I wouldn't like to buy a bike if its been in a crash I don't think anybody would but if it was cheap enough and you got the knowledge and experience to put things right again I don't see anything wrong in buying a Cat N for an everyday commute.
Insurance assessor will not have checked it thoroughly enough for headstock damage, which could easily be the case with bent forks. I've seen bikes where the headstock bearing location in the frame is oval after a "light" frontal and others with barely discernible cracks there.
What's to say all those bikes on EBay with 'USD' Front end / R1 Fork conversions, aren't all a result of a frontal impact. Just some didn't involve another vehicle (3rd party), so the incident wasn't reported to the insurance company, and they've had the bike repaired and back on the road (with no 'Category x' to it's name). Cheeky foccers.
Quote from: focced_off on 23 March 2018, 05:51:51 pmWhat's to say all those bikes on EBay with 'USD' Front end / R1 Fork conversions, aren't all a result of a frontal impact. Just some didn't involve another vehicle (3rd party), so the incident wasn't reported to the insurance company, and they've had the bike repaired and back on the road (with no 'Category x' to it's name). Cheeky foccers. Don't forget all those "street fightered" ones that were done "because I didn't like the fairing"