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Offline WR_Engineer

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Want my first bike but need help!
« on: July 25, 2015, 08:30:27 AM »
I am meeting the guy from the Craigslist ad below this morning, and would like to have anybody's opinion on if this is a good buy. Also, he supplied me with a vin number: CB750-23071xx, but I was unable to receive results anywhere. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have no idea what I am doing.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/mcy/5139586361.html

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Re: Want my first bike but need help!
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2015, 08:47:35 AM »
It's a great value for a project bike. But! It will require significant work and some money to make it fully safe, reliable, and dependable. If you don't have the skills, tools, or space, prepare to spend $2-$4k with a shop to get this work done.

If you are willing and able to learn, to get dirty, and become intimidated then learn through it, I'd buy the bike in a heartbeat. This forum and the volume of information can enable anyone with an IQ 2x their waist size to properly rebuild and out in the road any condition bike.

So, decide who you are, and prepare yourself for tons of frustrating moments to be replaced by utter and sheer pride, joy and enthusiasm!
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Re: Want my first bike but need help!
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2015, 08:51:18 AM »
That bike has a clean title and is a STEAL. Buy it today, not tomorrow, or someone else will buy it before you see it.  It's Saturday and people have time today.

I think that cost estimate might be a little steep just to get it in safe rideable condition.
« Last Edit: July 25, 2015, 08:52:54 AM by CB750 Cafe Racer Fan »
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Re: Want my first bike but need help!
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2015, 08:52:20 AM »
Thanks for the awesome response calj! I was actually planning on attempting to do everything myself! I just want to make sure I am not getting ripped off.
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Re: Want my first bike but need help!
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2015, 08:54:38 AM »
Quote from: WR_Engineer on July 25, 2015, 08:52:20 AM
Thanks for the awesome response calj! I was actually planning on attempting to do everything myself! I just want to make sure I am not getting ripped off.

FAR from it.  A titled, unseized 750 in California that is ALL there will fetch over $1.5K in California.  Buy it immediately or someone else will.  Maybe I'll get in my truck and buy it today.
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2008 Triumph Thruxton (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,190956.0.html)
2014 MV Agusta Brutale Dragster 800
2015 Yamaha FZ-09 (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,186861.0.html)

"There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them — but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one.... Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba." Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature, Cycle World, March 1995.  (http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html and https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1995/3/1/song-of-the-sausage-creature)

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1977 CB750K7 "Nine Lives" Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=50490.0) - Sold
2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
2016+ Triumph Thruxton 1200 R (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,170198.0.html) - Sold

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Re: Want my first bike but need help!
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2015, 09:07:11 AM »
That would be in my garage in a second...
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Re: Want my first bike but need help!
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2015, 11:35:55 AM »
Thanks for the input everyone. Unfortunately, holding out got the bike purchased before I could get there.  :-\ I'll just have to keep my eyes open, and be more quick to draw in the future.
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Re: Want my first bike but need help!
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2015, 01:16:27 PM »
FYI, I paid a grand for this one, it ran ratty.....but it ran



I did everything myself and about a month and $600.00 in parts later...........its a driver

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Re: Want my first bike but need help!
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2015, 08:05:34 AM »
Quote from: Desert-SOHC on July 25, 2015, 01:16:27 PM
FYI, I paid a grand for this one, it ran ratty.....but it ran



I did everything myself and about a month and $600.00 in parts later...........its a driver rider.



FTFY  ;)
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1975 CB550K1 "Blue" Stockish Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=135005.0)
1975 CB550F1 frame/CB650 engine hybrid "The Hot Mess" (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,150220.0.html)
2008 Triumph Thruxton (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,190956.0.html)
2014 MV Agusta Brutale Dragster 800
2015 Yamaha FZ-09 (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,186861.0.html)

"There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them — but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one.... Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba." Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature, Cycle World, March 1995.  (http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html and https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1995/3/1/song-of-the-sausage-creature)

Sold/Emeritus
1973 CB750K2 "Bionic Mongrel" (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=132734.0) - Sold
1977 CB750K7 "Nine Lives" Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=50490.0) - Sold
2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
2016+ Triumph Thruxton 1200 R (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,170198.0.html) - Sold
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