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Saw this, thought of you.

http://www.classicriceburners.com/ [ws]

 

Not too sure about the classic prices - although some do look a tad
steep, but their main showroom has an NR750 in it.

Yours for a bargain £105,000.

http://atsearch.autotrader.co.uk/uvl/popup.jsp?currentaction=searchresul
ts&e2w=13949&sort=5&did=13949&partner=TMG&postcode=ub68hr&dropdowntype=u
vl&configfile=http://dealerservices.autotrader.co.uk/dealers/13949/13949
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k/dealers/13949/13949&max_records=200&id=200846323435518&distance=0

 

I like the Norton Rotary, Interpol ? I don't think so.

 

They are. You'd be mad to pay them. Or at least, to have no sense of
values. Their £2.5k Honda 400 Four is not a UK model, for a start. It's
a shitty US market one with the forward mounted pegs and cowhorn bars.
Doesn't say that on the advert, though.

£2,4k for a CB350 twin is a joke. Knock a grand off.

£5000 for a CB750F1, which is the very, very nastiest of all the SOHC
750s, and struggles to fetch £2000 for a minter, is just obscene. And
they're asking the same dosh for a CB900F.

As for £1800 for a CB500T.....

The XS750 has to have the sidestand propped up on a wooden block the
size of a brick, FFS, which tells you something is badly amiss.

Three grand for a Suzuki Hustler????

Oddly, four grand for a very original and early Kawasaki H1 doesn't
sound bad, which makes me think it's harbouring some nasty surprises.

Essentially, they're asking absolute concours-winning prices for bikes
that are in very nice nick, but there's a huge gap between 'really
excellent' or even 'superb' and 'concours'. But I suppose they only have
to sell one or two, at those prices, to keep themselves solvent.

I see the shop is the place that used to be known as Motorcycles
Unlimited, just off the A40, and they had a reputation for being pricey
bastards three decades ago.

I wouldn't touch any of their stock. Not at those prices.

X-posted to the beardies.

 

They still are Motorcycles Unlimited.

See my other link to the NR750 for £105,000.

 

Ah, right.

Didn't even bother to click on that.

 

That's 240 times what I paid for my 350K4 (as a runner) and 48 times
what I sold it for (as a non-runner).

Wish I still had it.

 

I test rode a second-hand ZXR750 of theirs in 1993.

Then I went to Reading and bought a new one from Pegasus.

 

I had one. It was yellow and died on the M27.