Everyone's buildin a bobber, then they want a 200% profit on their POS

[Big Rich]

For that price, it had potential.

Is that really th location? Seems made up.......

[xunedeinx]

Yea, its a real location. bout 30 min away from me

[ryott52]

Not technically a bobber, but structurally questionable anyway.

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/mcy/2483835872.html

[xunedeinx]

Not technically a bobber, but structurally questionable anyway.

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/mcy/2483835872.html

Cheap frills?

has no running gear, chain, sprockets, lights, signals, etc etc...

What exactly is cheap in their mind?

[ryott52]

Not technically a bobber, but structurally questionable anyway.

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/mcy/2483835872.html

Cheap frills?

has no running gear, chain, sprockets, lights, signals, etc etc...

What exactly is cheap in their mind?

It did say he has all the stuff to finish it, although one must wonder why he doesn't do that then, it'd just be a solid day's wiring and connecting... Methinks there's something wrong with the engine, and his hope is that you only figure that out after you reassemble it all and attempt to start it.

[The Buddha]

There is an sv in charlotte - or it could be a TL1000s that literally is like that exact bike, 2 little point lights in front, a strip led lights under the seat and that is almost all that has in addition to this. I saw it screaming down the road one day ~3months ago. No guages no nothing. doesn't even look like it had wires for guages or a minimal veypor type. Nothing.
Cool.
Buddha.

[cbrfxr67]

http://houston.craigslist.org/mcy/2479895933.html 

[ryott52]

http://houston.craigslist.org/mcy/2479895933.html 

I'd pay $800 for it, certainly not anything in the $3k range he's looking for.

[adidasguy]

Why?       
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/mcy/2489103995.html

WTF? 
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/mcy/2484726873.html

Me wants (had one similar when living in LA):
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/mcy/2486620241.html

Add lights and could be fun!
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/mcy/2487102171.html

Maybe this one, too. If it does start up - quite a bargain?  :
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/mcy/2482718825.html

Oh, right - bike cave not finished yet. Have to wait.

[The Buddha]

Why?       
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/mcy/2489103995.html

This is one of those where when you yank on the shifter you will pry the whole motor out of the frame.
Cool.
Buddha.

[ryott52]

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/mcy/2496772574.html

"It has been hard tailed but needs to have the welding finished."

So... It simultaneously has and has not been hard-tailed? It's Schrödinger's bobber!

[The Buddha]

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/mcy/2496772574.html

"It has been hard tailed but needs to have the welding finished."

So... It simultaneously has and has not been hard-tailed? It's Schrödinger's bobber!

Poor schrodinger, he never thought he'd be dragged through the mud for his theory ... but ryott52 - is it Heisenberg ? or Schrodinger, I'n not certain about which ...  ...

BTW this fool friend of mine has that same bike that he cafe'd. He plonked 300 bones on a 69 duc tank for that cafe look, after he bought that bike for 800 bucks running but with 45K miles and only 1/2 the bike was even there. The fool has over 2g in it, it looks 1/2 decent for a cafe (I have to give credit where credit is due - he can sand and paint and even fabricate some stuff like seat cowls, but he has no sense of proportion or aesthetics or even common sense) and you even think it looks fine from the side. But get in front or behind and the motor is so freaking huge for a cafe it looks like you're riding the motor. Worse yet, it handles like trash - yea skinny a$$ tars and massive motor and lowered and de raked and hacked and welded can do that, and finally the kicker is, 4 cyl yamaha motors before 83 had a defect in the transmission, they tend to jump out of 2nd, 3rd or 4th, this one is losing 4th. I think his is a 650, but all of em, 550, 650, 750 all the way to 1100 pre 83 ate trannies. The 1100's had 1 saving grace, they had a transmission you can get to from under the bike without taking off the motor and splitting it top down.

Cool.
Buddha.

[ryott52]

I think Heisenberg and Schrodinger both apply there. They both deal with uncertainty in quantum physics, and one cannot tell whether the welds on this bike are sufficient without riding it, e.g. observing the state of the hardtail. As for the tranny issue, is there a permanent fix or is one stuck just constantly repairing?

[yamahonkawazuki]

adidas, every single one of those haseither expired or was deleted 

[ryott52]

It's been ruined...

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/mcy/2509169057.html

[The Buddha]

Oh yea this trash is worth 5200 pal -
http://charlotte.craigslist.org/mcy/2496953824.html

Cool.
Buddha.

[adidasguy]

adidas, every single one of those haseither expired or was deleted 

That's the way Craigs List works.
Sorry.

[The Buddha]

Finally someone in charlotte seems to have rented a sense of humor - and a nice dose of reality ...

GY200 enduro motorcycle needs tlc - $450 (richfield)

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This is a Chinese made GY 200 and I don't know if the 200 stands for 200 horsepower, 200 mph top speed, 200 jobs gone so this can be made in china, 200 miles of push starting or 200 of these would get you a weekend of trouble free riding but either way it must be important because it is on the fender. Wanna know something more important..... you need this bike in your garage and I need it out of mine. I need the room to stack piles of out of date coupons. This might be fixed, used for parts, welded into a metal art sculpture, burnt in a sacrifice to the Harley Davidson gods or stored in a corner of your garage so the wife can harp on you about throwing that "motorbike thingy" in the trash. Anyway you look at it this will complete your life in someway. Call me 704-796-5577

http://charlotte.craigslist.org/mcy/2453153378.html

Cool.
Buddha.

[xunedeinx]

Finally someone in charlotte seems to have rented a sense of humor - and a nice dose of reality ...

GY200 enduro motorcycle needs tlc - $450 (richfield)

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Date: 2011-06-21, 8:16AM EDT
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This is a Chinese made GY 200 and I don't know if the 200 stands for 200 horsepower, 200 mph top speed, 200 jobs gone so this can be made in china, 200 miles of push starting or 200 of these would get you a weekend of trouble free riding but either way it must be important because it is on the fender. Wanna know something more important..... you need this bike in your garage and I need it out of mine. I need the room to stack piles of out of date coupons. This might be fixed, used for parts, welded into a metal art sculpture, burnt in a sacrifice to the Harley Davidson gods or stored in a corner of your garage so the wife can harp on you about throwing that "motorbike thingy" in the trash. Anyway you look at it this will complete your life in someway. Call me 704-796-5577

http://charlotte.craigslist.org/mcy/2453153378.html

Cool.
Buddha.

LOL, Id buy it from that guy just so I can meet him!

[bill14224]

All this talk about quantum physics on this subject is why hard tails largely disappeared.  Shocks and springs, whether they're dual or single, work better than a well-designed hard tail unit, which is something worthy of praise in the past but not in the present or future, IMHO.  Our grandfathers knew this, but our generation is more concerned with appearance than substance.  I will admit there is a beauty in designing a hard tail unit that works decently at modest speeds on decent roads, but to me it's in the past.  Yeah, hard tails look great, but to trade the ride it yields to the ride even our modest GS500 has?  No, thanks!  When I have my friend Brian build me a bobber, it's gonna have springs, and they won't be in the seat!