PLEASE remove this temptation

[Paul in NZ]

Buy this quick before I melt with desire...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Motorbikes/Motorbikes/Classic-vintage/auction-106589022.htm

[Boob Johnson]

Shit a brick, what a minter Paul. Id say buy it mate :yes: :shifty:

[Crasherfromwayback]

Buy it Paul....you know you want to!
I'd buy that if I wasn't about to spend that amount on my trip.

[Paul in NZ]

With those spannies... gack! What a machine - the noise the... arghh...

[riffer]

I think I just wet myself. :mellow:

[kiwifruit]

:drool: :drool:

[BarBender]

Buy this quick before I melt with desire...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Motorbikes/Motorbikes/Classic-vintage/auction-106589022.htm

Buy it mate.

Theres a guy in Auckland who had his Mach IIIH1 in at Mt Eden Motorcycles a month or so back. Its was brown. Was in concourse condition. Immaculate.

Then he started it up.
The sound from that 2 stroke triple was absolutely amazing....

[Oakie]

Ooh. It's one of them there bikes with the hinged frame in't it?

[Edbear]

Sigh...........:(

[Bonez]

Ooh. It's one of them there bikes with the hinged frame in't it?
They were also launched into a thousand buildings.

Go for it Paul.

[T.W.R]

:argh: you're a torment :shutup: that is DELICIOUS :drool:
Bet it sounds :Punk:

[Skunk]

Yes. I want. I can't afford (and the garage is full...)

[kevfromcoro]

nice bike..have riden the 750....power is strange,,,sort of nothing then it wacks u in the back like a catapulte.....handled like a bag of shit.....but it was an old bike....buy it.......but take it easy for the first 100 mtrs........good luck

[McJim]

And I heard all of those Kwaka 500s got crashed at silly speeds.

3 cyl 500cc 2 Smoker - wow.

[cowboy]

Id buy it if I could afford it:argh: :drool: :drool:

[Sensei]

Remember Blowing up my mates Mach I 500 up while racing a Z900 Kawka 2 up { Owner on the back LOL } back in the early 80s was winning till it blow the center crank case seal & then it was all over Rover . Sweet bikes but its Big bother the 750 triple I road was just plan addictive .

[jazbug5]

Anyone want to buy a slightly used grandma..?

[limbimtimwim]

Buyyyyyyyyyyyyyy iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttttttttttttt!!!!!!

Gooooooo oooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jim.cox]

Buy this quick before I melt with desire...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Motorbikes/Motorbikes/Classic-vintage/auction-106589022.htm

Did you ever ride one?

I suggest you do so before spending your hardearned $$$

While they may look good, and the motor was amazing for its day, the frame is - how shall we say - known for its inability to match up

Or would you just keep it as a garage queen?

[Paul in NZ]

Yes - I've ridden most things one way or another but a mate had one of the sculpted tank - drum brake versions back in the early 70's. I never found it much worse than the old shitters we trolled about on in the handling stakes but it's power delivery was different.

From memory we put some girlings on the back from a mates triumph, thicked oil in the front and he put better tyres on it and it improved sight out of mind. The frames were no worse than the opposition but the std shocks.. Bah! I always wanted one with spannies 'cos it was a nifty noise....

Garage queen? Erm.... no..... I keep my bikes a long time and they all get thrashed and they all explode at some time and i fix em (sometimes)

[ceebie13]

I think I just wet myself. :mellow:


...only think, Simon. Don't you know?

Incontinence pants can be quite discreet, these days.

[Macktheknife]

What are you waiting for... snap it up now!
I would but my wife would kill me.

[James Deuce]

I'll buy a ute so we can go for a ride and both get home.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Anyone want to buy a slightly used grandma..?

Describe 'slightly'....and how much?:innocent:

[HenryDorsetCase]

as a public service i have run the bidding up to within 15% of his reserve. Since we dont know exactly where that 15% started we're speculating, but my guesstimate is $6500. Given that the serious money will only come out to play with ten minutes to go in the auction, he may well get what he wants, and if two obsessives REALLY want the thing then we all might be surprised.

I wouldnt pay that for it, but then I am not the one seriously bidding. Ive ridden both the 500 and the 750 and while a bunch of fun, I prefer my SOHC Honda 4's, or CBX's or Z1's or RD/RZ 250/350's....

If you want it, buy it: they arent making any more of them, and we're all a long time dead................

[nudemetalz]

It's nice alright, but it ain't an H-1 or H-1A.
Now, they are the real deal :gob:

I might be biased, especially with the wee pic of one being ridden hard in my signature..........

[Paul in NZ]

It's nice alright, but it ain't an H-1 or H-1A.
Now, they are the real deal :gob:

True but it's got chrome expansion chambers.... nooooice......

[limbimtimwim]

That's right Paul. Justify the purchase any way you can.

Repeat after me:
"Must satisfy illogical motorcycling desire"
"Must satisfy illogical motorcycling desire"
"Must satisfy illogical motorcycling desire"

And soon that big 2 stroke will ring-a-ding-ding into the garage.

[T.W.R]

I wouldnt pay that for it, but then I am not the one seriously bidding. Ive ridden both the 500 and the 750 and while a bunch of fun, I prefer my SOHC Honda 4's, or CBX's or Z1's or RD/RZ 250/350's....

If you want it, buy it: they arent making any more of them, and we're all a long time dead................

:shutup: Just like that RD400 you snapped up a couple of weeks ago :niceone:

[Paul in NZ]

That's right Paul. Justify the purchase any way you can.

Repeat after me:
"Must satisfy illogical motorcycling desire"
"Must satisfy illogical motorcycling desire"
"Must satisfy illogical motorcycling desire"

And soon that big 2 stroke will ring-a-ding-ding into the garage.

Oh - You've seen our garage then??? Please remember you are talking to a guy thats has a Sunbeam-Talbot as his family car (no - not that long ago), a WW2 Daimler Armoured Car as a city run-about (yes really but I was young) and thinks the FZR400 is pretty 'modern' and once hotted up a solex...

[Hitcher]

Have you bought it yet, Paul? I'm sure I can hear it calling your name...

[HenryDorsetCase]

:shutup: Just like that RD400 you snapped up a couple of weeks ago :niceone:

yeah, thanks for the reminder. I am still a little disappointed in that outcome... but oh well.

Ive been told to thin the herd or face the consequences.....

[Paul in NZ]

I really WANT this bike BUT.... I really NEED a 250.... and I need to get the FZR done and gone....

[T.W.R]

yeah, thanks for the reminder. I am still a little disappointed in that outcome... but oh well.

Ive been told to thin the herd or face the consequences.....

I had it on my watchlist & was going to have a crack at it until you & SuziQ had a bidding war :shutup:

It looked OK by the photos, why the disappointment?

[limbimtimwim]

Oh - You've seen our garage then???Yeah!! It had an under-utilized Guzzi under a sheet!

ring-a-ding-ding... rinnngggg-a-ding-ding... ding ding ding ding ding!!

You won't be able to sleep until you can smell that 2 stroke oil all through the house.

[nudemetalz]

Go on, Simon, that could be your Giixxer replacement........

[HenryDorsetCase]

I had it on my watchlist & was going to have a crack at it until you & SuziQ had a bidding war :shutup:

It looked OK by the photos, why the disappointment?

I didnt get it. My autobid was up to ~1600 (I thought for something that had been parked in a shed for 8 years that I hadnt seen and didnt know ran or what was missing..... that $1500 was plenty, add ten percent plus a bit and away we go. It eventually sold for $2100 plus so I was waaaay under.

my disappointment is that theres been nothing like it since, (there was a good RD350A but it went for near four grand)... and, shit, I wanted it.... :(

but thinning the herd and then F3 bike are present priorities.

[T.W.R]

I didnt get it. My autobid was up to ~1600 (I thought for something that had been parked in a shed for 8 years that I hadnt seen and didnt know ran or what was missing..... that $1500 was plenty, add ten percent plus a bit and away we go. It eventually sold for $2100 plus so I was waaaay under.

my disappointment is that theres been nothing like it since, (there was a good RD350A but it went for near four grand)... and, shit, I wanted it.... :(

but thinning the herd and then F3 bike are present priorities.

Oh true, it would have been a reasonable buy at around the $1500 mark but for safeties sake there would have been a major exploratory strip down done and a few hundred spent on replacing suspect bits.

I saw that RD350 :yes:

temptation has the better of me with these 2 bikes

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Motorbikes/Motorbikes/Classic-vintage/auction-106279680.htm

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Motorbikes/Motorbikes/Classic-vintage/auction-106438418.htm

One is a dream and the other well mmm? see what happens. though I just got a GSX750 today as a project :yes: