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Ok I have four and half bike's between me and the wife. Our riders then my projects. Both in various stages of being done but I keep looking. I found this today and I am considering going to check it out. http://detroit.craigslist.org/okl/mcy/2761244725.html
1972 xs650 stock(traded)
1977 xs650 bobber(sold)
1972 titan 500(sold)
1971 titan 500(traded)
1984 Honda xl250r (sold)
1984 Honda Nighthawk 650 (never should have sold)
1971 Honda CB750 (Current Project and keeper)
1974 Honda CB360T Bobber (will be 4 sale)
2005 Suzuki C50 VL800 Long Tripper
2009 Yammaha VSTAR 650 (Wife's Bike)
Nothing that jb weld duct tape and chicken wire can't fix.
POW * MIA Never Forgotten
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Man,that looks like a deal to me.I dont know about in your area,but where i live,you could sell that bike as-is for $15-1700 without touching it.You may be able to buy it as cheap as $800-850.That would be hard to pass up for me
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No phone number. Beware!! And I would also question it being a good deal. If it were such a good deal, why is it, so cheap, and why is the price going down?
TOOLS
Life is not about the number of breaths, you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
I don't have an anger problem. I have an idiot problem. Hank Hill
Never confuse education for intelligence.
Happiness is a belt fed weapon.
I just can't imagine what could go wrong.
No fire? No explosions? So whats the point of your story?
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato
It couldn't be done, but the darn fool didn't know it, and did it anyway.
We all got problems. Ksharp
I like vintage bikes because they take me away from the clutter of technology that I work with everyday and back to a simpler time of mechanical elegance and simplicity.. "ninadm"
Darkwing Duck: The worst part of public transportation is the Public.
"That is awesome shit there" Re-Run
"Fear nothing, attack everything" Eric Berry
" Oh, you read that on the internet? Clearly it IS a massive problem. Of course it CAN’t be normal operation."
1976 CB 750-A X 2
1977 CB 750-A X 4
1977 CB 750-K
1976 CB 750 F
1981 CB 750
1966 Kawasaki SG 250
1981 KZ 750 LTD
1973 CB 350
1979 CM 185 Twinstar
1982 Honda XL 80
South of Eden (Kansas City MO)
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Always exercise caution on Craigslist...Having said that, to answer your question as to why do you keep looking for more bikes? It is a disease, Motorcyclis-desirus-oncitus. Sadly, there is no cure, but there is a sometimes horrendously expensive therapy, to keep it under control: buy more bikes, fix them up, then sell them. The goal is to keep a fixed pool of money flowing in a cycle, between buying, and selling; good fiscal control can keep this disease from the more serious complications, thereby saving a marriage, while giving full satisfaction to the bike lust. It takes constant care, and effort, but the disease can be managed successfully.
Side effects of treatment include, but are not limited to: consumption of all "free time"; work-aholic syndrome; budget-titus; credit-card-drowning-in-debt-itus; an addiction to receiving packages in the mail, resulting in frenzied checking of the mailbox on a daily basis, including Sunday's, in severe cases; lonely-wife-itus; and chronic general fatigue due to loss of sleep.
 That is one nice looking bike! I agree, the price is low, but that does not automatically make it a scam. If interested, check it out, but proceed carefully. Let us know how it turns out! Cheers!
1979 CB750K (sold, 2012, but not forgotten)
1983 Kawasaki 440 LTD Belt Drive (sold, 2011)
1993 Kawasaki Voyager XII
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Because you are dumb and can't help yourself and if I had the money, I would be doing the same thing! 
The ride IS the adventure. The destination is just to get gas!
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I was talking to a guy for about a month and a half about buying his 78 750f, I just couldn't get the money but no one was buying it., so I kept in touch emailing him every week or so to see if he still had it.. Finally I had the money, set up to go up with a pic up and buy the bike, which I could have ridden home that day it was so nice out. The guy only wanted 500 dollars and the pics showed a wonderful condition bike, a bike that ran fine. that I could get on and go. He texted me an hour before I was to leave to pic it up and decided he no longer wanted to sell her. I WAS FUCKING FURIOUS. I was about to drive up there and smak him with a bat. for over a month we spoke all the while it was on the table, a great deal for me. a damn shame.
I dislike Craiglist, and am hopelessly addicted to it. I have a window of it open right now.
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 that was it,,, 500,, great deal.. I'm still mad.
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*offers the city slicker another tall glass of beer to cry in*
It happens. Seller's remorse, I expect. Sometimes you can put a bit of money down on something like this, on the condition that you need to line up some way to get it home. Then come up with the rest, and the means (truck, trailer, winch), and take it home.
Sometimes you get jammed with Craigslist, sometimes it works out pretty well. Again, caveat emptor (let the buyer beware). They have to sell, but you don't "need" to buy, even though you may "want" to.
Right now, I don't have the space in ManLand (garage) for another bike, but if I did, it'd be filled up pretty quickly.
Luke M
Used to have a 1979 CB750L, sold it as a parts bike, now riding a slightly modified 1984 VT700C. Network/Field Engineer. Central OH, USA, Earth, Sol System, Milky Way Galaxy, Universe.
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YOu should get it! <enabler mode off> I got my bike off CL, and got lucky, it's a nice one! :)
Mark Davis
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
amateur photographer, hot rodder, motorcyclist, adventurer
"Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul."
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I think he might have figured out that it is NOT a 750  , and was too embarrassed to have, you come all that way to find out it was a 650.
TOOLS
Life is not about the number of breaths, you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
I don't have an anger problem. I have an idiot problem. Hank Hill
Never confuse education for intelligence.
Happiness is a belt fed weapon.
I just can't imagine what could go wrong.
No fire? No explosions? So whats the point of your story?
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato
It couldn't be done, but the darn fool didn't know it, and did it anyway.
We all got problems. Ksharp
I like vintage bikes because they take me away from the clutter of technology that I work with everyday and back to a simpler time of mechanical elegance and simplicity.. "ninadm"
Darkwing Duck: The worst part of public transportation is the Public.
"That is awesome shit there" Re-Run
"Fear nothing, attack everything" Eric Berry
" Oh, you read that on the internet? Clearly it IS a massive problem. Of course it CAN’t be normal operation."
1976 CB 750-A X 2
1977 CB 750-A X 4
1977 CB 750-K
1976 CB 750 F
1981 CB 750
1966 Kawasaki SG 250
1981 KZ 750 LTD
1973 CB 350
1979 CM 185 Twinstar
1982 Honda XL 80
South of Eden (Kansas City MO)
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My wife tells me I spend more time on the computer and working on my bikes then I do with her. Found this today http://detroit.craigslist.org/okl/mcy/2706322253.html . My wife is very supportive of my addiction. But she said before I drag another on home I have to get on done.
1972 xs650 stock(traded)
1977 xs650 bobber(sold)
1972 titan 500(sold)
1971 titan 500(traded)
1984 Honda xl250r (sold)
1984 Honda Nighthawk 650 (never should have sold)
1971 Honda CB750 (Current Project and keeper)
1974 Honda CB360T Bobber (will be 4 sale)
2005 Suzuki C50 VL800 Long Tripper
2009 Yammaha VSTAR 650 (Wife's Bike)
Nothing that jb weld duct tape and chicken wire can't fix.
POW * MIA Never Forgotten
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That's about what Toolbabe told me, but she said I had to finish one before starting another project. Nothing about dragging them home.  I would bet that $300.00 would buy that bike. I would like to come across a 16 inch wheel laced to a CB 750 hub like on that bike.
TOOLS
Life is not about the number of breaths, you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
I don't have an anger problem. I have an idiot problem. Hank Hill
Never confuse education for intelligence.
Happiness is a belt fed weapon.
I just can't imagine what could go wrong.
No fire? No explosions? So whats the point of your story?
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato
It couldn't be done, but the darn fool didn't know it, and did it anyway.
We all got problems. Ksharp
I like vintage bikes because they take me away from the clutter of technology that I work with everyday and back to a simpler time of mechanical elegance and simplicity.. "ninadm"
Darkwing Duck: The worst part of public transportation is the Public.
"That is awesome shit there" Re-Run
"Fear nothing, attack everything" Eric Berry
" Oh, you read that on the internet? Clearly it IS a massive problem. Of course it CAN’t be normal operation."
1976 CB 750-A X 2
1977 CB 750-A X 4
1977 CB 750-K
1976 CB 750 F
1981 CB 750
1966 Kawasaki SG 250
1981 KZ 750 LTD
1973 CB 350
1979 CM 185 Twinstar
1982 Honda XL 80
South of Eden (Kansas City MO)
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TOOLS1 wrote
I think he might have figured out that it is NOT a 750 , and was too embarrassed to have, you come all that way to find out it was a 650.
TOOLS
HA is that a 650?
He told me it was a 79 and since it was an SOHC, I was like it has to be at least a 78,,, but I guess if its a 650 it could be a 79.. I have no Idea.. thats funny.
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Yea! That's a SOHC 650.
TOOLS
Life is not about the number of breaths, you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
I don't have an anger problem. I have an idiot problem. Hank Hill
Never confuse education for intelligence.
Happiness is a belt fed weapon.
I just can't imagine what could go wrong.
No fire? No explosions? So whats the point of your story?
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato
It couldn't be done, but the darn fool didn't know it, and did it anyway.
We all got problems. Ksharp
I like vintage bikes because they take me away from the clutter of technology that I work with everyday and back to a simpler time of mechanical elegance and simplicity.. "ninadm"
Darkwing Duck: The worst part of public transportation is the Public.
"That is awesome shit there" Re-Run
"Fear nothing, attack everything" Eric Berry
" Oh, you read that on the internet? Clearly it IS a massive problem. Of course it CAN’t be normal operation."
1976 CB 750-A X 2
1977 CB 750-A X 4
1977 CB 750-K
1976 CB 750 F
1981 CB 750
1966 Kawasaki SG 250
1981 KZ 750 LTD
1973 CB 350
1979 CM 185 Twinstar
1982 Honda XL 80
South of Eden (Kansas City MO)
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