Trade me/Ebay deals, steals, sales of the century. or dreamers

Last edited by Irishjon on Sat Sep 25, 2010 4:38 pm; edited 1 time in total

I had a look around the bikes in the Webbs auction at Deus this morning. There was a Manx Norton racer going for $95 grand. The place was full of little kids running round with iPhones. Some people seem to have a lot of money. I'm not sure I would like to be one. There were a couple of old Triumphs I would have liked. They were starting at $25 grand. I think over the years I have wasted at least $50 grand on my springer but its probably worth $10 grand now. Different strokes as they say.

Irishjon wrote:: I had a look around the bikes in the Webbs auction at Deus this morning. There was a Manx Norton racer going for $95 grand. The place was full of little kids running round with iPhones. Some people seem to have a lot of money. I'm not sure I would like to be one. There were a couple of old Triumps I would have liked. They were starting at $25 grand. I think over the years I have wasted at least $50 grand on my springer but its probably worth $10 grand now. Different strokes as they say.

Strictly as an investment, that Manx Norton would be a better way to spend 95k, than 90k on a chopper.
I should put my Indian Enfield in there for 50k, one of those iphone kids would buy it

nothing will kill the culture bro.eva since the first back yard builder sliced up a log and discovered the wheel there have been those with different skills ideas , ambitions and obviously price tags . bro it always has been and always will be .annnnd thats why its all good.who gives a fuck about the money anyway .All i wana do is ride.

flea2008 wrote:: nothing will kill the culture bro.eva since the first back yard builder sliced up a log and discovered the wheel there have been those with different skills ideas , ambitions and obviously price tags . bro it always has been and always will be .annnnd thats why its all good.who gives a fuck about the money anyway .All i wana do is ride.

Amen. Preach it brother. Just got back from a scoot across town & back, did me the world of good.

This is all sorts of COOL!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Harley-Davidson-Custom-Bobber-Chopper-Magazine-Featured-/290479725647?pt=US_motorcycles&hash=item43a1f0dc4f

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it is cool not to sure how long those copper lines would last before they fracture,oh wait it probably doesn't get ridden so they will last, Laughing

PAN/SHOVEL wrote:: it is cool not to sure how long those copper lines would last before they fracture,oh wait it probably doesn't get ridden so they will last,

hey a bit off topic but are copper lines not the go not sure a bout fuel but wot a bout oil lines no good for vibrations??

copper lines are cool so long as there isolated Harley's vibrate ( a lot ) witch can cause the copper to fracture if there rigid mounted. Have a look how Doug's done his in this picture.
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I just feel it's safer with rubber on the end of the lines,when I fired it up the return line to the filter was swinging back and forwards if it was solidly mounted it would fracture and woody got those rocker boxes already at the powdercoaters but have to modify the brass nuts to fit the rocker shafts should take about a day to machine up the correct bits.

yip rubber joiners defnatly make sence oil line are kind of importiant i supose

PAN/SHOVEL wrote:: I just feel it's safer with rubber on the end of the lines,when I fired it up the return line to the filter was swinging back and forwards if it was solidly mounted it would fracture and woody got those rocker boxes already at the powdercoaters but have to modify the brass nuts to fit the rocker shafts should take about a day to machine up the correct bits.

Sweet as Doug, I'll have to get some more pic's of it. How are you getting on with the paint ?

didnt the old 30's & 40's HD's have solid lines somewhere? oil lines? i seem to remember seeing something somewhere...

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Tank and guard are at the panelbeaters and chris has the flake so he should be into it next week bounce

PAN/SHOVEL wrote:: chris has the flake so he should be into it next week

Yep I have this photo of him working with that flake right now, I would say he definitely should have it finished by next week

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brett7777 wrote:: ya dont see too many like this.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Motorbikes/Motorbikes/Classic-vintage/auction-317740913.htm

he got 10200 for that old ironhead. interesting. how hard would it be to take any old ironhead & make it look original like that? not very hard. the aftermarket reproduction parts are abundant & not badly priced. maybe with ironheads we should go the opposite way - return them to stock ???!!! if they're gonna sell for 10k a time...& that one wasn't even completely original