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SOHC.co.uk Forums => SOHC Singles & Twins => Topic started by: Laverda Dave on February 25, 2024, 09:35:29 AM
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Just seen this on eBay. Only two very poor photos but looks to be nearly all there. Still 6 days to go so likely to go for serious money but maybe worth a watch.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/196261983019?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=2ZgTnFgbQ5y&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=5XpGce3OSuS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
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Just seen this on eBay. Only two very poor photos but looks to be nearly all there. Still 6 days to go so likely to go for serious money but maybe worth a watch.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/196261983019?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=2ZgTnFgbQ5y&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=5XpGce3OSuS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
Yea looks bog standard original Dave and potentially a good project for someone.. even the tank badges are correct. Someone told me that when they pressed the 175 sloper silencers there was an area that came out thinner than intended and that area rots through easily. So I guess the silencers will be toast on that bike but will attract buyers.
Very poor photos though and why would anyone start an auction at fifty a quid with no reserve? Looking at sellers profile ..no history of bike related sales so maybe inherited it .
Seems DS had his ar$e kicked on this immaculate CB92 with race kit that he shipped to Mecum Auctions in the States, by selling it with no reserve. Had he advertised that bike on his UK website he could have sold it easily for double that. I guess the theory was that a year or to back a similar bike went for mega money at Mecum. Not sure but I think it went through at some unGodly hour early in the morning, so maybe a lack of bidders.
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This was the 2019 sale of another 1963 example that probably spurred him on to send to Mecum.
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Wow, somebody got a bargain there. He must have made a big loss on that when you take into account the shipping costs and auction fees etc.
I can see the parts prices going up to cover it!
The sloper could be a bargain although it has already attracted a few bids in the limited time it's been on eBay. You would have thought the buyer would have taken some more better quality photos, the side on shot appears as though it's a photo of a photo.
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And just as I said that some more photos of the bike have been added. The original two photos were terrible. 9 bids already, it's hotting up with six days still to go.
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Repeat after me 'I must NOT bid, I must NOT bid' 🤔
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Four different bidders - promising start this early on.
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Wow, somebody got a bargain there. He must have made a big loss on that when you take into account the shipping costs and auction fees etc.
I can see the parts prices going up to cover it!
It wasn't all bad for him .. he sent a 'D' kit CB450K0 that he bought last year at auction in the UK for £10.5k (a member on here's bike) and flipped it for $27.5k
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There was a very interesting article written by Hugo Wilson in CB about the state of auction prices in the classic bike market and in particular for 1990’s ‘classic’ Japanese bikes. He sold his Kawasaki ZX750 at the Stafford sale in October for less than half the price he paid privately for it the year before. A second generation VFR750 with low miles didn’t do much better either.
It seems the buyers who attend these auctions will only pay decent money for very low miles, 100% original 1990’s bikes with the rest being disposable fodder.
I guess if you go back 20+ years buyers probably said the same about 70’s & 80’s bikes but look how they have climbed and are still climbing. The price of British bikes is tumbling these days, even BSA Gold Stars are starting to dip and probably as a result of these bikes no longer attracting the buyers who wanted them when they were younger as they themselves are now in their 60's,70’s & 80’s and are no longer able to kick start a 500cc high compression and tempremental single. When I watch Bangers & Cash I notice when a 1930’s/40’s/50’s car comes up for auction they have trouble shifting them for any decent money and rarely do they ever meet the reserve.
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I had convinced myself that I didn’t really want a sloper… but I do really. That looks a nice place to start.
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Look carefully at the log book foto,
Ist reg nov 68
1st keeper change dec 67!!!!
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Hand written over the stamp which looks as if it hasnt printed very well. Think it must be a slip of the pen!
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Look carefully at the log book foto,
Ist reg nov 68
1st keeper change dec 67!!!!
And MOT says 9872 miles. Text says 9560 miles...?
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I might not be able to stop myself having a little run at this.
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Sold for £2k to a new bidder in the last minute - anyone here?
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Unfortunately not me, I did bid but was pipped at the post.
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Beaten by £2.00 then!
You have probably saved a small fortune on an undug money pit.
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Beaten by £2.00 then!
You have probably saved a small fortune on an undug money pit.
I think you’re probably right Ted!
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I don't think that was worth that kind of money. Probably went high because of originality but betcha those silencers were beyond recovery. And even if they were solid you would be looking at 600-700 to get them rechromed.
I would have thought something like £1,250 tops. Certainly increasing in popularity though. My first 'real' bike so I am biased. ;)
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Yeah, caught up in the moment somewhat. The seller did say they were sound but as you say, they would still need attention.
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Don't forget it's eBay and prices achieved are always much higher than if the bike was in a real auction house.
I personally would never consider bidding £2k on a motorcycle on eBay without inspecting it first but a lot of people do. I know a buyer can back out of a purchase if the item is not as described but how would that work on something described as a project?
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I found my 400 on e-bay - I did not bid on it but went to view it as it was local sale had just over a day to go. Did a deal outside e-bay with the owner paying a couple of hundred over the last bid.
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Quite surprised with the £2K final bid. I would have thought £1.5K, although it does have all the hard to find parts.
Completed a 'sloper' restoration 9 years ago...final re-chroming bill on this bike...£££
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Weight for weight I think chrome plating is now more expensive than gold!
I paid £1000 for two mudguards, stays, headlight rim, chain guard, kick start lever & knuckle, rear brake pedal, rear brake arm and two rear chain adjusters. The cost to re-chrome two wheel rims was going to be £600!
I have to say the work was 100% top notch and you get what you pay for but it still stings. TBH this is not all the plating shops fault, it is the fault of the goverment and EU virtually banning the use of chrome plating.
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Plenty of nasty stuff in cleaning and plating shops. Know someone died when they fell in a trich tank years ago when that was used as common and also a couple of others in our work who had badly damaged skin. And that's on the outside.