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PostPosted: 15:14 - 20 Feb 2020    Post subject: eBay's Most Miserable Bike Reply with quote

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1976-HONDA-CJ-360-T-DAMAGED-SPARES-OR-REPAIR-HPI-CLEAR-22566/402100921990

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Does Engine run? NO

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PostPosted: 15:28 - 20 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

People are actually bidding on it !!
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PostPosted: 15:34 - 20 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd have it for cheap, seen worse
The wheels look good, some simple wiring and repairs and a bit of a tart up would give you a reasonably powered knock about/rat bike.
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PostPosted: 17:12 - 20 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Has the base, and important parts, for a very cheap foundation to be covered into a hipster style bike with a flat seat. Right bike for someone with the time, tools, interest and customer at what will probably be a very cheap price.

Looks to be fire damaged, mind? Frame looks like rust but the way the seat has melted makes me think it was stolen / set alight. All easily correctable with an angle grinder, some pipe (and a pipe bender) and a welder.

I regularly stalk this page for bikes I wish I had the space to bid on. Laughing
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PostPosted: 17:24 - 20 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Better than a standard one. In brown.

Anyway. Looks like the idiot hipster conversion spat back through its inappropriately jetted carbs and set fire to the leaky float-bowls because it has no airbox. Karma
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PostPosted: 17:26 - 20 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

What I find amusing is that, for an insurance job, the carb and silencer went missing somewhere on the way to the salvage place Thinking

I would say it dovetails with the "Historic Vehicle" discussion but it's already been ruined in the flat-tracker, café-racer style even before the obvious fire so arguably doesn't qualify.
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PostPosted: 17:31 - 20 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Easy-X wrote:
What I find amusing is that, for an insurance job, the carb and silencer went missing somewhere on the way to the salvage place Thinking


The carb is still there. See the Dahli-esque lump of alloy lying on top of the crankcase?
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PostPosted: 18:11 - 20 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

WD Forte wrote:
I'd have it for cheap, seen worse

Yoiu gol-darned commie pinko prevert! I had a few rides on a CJ250T, it was like riding a not-very-well-set blancmange that went wrong a lot. Mind you, this one's had the rear suspension updated, so you're right, there cetrainly are worse! There might be an "unrestored, original" one. Smile
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PostPosted: 18:34 - 20 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

stinkwheel wrote:
idiot hipster conversion :


Yep agree
No or minimal mudguards suggest that
( dont it ever rain where these people live?)
Probably is self inflicted damage too

It has no silencer cos some hipster genius cut off the subframe that supports the rear footpegs and silencer to 'improve' it with an obnoxiously loud shortie type thing.
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PostPosted: 20:10 - 20 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

stinkwheel wrote:
Easy-X wrote:
What I find amusing is that, for an insurance job, the carb and silencer went missing somewhere on the way to the salvage place Thinking


The carb is still there. See the Dahli-esque lump of alloy lying on top of the crankcase?


Lol! Completely missed it Doh!

Ofc it would have had a rubber pipe that went up in smoke.
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PostPosted: 20:37 - 20 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

"Accident related damage" vs hipster conversion. Same thing! Laughing

linuxyeti wrote:

People are actually bidding on it !!


Are they, though? Hesitant to take their auctions at face value..
I wonder if someone with a lot of time on their hands just wants the frame, so he can restore the bike properly. Alternatively, perhaps someone just needs a few parts.

Perhaps I needed to see this, to make sure I'm careful when wiring up my bitsa project. It might really have suffered an "accident" (i.e. an accidental electrical fire). Who knows.


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PostPosted: 20:41 - 20 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's the sort of old fairly solid heavy and long lasting Japanese bike that some beardy weirdo's would buy to fit an industrial diesel engine into IMO.
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PostPosted: 20:56 - 20 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

I’ve bought worse - admittedly to break for spares / selling the frame... rate
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PostPosted: 01:15 - 21 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Feel free to suggest more miserable bikes found on FleaBay, ScamTree and Faceballs...
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PostPosted: 01:48 - 21 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Projects!

They got in over their heads. Not LOLing at these guys. They tried. They'll get themselves MT07s and put the ideas out of their minds, eventually. But first they need these things off their lawns. At first glance, it seems someone needed the engine from the Suzuki. But, upon closer inspection, the engine is included in the sale. It's just been removed. As for the second one, well, not sure what the issue was, but if he bought it with that raked-out frame and tank, perhaps he should have persisted, as that's a period chopper.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Suzuki-Katana-650-Spares-or-Repairs-Project-1982/114100505315?hash=item1a90eb8ae3:g:mDUAAOSwnw5eRD78

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BSA-A65-CHOPPER-BOBBER-PROJECT-BARN-FIND-PROJECT-HARDTAIL-SPARES-OR-REPAIRS/114109702667?hash=item1a9177e20b:g:nqwAAOSwjwdeQu4j
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PostPosted: 03:11 - 21 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tempting, but a bit overpowered. I'll wait for a CJ250.
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PostPosted: 09:40 - 21 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

stinkwheel wrote:
Better than a standard one. In brown.


Wasn't the brown one the 500?

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PostPosted: 13:11 - 21 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Polarbear wrote:


I'm pretty sure they did them in a lighter shade than that. Kind of babys nappy brown? Same as they used to use on Morris Marinas. "Harvest gold" I think they called it.
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PostPosted: 14:23 - 21 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

My old Mini Clubman Estate was in Harvest Gold originally. A can of Black Smoothrite soon cured that.

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PostPosted: 16:32 - 21 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've taxed worse
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PostPosted: 18:11 - 21 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Buy for cheap
Whack back on ebay: Barn find, project 90% done
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PostPosted: 07:09 - 22 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Vracktal wrote:
I've taxed worse


Paddy's MOT'ed worse
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PostPosted: 15:07 - 22 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can’t tell if this was a machine designed to ride or burn testes
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PostPosted: 17:03 - 22 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chain adjusters look salvageable Shocked
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PostPosted: 11:43 - 24 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

I Hope the hipster twat got his chuff singed off..

The Bike Shed will buy it and hang it on the wall of their beard barbers..
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