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Demin Serious Thumper Offline We need more chlorine in the gene pool Posts: 2435 Warren,Ohio Gender:	My newest build...'98 10/02/14 at 17:08:48 Just bought this today.Picking it up tomorrow.It's a salvage bike. A salvage Savage I know boo,hiss.LOL.
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Yoshi Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 874 LongIsland, N.Y. Gender:	Re: My newest build...'98 Reply #1 - 10/02/14 at 17:16:23 Nice bike, cant wait to see the build
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Demin Serious Thumper Offline We need more chlorine in the gene pool Posts: 2435 Warren,Ohio Gender:	Re: My newest build...'98 Reply #2 - 10/02/14 at 17:23:33 Thanx.It was a light hit.I'm thinkin' this one is going bass boat green flake.Drag or flat track bars.Solo seat,short trailer fender.I have a green flake solo seat I bought just because I liked it,lol.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: My newest build...'98 Reply #3 - 10/02/14 at 18:05:14 H/bars look a shade won't,but I don't see what would total it..
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Reply #4 - 10/03/14 at 04:58:08

Doesn't take much anymore to total anything.
Handlebars,mastercylinder,couple turn signals,tool box cover,Right footpeg and maybe the mount.Fender is scratched.Maybe scratches on the exhaust..etc.
Just looked.Front fender $172.00
Turn signal 60,peg 40,bars 87...Stupid money to replace stock parts,And that's prices from Ron Ayers.
The screwed up part on bikes is they don't just repaint a fender.They replace it with a new one already color matched.

My buddy dropped his 1100 Shadow,put a dent in the gas tank.Thought about turning it in on his insurance.Guy said they would've totaled the bike.Over $1,000.00 for the gas tank,plus the emblems and stuff.

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: My newest build...'98 Reply #5 - 10/03/14 at 08:06:21 Shazayumm! Remember,I'm in Texas,so,read that the way a Texan would say it. Nooo,not Gomer Pyle,a Texan.
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Reply #6 - 10/03/14 at 09:22:11

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 10/02/14 at 18:05:14:

H/bars look a shade won't,but I don't see what would total it..

I just looked up the Blue Book value, and if the 98 bike was in excellent condition the Retail Value is $ 1,435....Trade In is $ 920. So, if you have a $ 1,000 deductible - it is not going to cost the Insurance Company much of anything if they just "Total It"......it is not worth their time to even consider having it repaired.

The fact that it has a "salvage" title doesn't mean it was not repairable....it just means it wasn't economically in the best interest of the insurance agency.

We have a place near here called Racersedge411 that offers up bikes that are either crashed or theft recoveries. Often the bikes with Salvage titles are completely functional and very nice bikes - I guess they might be Theft Recoveries.....or for some other reason they were written off? I don't mean to post something Off Topic.....but look at the bikes they have an sometimes you can't understand why a bike has a Salvage title.
http://www.racersedge411.com/

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Reply #7 - 10/03/14 at 16:29:55

Exactly.I do salvage cars and bikes all the time.Usually when an insurance company writes an estimate,it's all new parts.
The gas tank is dinged up.A new one through Ron Ayers 436 bucks,plus the decals.Doesn't take much.I can either put a used tank on it or fix this one.I will probably fix it.Dings aren't that bad.A little bondo will fix it right up.

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Demin Serious Thumper Offline We need more chlorine in the gene pool Posts: 2435 Warren,Ohio Gender:	Re: My newest build...'98 Reply #8 - 10/03/14 at 18:51:46 Got it home about 5 today.Messed around a little make it better to my liking.Think I'm going with the flat track bars.
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Demin Serious Thumper Offline We need more chlorine in the gene pool Posts: 2435 Warren,Ohio Gender:	Re: My newest build...'98 Reply #9 - 10/05/14 at 13:33:51 Fired it up today,runs good.Had to steal the ignition switch and the battery out of the '87.Finished disassembly to get ready for paint.Making this a quick one.
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Demin Serious Thumper Offline We need more chlorine in the gene pool Posts: 2435 Warren,Ohio Gender:	Re: My newest build...'98 Reply #10 - 10/13/14 at 17:30:08 Made a little progress on it.Thinking I'm going orange on it again.But heavy flake over it.
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Demin Serious Thumper Offline We need more chlorine in the gene pool Posts: 2435 Warren,Ohio Gender:	Re: My newest build...'98 Reply #11 - 10/20/14 at 14:06:13 Got the tins painted...Orange pearl with orange and gold flake over it.Made my taillight,tag and turn signal brackets today.Time to start reassembley. Camera died before I could get pics of the paint.
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Demin Serious Thumper Offline We need more chlorine in the gene pool Posts: 2435 Warren,Ohio Gender:	Re: My newest build...'98 Reply #12 - 10/20/14 at 14:19:38 Got 1 pic of the tank.
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ZAR Serious Thumper Offline Rock this town! Rock it inside out! Posts: 961 Kentucky, USA Gender:	Re: My newest build...'98 Reply #13 - 10/24/14 at 20:18:36 Lookin good Demin! Yor work's the shiz man!
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Demin Serious Thumper Offline We need more chlorine in the gene pool Posts: 2435 Warren,Ohio Gender:	Re: My newest build...'98 Reply #14 - 10/25/14 at 05:26:31 Thank you .More pics to come.Batteries died in the camera.
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