Topic: what's the value of my '76 CB750F

[ken rogerson]

Howdy--

Glad to see this community still exists.  I was around back when the email version started, but sold one bike, then another and mostly parked the other one, got a boat instead... 

Now it's time to sell off the pride of the stable, a '76 CB750F, 3rd owner, turned 50,000 miles today (though the speedo reads about 12% high, so it's really like 45,000).  Engine appears to have been rebuilt once, at least.  Case is black like the later F's, head is black but maybe it was painted, valve cover is bare aluminum.

Has always started easy, no matter how long I let it sit.  I've tuned it up and it's running like a champ, nothing mechanically wrong with it, good compression on all 4.  But it's a 30-year-old bike, rust is not absent (but not serious), clocks are a little faded, a couple plastic peices long gone.  It's not to look at, it's to ride, right?  I did, at least, repaint all the painted stuff (turned out pretty good).  And I've still got the stock midnight-blue painted tank, which has been garaged since about 1995, while I've been riding with an "extended range" silverwing tank.   Oh, the electric start is nonfunctional right now.  Maybe it's just the switch.

Any thoughts on what I could get for it?  I'm in San Francisco, and in no particular hurry to sell, after today's test ride!  I was thinking over $1000, maybe ask $1250 and go down if nobody bites.

Thanks for any thoughts--
--ken--

[Harry]

Hey Ken - welcome back! Originality is usually the prime price determinant. www.honda4fun.com has some prices, otherwise search eBay and follow the auctions there.

[Uncle Ernie]

Being in SF is a mixed blessing; there is more of everything, so rarity is less of an issue. On the other hand, everything sells for more there (wish I was still there when I sold a couple of things the last year). Aside from ebay, check with cycletrader.com, craigslist, talk to folks at Farley's in Potrero (20/Mississippi ?) and some of the shops like KC Engineering.

[ken rogerson]

thanks for the suggestions.  I've now checked craigslist, ebay, and  cycletrade,r but couldn't parse the italian site.  I didn't see so many 750s for sale (especially F's), and none that seemed too close to the condition of mine.  With a small sample, 1250 or would be more than the bikes in worse shape, but less than the bikes in better shape, so maybe I'm not completely off base.

thanks again--
--ken--

[Uncle Ernie]

OMG, have you not been to Farley's coffee house? Tons of bikes there of every stripe and vintage. The best mocha I've ever had, and the women who work there have the best tats you'll ever see... or not.