Topic: Brand new 1972 CB750?

[beelsamin]

I just saw this posted on Ebay...is this real? Here's a link http://cgi.ebay.ca/Honda-CB_W0QQitemZ370323024382QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_motorcycles?hash=item5638f8e9fe

[Terry in Australia]

Yep, that's real, I'm off to buy a lottery ticket so I can bid on it, I always wanted a new K2!

[Fritz]

Looks real. But who wants to ride a bike like that? The only use I can think of is displaying it in a museum.
Old wine is very collectable too: http://www.spectrumwineauctions.com/Auctions/auctionlot.aspx?lotid=18034&type=360
Who would drink that $80,000 vinegar?

[beelsamin]

That's what I want my gold K2 to look like...maybe I should just spend the the $13,000 right now and save myself the work LOL. I wonder if I can copy the pictures for reference on my rebuild ?

[Simpson]

That's what I want my gold K2 to look like...maybe I should just spend the the $13,000 right now and save myself the work LOL. I wonder if I can copy the pictures for reference on my rebuild ?

I was thinking the same thing. Save the pictures for reference. Seems like 99% of bikes have been changed significantly by their owners. Its hard to figure out what is truly stock.

[ron.cieri.313]

OMG...that makes my heart palpitate...we should buy it as a group and build a monument to keep inside forever...oh yes, and guarded by dragons or some such big, scary creature the would only let Honda guys in.

[beelsamin]

I managed to copy the pictures, gives me a good reference point for my rebuild, think I'll pass on the bidding....

[Bodi]

There's what appears to be a brand new 1975 orange CB750K in a storefront building near me. The place was a Honda dealer until 1975 or so when something happened and the owner just closed up shop. The building has not changed much since then, the Honda sign (well faded) was only taken down last year or so, it still said "DICK"S HONDA" until then. There are a few other bikes (singles/twins) in the front room too, someone has been sorting papers and stuff in this former showroom and there's a non-functional (I hope) toilet sitting there too. Whatever is in the old shop in back is impossible to guess. It's hard to see much in the showroom even, the windows have likely gone uncleaned for 35 years. The CB750 was once up front in the window so one side is badly faded, it was moved further back maybe 15 years ago. The owner ("Dick") still apparently lives there and he's renowned for his disinterest in selling the bikes or whatever parts there are.
He's an old man now and someday his heirs or executor will be selling the stuff. I keep watching and waiting.

[ron.cieri.313]

hmmm, guess it would be karma to wishful to an early "retirement"

[beelsamin]

No, thats not from Dick's Honda, he is not letting anything go LOL.
Go to the listing on Ebay, the details are there.
Dropped in there back in the day but bought most of my bike's and parts from Sonic...

[xenoscr]

I'd buy it and ride it. What's the point of car, motorcycle, etc if you don't use it? I'm not saying I would ride the $#!7 out of it, but I would take it out on sunny summer days. If you don't ride it, use it, then why have it?

XenosCR

[cb550fcafe]

So where's the other two bikes? Hmmm.

[Terry in Australia]

I guess the problem is, with 1 mile on the odo, a K2 is worth a lot of money. If you do ride it, and even if you look after it, it's not "new" any more, so it will drop in value quite quickly.

However, $12900 for a brand spanking new CB750 is a bargain I reckon, and with modern oils, that engine should be good for 100,000 miles plus if you prepare it properly, (not forgetting it's been sitting for 38 years) and maintain it well. If I hadn't just bought a new bike, I'd buy it. Cheers, Terry.

[Simpson]

I guess the problem is, with 1 mile on the odo, a K2 is worth a lot of money. If you do ride it, and even if you look after it, it's not "new" any more, so it will drop in value quite quickly.

However, $12900 for a brand spanking new CB750 is a bargain I reckon, and with modern oils, that engine should be good for 100,000 miles plus if you prepare it properly, (not forgetting it's been sitting for 38 years) and maintain it well. If I hadn't just bought a new bike, I'd buy it. Cheers, Terry.

My thoughts exactly! Terry, have you been bidding on a CB750 NOS lot of misc stuff on Ebay lately?

[Terry in Australia]

Terry, have you been bidding on a CB750 NOS lot of misc stuff on Ebay lately?

No mate, why's that? Anything good? Cheers, Terry.

[Simpson]

There was a Ebay question posted on some parts by a Terry Cook from Australia. Thought might have been bidding against you. I lost, no big deal. Not sure if your last name is Cook, but I thought how many Terrys from Australia are out there looking for CB750 parts. Answer: at least 1, maybe 2 now.

[ofreen]

Looks real. But who wants to ride a bike like that? The only use I can think of is displaying it in a museum.

Me. 

Best thing for it would be to ride it.  Look how it has deteriorated from moisture while sitting.  It will only get worse unless somebody gets after it. 

There are lots of 750s in museums already, but the interesting ones are out on the road.

[chickenman_26]

Emotionally, most of us would say this bike needs to be put on the street, and I'm with you on that. But I'd bet that's not what's going to happen to it. Just unsealing that new battery or starting the engine would affect the bike's value...as a collector item. And that's what it is now. It's not really a motorcycle anymore, just a two-wheeled piece of collector art with a neat if unbelievable story behind it. Heck, even the battery is a collector piece. I wouldn't be surprised to see this end up in American Honda's collection on the first floor of the Torrance headquarters after Vic World erases the ravages of long term storage.

It should be interesting to see how the bidding goes on this thing. A zero mile '76 Gold
Wing LTD from the Otis Chandler museum went for over $20,000 last year, though its actual value (as a vehicle, not a piece of art) was more like half of that. The buyer later tried unsuccessfully to sell it for a profit on eBay.

Stu

[Raul CB750K1]

There's what appears to be a brand new 1975 orange CB750K in a storefront building near me. The place was a Honda dealer until 1975 or so when something happened and the owner just closed up shop. The building has not changed much since then, the Honda sign (well faded) was only taken down last year or so, it still said "DICK"S HONDA" until then. There are a few other bikes (singles/twins) in the front room too, someone has been sorting papers and stuff in this former showroom and there's a non-functional (I hope) toilet sitting there too. Whatever is in the old shop in back is impossible to guess. It's hard to see much in the showroom even, the windows have likely gone uncleaned for 35 years. The CB750 was once up front in the window so one side is badly faded, it was moved further back maybe 15 years ago. The owner ("Dick") still apparently lives there and he's renowned for his disinterest in selling the bikes or whatever parts there are.
He's an old man now and someday his heirs or executor will be selling the stuff. I keep watching and waiting.

I would love to see some pics of that place. Abandoned places, specially motorcycle shops, have a great charm.


I would ride that K2. If you would spend 12.000 on a new Triumph, that it is a retro bike, what's wrong with spending the same money in riding the real thing? That its value decreases? So what? If you want to invest, go to the stock market. Every vehicle's value go down as soon as you get out of the dealer.

[Terry in Australia]

I would ride that K2. If you would spend 12.000 on a new Triumph, that it is a retro bike, what's wrong with spending the same money in riding the real thing? That its value decreases? So what? If you want to invest, go to the stock market. Every vehicle's value go down as soon as you get out of the dealer.

OK, You've talked me into it Raul, I'm in! Er, but my new Triumph Rocket III cost me a heck of a lot more than $12K, so seeing that you're a wealthy European investor type with more money than you can poke a stick at, howsabout you gimme the 13 clams (I've gotta stop watching 1930's American gangster movies........) and I'll ride the wheels off it, and er, I'll payyou back later mate? (much later.........) 

[Raul CB750K1]

Ooops, I mentioned Triumph because they are the only bikes I can think of that make new bikes with old styling. Didn't remember you had recently bought one.

It is the old example of the wine bottle. You have one that has become so expensive that you don't drink -because you can't afford to drink a $10.000 wine bottle- but you don't sell it either thinking its value will just go up.

Anytime in the future you consider selling, you still won't sell because "the value just will go up". C'mon, if the wine is that good, either enjoy it yourself or make some dough letting somebody enjoy it, but having the wine in the cellar is like having the bike in the museum.

[Terry in Australia]

Yeah mate, I know what you're saying, and like you I'd ride it, I always feel sorry for bikes in Museums, they might not realise it, but they're not really bikes anymore, they're just statues of bikes, a bit like the waxwork of Elvis at Madame Toussards, they might look the part, but they're never gonna make that beautiful sound......... 

[chickenman_26]

Sold for the Buy It Now price in less than 2 days!

Stu

[ron.cieri.313]

Definitely...if you have the money, y not? a guy like Jay Leno would probably buy that thing if he knew it was out there.

You think the new owner would give me the virgin C5 gear and left shift fork for my second time through my tranny???  Imean if they are not going to ride it, whats the dif?

[xenoscr]

Sold for the Buy It Now price in less than 2 days!

Stu

I wonder who the lucky new owner is.

There are still these if you want a shiny looking restored and rebuilt CB750 without the all the work.... and you happen to have $20,0000 USD to drop.

http://www.yamiya750e.com/bike.html

XenosCR