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I have posted many silly priced things in the other CL thread.

But sometimes there are actually sweet and well priced things that deserve a look. Like this Hodaka:

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/mcy/2970092350.html
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quote:Originally posted by mmaserati

quote:Originally posted by Scooterdork07

http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/mcy/2959666244.html
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Hmm, been dropped a few times leaks oil but it has a new cafe racer seat. Sound like the owner wants to make up for his investment in cosmetics when he should have been investing in the mechanical's. IMHO to qualify for this thread it would have to be priced at $350 OBO.
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fixed it for ya.....
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that 1100F is terrible. The price is terrible, the shorty shocks are terrible, the muffler is god awful, and it is missing all the good bits...yup all around not worthy.

the interceptor on the other hand is a steal.
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how are you tow not bringing a trailer to mid ohio? will the pilot not pull the Diamond Jim flatbed o' fun?
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Jim,

As someone whose own collection makes my motorcycle addiction look less like outright heroin addiction and more like a slight craving for something salty I am sure you can find stuff you want less than other stuff. If anything just bring the boxes and boxes of unopened toys (ESP the hot wheels). You could easily put a fastback mustang or another 5 bikes in the space that that takes up. Surely your kid is not going to play with 2400 hot wheels chase cars.
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I think by the time he opened all the toy boxes he will be 30.

It isn't the pot and kettle, this is more like joe Walsh telling Keith Richards he has a "problem". I like that, let go with that. Jag will have no idea who either of these people are.
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quote:Originally posted by Diamondj

quote:Originally posted by Geeto67

Jim,

As someone whose own collection makes my motorcycle addiction look less like outright heroin addiction and more like a slight craving for something salty I am sure you can find stuff you want less than other stuff. If anything just bring the boxes and boxes of unopened toys (ESP the hot wheels). You could easily put a fastback mustang or another 5 bikes in the space that that takes up. Surely your kid is not going to play with 2400 hot wheels chase cars.
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There are easier outlets for the toys than schlepping them to Ohio to be "that guy" that brings diecast to a motorcycle show. Taking a load of spare parts makes some sense though. I think I have enough cafe seats, spare tanks, and flanged rims to pay for the trip. Plus I could sell the CB500T as well. I could bring the stuff you were interested in and you could get it there except you're not going this year...

Jim
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Somehow I know you would sell the stuff I wanted the most. Personally I think you need to pay jag to come out and evict the electrical gremlin in your cb500T so you can then have him schlep it back to NYC and sell it to some hipster for buckets of cash.

Or you can sell it to me as is for cheap and I can fix it and sell it to some hipster for buckets of.....something....
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Get what right? That bike is fucking terrible.
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Keep the ergonomics in check? Stock pegs and clipons and no seat pad so fail.

The suspension is pushed down so far in front it has an inch of travel and the rear is dropped about an inch as well. Performance DOWNGRADE so fail again.

Knee dent that goes all the way to the front of the tank? Loss of about a gallon of capacity so fail whale ahoy!

Front fender held in by one bolt? Are you fucking kidding me? Fail on the bike's part for not killing this jaghole before he sells this turd to someone else.

Just buckets of fail all around.

Re the CX500 pic - anybody who mounts those firestones on their bike is fucking clown shoes.
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No, the firestones are motorcycle tires with all the technology from when you grandpa was a teenager spanking to a poster of Betty Grable. Seriously those firestones stopped being a thing in the early 1960s. Coker makes the repops for old crusty dudes with 40's Indians and Harleys and nutjob old school chopper douches - the hipster cafe douche is just an extension of that scene anyway.

Personally I have never seen a set that was perfectly round. And for a while they weren't speed rated past 60mph. I rode one bike with them - a 40s flathead Harley, and confidence inspiring is not a phrase I would use. The ride was soft and kinda nice but it felt squirrely in the turns and on a wet street they just felt greasy. I hear the new ones are better than the old ones but they are by no means a performance tire. They are literally built for bike shows.

I like the way the GS1000 looks. But looks don't make it go and that bike is flat dangerous to whomever is riding it, let alone riding it fast. I count no less than 10 shortcuts that make it worse than stock in quest for a look. The GS1000 was a big dick bike in the superbike era, that thing is circumcised so much it is all balls and no shaft.
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quote:Originally posted by raven

if its garage kept...how in the hell that that guzzi get that rusty?
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If you live by the ocean the salt water is in the air as well and rusts everything. Florida is a penninsula which is an old indian word meaning "almost an island", which means you don't have to go far to find salty air.
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quote:Originally posted by dirkchecken

pic from WR.nothing to do w/ CL or ebay. this thing is cool. and road legal(in japan).can anybody tell if or how much of it is rs/rcb 1000. beautiful
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very little of it is RS/RCb - basically just the bodywork.

Engine is 1979-1982 cb750F/900F/1100F mill. From the looks of the motor mounts and oil cooler either a 900F or an 1100F. Frame looks to be a Heavily modified cb unit, though it could be hand made. The reason I think it is a modded stock frame is that the engine cradle with all its pickup points and pressed metal pieces appear stock.

Whitehouse sells all the pieces to convert a DOHC cb into a road going RCB replica:

http://www.cb750cafe.jp/
http://www.whouse.jp/
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quote:Originally posted by Big Bad Bob Dog

Hold on hold on.

A VF1000R up there is 2300 or best offer. Is that a normal price here?

Fark.
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no, that is kinda low. Nice ones are usually $3K ask and up last I checked. 10 footers and rough and ready bikes are usually $2500. $2300 for one that to me looks like a solid 10 footer (maybe a little better) is a good price. very good. even better that he is willing to accept less.
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quote:Originally posted by Big Bad Bob Dog

Hold on hold on.

A VF1000R up there is 2300 or best offer. Is that a normal price here?

Fark.
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no, that is kinda low. Nice ones are usually $3K ask and up last I checked. 10 footers and rough and ready bikes are usually $2500. $2300 for one that to me looks like a solid 10 footer (maybe a little better) is a good price. very good. even better that he is willing to accept less.
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http://newyork.craigslist.org/lgi/mcy/3239117789.html



1974 Norton Commando 940
I've owned this hot rod Norton for 29 years. It's been garaged every day I've owned it.
After 2 years of restoration and improvements this bike has been driven every year for the last 27 and is well sorted out.
940 big bore kit, crank rods and pistons have been balanced
Ported head with 3 angle valve job, 3 S cam, 34 mm Mikuni with hand made intakes
Over sized hand made exhaust
Grimeca Italian brakes
18" Morris mags
Electronic ignition and high output coils
Same power band as stock but more
Excellent performer
Looking for a good home
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http://newyork.craigslist.org/lgi/mcy/3239117789.html



1974 Norton Commando 940
I've owned this hot rod Norton for 29 years. It's been garaged every day I've owned it.
After 2 years of restoration and improvements this bike has been driven every year for the last 27 and is well sorted out.
940 big bore kit, crank rods and pistons have been balanced
Ported head with 3 angle valve job, 3 S cam, 34 mm Mikuni with hand made intakes
Over sized hand made exhaust
Grimeca Italian brakes
18" Morris mags
Electronic ignition and high output coils
Same power band as stock but more
Excellent performer
Looking for a good home
Clean Connecticut Title
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quote:Originally posted by cb650pk

Sportster turtle gas tank
http://newjersey.craigslist.org/mcy/3282287915.html
Wasn't Geet looking for one?
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I was....then I bought one....then I sand blasted it and found all the dents....now I am looking for one again. That's a good price for one - I paid less for mine but then again....dents. Lots of dents.
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quote:Originally posted by TSwami

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/HARL...3291708?pt=US_motorcycles&hash=item3f1ca1973c
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This gives me a massive boner.
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quote:Originally posted by TSwami

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/HARL...3291708?pt=US_motorcycles&hash=item3f1ca1973c
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This gives me a massive boner.
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texmawby said:
$1200 or BRO.....what's a BRO?
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Best Reasonable Offer.
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bfont52 said:
saw one of these for the first the other day when Geeto67 posted one and kind of fell in love w/ it then saw this today:

1980 moto guzzi lemans $5k.... 1980 CX100 Moto Guzzi Le Mans

underpriced no? there's a 78 on ebay right now at 10k. unless that's a rarer one?

no pic in the ad but my friend knows the guy....this is it:

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The price is a good price for a lemans CX100, but it is pretty close to "retail". Anything more than that would be obscene without justification (like a $10K restoration using original lemans I parts). A 1978 model would be a Lemans I and yes those bikes are way more desireable.

The neat part about the CX100 is that it is an american market only bike. Berliner, the importer for Guzzi didn't want to pay for emissions certification on the 850 engines which were slated to only be in production one or two more years (the emissions regulations went into effect in 1979), but the 1000 motor for the SP touring models had already cleared federal emissions testing, so they slotted the 1000SP engine into a Lemans II chassis and called it the CX100. All CX100s are 1979 models but some have been titled and sold as 1980 models. My CX100 was a 1980 as well. I don't think Guzzi sold more than 1500 of them. They resurrected the model in 1981 but only produced 353 of those. Unfortunatly rarity does not translate into monetary value, as most of the guzzi purists don't consider the cx100 a "real lemans" and the bike was obscenely expensive for the time ($5000+ when a 1979 cb750F was $1495).

While a real lemans I is knocking on the $10K door, cx100s seem to be trading for around $4500-$5500, maybe $6K if you had a really really good one. I have seen custom lemans CX100 conversions to lemans I spec sell for $8K but the cost of doing it with original parts is prohibitive - it has to be a labor of love, and even then really well done.

I have ridden an 850 lemans I and an sp1000 (my own cx100 was broken when I bought it and broken when I sold it) as well as a later 1000S. Stock for stock the 850 is the most fun, but the 1000SP/cx100 is the most useable around town bike (more torque and a heavier flywheel - not as smooth but has the inertia to pull you away from a stop light quickly).

If I ad $5K to spare I would buy that bike today. if it were $6K I would probably pass.
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