfection and swap it over. Turning a problem into an opportunity.
Cool.
Buddha.