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Offline 550Resto

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Cafe Sadness
« on: March 10, 2017, 12:38:53 PM »
Now don't get me wrong I like cafe/brat style bikes, but sometimes I can't understand why people do what they do. In this ad which is local to me can someone take a guess where the electrical panel has gone?

https://fingerlakes.craigslist.org/mcy/5977825158.html
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Re: Cafe Sadness
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2017, 12:41:18 PM »
it looks to be under the side cover where it normally is. Unless I misunderstood you?
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Re: Cafe Sadness
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2017, 01:14:59 PM »
It looks like someone's hacked up wiring. My electrical panel looks different as it has connectors, rectifier and fuse block.
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Re: Cafe Sadness
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2017, 01:36:14 PM »
Looks like he switched to a modern blade fuse and deleted the starter.  Probably pretty easy to put back to stock wiring, if needed.
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Re: Cafe Sadness
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2017, 02:11:11 PM »
It also appears that he has no airbox or filters on the carbs, at least I don't see any in the pictures provided.
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Re: Cafe Sadness
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2017, 02:59:13 PM »
Lot of oil or gas on the ground.
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Re: Cafe Sadness
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2017, 03:37:53 PM »
That bike looks like a hot mess.  The wiring is hacked and butt-connected, the paint looks like poop, it's got jenky pipe-wrap and it's leaking gas (at least in those two photos).  Those are the "beauty" shots to sell it??
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Re: Cafe Sadness
« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2017, 04:18:06 PM »
Lets just say it hasn't been finished to the high standards that we are used to seeing here...  and if he gets anywhere near that money for it, I feel really good about my future prospects. 
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Re: Cafe Sadness
« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2017, 05:16:46 PM »
They forgot to flip the rear brake actuator upside down
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Re: Cafe Sadness
« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2017, 06:12:48 PM »
There's an excellent chance that the seller has a slight drinking problem based on the background in the photo.
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Re: Cafe Sadness
« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2017, 09:16:05 PM »
He shows a Shinko tire as evidence of his prowess? This crapheap belongs in the "Abominations" thread.
(nothing really wrong with Shinko tires - they're better than anything we could get in the 70s - but still a bargain brand)
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Re: Cafe Sadness
« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2017, 09:37:22 PM »
The shinko seems to be a gratis item to replace the boxxed out rear tire
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Re: Cafe Sadness
« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2017, 10:30:22 PM »
Strange that the bike increase in price after removal of a lot of original parts that cost a lot to buy if found.
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Re: Cafe Sadness
« Reply #13 on: March 13, 2017, 12:12:10 PM »
Quote from: 550Resto on March 10, 2017, 02:11:11 PM
It also appears that he has no airbox or filters on the carbs, at least I don't see any in the pictures provided.

Was too lazy to even attach ze pods or stacks. Egads.  ::)
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Re: Cafe Sadness
« Reply #14 on: March 13, 2017, 12:50:18 PM »
That sure is a Wilde bike  :P
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Re: Cafe Sadness
« Reply #15 on: March 13, 2017, 01:19:21 PM »
Quote from: flybox1 on March 13, 2017, 12:50:18 PM
That sure is a Wilde bike  :P

Too much diy work to be a wilde one  :P
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Offline Lostboy Steve

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Re: Cafe Sadness
« Reply #16 on: March 13, 2017, 01:41:54 PM »
I'll bite.

Honestly Wilde had better taste than that. He's a lot of things, but riding straight junk wasn't one of them.

This thing looks and I'm sure rides like garbage.


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Re: Cafe Sadness
« Reply #17 on: March 13, 2017, 02:58:35 PM »
Wilde's 350F was no beauty contestant.
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Re: Cafe Sadness
« Reply #18 on: March 14, 2017, 01:41:19 PM »
Is JWilde even on the forums or riding anymore?
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Re: Cafe Sadness
« Reply #19 on: March 14, 2017, 01:54:59 PM »
Quote from: 550Resto on March 14, 2017, 01:41:19 PM
Is JWilde even on the forums or riding anymore?

He might be lurking.  Apparently, he now has a CB500:

http://www.pictaram.com/media/1470493081718837030_2713103336
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"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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2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
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Re: Cafe Sadness
« Reply #20 on: March 14, 2017, 09:00:24 PM »
 Holy #$%* he bought a piece of gear
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Re: Cafe Sadness
« Reply #21 on: March 14, 2017, 10:23:59 PM »
I wonder if he got booted off of Instagram to now be on this Pictaram knock-off app.
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"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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2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
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Re: Cafe Sadness
« Reply #22 on: March 15, 2017, 02:30:40 PM »
Wilde is alive! Riding a nice looking grey 750. Clothes still look horrible though!
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Re: Cafe Sadness
« Reply #23 on: March 15, 2017, 03:13:24 PM »
Quote from: Camrector on March 15, 2017, 02:30:40 PM
Wilde is alive!


And wearing armored sneakers!

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Re: Cafe Sadness
« Reply #24 on: March 15, 2017, 03:32:24 PM »
It's still better looking than this: https://nashville.craigslist.org/mpo/6043500587.html

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