I got my CBR about a year ago, i rode it for a couple weeks before it started messin up.ever since its been sitting. A mechanic did get it to start up and run for bout a minute. Something electrical. But im not going to get it running anytime soon and ive posted it on craigslist with few replys. My question is should i take it apart and try to sell piece by piece or let it sit outside and wait for a reasonable offer? let me know what you think?

 

What year is it? "Something electrical" could be anything from a poor connection to a fried ecu...Can you be more specific?
What is the general condition of the bike? Pics?

 

92. The mech said it was the starter solenoid.it was corroded.Its been sitting outside and it fell over after a rain,2 times.overall i thinks its in good condition.but rain and it falling over might have damaged something else.idk.when it ran last,i was goin down the road and it would try to cut out.when in place it would rev high and id try to tune it down then itd die everytime.then i couldnt barley get it into gear .im not a mech or anything close.i know the basics of a truck but that bout it

 

It sounds like a little TLC would do a lot for it. Corrosion can be cleaned up. Clean the carbs and you may have a runner. This is stuff you can do yourself. Download a manual and do some reading.

 

ive tried. i starting to take of the carbs but i dont want to mess up anything worse than it already is.im not good with stuff like that.plus i dont have the tools to do so.its a headache. this was my first and only bike so im clueless bout most of everything.

 

Its hard to say what you should do. If your not mechanically inclined enough to take the carbs off and clean them, your probably not inclined enough to safely remove components and part the bike out.

As for a reasonable offer, thats a hard one as well. A reasonable offer to you and a buyer are probably miles apart. If you look at it from a buyers point of view. its probably not worth much at all. I certainly wouldn't pay much for a bike that didn't run, had corrosion issues and the owner didn't know what was wrong with it. Your best bet would be to bite the bullet, and get the bike running. At least with a running bike, you will make a little money it. And honestly, its not that hard to clean the carbs. remove the jets and clean them, be careful with the floats, count how turns from bottom the pilot jets are, clean them and put them back in the place... thats really about it.

Also, if your just going to get rid of the bike, a buyer buying a non running bike won't pay less for a bike you tried to fix versus a bike that just doesn't run.. What I mean is, you won't be out anything if you can't fix it, but will gain a lot if you can fix it.

My first step though would be to replace the sparkplugs. If the bike was tipped over for any legth of time, oil more than likely entered the cylinders and could have fouled out the plugs..

Does the bike sound odd? Or does it rev up really fast. Most of the time, a fouled plug will sound like a twin versus and inline four.

 

Is it turning over? or is the battery flat? Might just be the regulator rectifier, pretty common on the F2

https://cbrforum.com/forum/f2-tech-93/regulator-rectifier-r-r-problem-solved-27739/

 

Only tools needed to remove the carbs are a couple of screwdrivers (long and short), muscle (if they've never been removed, they'll stick in the boots) and a varied vocabulary (saying "****" over and over gets dull)

It's all pretty straightforward. If you have the manual, read the process before trying and label / mark where everything came from you'll do ok.

 

just clean ur carbs man, be ready to dedicate like 5 or so hours to learning it and ull probs make at least $1000 more on ur bike if u still want to sell it. think about it like getting paid $200 an hour