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Failed Ebay bid
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Well, I tried and failed to win a 1996 VFR750 (the FT model). For some
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There's a cheap gixxer thou still available...
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I'll give you £1,500 in cash for it. And that's cutting my own throat,
and no you can't help me do that.
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You have a different definition of cheap to me.
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And still no bids and only 95 mins to go.
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Lucky sod's had a BiN!.
There really is one born every minute.
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I remain confident that there was more than one. The thing had nearly
100 watchers at the end, and I don't think they were *all* ukrmers.
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Not 'alf. Another bloke was selling a seat and tailpiece for a Silver
CBX: £422.50 the pair. Bit rich for my taste.
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years, I've fancied a VFR, and for my money (which is, as you know,
dispensed with great care[1]), the One To Have is a late carb-model
750. Not the injected 800 (a bit snatchy, by all accounts) and
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Indeed - I had both and the 750 was far, far better than the 800.
I still mourn the fact that my VFR750 was nicked while I was on tour in
France. I still get the desire to nuke Chartres every time I see the
name..
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*definitely* not a VTEC.
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auction number?
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I believe I've still got one of those "get the vehicle history report"
credits if you'd like it
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Nice looking machine. Quite a few others around but many fail to make
the reserve price judging from the results of a quick search.
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Indeed. There was no reserve on this one, which was an inducement.
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You did get pipped at the post didn't you?
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Bidding was on =A32050. I slapped in my bid with a few seconds to go, on
the basis that if it didn't win it, I wasn't going to go any higher.
Oh, and I'm the high bidder on this as well:
4640314449
But it hasn't met reserve. I'm not spending more than =A3150 on a
non-running MZ125, no matter how clean it is. Paging Sweller...
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Looks its all there and nice enough. Lose the top box and fairing, new
battery, fresh fuel, should start easy enough.
MOT will be a doddle, knock it out for £250+
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'Swot I thought. Or I'd just keep it and run it for a while. I have a
yen for another MZ.
My bid was just over £150, which I thought would clinch it for a
non-running MZ125, but it didn't meet reserve.
I've emailed him anyway, but I was wondering whether he'd stuck a
reserve of £200+ on it, in which case he's having a laugh.
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I was content to suck on her nipples
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This had just under 20k recorded, fsh, supposedly immaculate, new
tyres, new MoT, useful spares and extras, and an owner retiring from
biking. Only slight oddity was five previous owners, but if they'd all
done 2000 miles a year and then flogged it on, it's not a worry.
And the bidding was stalled on =A32000 with 10 minutes to go, in the
middle of the afternoon, so I slapped in something shy of =A32200 and
got outbid. It would have cost me =A32300 to raise him, as it were, so I
folded. Privately, it's not worth much more than that.
Azzitappens, the winning bidder has zero feedback, so I've emailed the
seller and told him that if he's messed around, to get back to me, and
he's replied thanking me, and said he will, if it comes to that.
Plan was (and may still be) to replace the Trophy. Seat of the pants
says the Trophy's worth about =A33500 privately, and while I like it
immensely, there's something about the superb engineering of the VFR750
that still attracts me. Having ridden several in the past, I can't
think of any other bike that was so finely engineered, built and
finished, and such a pleasure to ride. What a shame that the purity of
the engineering and, allegedly, the rideability was lost with the VTEC
(though I admit I've not tried a VTEC).
[1] Unless we're talking old Italian bikes, in which case reason goes
out of the window.
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You forgot about the plonk.
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