Originally Posted by Fresh Oats
Keh?
That's the right money for the bike.
Ta
Keh?
That's the right money for the bike.
Ta
No, but I fucken am. Never heard Spyda mention a water bottle that I can remember.
Forum whore
have seen that bike several times and it is a seriously nice bike, he will get what he wants or hold on to it is my guess,
Forum whore
Give or take $500 I'd say that is bang on the money. Try and find a mint one somewhere else. Or one full stop for that matter.
The GT looks the bizz in the background.
Geriatric hoon
If you were to turn your nose up at that one it'd likely be a long wait for another one. In the US they seem to go for the equivalent of about NZ$7250 but one was $11,500.
Interesting comment from a former Honda mechanic. He said the CX500 was overweight and underpowered, lowering the compression to allow for the turbo made it even worse, a real slug. When the turbo kicked in though the effect was dramatic. More than one came in to the shop with low side damage due to the turbo effect hitting mid corner.
Honda fixed those problems with the CX650 Turbo, but they didn't upgrade the brakes which created a new problem.
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
Anorak
Seems more than reasonable there were a collectors item when they were made.
62,0000km in 35 Years ie less than 2000km a year.
FFS they only made the 500 for one year.
I have a pull back CX500 turbo toy when i was about 5 Ii bet its still in the toy box at my mums house.
If Jellyspydr wants it i will dig it out for him
Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken
Anorak
The CX was never designed to be normally aspirated it was designed from day dot for forced induction, they ran turbo and supercharged prototype models but realeased the plastic maggot first.
Even when it was released in the late 70's Hoda said it was always to be forced induction.
thanks for the price i was just trying to figure out what they cost new.
Although according to the CW blurb i just read it was redesigned before the maggot reached production to allow it to be turbo'd thicker casings, stronger around clutch, bigger housing to later take goldwing clutch for turbo models, It had 250 separate patents.
Best i can find is about 5k USD
Got it $4,898 USD in 1982. Which inflation adjusted is $12,745 in today's USD.
Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken
Forum whore
Not necessarily. If it it any good ie xlnt or better condition it will be a good long term investment.
Lets go Brandon
L-Plate Rider
For this much money I was expecting it to be an original Bathurst six-hour edition with wire wheels.
It’s a cool bike. But the price seems optimistic.
Forum whore
Yes cool bikes.
I had one. Fucking horrible to ride. Worst riding position ever!
Lets go Brandon
Forum whore
Dreaming or not???
I had no idea the RG500s were bringing this sort of money. Last time I looked ( a year ago) nice ones here in the $15k range.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/283357893204
Lets go Brandon
No8 Wire Extraordinaire
"70th Anniversary Edition The most powerful Katana Original condition"
Sheesh! Has it been that long already?! I must have over slept
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
No8 Wire Extraordinaire
For a collector quality for the super rich they would fetch considerably more than a clean example.
Of course the steering damper and non standard pipes would scupper this example. Turkey.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
Forum whore
"70th Anniversary Edition The most powerful Katana Original condition"
Sheesh! Has it been that long already?! I must have over slept
Yes it's interesting as I was not aware they had tooled up again and ran off a thousand special edition ones. I assume the 70th refers to Suzukis duration.
I thought the wire wheel version pumped out 120hp back in the day - making it the most powerful Katana.
Bucket Racer/Crasher
wire wheeler, black pipe was the biz. South African spec?
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