OT: Old Italian-made small Harley bike

I saw an SX125 today up the road from me for sale. It's not in terrible shape, but bad enough. It's missing the seat, carb, and probably other stuff. Are they worth restoring? I think he wants 300 for it. I've made no photos.

Richard

depends how you feel about it, same as anything else...if you like the little thing, it's worth the refurb....if small Italian-built harleys aren't your bag, it isn't. The price seems fair (if it's something you're 'into'), but if you're thinking 'I'll buy it, make it run and ride it for cheep'....no dice. Parts are still available, both NOS and used, but they're pricy, and getting moreso (they quit making most of that stuff years ago)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250318457954&viewitem=

buy it now price 2600 but no bids

These were built in a strickly street {SS} version ans a street and trail {SX } version
in the 125CC 175CC and 250CC sizes
JOHN

The Harley on ebay SAYS 999,999 miles on it,but in the description below,it says that it looks like a low mileage bike ? We have a guy in town here whose wife paid something like $3000.00 for a used Italian motor scooter in Michigan. The guy drove all the way there to get it,and hauled it back. Well,it needs work. He took it to Richmond to a shop,where they told him it would cost something like $6000.00 to rebuild and restore,and it would take 2 years !!! Can you believe this dope !!! So,he went for it.

, she must be a trophy wife with high maintenance .

Richard, I can't see an SX125 being particularly collectable at this time. You'd do better getting an older 125 Rapido, or better yet a 100cc Baja off-road bike. The SX was pretty much "just a bike" when it came out, and one that had an uphill battle competing with the similar small Japanese two-strokes.

On the other hand, "old" or "classic" is a classification that moves forward in time and there are probably people for who an SX125 is a bike of their childhood that they would love to have.

$300 may not be bad if it runs/kicks over and isn't missing too much stuff. But HD didn't bring in a huge number of the Aermacchi two-strokes in those later days before the sold it off and it became Cagiva. There is an Aermacchi specialist shop out here in NorCal that might have parts for it, as they bought a lot of dealer inventories.

If you go to the "My trip to Italy" section on this page on my website you'll find photos of lots of cool small Italian bikes that I took at a huge swapmeet at Imola.

cheers,
Michael

Well,Carl,I just plain think the guy is nuts,and so do a lot of other people !!!

A couple years ago I went to Mexico with my now ex-girlfriend. I noticed lots of little bikes that carried Italian names but hadn't seen any like 'em here in the US. I guess little bikes like this didn't "go away" down there, like they did here.

I'm going to let someone else have the fun of tackling this bike. The only bike I'd bother with from Harley would be an XR750 anyway. I always wanted one of those.

Richard

Italian Harley ?

Man that brings back memories . My older brother had one of the 125CC Harleys around 1968.
I think it was made by Benelli, and his was a cool metellic green .
Back then you "met the nicest people on a Honda " , so I guess the Harley name was used to sell average Italian bikes .
It was easy to bump start , which came in handy when I rolled it down the alley to "borrow " it for a spin .