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Offline Bitsa (Ralph Wright - RIP)

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« on: September 30, 2014, 11:15:52 AM »
Sorry if I have repeated this but OUCH www.ebay.de/itm/Honda-CB-750-Four-K1-K2-K6-Vergaser-Keihin-Original-neu-Carburetor-NOS-/321536742100?pt=DE_Motorradteile&hash=item4add1552d4#ht_264wt_1124
And people moan when they want a grand for the whole bike
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Re: nos carbs
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2014, 11:44:41 AM »
It's a bit like oil - you think it's running out then more turns up
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« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2014, 12:00:07 PM »
It'd be interesting to know what a set of new carbs cost in, say, 1976, and factor in inflation.  I have a suspicion that 1900 euros wouldn't be too much of a premium.

A play with an inflation calculator, converting euros to dollars, gives a dollar price in 1976 of $570.

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« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2014, 12:02:33 PM »
OUCH! I paid D.S.S. £100+ vat +post for my new set of catbs for my 750F1, albeit back in 1995!

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Re: nos carbs
« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2014, 12:38:23 PM »
It'd be interesting to know what a set of new carbs cost in, say, 1976, and factor in inflation.  I have a suspicion that 1900 euros wouldn't be too much of a premium.

A play with an inflation calculator, converting euros to dollars, gives a dollar price in 1976 of $570.

Before I left my last job they had a repeated order for a valve from JAN 1970, the same month my 750K0 was imported. There were bets on the price back then CW the current price, so I divided the cost of the K0 new by 10k  and use the factor to divide the today price as an estimate for what they had charged. Then someone dug out the 1970 datasheet and original quote for it and my estimate was spot on.

Cheers .. Ash.. Ah yes the days when DS was selling NOS 400/4 rear guards for ten quid!
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Offline Bitsa (Ralph Wright - RIP)

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Re: nos carbs
« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2014, 01:37:41 PM »
Nice one Tom your right my question is where do these gits find them? >:( >:(
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« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2014, 04:21:26 PM »
Bitsa - serious answer:-

Once you're sort of in the frame for 'stuff', whatever it happens to be, it literally drops off the trees sometimes. 

Parallel universe sort of thing.  Dunno how it works, but it does.  I've had two NOS Honda 400 Four exhaust systems come my way this year, for example, and it's not like I was actively looking for them.

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Re: nos carbs
« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2014, 05:21:33 PM »
It'd be interesting to know what a set of new carbs cost in, say, 1976, and factor in inflation.  I have a suspicion that 1900 euros wouldn't be too much of a premium.

A play with an inflation calculator, converting euros to dollars, gives a dollar price in 1976 of $570.

The bike was less than $2000, I very much doubt the carbs cost over a quarter of the price of the whole bike.

Offline Bitsa (Ralph Wright - RIP)

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Re: nos carbs
« Reply #8 on: September 30, 2014, 06:41:48 PM »
Bike pusher
It does seem to be that way, noticed when you stop looking shed loads seem to appear all around
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« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2014, 10:11:28 PM »
Bodd - you'd be surprised.  I remember when the CBX550F2 came out, with the frame-mounted half fairing, the fairing cost about one-third the price of the whole bike.

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Re: nos carbs
« Reply #10 on: October 01, 2014, 07:56:30 AM »
Remember it!!! i got one sat outside awaiting me doing fork seals and mot

 

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