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SOHC.co.uk Forums => CB750 => Topic started by: JamesH on January 28, 2018, 02:51:58 PM
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Looks like it’s been found and is being auctioned off...
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I wonder if that's an original front guard
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I wonder if that's an original front guard
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Looks like the guard has changed, front m/c isn’t the prototype, exhausts are changed. But I guess the bones are there..
Wonder what it’s going to fetch? £££££
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I think Chris r knows of the where abouts of master cylinder
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I wonder if that's an original front guard
I doubt it, I saved all the photos of the blue one when Vic World eBayed it, it's definitely double cut, it had a smaller master cylinder too. The same slightly odd cam cover (standard gaskets don't fit), black striped trim and grey horn though.
Is this the one that disappeared, or the one that Ash knew about but wasn't at liberty to say who or where?
I've never been to the NMM, been past it loads of times, and it's burned down and been rebuilt since I first wanted to go - I may just turn up on 4th March just to see it. Hands firmly in pockets though, I'd have to sell the house first and live in a tent before I could bid. I'd only need a single man tent though as the wife would be long gone.
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The owner passed away last year. He had over 200 Honda's. Flattish PP Seat looks original to me. Chris still owns the original M/Cyl AFAIK
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Here it is with the flat bars that Lord Denbigh (Rollo Fielding) had and hence the later M/Cyl
You bidding James ;D ;D ;D
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I wonder off the dead guy has in his stash original shocks fork ears front guard etc
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Wonder if Vic World has his plane ticket booked ...I think he visited UK once just to get a gander of it. Hope it stays in UK though ..suppose DS Museum is best place for it, although many will disagree.
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He will buy it return it to standard and add 100k
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Interesting to see what the reserve will be?
I remember the Candy Blue/Green being sold on eBay 2014 for $148,000.00...images/detail where stunning!
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Yes, taxi for Mr World indeed.
I notice it has the original non production pointy indicator lenses still, VW's Candy blue green one had lost those. Easier to replace the mudguard (buy James' chopper!) and shocks than ever source a set of those, I'm guessing.
This page on the prototypes from the sandcast site has comments from Chris regarding the master cylinder and more information: http://cb750sandcastonly.com/latepreproduction01.htm
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Do you reckon this comment is correct? Green one was the missing one I believe featured on BBC Wheelbase programme in early '69
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Those "impossible to source" pointy indicator lenses, how many do you want, and how much will you pay for them??? Truth is, they are what was fitted to millions of Honda C57/70/90 step thru/ chicken chasers from 1965ish through to 1982! Honda often raided existing parts bins, and that bike was no exception ;D
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Found this recently
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Look at the carbs and airbox detail.
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Honda often raided existing parts bins, and that bike was no exception ;D
Most vehicle manufactures have always done this and it still happens on a regular basis today. Land Rover are / were no exception. They used to have a 1/2 model year, ie 2011 1/2, where any bits found in a cupboard were used up during the build, regardless of which Marque / Model the parts came from originally, if it fitted, they used it.
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Those "impossible to source" pointy indicator lenses, how many do you want, and how much will you pay for them??? Truth is, they are what was fitted to millions of Honda C57/70/90 step thru/ chicken chasers from 1965ish through to 1982! Honda often raided existing parts bins, and that bike was no exception ;D
Those Honda 50 indicator lens and oval rear lamp were fitted to comply with UK regs when prepped for sale to Lord Denbigh for UK road use. he also requested the flat bars to be fitted and that's how Chris came by the M/Cyl... the guy at Honda who prepped the bike, kept the old M/Cyl in his garage for yonks.
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The oval rear light was an early C50/70/90 part as well, and I'd bet that the generator coils in that stepped alternator cover were CB 450, I remember seeing a snatched photo of a prototype being tested in Japan with a CB 450 tank on it, and magneto ignition. The one coming up for sale is more a pre production model rather than a prototype.
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Yes, taxi for Mr World indeed.
I notice it has the original non production pointy indicator lenses still, VW's Candy blue green one had lost those. Easier to replace the mudguard (buy James' chopper!) and shocks than ever source a set of those, I'm guessing.
This page on the prototypes from the sandcast site has comments from Chris regarding the master cylinder and more information: http://cb750sandcastonly.com/latepreproduction01.htm
That's a good write up in the link you posted Dave. Tells us all the important things.
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Page 2 already, its not like this bike is causing much interest on here ;)
Well I live and learn about the indicators.
Whether the bike gets bought by V World, D Silver (now that could be an interesting bidding battle to watch) or anyone else, its going to be someone with deep pockets.
As there was no existing Honda (or anything else AFAIK) with a disk brake (so noone going to pop up and say its an ordinary production part off a Honda Cxxxx), I reckon Chris could name his price for that master cylinder, they're not going to find one anywhere else.
Mind you after my faux pas with the indicators, cue someone posting a copy of the 1969 AP Lockheed Racing catalogue or similar. :)
That's a good write up in the link you posted Dave. Tells us all the important things.
I also found this, about the very genesis of the CB750:
https://www.motorcyclistonline.com/blogs/making-honda-cb750-king-motorcycles
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I reckon Chris will have had 1st dibs on it as he was very close friend of Dave the owner for decades but it it must be awkward dealing with someones widow in such circumstances and who would know what it's worth and what to offer? To me the seat, if original, would be one of the most difficult parts to repro correctly. The front guard is probably the same as the production sandcasts.
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Surprised the sandcast boys haven't picked upon it yet ...go on James spill the beans on there ... ;D ;D
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Sure someone's looked, First UK registration Sept 69. Untaxed since July 77.
Its marked as a lowish £35k to £40k. John Lennon's bike might make that.
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Surprised the sandcast boys haven't picked upon it yet ...go on James spill the beans on there ... ;D ;D
You go for it Ash...!
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only just reading this i did not realize Dave had past away ,very sad news indeed, he was a great little guy. a right guru on honda stuff i last talked to him in malvern a few years ago im sure there are some of his vjmc mates will be looking out for his widows best interest
vic world is well aware of this bike and told me he has seen it in the flesh he remarked on a lot of hand made parts like the footrests if the interest in this bike goes virral like i think it will ,Im sure it will go for a princely sum and go abroad as others have said i would like to see it kept in U.K. but i cant see that happening
R.I.P
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Surprised the sandcast boys haven't picked upon it yet ...go on James spill the beans on there ... ;D ;D
You go for it Ash...!
Did it but credited to you J ;)
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Grr! Now I'll never get it for £35k. :'(
One day I'll find the green one in the local classifieds, cheap as a non runner.
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Grr! Now I'll never get it for £35k. :'(
I believe DS was onto it months ago Dave ;) You can bet your life any Honda's up for grabs he's on to and this guy had 200.
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I really am going to the auction, if I can, just to see a bit of history I might never get the chance to see again. And John Lennon's monkey bike!
I might even put the starting bid in, what do you think, £500 as it needs some work? Then I can say I was once in the running for it :)
There's a few interesting bikes, that Guzzi's nice, and is that the Henry Cole Phil Read Replica, or another one?
I'm guessing you also get the chance to see round the museum, if you buy a ticket, probably. Maybe they'll bid, though this particular bike didn't do the UK industry any favours (though they managed to f*%k that up for themselves).
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It's a nice looking bike with the unusual parts but appears to have declined in appearance over the years, although I doubt that'll reduce the final price. I may even visit my sister in Solihull on the day of the auction, just to see the bike in the flesh and see what it goes for. Reading all this, I'm aware of how much of a novice I am in the Temple of the CB750, so please don't stone me but what's AFAIK stand for?
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Interesting to see what the reserve will be?
I remember the Candy Blue/Green being sold on eBay 2014 for $148,000.00...images/detail where stunning!
Tried to find the large number of images from the ebay sale. The only one that I have found is at www.wired.com author Damon Lavrinc in 2014. I'm sure that Vic World has them tucked away somewhere?
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I have the full set from the eBay auction saved, I think Ashley may have posted a link on here to where they came from.
Many of the same photos of the blue one in this article, including the carbs and billet crankshaft. I see what you mean about the seat Ash, it is different.
https://www.motorcyclistonline.com/news/honda-cb750-sandcast-prototype
please don't stone me but what's AFAIK stand for?
As far as I know it stands for As Far As I Know :) We are so down with the kids on here. 8)
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http://vi.vipr.ebaydesc.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemDescV4&item=331120055291&t=0&tid=10&category=80647&seller=sandcast2&excSoj=1&excTrk=1&lsite=100&ittenable=false&domain=ebay.com&descgauge=1&cspheader=1&oneClk=1&secureDesc=0
Grab em quick !
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Many thanks Ash, as I remember the detailed images where very good.
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Mr Davo, many thanks, I thought that it was something that I needed to know. I still text in English. My son despairs!
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You're not the only one! I hate the laziness of "text speak"
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Mr Davo, many thanks, I thought that it was something that I needed to know. I still text in English. My son despairs!
Glad you asked that I was wondering as well. Just waiting for someone else to look a pillock.
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Roy, I know what you mean, having a teenage daughter, understanding her text messages can be like a MENSA puzzle!
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And i've learnt something as well. Not that I will ever use it. :)
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I reckon we should start a new thread in the Anything else section before this one gets completely messed up! :-X
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If I may be so bold as to get back to the subject, I was talking to an old mate this afternoon, we go to the Goodwood Revival with him and his missus most years, he'd booked the tickets and accomodation today, as they sell out well in advance.
A classic car nut, and recently spectacularly unpoor after an inheritance, he is currently considering buying another terraced house as a safe and boring investment (he has already viewed, and bottled out of buying at the last minute, a couple of classic Ferraris), and wouldn't mind another motorbike, having been a biker years ago.
I tried my best to convince him this was a once in a lifetime investment opportunity, that I could help him restore correctly, but he wouldn't bite. However deep his treasure chest, I get the impression that a Mr V World could still easily outbid him, and from what Ash says about how he sensibly values sandcasts, Mr Silver may have more sense if things get too mental. Then there's always the mystery telephone bidder......
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I think this auction is well planned for this time of year, I wonder how many accountants have advised their clients to tie up some funds in the way of assets before the end of the financial year ;)
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Looks like DS's workshop to me ;)
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Think that may be Roger Etcell’s workshop ash?
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Think that may be Roger Etcell’s workshop ash?
That would make sense ..you would have thought they would have fitted a set of Yamiyas Lotus Root pipes ... they had stocks last time I looked.
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James .. what made you think it's Roger E's place not DS's ? An awful lot of NOS stuff lying about. And DS has been selling seats on eBay recently ... there's quite a few seats lying around.
The sandcast boys are getting hot under the collar that the bike is being 'tarted' up to fool people and they are saying it's no way like the originality of the blue/green one Vic World sold. Interesting !! I believe that bike was part of a swap deal once for the press bike YLY 70H . Cant be sure though.
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James knows a lot of people
Fingers in many pies🤣🤣🤣
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James .. what made you think it's Roger E's place not DS's ? An awful lot of NOS stuff lying about. And DS has been selling seats on eBay recently ... there's quite a few seats lying around.
The sandcast boys are getting hot under the collar that the bike is being 'tarted' up to fool people and they are saying it's no way like the originality of the blue/green one Vic World sold. Interesting !! I believe that bike was part of a swap deal once for the press bike YLY 70H . Cant be sure though.
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Was purely a hunch Ash. I seem to remember DSS using Roger for his ‘rarer’ restoration work - could be completely wrong and a case of 2+2=5. We need Mick’s ‘slueth’ skills really
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I think the sleuthing has already been done......the quantity of NOS early parts speaks volumes; however, I would be very surprised if DSS stored vulnerable parts like that on open shelving, it doesn't look organised and it doesn't look very safe.
The bike itself looks a bit of a mixture of old and new, but it's fascinating just to get a look at it as the only previous images have been from way back when.
I hope they scoured the place where it was stored for parts and got everything there was.
It does look like it's had a knock at some stage given the damage to the tank and the non painted tinware at the front end.
What a great bike to get involved with though, real once in a lifetime stuff.
Mick.
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I know the back of that head in the photo, looks mighty familiar to me!!!
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I thought that was one of Triggers workshops.
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Isn't that UKpete's hat in both those pictures?
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I know the back of that head in the photo, looks mighty familiar to me!!!
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If that’s one of my motors, tell him to slow down
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I know the back of that head in the photo, looks mighty familiar to me!!!
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If that’s one of my motors, tell him to slow down
OK James, don't panic, I will hide his spanners :'( :'( :'(
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I know the back of that head in the photo, looks mighty familiar to me!!!
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If that’s one of my motors, tell him to slow down
OK James, don't panic, I will hide his spanners :'( :'( :'(
You're OK James, it's not one of yours :o :o
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Oddly enough, I'm not really too enthused about this bike, the amount of bits being changed on it kind of reduces it's true value historically to me. It's a bit like Trigger's broom, (the one from only fools and horses, not our Trig) had 15 new handles and 17 new heads, but to him was the same broom he started with years before!
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Oddly enough, I'm not really too enthused about this bike, the amount of bits being changed on it kind of reduces it's true value historically to me. It's a bit like Trigger's broom, (the one from only fools and horses, not our Trig) had 15 new handles and 17 new heads, but to him was the same broom he started with years before!
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You leave my NOS broom out of it, it is a good original example for any road sweeper ;D ;D
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I can see the different cam and alternator covers and gear shaft end cover, the billet crank, though invisible is something special.
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Oddly enough, I'm not really too enthused about this bike, the amount of bits being changed on it kind of reduces it's true value historically to me. It's a bit like Trigger's broom, (the one from only fools and horses, not our Trig)
yes trigger's broom has a lot to answer for lol.
as with all restored bikes where does it start and where does it end.
i bought a mint condition cb750 in 1990's completely made up of nos parts except frame and engine and they was resprayed and rebuilt i put 3000 miles on this bike before i decided to put it away for prosperity.since then i have added a brand new exhaust system a nos tank i scratched the old one replaced the wrong front mudguard with a new wrong one (i could have bought a correct copy from vietnam but decicded to stick with honda parts)only last year i replaced the chain guard with the correct short one .so do i have a new bike or still the old broom your guess is as good as mine lol
i was in stafford a few years ago now and a unrestored brough ss100 sold for £157,000 and i think this has been the trend for quite a few years now ,although im a firm believer that all that glitters is gold
so i wouldnt expect this bike as rare as it is , to be as valuable as vic worlds prototype , i think its been sold at the wrong market place USA has always been the big market ;) so its the same old broom to me aswell trigg
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But for true originality value James H's K0 he was thinking about selling would be a far better buy!
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Someone on SOOC posted this link. Hmm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v5YV4UcC7o
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On the subject of originality, they're only truly original if they're not used. This one was used and sold on. A few years ago in the affluent world of old Bentleys, I seem to remember a court case, where the buyer of a prestigious racing Bentley wanted his money back, as he said it wasn't the original car. To cut a long story backwards, I seem to remember the judge saying the car had been used and parts naturally wore and broke, only to be replaced with new parts from Bentley. His sage decision was that it was the original car. Basically, what did the purchaser expect, original air in the tyres? In the case of this bike, it depends how much the purchaser wants it and then, does he/she leave it as it is, as part of the bikes history or do they start looking for parts to return it to its original state; or is that restoring? Complex ain't it? I'm glad I can't afford it!
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Watching auction: :) :)
https://online.handh.co.uk/m/view-auctions/live-sale/id/83/
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Wow, its just like being there :D.
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Same here, interesting what they are going for.
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its all abit to addictive
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My wife thought I was playing a computer game with the sound effects. Now she’s hooked too!
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50k for Lennon’s monkey bike …
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What did the prototype make??
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Gulp…
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£135k
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£135,000
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Shit the bed
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Odd. It sold at 135 and then suddenly went up to £140,000.
I guess you’d have to be there.
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£140 actually ! (whoops the main man pipped me)
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Mad money
monkey bike for mege price
and a 750 for £140K
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£140,000
James at the very last second
You all beat me to it I think I passed out before posting :o
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£140,000
James at the very last second
You all beat me to it I think I passed out before posting :o
What James bought it?
Some arguing the toss, but a new bid came in as the hammer went down.
The blue one was 4 years ago, but £120k in our money.
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That’s all of Dave Silvers pocket money gone for the weekend
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Has anyone heard from Graham?
Just think off all the 250u's you could have bought with that.
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The Sandcastonly forum experts are fairly certain that a pair of carbs I have are the originals from that bike (it was fitted with standard carbs in '69 by Honda UK to improve the running). My mate was bidding at the auction (he also has the original master cylinder and rigid hose that were removed when Lord Denbigh had flat UK style bars and std master cyl. fitted). I told him if he wins he can have the carbs for nowt with my blessing. I can't believe he paid £140k though, so it's probably some high roller investor ... so where do I go from here?
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I'm sure James will offer you good money for them now he has the bike. ;D ;D
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I’m happy with my K0 stash thanks Mick...
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At that prise the K0 seems cheap
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I’m happy with my K0 stash thanks Mick...
I agree James that was silly money for a bike with quite a few key parts missing compared with the blue one. Chris told me that Dave meticulously restored the engine though, refitting parts that were within their service limit and it still has the billet crank etc.
BTW we were both wrong about the workshop shots of it ..not DS and not RogerE workshops ;)
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Ash - you should drop Roger Etcell an email and see if you can get the contact details for the winning bidder. I’m sure they would love to buy the carbs.
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Ash - you should drop Roger Etcell an email and see if you can get the contact details for the winning bidder. I’m sure they would love to buy the carbs.
No Rush ..still got a really,really faint lead on the other pair ! Just wish Chris had won it he was Dave's friend for the past 30 years.
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And a heady 4k for the CB250RSA! :o
All the bikes appear to be reaching well over estimate. The CBX sold for 13,250 after some last second bidding. Nice history to go with it.
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Ash - you should drop Roger Etcell an email and see if you can get the contact details for the winning bidder. I’m sure they would love to buy the carbs.
No Rush ..still got a really,really faint lead on the other pair ! Just wish Chris had won it he was Dave's friend for the past 30 years.
Conversely it’s nice that the owners family have benefited from his collecting over the years..
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I think it's a bargain compared to this handbag that sold for £279.000 at auction, that was second hand too ;D ;D ;D
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Did the obligatory small dog to go with the bag sell as a separate lot Julie?
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Did the obligatory small dog to go with the bag sell as a separate lot Julie?
Most probably ::) ::) ::)
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That handbag had a load of gold and diamonds which at least would indicate some sort of inherent value.
A motorbike is worth bugger-all as scrap once the buyers have vanished (or died out…)
Don’t forget the the sellers premium (20%?) plus VAT.
That 140k is really at least 200k
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15% buyers premium incl. VAT. So £161k total..
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So is the vat only payable on the premium? 15% sounds almost charitable!
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If you missed out on the CB750 I could sell you a nearly finished CB250RSA for a 'reasonable' 3,750 ;)
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The auction has just finished, 5 hours of my Sunday spent in front of a laptop :o, great to watch though, thanks for the link Ash :)
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We're all in the wrong business. If you look at HandH terms it says:
Motorcycles
12.5% to the Buyer, 10% to the Seller (minimum £50 to both parties)
So does this mean that it is that £140k +12.5% + VAT (of £17.5k)
And the seller only gets £126k ??
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The auction has just finished, 5 hours of my Sunday spent in front of a laptop :o, great to watch though, thanks for the link Ash :)
No worries ..about 1:30pm my missus announced I had to drive her in the van to return some play props she borrowed before 3pm...I wasn't best pleased. Missed the sale of the CB350K0 but got back just in time for 750pp .missed the 750K2 though.
My mate Chris was at the auction so when I hear fromhim he may know who was bidding .. One suggestion was George Beale who's now a director at H&H
https://www.handh.co.uk/news-videos/britains-mr-motorcycle-george-beale-appointed-director-of-hh/
Amazed at the scabby finish of the pp 750 auction ... same thing happened at the Bonhams sale of the UK press CB750 YLY70H.. I still don't know what happened to that one. Sold but not sold at that auction !
UPDATE ... word on the street is that Brighton bike was won by someone based in the UK
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UPDATE ... word on the street is that Brighton bike was won by someone based in the UK
;) lol i hope you are right it would be nice if it was .it should be a national treasure. if only just to show the britts where they went wrong
im surprised that it did not go back to Honda.anyway lets hope we see it in its former glory some day soon
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Ash,
I think the 350 K0 only went for £2300
it did look tidy
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I would be very surprised if the winning bidder wasn't an agent for Honda, that belongs in their museum. Strange they didn't get it back at the time, prototypes are usually destroyed.
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With my interest in classic cars, and as an accountant, I know all about supply and demand. The more people want it, and the more restricted the supply, the higher the price, which is why we get Ferrari 250GTOs at £20 million plus a pop, only titled owners of large earthmoving equipment companies and Pink Floyd drummers need apply, the rest of us just can't have one.
No bike (or handbag!) is 'worth' £140k+, but if lots of people want it and the supply available = one unit, ever, then it goes to the person with the deepest pockets.
Due to the horrendous weather I didn't go to the auction, and watched it live with you guys, but whoever bought it, I hope to get to see it 'in the flesh' sometime.
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Honda should of bought Vic world's one if they were after one ...it was much better
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https://www.facebook.com/SilverSpares/videos/1865525196791997/
Missed off the confusion at the end though .. shame .. bet words were said after that finished !
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Interesting to see bidding stalled a bit at £65k, someone probably thought they had a bargain for a while!
The auction didn't have the intensity of a Fast & Loud Gas Monkey auction either 8)
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Interesting to see bidding stalled a bit at £65k, someone probably thought they had a bargain for a while!
The auction didn't have the intensity of a Fast & Loud Gas Monkey auction either 8)
I say old boy,(and girls) it was a british auction !!!
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Interesting to see bidding stalled a bit at £65k, someone probably thought they had a bargain for a while!
The auction didn't have the intensity of a Fast & Loud Gas Monkey auction either 8)
BOOM! ;D
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It went for GBP 157500 which is around USD 220,000
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evidently gone to someone in the UK who collects CB750's so we may at least see it again.
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;) awe cmon ash we need a bit more than that to go on :-X
we know loads on here that collect cb750's lol i got six and it aint one of mine .
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;) awe cmon ash we need a bit more than that to go on :-X
we know loads on here that collect cb750's lol i got six and it aint one of mine .
Sorry Steff I honestly don't know, he wasn't known to any of the big players in CB750's who were there , Mr. Wyatt, Freddie, ChrisR, DS etc etc. You can picture the poor bugger who initially 'won' it on the phone/internet .. The hammer comes down..it's yours..you are hollering around the room feeling pleased with yourself after all of that stress, then go back and see that the auction re-started and someone in the room bagged it. Perhaps I should just put those carbs in a glass display case in my living room. ;D
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Ash ...as one of the most helpful generous people on this forum I sincerely hope that you rewarded with a good price for them carbs you deserve it fella
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Perhaps I should just put those carbs in a glass display case in my living room. ;D
Unless you can sell them to the new owner of the prototype for appropriately silly money (he obviously has very deep pockets, or did till last Sunday) that's what I'd do - your own (almost) unique bit of Honda history and it didn't cost you £160k!
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Did they really drop the hammer then re-start the bidding?
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Did they really drop the hammer then re-start the bidding?
I watched and drew exactly the same conclusion Mick. It Looked like the auctioneer accidently dropped the hammer as he ’hammered’ the last bid. Not exactly professional eh.??
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Correction. As he hammered the microphone attached to lecturn dropped to the floor. That I suspect is where the confusion arose as he then proceeds to carry on. My question is if he hammered (even if in error) surely that marks the end of the auction???
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Very amateur auctioneer. That sort of thing usually ends with the legal people. In an auction when the hammer drops it's over regardless of how many other people want to put in higher bids, although the protocol is to warn bidders it's ending it's not required. I have been to a few auctions where there was no warning of it ending. That should not have been restarted. :(
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One bit of info I did find out about that bike is that lot's of people on various forums (including me! :-[ :-[) Criticised the fitting of later exhausts when Yamiya did in fact have stocks of repro Lotus root exhausts available. In fact the bike is fitted with NOS HMCB750 European spec exhausts (fitted in Europe to meet their emissions instead of HM300.... both types exist in the early parts books). The reason the PO chose those is because the baffle view at the end looks very similar to the ones fitted to the pp bike originally. At the time he was restoring it and buying NOS parts Yamiya were not repro-ing Lotus Root replicas. In fact the HMCB750 pipes are very rare NOS (ask Uli on here !) so if the new owner sells them he could command a good price and fit Yamiya Lotus Roots if he wishes. I also found that the seat is the proper original and the tank has a slight intentional crease line in it which makes that tank totally unique to the pp bikes. Evidently the main bits missing, unique to the bike is the M/cyl and the carbs. I know all this because someone I know who was close to the PO was at the auction and spent half an hour scrutinizing it.
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Found this. Sums things up to the interested but ignorant types like me. ;D
https://www.motorcycleclassics.com/mc-auctions/pre-production-honda-cb750-zb0z1803zhur?newsletter=1&spot=cta&utm_source=wcemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MCC%2520eNews%252003.08.18&utm_term=MCC_eNews&_wcsid=F4AD5D621BF579733C88832E05382265917CC647DECFBC9F
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Found this. Sums things up to the interested but ignorant types like me. ;D
https://www.motorcycleclassics.com/mc-auctions/pre-production-honda-cb750-zb0z1803zhur?newsletter=1&spot=cta&utm_source=wcemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MCC%2520eNews%252003.08.18&utm_term=MCC_eNews&_wcsid=F4AD5D621BF579733C88832E05382265917CC647DECFBC9F (https://www.motorcycleclassics.com/mc-auctions/pre-production-honda-cb750-zb0z1803zhur?newsletter=1&spot=cta&utm_source=wcemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MCC%2520eNews%252003.08.18&utm_term=MCC_eNews&_wcsid=F4AD5D621BF579733C88832E05382265917CC647DECFBC9F)
Blimey whats Richard Langley's problem. Appears to have a thing about sucking out headlights? ;D
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I suspect his H2 headlight is probably the only thing Richard Langkey has ever had sucked off Maybe that's his problem?
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Richard Langley is probably the Motorcycling equivalent of what the Military (serving and ex) call a Walt.
They turn up at events wearing 'elite' Insignia and Medals that they never earned..........and tell tall tales and fantastic fibs.........
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Why do all Kawasaki owners think they were the first superbike? Just because they were faster.
Any ground breaking bike is worthy of the title
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Why do all Kawasaki owners think they were the first superbike? Just because they were faster.
Any ground breaking bike is worthy of the title
Well i don't, and i own one, the CB 750 was the first super bike available to the masses, but was not the first super bike, and sweeping statements like yours piss me off, so this should now be in the angry thread.