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Offline hairygit

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Chicken chaser prices
« on: October 02, 2014, 11:47:58 AM »
Has anyone else noticed how expensive these things are to buy nowadays? I needed one as major surgery last year has gone wrong, now left with a parastomal hernia and a prolapsed stoma, which means my 750F1 cannot be ridden until further surgery to correct it, but I need to get out on something with 2 wheels, go mad otherwise! Anyway, it seems long gone are the days we could get an okay runner for £50 or so from the back of somebody's garage or shed! Looking around locally found nothing, so looked on e bay, sh#t are they pricey! £8-900 being average for a roadworthy one, with a few over £1500-2000+, question is, why? I managed to get one for £495 in the end, only bidder for a red 1988 C90 Cub, 10 months m.o.t. and tax, fairly tidy, just some of the plastic parts have faded colourwise. Seems they are a good investment with the money they are fetching, often more than the sohc fours of similar condition, so what happened?

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Re: Chicken chaser prices
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2014, 01:31:44 PM »
Peiple replace their shitty Chinese engines with the better made Japanese ones, + everthing is relative as in if in the .70,s and 80,s they were 50 quid you can't expect then to stay at that price I bet your wages have gone up at the same rate, don't get me wrong I totally understand, as I used get given them as people deemed a knackered one as unworthy of selling
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Re: Chicken chaser prices
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2014, 06:18:01 PM »
My neighbor was talking to me and he said he was on the lookout for a scooter.I asked what his budget was and when he said £50 I couldn't help but laugh.Then I realized he was serious I didn't know were to look. :-[

I should have known better when I looked at his pushbike it must be 40 years old.
 
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Re: Chicken chaser prices
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2014, 07:29:36 PM »
Completely agree...that £50 quid spend is now £500...bought a clapped out CD175 for £500 cash! the seller would not take 'paypal' or budge on the price...Alan
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Re: Chicken chaser prices
« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2014, 07:35:41 PM »

Completely agree...that £50 quid spend is now £500...bought a clapped out CD175 for £500 cash! the seller would not take 'paypal' or budge on the price...Alan
To be fair Alan that's quit a good deal at £500 for that..

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Re: Chicken chaser prices
« Reply #5 on: October 02, 2014, 08:48:33 PM »
£500??? That is the price for a tank, seat and two mudguards on a Sloper. Nice deal.

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Re: Chicken chaser prices
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2014, 10:02:11 PM »
You can buy a Chinese one for £600 but it will not be exactly good for that price. Bottom line will be that these days the cost of fixing one up will often be a hundred quid just on a battery and tyres. I just forked out £80 on a tyree for my ntv, the bike was only £380, that stung, glad the insurance was more reasonable at £5.34 tomadd it to my policy for the remaining 6 months.
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