SOHC.co.uk Forums > CB350/400

DSS replica seat

<< < (2/2)

Laverda Dave:
Thanks all. It turned out to be the rubber block hitting the rear frame bridge (the rear mudguard mounting point). I measured the new seat block against my genuine seat and it was 20mm thick, the genuine one is 7mm thick! I cut the appropiate amount off the new rubber block using a knife in-situ as I couldn't get the block off the seat, it would have destroyed the moulded bungs on the back of  the rubber block where they push into the seat base.  All now perfect :). 
I have a buyer for the bike now, it will never be used as its going on display in his dining room! He's buying it as an investment as he doesn't even have a licence and has never ridden a bike before!

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):

--- Quote from: Laverda Dave on October 09, 2020, 02:52:35 PM ---Thanks all. It turned out to be the rubber block hitting the rear frame bridge (the rear mudguard mounting point). I measured the new seat block against my genuine seat and it was 20mm thick, the genuine one is 7mm thick! I cut the appropiate amount off the new rubber block using a knife in-situ as I couldn't get the block off the seat, it would have destroyed the moulded bungs on the back of  the rubber block where they push into the seat base.  All now perfect :). 
I have a buyer for the bike now, it will never be used as its going on display in his dining room! He's buying it as an investment as he doesn't even have a licence and has never ridden a bike before!

--- End quote ---

Sounds like the buyer has been watching too much Wayne Carini then again if he is young enough he will see a good return on his investment. It's interesting to watch where all this nostalgia thing for old stuff is heading - older generation buying things they wanted when they were younger and now having the dosh?

andy120t:
It’s interesting to see the number of Honda’s advertised as ‘cast iron investments’ on auction sites. Is there such a thing? ... Maybe if we all downed-tools for a while then the prices would falter (a sort of SOHC Circuit-breaker, to use the current terminology!)

heli_madken:

--- Quote from: Macabethiele on October 09, 2020, 04:13:36 PM ---older generation buying things they wanted when they were younger and now having the dosh?

--- End quote ---

Yea but what happens when all us old guys have popped our cloggs? The majority of 20 something bikers I come across are not very impressed with my bikes preferring their plastic crotch rockets. I think prices at some point in the future will peak then start to tail off

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page