Optimistic sellers

**Banditbandit** · 9th March 2018, 10:44

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

Oh God! Look!
, he's got his mirrors rotated down.

Burn him.

Maybe he's short and can't see them at the standard height - have a mate like that ...

**F5 Dave** · 9th March 2018, 12:17

Originally Posted by neels

Now on my watchlist, to see if HDC is going to end up owning it.

You'd be doing ok to pick that up for $5k and tidy enough to just ride as a 'survivor', not everything needs a full restoration just because you can.

This one.

Yeah as Jelly and Drew have said people can modify their bikes as they want. I'm certainly no rivet counter. I see no problem with period mods.

But it will always lower the price. And tasteless mods are just super ghey and a waste of a bike to make something unrideable when it could have been use useable or fit for resto.

**Voltaire** · 9th March 2018, 12:40

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

This one.

Yeah as Jelly and Drew have said people can modify their bikes as they want. I'm certainly no rivet counter. I see no problem with period mods.

But it will always lower the price. And tasteless mods are just super ghey and a waste of a bike to make something unrideable when it could have been use useable or fit for resto.

Jelly's right

**Crasherfromwayback** · 9th March 2018, 12:46

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

people can modify their bikes as they want. I'm certainly no rivet counter. I see no problem with period mods.

But it will always lower the price. .

Yep. I'm gonna build my 1000 Katana how I want to. It's not good enough to want to resto, but has some cool period correct mods done to it already, so I'll just go from there. Couldn't care less what it'll be worth, as I just want a fun wheelie/skid bike that I like the look of and is fun to ride.

**AllanB** · 9th March 2018, 16:45

Restos.

Meh - one in the manufacturers museum, a couple handful around the world for us mortals to look over.

Mod the rest to suit the owners.

Years back on a Honda site I frequented there was this 'Merican who very strongly believed that no paint could ever be as good as the factory stock paint. Any time someone would post up a picture of their custom or restored Honda he would come on wanking on about how the paint was not stock, thus not up to standard yada yada.

**Voltaire** · 9th March 2018, 16:56

Originally Posted by AllanB

Restos.

Meh - one in the manufacturers museum, a couple handful around the world for us mortals to look over.

Mod the rest to suit the owners.

Years back on a Honda site I frequented there was this 'Merican who very strongly believed that no paint could ever be as good as the factory stock paint. Any time someone would post up a picture of their custom or restored Honda he would come on wanking on about how the paint was not stock, thus not up to standard yada yada.

The pained look I get at the Vintage Motorcycle Club from older codgers when my Norton roars into life with the press of a Lucas button makes modifying more fun. Led indicators add to that. Might put radials on next😱

**jellywrestler** · 9th March 2018, 17:27

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

But it will always lower the price. .

really? how much lower than a gs1000l do you think my chopper is worth compared to a stocker??

**Crasherfromwayback** · 9th March 2018, 17:40

Originally Posted by jellywrestler

really? how much lower than a gs1000l do you think my chopper is worth compared to a stocker??

To be fair, that's a pretty special chopper mate!

**F5 Dave** · 9th March 2018, 18:37

Originally Posted by jellywrestler

really? how much lower than a gs1000l do you think my chopper is worth compared to a stocker??

The L is the CX400 Custom of the GS range. Although maybe in Merica as the classic world rises maybe. .
OK a Magnum will still attract good value, but a brown seated exhaust wrapped delugged Z1 bobber will be a fraction of the original worth.

Actually maybe Voltys Vinnie is an improvement

**jellywrestler** · 9th March 2018, 18:57

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

Actually maybe Voltys Vinnie is an improvement

so what are the deficiencies of the vincent in standard form then? given that they were the only performance one litre bike made in that era?

**Grumph** · 9th March 2018, 19:02

Originally Posted by jellywrestler

really? how much lower than a gs1000l do you think my chopper is worth compared to a stocker??

In world market terms your chopper is worth about the same as a very, very good 1000S - IMO.

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

The L is the CX400 Custom of the GS range. Although maybe in Merica as the classic world rises maybe. .
OK a Magnum will still attract good value, but a brown seated exhaust wrapped delugged Z1 bobber will be a fraction of the original worth.

Actually maybe Voltys Vinnie is an improvement

No - the " T " is the CX Custom of the range - we didn't see a lot of them here thank christ. Useful for engine parts....
The " L " is the BMW wannabe of the range and actually better than you'd think....

Volty's Vinnie - Well I met Phil Irving back in the day and he'd just laugh and tell a funny story...Phil Vincent from what I heard would have had a coronary...

**HenryDorsetCase** · 9th March 2018, 19:33

Originally Posted by jellywrestler

really? how much lower than a gs1000l do you think my chopper is worth compared to a stocker??

WWOP just saying

**Voltaire** · 9th March 2018, 19:55

Not just any old Vincent Chopper.

Vintley – 1949 Vincent Rapide Chopper

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Post-Sale Update: This Vincent Chopper sold for $27,000 after 29 bids on eBay.

Here’s a Harley-Davidson K model frame that’s been raked and stretched to fit a Vincent Rapide engine that had been to Lightning specs. That’s a sentence I never expected to write out before…

The short story is that the seller bought the engine and frame (which were already together, so he asks that you don’t blame him for this!) in 1974 after he discovered the Vincent marque through a neighbor. He finished the bike with parts from Harley, parts from BSA, and a Honda front wheel assembly, then had it chromed and painted Candy Apple Red. It won 1st place in the All Bike competition at the Sacramento Autorama, then the seller lost interest in choppers and it’s pretty much sat in his garage ever since. Since that time it has less than 100 miles and suffered one fall in storage which resulted in a broken clutch lever and mirror mount.

Vintley - Engine

The seller has all receipts from the work done about over 40 years ago, and he believes it’s time to move on. The question is, is someone going to buy it and try to bring it back to life as is, or is everyone who’s bidding just looking for access to the engine? Find the Vintley for sale in Shingle Springs, California with bidding up to $18,401 (what’s the going rate for a Rapide/Lightning engine that needs to be restored?) and the reserve not yet met here on eBay.

Nice Ducati one.

**jellywrestler** · 9th March 2018, 20:07

Originally Posted by Voltaire

Not just any old Vincent Chopper.

Nice Ducati one.

so why do people persist with those hideous tanks on top of the frame shit?, in the old days they could extend the forks, throw away the rear suspension with their arc welders, but they couldn't do tanks so the tank was an afterthought and often a little bikes one perched on top, and then it became how choppers are, hideous...
then there's the Cisco choppers, cisco bars, real narrow, and tanks high up as mentioned, these were useful in san francisco with narrow streets and big wide yank tanks everywhere, you width was much narrower than a stock bike and you could squeeze through the traffic.