Great first bike for sale - Honda CB175

[Romeo]

Gidday all,
Do you want a bike that's...

- Light weight
- Low the the ground
- Will out accelerate most cars
- 100kph+ top speed
- Economical on fuel
- Bloody classic looking

...and most importantly,

- ONLY $111 a YEAR to register! It's usually $477 for an under 250cc bike - so what gives!? It's over 40 years old of course!


Then take a look at our bike on <a href="http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php/148166-Honda-CB175-perfect-first-bike-cheap-quot-Classic-quot-rego-(-111-a-YEAR!)">KiwiBiker BikeTrader - Honda CB175</a>.


<a href="http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=461180463"><img src="http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b383/RomeoEskobar/211251799_full.jpg" alt="Honda CB175 for sale" /></a>

<a href="http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=461180463"><img src="http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b383/RomeoEskobar/211251656_full.jpg" alt="Honda CB175 for sale" /></a>


Cheers,
Alex

[mossy1200]

Your link leads me to a bike thats just as nice as yours.They may well be twins.

Very nice bike.Why would you want to sell it?

[GingerMidget]

I like your bike!

[ducatilover]

I want that one!:love:

[Romeo]

Why would you want to sell it?
I don't really want to sell it, but I (and family and partner) have decided that it's best I don't ride anymore. Also, I'm in Nelson, and the bike's in CHCH. We moved after the quake and it's been at Dads ever since.

However, if I was going to get back into motorcycling, this is the one I'd get! (I mean, how stupidly cheap is that Rego?!)

[mossy1200]

Idd buy it just to do the bays and take wife for coffee on a warm day if the cash was spare.im sure if looked after its only going to become more valuable.Are you sure your asking enough for it?

teh other listing says 1600 is that the reserve price on the tardme auction?

[Romeo]

Idd buy it just to do the bays and take wife for coffee on a warm day if the cash was spare.im sure if looked after its only going to become more valuable.Are you sure your asking enough for it?

teh other listing says 1600 is that the reserve price on the tardme auction?


Reserve has been met at $1500, hopefully someone's going to get a REAL bargain here! It was an awesome bike for around Sumner -> Lyttelton -> Governors Bay -> Diamond Harbour. Very nimble machine, and also quite forgiving to ride, you can really get it over without feeling uncomfortable. It rides more like a mountain bike than a motorcycle.


Cheers,
Alex

[caseye]

Ah the memories, used to ride pillion on me mates one of these, there were four in town, all same colour and all same megaphone pipes. used to drive the local MOT guy nuts on weekends.
We'd find him, then circle the block at well spaced intervals, we all had yellow helmets and rode in jeans and black t shirts, he never knew who was who or how many there actually were to this day.
Great bike,excellent condition, I'd put her in an oil bath and wait another 40 years, really be worth something then.

[GrayWolf]

I 'cut my teeth' on one of these, to this day I would also rate them as one of the best learner bikes ever produced... I am under orders to dispose of at least one bike I own before acquiring another, that 175 would be right at the top of the list.... wrong time, wrong place sadly!!!!

[mossy1200]

Idd be punting on a sale at 2300.

[Romeo]

Thanks for adding all your own bits of history on this model of bike, thankfully they're all positive! I've had nothing but great experiences on it, and I'm truly sad to see it go - but I'd rather it was being used and enjoyed by someone new.

It would be incredible to get $2300. Would be interesting to hear everyone's bets on what it'll eventually go for!

[mossy1200]

Thanks for adding all your own bits of history on this model of bike, thankfully they're all positive! I've had nothing but great experiences on it, and I'm truly sad to see it go - but I'd rather it was being used and enjoyed by someone new.

It would be incredible to get $2300. Would be interesting to hear everyone's bets on what it'll eventually go for!

closest to final bid gets the bikes mirrors?

[ducatilover]

Thanks for adding all your own bits of history on this model of bike, thankfully they're all positive! I've had nothing but great experiences on it, and I'm truly sad to see it go - but I'd rather it was being used and enjoyed by someone new.

It would be incredible to get $2300. Would be interesting to hear everyone's bets on what it'll eventually go for!
I'm thinking you'll happily pull $1900 if it's as tidy as it looks.

[GrayWolf]

Idd be punting on a sale at 2300.

$2800, bloody good buy still, in that condition

[cheshirecat]

Looks in really nice conditon. I had its smaller cousin a CB 160. I think a 8, 10 14 and 17 could strip the whole bike down.
Hopefully it will go to a good owner, which it should by definition.

[GrayWolf]

Looks in really nice conditon. I had its smaller cousin a CB 160. I think a 8, 10 14 and 17 could strip the whole bike down.
Hopefully it will go to a good owner, which it should by definition.

yeh I actually preferred the look of the CB160, yet strangely enough dont remember too many of them around even in the mid 70's in the UK. Maybe just where I lived? Bucket loads of the sloped engine chromed tank late 60's CD175's and the CB's..... I do remember seeing the gold/white and blue/white ones (160's).... woulde be a tempting toy if the spare cash was laying around.

[vifferman]

My first bike (at age 15) was a CB175. Also the first bike I wrote off (second write-off was a VFR750). Incredibly, both were rebuilt after collisions with cars. The CB's was a doozy: t-boned a car at around 40mph, and the impact totalled the forks, and bent the frame so badly it ripped the rocker cover (bolted to the frame) in half. I was carted off with lacerations and bruises.

[cheshirecat]

yeh I actually preferred the look of the CB160, yet strangely enough dont remember too many of them around even in the mid 70's in the UK. Maybe just where I lived? Bucket loads of the sloped engine chromed tank late 60's CD175's and the CB's..... I do remember seeing the gold/white and blue/white ones (160's).... woulde be a tempting toy if the spare cash was laying around.

Yes it was a strange beastie. It had ideas from their IOM bikes, very long carb inlets just right for tunning, 360 degree crank, twin leading shoe front brake which I had to de tune for the wet, a very small light bike and reved like anthing. It would cruise easily at 65/70mph. 12 volts when my mates were struggling with Miller electrics (electrics being a bit of an overstatement) A ahead of its time.
My brother has a CD175 and it seemed so tame (and big) after the CB160