SL350 wanted...baaad!

**grantw** · 23rd May 2008, 18:10

I'm a new member in need of a new project. Just finishing off an sl125 (for her) have a CB350 and desperately want an SL350 (a K2 would be nice, beggars can be choosers) to make a happy little motorbike family. I recently sold my old CB500f so there is a space in my garage and in my heart for another bike and it has to be an SL350!! I am one of these "stuck on old hondas" mugs. Often passed never beaten.
I see a few on ebay etc in the states and if I can't get one here I might ship one over. Anyone know about regulations around that?
Thanks

**FJRider** · 23rd May 2008, 18:17

There's NOT too many of those beasts still "breathing". Let alone available for purchase. Contact a Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club. They MAY know of one. Place an add in the PAPER.

**grantw** · 23rd May 2008, 21:39

I don't mind performing a bit of CPR or even home-surgery. Thanks for the tips. Quite like the thrill of the hunt thing anyway.

**xwhatsit** · 23rd May 2008, 21:48

Wooo! Parallel twin twinshock carnage!

**grantw** · 24th May 2008, 09:37

A good little pic. A classic way to tear up all the dirt roads I would have thought. There must be one out there lying in state in a shed somewhere...

**MVnut** · 24th May 2008, 18:32

My brother bought a brand new one 30 odd years ago. They weren't great then, why would you want one now.

**98tls** · 24th May 2008, 18:47

Originally Posted by grantw

I'm a new member in need of a new project. Just finishing off an sl125 (for her) have a CB350 and desperately want an SL350 (a K2 would be nice, beggars can be choosers) to make a happy little motorbike family. I recently sold my old CB500f so there is a space in my garage and in my heart for another bike and it has to be an SL350!! I am one of these "stuck on old hondas" mugs. Often passed never beaten.
I see a few on ebay etc in the states and if I can't get one here I might ship one over. Anyone know about regulations around that?
Thanks

Cant help but good luck eh,my first bike was an SL125,i was 9 years old and i loved the thing.I know a bloke in the states with a mint old XL250 motorsport,as in the first one,would love to have one in the garage myself.

**robinm** · 24th May 2008, 18:51

I was looking at one just last weekend, but it is in a private museum, and there is no way he would ever part with it.

**98tls** · 24th May 2008, 19:03

Originally Posted by robinm

I was looking at one just last weekend, but it is in a private museum, and there is no way he would ever part with it.

Stop teasin him

**grantw** · 24th May 2008, 21:12

They might not be great bikes but they are cool. If I owned mvs and ducatis I'd probably wonder why too.

**xwhatsit** · 24th May 2008, 22:56

Originally Posted by grantw

They might not be great bikes but they are cool. If I owned mvs and ducatis I'd probably wonder why too.

Of course they're cool! Original CB250/350 parallel twin in a dirt bike frame.

Actually, that's like the very inverse of my bike.

**pete376403** · 24th May 2008, 22:58

Can't do an SL350 but if anyone wants an old XR250 (twin shock, drum brake) resto project my son has one in his shed he'd like to get rid of. It runs ok, appearance is a bit naff.
PM me

**xwhatsit** · 24th May 2008, 23:03

Originally Posted by pete376403

Can't do an SL350 but if anyone wants an old XR250 (twin shock, drum brake) resto project my son has one in his shed he'd like to get rid of. It runs ok, appearance is a bit naff.
PM me

It'd be the one with an engine that looks like this then?

Emmachizzit?

**pete376403** · 25th May 2008, 20:05

looks just like the one in this auction - even got the same type of muffler
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-153692342.htm
Don't know how much Scott wants for it but if you offered $100 it would probably be yours.
Bike is in Upper Hutt (Wellington)

**MVnut** · 25th May 2008, 22:56

Originally Posted by grantw

They might not be great bikes but they are cool. If I owned mvs and ducatis I'd probably wonder why too.

I wasn't trying to upset you, just there are a lot of better projects from that era (I have quite a few old Jappas too, it's not all MVs and Dukes) The original XL250S was a great bike, one of the greatest wheelstand bikes of all time too.