Sorry if you've seen the bare bones of my tale of woe on the vintage motorcycle thread, although it's not that popular TBH.
Bought an old, £800 motorbike off my cousin, I just fancied it and he was upgrading. Spent a bit on it, new tyres, service bits and such, I'm probably in it for about £1000 and it starts and runs, but not great at 'higher' (it's a 125, this is a relative term) speeds. I've ridden it probably 4 times.
So I pay a man £160 for a few of hours fettling, after which it won't start. He comes back and in the space of an hour has managed to seize the engine and smash the kickstart mechanism which I fear is the death knell for this bike.
TLDR - I paid a bloke £160 to write off my £1000 motorbike I've ridden 4 times.
Anyone else found a worse way to basically throw cash out the window?
