I recently crashed my 64 plate HRC Blade the third party have accepted 100% liability and their insurance have made a decent pre accident value offer and I can keep the bike for a relatively small sum due to it being a cat b total loss, the insurance have calculated repair cost to be nearly 9k! The damage is largely cosmetic apart from small dent in the frame caused by the bar end weight. I'm not sure wether to keep it for parts for my current Blade, keep it for track days or sell it on, are there any problems with using a cat b bike for track days?
Plenty of info on net - e.g. here http://www.rac.co.uk/community/blog/rac-blog/september-2011/what-is-an-insurance-write-off From what I understand CAT B would be fine for track days etc. but cannot go back on the road.
I bought a 2013 cat b blade for race/track only from a member on here. Very pleased with it and never had any problems with it. The price did reflect that it was a cat b though so if your selling it don't expect top dollar.
Track bike! The GSXR 750 we used this year was a Cat B. All you do is get a COD (certificate of destruction) and then use it on track. The COD doesn't mean it has to be destroyed, all it means it that it is now taken off of the vehicle register for road going vehicles (you then don't have to SORN it every year. Bonus!)
Cheers fella's I'm definitely gonna buy it I'd be stupid not to, just weighing up my options I reckon It will cost £500-1000 to sort for track use.
I had a cat b trackbike. Its a real division point. Some are really against it, they must be destroyed etc. Others are fine with it. As long as you have tracability is the main thing, and as long as you know its category status will be reflected when you sell it then crack on!
Cat B bikes don't have to be destroyed mate. Only they are not alowed back on the road. Cat A bikes must be stripped rite down.
no colin, sorry what I was trying to get across is some people are 100% sure they have to be and jump on you for having a CAT b bike, and go on and on that you shouldnt have it etc, whereas other people are fine about it (as long as you can trace it) problem is with defaced numbers, why they dont just stamp the frame not for road use rather than remove the numbers or part of them is the problem, the tracability is lost. the OP should be fine as he has tracability on this bike. i'd track it
Yea see what u are saying. Though the numbers don't have to be removed or defaced either. So long as you have a COD and traceability of where the bike came from (easy enough for the OP as it's his bike) then all is good. Myself personally if I had a track bike I'd prefer it to be a Cat B, so long as I knew the damage to the bike, as u don't have to worry about sorning the bike every year. As u say though it seems to put other buyers off and maybe justified if they don't know to what extent the bike was damaged.
It's the insurance companies who insist the bikes are dismantled and used as spares, except the frame which can not be reused. Cat A's are scrapped complete
