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Re: DSS Warehouse - A Few Pictures
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2012, 11:01:43 AM »
WOW  ;D

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Re: DSS Warehouse - A Few Pictures
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2012, 11:54:11 AM »
Hi is this in the UK or in the States?, what are his plans for all the 400/4 's  ;), cheers Mick.
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Re: DSS Warehouse - A Few Pictures
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2012, 01:39:13 PM »
Mick,

I believe this is his warehouse in England.  It is my understanding he is refurbishing the 400's to sell.

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Re: DSS Warehouse - A Few Pictures
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2012, 01:45:53 PM »
One reason they are getting harder to find and expensive when you do.
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Re: DSS Warehouse - A Few Pictures
« Reply #5 on: July 01, 2012, 02:56:45 PM »
40 of them being refurbished all at once. Wow.....
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Re: DSS Warehouse - A Few Pictures
« Reply #6 on: July 01, 2012, 03:15:13 PM »
Thanks Harry  ;)
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DSS Warehouse - A Few Pictures
« Reply #7 on: July 01, 2012, 06:43:00 PM »
wow.
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Re: DSS Warehouse - A Few Pictures
« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2012, 08:19:12 AM »
Is the 400F the most popular CB in England?

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Re: DSS Warehouse - A Few Pictures
« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2012, 04:23:14 PM »
Heaven on earth!

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Re: DSS Warehouse - A Few Pictures
« Reply #10 on: July 03, 2012, 11:30:55 AM »
Is the 400F the most popular CB in England?

Harry O.

The 400 was a very popular bike in it's day in Europe, but never sold well in the US so producton stopped.

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Re: DSS Warehouse - A Few Pictures
« Reply #11 on: July 03, 2012, 11:35:58 AM »
Does anyone have pics to view for us non-facespace users?
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Re: DSS Warehouse - A Few Pictures
« Reply #12 on: July 03, 2012, 11:45:28 AM »
Try this.

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Re: DSS Warehouse - A Few Pictures
« Reply #13 on: July 03, 2012, 11:49:51 AM »
The 400/4 was very popular in the UK but due to it being 408cc it fell into the higher insurance category which started at 399cc I believe. This killed it for very many younger riders.
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Re: DSS Warehouse - A Few Pictures
« Reply #14 on: July 04, 2012, 05:50:05 AM »
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but never sold well in the US so producton stopped

The simple reason was economics.  It cost as much as a bigger bike to make so the profit margin was extremely low.  Near the end it cost as much to build as it did to sell, which is why they replaced it with a twin

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Re: DSS Warehouse - A Few Pictures
« Reply #15 on: July 04, 2012, 10:53:31 AM »
a few months ago there was a thread on here about DSS aggressively buying up cb400 bikes and parts in the U.S. to import to the U.K.  Looks like the campaign was fairly successful ...all I can say about that is....Mainstream Americans taste in bikes?, that's why we can't have nice things :'(
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