eBay 'specials' and other junk finds

[Phil Norton]

Disk bolts are made from steel for a good reason - imagine the stresses on those bolts when you go for a handful of front brake - and if all those are made from shite alloy and sheer - well it's not a pleasant thought.

I reckon there'll be a police accident investigator walking down a road and picking up the bolt heads as soon as spring time comes and the bike gets ridden in anger.

[Davez29]

My god, hope they are not ALLOY, at least the disks will stop!

[rossrs]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1991-HONDA-VF ... 35b7f660c1

Like a bike version of the long tailed le mans cars

[jim157]

Poor old Gamma, what were they thinking?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUZUKI-RG-125 ... 071wt_1185

[Neosophist]

Jesus H

WTF is that NC24?

300gbp buy it now.. does that mean he'll give me 300 to take it away?

I feel sorry for the Aprillia, would have potential if the bodywork wasn't so shitty and it wasn't covered in annodized pink shit

But that NC24.. worst i've seen a VFR look in a while.

I don't know if it's the brake resevoir pointing down or the strange angle of the can but it's awful

I just really don't understand it.

You have custom shops that do make some really interesting creations but they have experience, machinery, staff and a high price.

I don't understand the 17 year old who buys a 25 year old VFR, which as most people know many old ones require a few hundred pound in the right places, reg/rec, bearings, good service to get it up and running and new rubber.

But instead they spend a lot more than the bikes worth trying to make it look like a modern style with high rear-end etc destroying the original look of the bike, doing none of the servicing and ending up with some werid looking sack of crap that doesn't run properly.

With all the money spent in total why not just save up longer and buy something newer if you like that style?

I can't see it ever being cheaper to buy an old 400, get it into good mechanical condition to be a reliable daily rider and make it look like a modern bike (without it looking like crap) than to just buy something newer and hopefully in better mechanical condition.

Which I think explains why there are so many half baked hacks about.. people don't realise the true cost.

It's just my complaint and grievance so i'll stop now :D

To sum up, to me it's like buying something exotic and old and period-esq (I think I made that up), say a 1920's Stanley Steamer (road going car but steam engine based)

Ripping out the steam engine, putting a in a V8 FI block, adding A/C and fitting alloys and flared rims.

Ah well... each to their own.. cheap hacks often make good source of parts so won't complain too much about them keep coming up, only when a good original bike is destroyed.. such as unmarked oem panels being binned et al.

[Smev]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Suzuki-GS500- ... 3f11a80703

A lovely ol GS550!!!

[dogmatic69]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dl ... 021wt_1189

Slight dent, will polish out easy

[CRM]

Ah yes blacks, always game for a laugh, if its not "bent" then its bent in another way !

[NGneer]

Some more "Gems" for your delictation - Mmmmm nice (?)

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1981-HONDA-CM ... 1e69de3366 - "New Battery (now a year old and flat)" - good selling point, "Rare Honda CM 250, in need of some love, it doesn't have any keys" could be a problem, "tax disc on the bike also says 2000" Hmmm - thanks for that?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/suzuki-bandit ... 43ac68fe49 - will "fly fru MOT"

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-XV1000 ... 2a17c3b6bc - "The wheels and forks may not be original & The paint finish on the tank is poor"

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HONDA-FIREBLA ... 3a6eec6536 - "ENGINE WITH 12000 MILES BUT NO NUMBERS (Hmmmmm)

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Project-Honda ... 4ab2c09354 - "Baby Fighter" ?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Custom-chop-b ... 35b87a2707 - "Tyres have been whitewalled" (nice), "Spray can cosmetics - basic"(really)
"It needs: ...Number plate fixing - included, A good clean, tidy and polish." (What kind of frigin polish do you use???)

Right off to wash my eyballs with a nail brush after looking at that lot

[CRM]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HONDA-CBR-400 ... 500wt_1413

"tiddy"

to be fair anyone that uses MS comic sans as a font needs a bullet between the eyes IMO