Dialer
Senior Member
I have a 2 cylinder barrel off of a motorcycle (425cc) that needs to be bored. Anybody know someone that could do it for me? My supposed “friend” wants $75 per cylinder. I didn’t pay THAT much for the whole bike!
That’s $75 per cylinder.....I’ve had several sets of vintage British bike cylinders cleaned, honed, and bored, for $100 TOPS, and this guy calls me his friend. I take pride in restoring rare vintage bikes, so call me what you like....aint no way I would pay that much. I would go buy a new one. if I paid less than $75 for a motorcycle I would expect it to be in perfect running condition. I cant believe how people will take advantage of people selling them junk. someone recently sold my brother a 2000 250cc four wheeler that the engine was locked up on for $50. we sprayed kroil in the cylinder and let it sit for a hour. turned right over. cleaned the carb and it started right up. I really couldn't believe this guy charged him $50 for it. by the time mu brother bought a new air filter, changed the oil,spark plug and rear end fluid he had put atleast another $100 in this thing. just goes to show you there's a sucker born every day, cant believe my brother gave this guy $50 for it. now he has $150 in a four wheeler he could sell tor $1000 and this thing runs like a champ. i'd take that bike to the scrap metal yard and get $50 for it and save the $75 if it was me. just face the facts you, got ripped off once paying for the bike don't get ripped off again paying a whole $75 for having it bored
but I bet you had a lot of people who "called you a friend"I was getting $65 a hole back in the late 90's. And loosing money at that !!! I spend about $4500 for a boring bar, precision hone, etc and wasn't even getting paid for the time it took to do a professional job. The impetus for this expenditure was a cyl I had bored by another shop that was so tapered that the piston would not go all the way through the bore. The very top of the cyl was smaller than the skirt diameter of the piston.
Due to an injury I had to close my shop a few years later and finally sold the whole boring/honing set up for $2500. Definitely not one of my best investments from a strictly monetary viewpoint. Good for the customers though so that's the main criteria.