Now be Honest

[Nobby25]

I was just thinking of the bodgy repairs I have done before selling bikes back in the 70s
As some of you would be aware an RM125A has a different size top end pin and bearing (larger diameter)to every other RM,TM TS etc, so after a rebore and then realising that the dealer had sold me the wrong piston he suggested to get a small end sleeve machined up to make it fit, which I did. Sold it straight after, I wonder how long it lasted.

Banged up the tank on my RM250B the same as Roger did

So I used circles of yellow contact to build up the dents until it looked like I was just protecting it with the contact.Sold it straight after I wonder how long it lasted
Got a C2 after it no more dents but the stickers never stayed on did they .

[Nobby25]

Sorry after recent events maybe I should have posted this in Tech Tips.
Cheers Nob

[vmx42]

Hey Nobby,
No much better in General Discussion. If you posted it in Tech Tips you could be accused of trying to promote such dubious behaviour. 
VMX42

[crash n bern]

The worst was on a bike I was intending to keep.  The frame had been cut and raked.  my cousin and I de raked it and there was a gap in the backbone so we shoved some smaller diameter water pipe in there and birdshit welded it up.  It had a steering dampener bracket under the triple tree that bolted to the frame and I figured that would help hold it all together. I was young and clueless.

Twenty years later I sold the bike to a mate who was a boilermaker and I told him all about the dodgy repair and that it needed a serious seeing too.  he passed away a few years later and I never knew what happened to the bike or if he fixed it.

Other than that I've never done a dodgy for sale repair.  I always do my best to fix it right, more so if I'm selling it.  I was selling something once and the first thing I did was tell the buyer everything that was wrong.  They were so impressed with my honesty that they straight up bought it.