Looks nice...

Hi Guys,

this one looks nice...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=9806&item=2485279194&rd=1

Any comments on these bikes, I am somewhat tempted. Though I
fear Frinton_Harridan may use her vetto!

Nick

 

Frinton Boy says...

I have been known to buy all manner of obscure shite in my time, but I
have always avoided those things.

Just hope she does.

 

I'm a sucker for "odd", it's why I've got a French moped...

Nick

 

Magnificent condition for it's age, perhaps the best surviving
example. Being so rare it belongs in a museum. Copper bottomed
investment at the price.

riccip

 

Is he Chinese?

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Champ <> saying
something like:

Scrapanese.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

T'wouldn't be my choice of road bike either. A folly, maybe, but
it was an innovative machine and a brave attempt to find a new
niche market at a time when the final remnant of the once great
British motorcycle industry was dying of complacency. The
"Hondamatic" failed commercially because riders of larger bikes
put performance first, whereas those who wanted automatic
convenience were happy enough with the low-powered putt-putts
already available. However they *did* try, which in itself is a
credit to the company and earns the model it's small place in
history.

This concours condition example sold for just £723. If mothballed
for 20 years it will outperform your pension as an investment.
Had it been the CB750 version in the same condition I'd have
bought it myself. Bikes like this need to be preserved if only
for the sceptics to take the piss in years to come.

riccip