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thx1138
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PostPosted: 11:50 - 11 Nov 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
steve the grease wrote:
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I quite like that CZ. Are they reliable or is it still around because it never ran?
That BMW though. What on Earth are people thinking? So many bad things about it.

Was going to link in to that Tron Motorcycle that was always sat on eBay but it's not there. Surely no-one bought it?


They are reliable in a ' fix it with a hammer' sort of way, so not actually relaible , but fixable at the side of the road. The design is based on the DKW designs reparated from the master race after the last lot , the same as the BSA Bantam and Harley Davidson 125 ( you think I'm joking don't you) also same roots as the MZ's. Utilitarian biking for the socialist masses. This is an attempt to sell a few in the west in the seventies trail bike craze , on their MX credentials . My mates Dad had one ( my mate bent the forks on it too)


I was given a CZ once, and someone else I knew had a CZ, he helped me with it. I asked about wiring, he laughed and said, that just becuase his bike and wires of a certain colour there would be no guarantee mine would. Indeed, mine were all red. Shocked
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PostPosted: 15:23 - 11 Nov 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
thx1138 wrote:

I was given a CZ once,I asked about wiring, he laughed and said, that just becuase his bike and wires of a certain colour there would be no guarantee mine would. Indeed, mine were all red. Shocked


I had a Jawa 350 twin exactly like that Laughing seriously all the wires were red.
It made the wiring cluster in the headlamp a bit of a mindfuck!
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PostPosted: 19:06 - 11 Nov 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Woohoo! This is fun.

Here's another. I particularly enjoy the description. I wonder whether someone like David Beckham or Jamiroquai will come along and buy it. Particularly impressed by how they kept costs down - I recognise those pod filters: the big online parts retailer beginning with "W" sells them for £12 a pop, but they can probably be sourced for less from elsewhere. And the gauze and headlight, etc. Classic and thrifty choices, and the obligatory brown leather seat, too! I also recognise that Chinese cable-driven speedo. It's excellent value: from experience they're good for about 150 miles, which equates to about 3 years' use (i.e. 3 rides to a local annual bike show). Fork gaiters - I got mine from China - they're about good enough, and I think they cost a fiver.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-R100gs-Custom-Scrambler-MOTO-Bobber-Cafe-Racer-Tracker-by-Kevils-Speed-Shop/113934158882?hash=item1a87014c22:g:FtEAAOSwVR9dsFsg
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PostPosted: 19:57 - 11 Nov 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
For a business claiming such fame and recognition, I'm surprised at the state of the grammar in the listing.

Is the rear shock a standard one or has it had a leg (held in place with a grub screw) added to lengthen it?
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PostPosted: 20:29 - 11 Nov 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sister Sledge wrote:
For a business claiming such fame and recognition, I'm surprised at the state of the grammar in the listing.

Is the rear shock a standard one or has it had a leg (held in place with a grub screw) added to lengthen it?


No idea. Possibly a longer shock than normal, or a cunningly extended one, as you suggest.
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PostPosted: 22:23 - 11 Nov 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: 12:10 - 12 Nov 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Converting a BMW into a scrambler Rolling Eyes Fecking liberties!

Now, a nice CX500, that's much better:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1981-Honda-CX500-Cafe-Brat-Custom/233376258798
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PostPosted: 13:48 - 12 Nov 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Easy-X wrote:
Converting a BMW into a scrambler Rolling Eyes Fecking liberties!

Now, a nice CX500, that's much better:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1981-Honda-CX500-Cafe-Brat-Custom/233376258798


Sick Sick Puke Puke
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PostPosted: 14:49 - 12 Nov 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Easy-X wrote:
Converting a BMW into a scrambler Rolling Eyes Fecking liberties!

Now, a nice CX500, that's much better:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1981-Honda-CX500-Cafe-Brat-Custom/233376258798


Good God that is horrible.

The CX 500 was called the Plastic Maggot when it first came out and it wasn't for any complimentary reasons. Just why?
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PostPosted: 18:31 - 12 Nov 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ahem*

Gentlemen, may I have your attention please...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2020-Honda-CBR-1000-RR-SP-Fireblade-ORDER-NOW-ORDER-NOW/333394992259?hash=item4d9fe3dc83:g:hdcAAOSwIV5dyoHx
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PostPosted: 19:33 - 12 Nov 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ice Burger wrote:
Ahem*

Gentlemen, may I have your attention please...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2020-Honda-CBR-1000-RR-SP-Fireblade-ORDER-NOW-ORDER-NOW/333394992259?hash=item4d9fe3dc83:g:hdcAAOSwIV5dyoHx

WTF?Shocked Surely they must have put one too many zeros on that price or they are the most optimistic seller ever. What idiot will pay £250,000 for a Fireblade?
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PostPosted: 21:17 - 12 Nov 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
That's so that their listing for the 2020 CBR1000 is the oldest on eBay which also helps towards it being shown at the top of the results when ordered by most relevant.

And "£1000.00 deposit ORDER NOW !! price TBC".
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PostPosted: 00:13 - 13 Nov 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ste wrote:
That's so that their listing for the 2020 CBR1000 is the oldest on eBay which also helps towards it being shown at the top of the results when ordered by most relevant.

And "£1000.00 deposit ORDER NOW !! price TBC".


Yep, there's deluded sellers and then there's gullible buyers, who don't read the bloody advert Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 19:39 - 13 Nov 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Also, people tend to sort eBay from cheapest to most expensive. On the off-chance someone sorts the wrong way, bang! there you are Smile
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PostPosted: 22:01 - 21 Nov 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mr. Honda wants £20k for the 2020 base model Fireblade! Laughing
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PostPosted: 18:45 - 26 Nov 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
How this relates to a Raleigh Chopper I have no idea...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/E-BIKE-ELECTRIC-MONKEY-BIKE-BOBBER-CRUISER-RALEIGH-CHOPPER-TRIALS-XMAS/293338827250
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PostPosted: 19:24 - 26 Nov 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
5 MODES OF PEDDLE POWER

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PostPosted: 19:32 - 26 Nov 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
"CLASSED FOR OFF ROAD USE (WINK WINK SAY NO MORE!)"

Awesome.
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PostPosted: 22:21 - 26 Nov 2019    Post subject: Brat customs etc Reply with quote
Surely the boat has sailed and no one is buying these things?
The prices are crazy
Although had a wander around a BMW dealers last month,not exactly cheap,I guess thats why they push PCP deals
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PostPosted: 15:17 - 12 Dec 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Okay, so not eBay but this is a beauty!

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/493079631305093/
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PostPosted: 19:52 - 12 Dec 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Easy-X wrote:
Okay, so not eBay but this is a beauty!

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/493079631305093/

"sounds load. (load pipes save life's)"

Sensible offer? Smile
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PostPosted: 07:56 - 13 Dec 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
'the cleanist virago you'll see' haha!
I do scratch around FB Marketplace and laugh.
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PostPosted: 10:52 - 13 Dec 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's also listed on eBay:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Custom-chopper-Yamaha-virago-535/352887247431

Doesn't look good for that £1500 with 1 bid and one day to go. TBH at that price (£400) you could budget for trying to unfuckerate it, poor thing!
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PostPosted: 13:06 - 13 Dec 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Check out the forks on the eBay listing. Painted with copper Hammerite. Not only that but running down when wet and spreading to expose paint underneath.
Perhaps they're selling it to fund new spectacles?
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PostPosted: 15:22 - 13 Dec 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
That is horrendous. Copper hammerite/smoothrite or whatever it is looks naff.

Wrapped down pipes and no mudguard. Sick

And what's with the rag round the fork stanchions? Is it just cool or to mop up leaking fork oil?
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