eBay's Most Miserable Bike

[WD Forte]

The thing is
I'm no purist and love to fuck about with my old thing
and good luck to others doing the same with theirs.
But
When some twat pisses way lots of time and money on a bike then
asks big money as if we're all twats as well, I get somewhat irritated
and offended.
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bikers smell of wee

[Easy-X]

[A100man]

[Easy-X]

Not the most miserable bike but the text amuses me:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-FZ1-Fazer-Low-mileage-Spares-repairs-or-project/133436123656
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[A100man]

OK try this pitiful piece of cack (based on Honda's most woeful CB250 varient - the 'NightHawk'..

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-cb250-cafe-racer-cafe-racer-years-mot-great-runner-ulez-free-/133438725290

Note - would you buy a 'custom' bike from a guy who can't even be bother to sweep his garage floor.
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[steve the grease]

All this wrecking bikes to make a custom bike is nothing new. A lad at our work decided to build a chopper out of a BSA C15. He paid someone to 'convert' it to a rigid frame, not the most fantastic of jobs and at a time where welders where not ten a penny like they are now, probably twisted steel stuts replacing the shocks or something.
Then there was the aerosol paint job red and orange if I remember correctly.

I gave up with him when he asked ( knowing that I had a had a few parts chromed) " If I put a cork up the exhaust hole and the carburettor hole ( his description) will that place chrome plate my engine?" " Er, no Ken they won't, you have to take it to bits".

Yet another worthless box of bits.

The difference nowadays is that Ebay did not exist back then , so that the person having wrecked this bike would have no way to unload it. I would have sat at the back of his dad's garage, until either another lad at work gave him £3.50 for the engine, or his dad took it to the tip, after he got some girl pregnant and had to get married and so moved out of his parents house.
No wonder good classic bikes are worth so much , most of them ended up trashed by clueless twats. Sometimes nothing changes.
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I've been riding, and fixing , bikes for 50 years, in that time the more I learn, the less I am absolutely sure of.....

[Bhud]

[Freddyfruitba...]

[A100man]

[Easy-X]

Elaborate troll? I mean, what's the deal with the soft focus? Hardly extreme bike pr0n
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[Bhud]

He's no spring chicken, that's for sure. And it's funny you mentioned his garage, as I had the same misgivings when I saw the video.

I think he probably represents what average people are doing with old bikes nowadays at home. Personally, I think there's a sort of missing link between "utility" bikes of the past, and their rather hapless "reinvention" in the present. In the past, there were lots more people riding motorcycles, displacements were smaller, and for many more people than today, they were a transport tool. Nowadays, they are marketed purely as a leisure accessory, even when they're rather mundane and bland. They're often dressed up to look like something they're not, as well. Therefore many people simply don't "get it", when it comes to old bikes. All bikes in the old days had an element of fun about them, but if it doesn't look with an R1, with cunningly designed plastics and massive tyres, they don't sate the desire to be respected. I do believe that that's at the heart of the cafe racer craze. The last thing people a lot of these people want to do is enjoy riding a bike. Trying to go any faster than 40 on a challlenging country road is an eccentric sideline - who's going to admire that? That sort of thinking... Anyway, I think that guy in particular wants to start a bike business (oddly, at the same time as learning about the basics of bike mechanics), but he might have missed the boat on the cafe racer craze.

Oh, and I think the soft focus filter on his earlier video was probably out of embarrassment over the paint job on the tank.

[arry]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-XSR-900-2016/303602318850?hash=item46b01bbe02:g:G8QAAOSwCUdewo-d

By the power of Greyskull.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/SowAAOSwr15ewo-u/s-l1600.jpg

[A100man]

Ha - good sense of humour anyway - in fact that doesn't offend me..
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Then: Fizz, RS200, KL250, XJ550, Laverda Alpina, XJ600, FZS600

[MarJay]

[Easy-X]

New on Men & Motors: When Wraps Go Wrong!

TBF it has the look of a film prop about it.
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[A100man]

ttps://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-Fazer-FZS-600-Brat-Bike-Cafe-Street-Racer-Custom-Full-Service-History/153980952822

Yes mate looks great, but for 3 grand less I can buy a proper one that hasn't been carved up by a deluded wanker. 'R6 brake' ermm they all had blue spots mate..
'Priced to sell'.. - speechless.
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Now: A100, GT250A, XJ598, FZ750

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[WD Forte]

[Easy-X]

[WD Forte]

Member this?

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/N~wAAOSwnlResJou/s-l1600.jpg

Hmmm.
Sold for £2050 form guy in Barnet
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HONDA-CB-400-SS-CAFE-CUSTOM-BUILT-WAS-3995-NOW-ONLY-99p-NO-RESERVE-AUCTION/313095797974?hash=item48e5f6bcd6:g:N~wAAOSwnlResJou

Now up for sale in Bournemouth for £3795
Same bike innit?
Looks like it to me
Just got a padded testicle rest type thing on it and less rear mudguard and mirrors for moar speed
Oh and a handa tank sticker not a Beezer one

( I still hate that friggin tank, what is the point of it?)

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/xPUAAOSwxEde437o/s-l1600.jpg

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2003-HONDA-CB-400-SS-Cafe-Racer-Stunning-Custom-Bike-1000s-Spent-On-Upgrades/114257104069?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649
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bikers smell of wee

[Ayrton]

[Easy-X]

Odd... put the reg in the ol' GOV website: first registered 2001

Of course, from the previous listing they do at least say it's an import. Photos of that show a partially covered plate that matches the new listing.

IMHO the first guy bought it from an importer, did a little project, had a little fun and moved it on - no problem - it's these "Metric & American" guys that are pulling a fast one.
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[blurredman]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-CX650-Custom-Project/324215147191?_trkparms=aid%3D888008%26algo%3DDISC.CARDS%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20200220090753%26meid%3De1260d18a808426cb93d75f58408cd86%26pid%3D100009%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D2%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D224062333245%26itm%3D324215147191%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DDiscV1&_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/FsIAAOSwmaBe-4pA/s-l1600.jpg
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Past: 1991 Honda CG125BR-J, 1992 (1980) Honda XL125S, 1996 Kawasaki GPZ500S.
Current: 1981 Honda CX500B - 91k, 1987 MZ ETZ250 (bored to 295cc) - 38k, 1989 MZ ETZ251 - 49k, 1979 Suzuki TS185ER - 9k, 1973 MZ ES250/2 - 17k.

[arry]

Christ

Still, at least he lists it as bolloxed rather than overselling the turd.

[Easy-X]

That is miserable, GJ on the find

I'd forgotten there even was a CX650. Could you nab this and throw the engine in a CX500 frame?
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[A100man]

Ooh, ooh.. this one features another hate of mine..

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Kawasaki-GT550-Cafe-Racer-W-reg-2000/233637961491

Can you guess what it is?

(@ Easy-X no not the inappropriate and illegal numberplate )
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Now: A100, GT250A, XJ598, FZ750

Then: Fizz, RS200, KL250, XJ550, Laverda Alpina, XJ600, FZS600