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Misc / Open / Re: Does this look like Candy Gold Custom to you?
« on: December 15, 2018, 09:47:53 AM »
Wasn’t the 1300 available in Japan (or at shows) a long time before it was released here?
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Misc / Open / Re: Does this look like Candy Gold Custom to you?« on: December 15, 2018, 09:47:53 AM »
Wasn’t the 1300 available in Japan (or at shows) a long time before it was released here?
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Misc / Open / Re: New hip« on: December 09, 2018, 05:11:31 PM »
Make a quick recovery in time for the better weather 👍
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CB750 / Re: 1st One of these I've ever seen!« on: December 06, 2018, 11:08:36 PM »Tenuous link but same frame type and interesting project. What an absolutely fascinating project. 49
CB750 / Re: 1st One of these I've ever seen!« on: December 06, 2018, 07:14:59 PM »Weren't the blue one's and subsequent white Nortons JPN as in plain John Player Norton. Croxford was a real character. The Norton’s there were just the end of an era. Very old technology right at the end of very old development and very little money by Japanese standards. Honda were building little six cylinder Swiss watches with huge budgets and crushing them afterwards and the Commando was really designed a full generation before. 50
CB750 / Re: 1st One of these I've ever seen!« on: December 06, 2018, 05:02:15 PM »Cost (and availability possibly). The Brits were already developed and Norton-Villiers thought sponsorship was a badge on a local building site concrete mixer. Brian Crighton changed the game there for a bit with some very good riders but they were outlawed pretty quick. And the JPS 750's before that. Cost and lack of money on a very old design 51
CB750 / Re: 1st One of these I've ever seen!« on: December 06, 2018, 03:49:11 PM »
Cost (and availability possibly). The Brits were already developed and Norton-Villiers thought sponsorship was a badge on a local building site concrete mixer.
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CB750 / Re: 1st One of these I've ever seen!« on: December 06, 2018, 03:22:48 PM »Even the genuine Soper bike didn't sell at £8000Often wondered why nobody re-framed the cb750 in the 70's (for racing) - surely they would have been faster than the Nortons and Triumph Triples of the time. The thing is that in the 70's Norton and Triumph didn't have a two-stroke and back then 2-strokes ruled. Norton and Triumph were already on a very slippery stroke (or Sam) 53
Project Board / Re: CB400/4 race bike project thing that is getting out of control ;)« on: November 28, 2018, 11:03:32 PM »
What a fantastic job you’ve done there. Very cool.
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Other Bikes / Re: KAWASAKI Z900 A4« on: November 28, 2018, 10:50:03 PM »I never took those moon prices for serious. Not sure about sandcasts as I’m not looking to buy one but an awful lot of very poor Z’s are selling for silly money. 55
Other Bikes / Re: KAWASAKI Z900 A4« on: November 28, 2018, 08:30:10 PM »Frank’s prices are always nuts. I think most are commission sales? 56
Other Bikes / Re: KAWASAKI Z900 A4« on: November 28, 2018, 04:33:53 PM »WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I looked at that one myself 57
Other Bikes / Re: KAWASAKI Z900 A4« on: November 28, 2018, 04:33:16 PM »
I will be looking at a Z900 A4 hopefully in the New Year (as thats the one I had back in the day) if my better half allows but I just wonder how these prices will hold up in the fullness of time when those of us at a certain age group move on. Will they still be in such demand with the younger generations in such numbers I wonder?
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Other Bikes / Re: KAWASAKI Z900 A4« on: November 28, 2018, 04:10:01 PM »
Well heres a US import: https://www.motorcyclesunlimited.co.uk/1972-classic-kawasaki-z1-900-for-sale/
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Other Bikes / Re: CB250RS Rebuild Progress« on: November 21, 2018, 07:00:18 PM »🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 There's always one.....Steve 😀😀😀Very true Tomb, never assume anything when it comes to engineering I did have a engine in sometime ago where the owner had fitted the rings as they were stacked in the packet 60
Other Bikes / Re: CB250RS Rebuild Progress« on: November 21, 2018, 06:41:36 PM »Very true Tomb, never assume anything when it comes to engineering I did have a engine in sometime ago where the owner had fitted the rings as they were stacked in the packet Better than that other bloke who left half the bits at home |