"Cafe Racer" such a loose term! Craigslist "Gem" of the week!

This is a pretty clean little bike: https://portland.craigslist.org/grg/mcy/5414239389.html

Includes a trophy from a bike show!!
 
Re: "Cafe Racer" such a loose term! Craigslist "Gem" of the week!

Figured Damon would like this one
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Fuckin idiot probably spent 2 grand (conservatively) to build that 800 dollar bike. Can't figure out how to get gas to the carb.

Yep sounds like the modern bike builder.
 
eh everyone has their strengths, looks like his was restoring, but obviously carb work isn't his thing lol
 
hurco550 said:
eh everyone has their strengths, looks like his was restoring, but obviously carb work isn't his thing lol
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Restoration is a word this kid will never understand. Its just another build like we often see here. Shined up turd.

Frame color is wrong, plastic color is wrong, tank decal is wrong, almost nothing is original.

Hasn't changed the swingarm bearings, because he probably couldn't get the swingarm bolt out.

If you can't keep a thumper carb bowl filled I'm not buying SHIT from ya unless it's a steal.

Kid is asking good condition original price for a bunch of secondhand aftermarket parts on a bike that runs for 30 seconds at a time.

Wonder what else he did to It.

I'd tell him take the plastics off keep em I'll give ya $400 for it.
 
Tune-A-Fish said:
Well I can see the Pivot Works sticker right on the swingarm so he had to buy the kit no? ;D
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Maybe the wheel bearings but pivot works does not sell swinger kits for that bike. And yes I know you were kidding but it further illustrates my point. :)

No mention of checking or replacing the trans or kicker gears, that'll probably bite the next guy that rides it hard.

I hope to hell he loses a bundle so he doesnt get another one to defile.

Mostly I cant stand somebody that does all that work and then can't get it to run yet they still try to get top dollar. It's a one cylinder honda, if you cant make it run, you just dont have it man.
 
DohcBikes said:
Restoration is a word this kid will never understand. Its just another build like we often see here. Shined up turd.

Frame color is wrong, plastic color is wrong, tank decal is wrong, almost nothing is original.

Hasn't changed the swingarm bearings, because he probably couldn't get the swingarm bolt out.

If you can't keep a thumper carb bowl filled I'm not buying SHIT from ya unless it's a steal.

Kid is asking good condition original price for a bunch of secondhand aftermarket parts on a bike that runs for 30 seconds at a time.

Wonder what else he did to It.

I'd tell him take the plastics off keep em I'll give ya $400 for it.
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haha you coulda just said you don't like it. Now my feelings are hurt and I don't look so cute when I cry.... thanks a lot man.
 
hurco550 said:
haha you coulda just said you don't like it.
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I think you know better than that ;D All comments are directed towards the bike and its owner. I always appreciate the opportunity to critique a 200x :)
 
I'll bite.

Big time money pit right there... had the cylinder bored to 297 before he realized you cant even get rings for em anymore, so thats a custom piston at the least. Probably worth 5 or 600 in parts.

I do see the parts bike prices going up, probably thanks to people like me that see them as parts bikes instead of restoration potentials. A 3 wheeler often needs to be very very complete to be worth more than it will take yo finish it. Especially certain models.
 
Yeah, only reason I looked is likely the same for you... That first image "looks" like it may have a chance, but you quickly realize not so much.
 
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