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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

Thanks,

 - Joe
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Re: Want my first bike but need help!
« Reply #1 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 #2 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 #3 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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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)

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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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Re: Want my first bike but need help!
« Reply #4 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 #5 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 #6 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 #7 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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