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Bidding on ebay seems a bit slow at the moment, 110 watchers and only
4 bids from 2 bidders. Am I being too optimistic ?.

 

I never had that many watchers, but it all happened towards the end of
the auction when I sold my Sprint ST. I never had a reserve though.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique,
typed

What's the reserve?

 

900 which is probably not unreasonable for a very nice example of
a rare and desireable model.
If there is any justice in this world it should make around 1100.
OTOH Bantams are mainly collectors items for oldphrarts on a
pension so prices tend to be fairly low.

 

People dont bid until the last half an hour. I didnt think my camera
would sell (£250 reserve) but it went from £100 to £350 in the last 2
minutes.
Alan.

 

Shit photos.

 

I was about to post that. Truly crap and too small. Never helps.

 

You need to promptly answer the questions you get asked ,you get more
bids that way.
Especially if its an enquiry relating to 2wd.

 

Rule number 1:- Do not feed the trolls.

 

£609 reserve not met?

Bought my first bantam for £20

 

Wotcha.

I paid £25 for my first Bantam - which funnly enough was a D14/4S, also on a
"F" plate. Oh how that poor bike was abused. It went from pulling a
sidecar to being fuel injected. More than once did the con rod make good
its escape via the crankcase.
http://www.lonewolf.me.uk/LWMEBANTAM.htm
Happy days.

 

Yebbut thats not a D14S, its a complete bitza.
D7 tank, wrong hubs, wrong mudguards, gash exhaust, about the only thing
correct is the seat .......

Which is, of course, the fate of so many Bantams in youthful hands and
the reason why a nice original one is so rare.

 

Bought my first Bantam (D1) for a fiver. Sold it to my brother for a
fiver. Bought it back from him - for a fiver. Sold it to the Rocket
twins (Justin and Julian - <waves> ) for a fiver.

50 mph, up hill, down dale. It was known as Woooooooorrrh - you poked
the kickstart lever and it went "pop!-pop!-pop!-pop!-woooorrrh.

Then you kicked it again.

 

I paid £30.00 for mine. They must've seen me coming.

Yep. Mine too - and a red one just like the OP's.

I treated mine with TLC. It still blew up though.

 

Let me guess -- Justin's nickname was "Sandy"?

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Wotcha.

Guilty as charged.
When I first had it, the original hubs, exhaust, mudguards etc. were all
there.
The only thing it did not have was the flyscreen.

Yep - I well and truly destroyed what was once an original D14/4S.
There again, it did teach me a lot about how bikes work, or don't, as the
case may be.

 

I'm sure his fides were quite boner.

One nickname I saw in a computer game's credits was 'Justin "the
Beaver"'....

 

Only a very short boner, then.

 

If I may be so bold, the bike would look much prettier and more desirable
without that horrible luggage rack hanging off the back, no matter how rare
such items are. You could always include it as an optional extra. Just my
2p worth.

 

List the thing separately, I would. It looks out of scale - more like
davits for lifeboat launching than a parcel rack.