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Error or not?
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I appear to have purchased a new (to me) bike, a Ducati 500SL Pantah.
While this in itself is ok there are a couple of things that either
make it a good buy or an "oh ffs why?" moment.
Firstly we'll have the ebay auction I won
200139718649
Then we'll have a look at the sellers earlier attempt to nige it out
270144340063
I'm not worried about the lack of documentation or the need for a bit
of work, I'm just curious as to why the sellers name and location
have changed if it's the same person, which it appears to be.
He's gone from having decent feedback to zero feedback and appears to
have moved from Oxford to London even though the photos show the bike
in the same place.
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People move, fact of life. He may have lost his original internet
connection and access to his email, hence needing to start another
ebay account, especially if he changed isp. Why bother retaking
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Changing an ISP won't affect anything on Ebay.
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It could possibly, if his original email address was
tied into to his isp and then he forgets his password?
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Feedback of 83 and he forgets his PW? No.
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Fairynuff. I blame the pills.
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I'm not familiar with ebay's password reminder but if
he has no way of accessing his email then I doubt he
would get it.
I know you can change your email address once into your
ebay account, but maybe he didn't, or couldn't get in
to change it?
Not everyone is clued up in these things.
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photos if you've already got some from the previous auction?
As long as the frame/engine numbers are legit then I wouldn't
worry about it, tbh.
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Or, it could be a second person Nigeing it out, using the original
photos.
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And description, including the loss of his lock-up? I doubt it.
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This new euphemism is still making me laugh. Was Bear the originator?
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I'll wait for a return email from him (I've contacted him re
collection and payment) and see what the story is. I'm still confident
I've snagged myself a good buy and it'll be appearing at Chimay next
year.
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Well he does suggest he lives elsewhere from where the bike is stored.
You appear to have got it at an utter bargain price!
TBH I was rather surprised for a moment then recalled you had a 748.
Seller says '79 but I don't think they were sold until '80 but ICBW?
I do remember the OE exhausts got junked and standard practice was freeing
up the inlets and dropping the gearing. Not unlike most other Ducati's that
followed.
Lovely bike with a great fairing and really good brakes. Cam belts nice and
easy to get at!
I wonder if TOG's 750SS engine was the evolution of this power plant? very
similar looking with the sw.arm running on the crankcase.
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The 500 was always overgeared, and early ones had a few gearbox
gremlins (second gear, IIRC). The 600cc version was a great
improvement (I rode both types, way back when), and all the usual mods
were as you describe. And yes, the 600, 750 and 900 engines are direct
descendants of the Pantah. I think quite a few parts (cam belt covers,
maybe), possibly clutch casing) are interchangeable.
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