I think this man is an optimist

I was watching this:

Ebay item 230112143829

Waited until it timed out with no bids, and lobbed in a sporting offer
of £900. It's a superb example of a DOHC Honda CB750, but the bikes
are fairly unloved (which is a bit unfair, as they're better than the
900, IMHO).

Seller politely said he was looking for a bit more, and was re-listing
so I replied: "OK, I'll watch for the re-list...."

I was reckoning that if nobody bid again, I'd slap in a grand as it
was timing out, and maybe he'd take the hint.

So he's relisted it as item number 230113194324

Now do forgive me, but if I got no bids on a bike at a starting price
of £1000, I wouldn't re-list it at an SP that's £700 higher.....

 

Heheheh, yebbut ... now he doesn't have a reserve, so I'd guess that his
previous listing had a reserve of £1700 too, or more ... He prolly
thinks a 'no reserve' listing looks better.

<AOL> I liked them too ... much nicer than the 900's anyway <\AOL>, but I
always felt the forks were a bit spindly and not really up to the job and I
preferred the 900's handlebar 'system'. .

 

He is playing a subtle mind game. If he ramps the price up, some misty eyed
duffer will 'think' it has been restored, or is in mint condition, as, lets
face it, it it were a fucked old shed, or a bike that few actually loved,
his price would be lower?.

Either that or he has had too many drugs which have resulted in his removal
from our reality.

He could, of course, be a fuckwit, or just an eternal optimist.

 

Thus spake Paul - xxx () unto the assembled multitudes:

I always thought these were bloody handsome-looking bikes, and would have
bought one if I could have afforded one. Instead I made do with looking at
my CB250N through half-closed eyes

What were the problems with those 750/900s that made them so "unloved"?

 

writes

The 900 had a plasticine engine - they broke if you revved them. And,
surprise, surprise, the camchain tensioners didn't work.

The first time my CB9 blew up it seized at 110mph.

Bob

 

Bloody silly design with two camchains: conventional drive to exhaust
cam, which was linked to inlet cam via a second chain. CBX had the
same system, and while it seemed to work on he CBX it didn't work very
well on the fours.

Early 750s handled like pigs. By the time they were revamped, they'd
been 'tainted'. The real prob was the CB900's engine: it was a long-
stroke lump (very, very unusual for a Jap four) and was a bit weak.
Big end failure was not unknown, and positively common on tuned bikes
that hadn't been strengthened.

The 750 was better: sweeter engine (short stroke!) but nobody was
going to buy it as long as Kawasaki was building GT and GPz 750s.

 

TOG@Toil, , wibbled:

130098987418

Now that's optimistic . . . . . . .

 

In

Um, what was it, and why is it so expensive?


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FFS. Even the photo's shite.

 

Shite old Triumph, in kit form.

T140V from 1976, so not even really collectable.