10-23-2009, 08:12 PM | #1 |
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Good Craigslist Finds!
Since we have a topic for all the crazy things on craigslist (mainly the asking price), here's a topic for the good finds...
This bike looks pretty nice, good shape, and for the market, a good price (in my opinion) http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/va...434773533.html This one is pretty nice too http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/va...434796129.html
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10-23-2009, 08:38 PM | #2 |
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Those are both pretty cool, but I think they're both left-side kick. I don't think I could get used to that.
I'd really like a CJ750; I think they're the ultimate China Bike (maybe without the sidecar).
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10-23-2009, 11:28 PM | #3 |
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Good idea
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10-23-2009, 11:53 PM | #4 |
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I think that VinceDrake bought one; I'm pretty sure he started a thread on it.
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10-24-2009, 02:44 AM | #5 |
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1) You realize the Jawa was around $850 when it was new? (at least out east) For the 350, I *think* the 250 was around $700. There is one that pops up out here for sale, from time to time, for the same kind of money. Advertised as a "Jawa", I was hoping for an old speedway bike, but it was not to be. The kicker shaft is the weak point (they break regularly).
2) Zundapp pretty neat. I wonder where that one was hiding, as very few German items didn't survive the war, you sure wouldn't have wanted to be seen on one. |
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10-24-2009, 02:56 AM | #6 |
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I don't know much history on any of them that's for sure... But about the price, in 1973 what did a brand new fully loaded pickup truck cost? I'm sure it is worth more now too.
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In 1973 I bought a brand new Ford van. A "shorty", in black, 302, auto, air, stereo, window delete, as a Ford employee $2200. You have to remember that trucks were cheaper than cars in these years, only becoming more expensive around 1979. I also bought a Ranchero in 1973, again as a Ford employee, 460, 4 gear, the usual other options, $3200. In 1973 I bought a 1970 Pontiac Tempest station wagon (new old stock) with 3 options on the car: ram air IV 455, 4 gear, posi, ordered for only one purpose, and never picked up, I think that one was around $1800.
The 350 Jawa had around 20hp, I'm sure the 250 was much less, at the time they couldn't give those bikes away, designed for mass-transit in Communist countries, I'm sure they were dumped here for much needed "hard" currency. The Honda's were nothing special in those years (except the 750, introduced in 1969, for $1600), with their pressed steel/tubing frames. 1973 was the first year (in Canada) for the JPS Norton (I owned one later). You could still buy wwII 45 Harleys (in the crate) in 1973 for $500. |
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10-24-2009, 11:45 AM | #8 |
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Sound like the China Bike of yesterday :wink:
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i sure like the oldies i think they just have class, and those are 2 good looking examples, but when i started riding one of the first bikes i had was a maico. i wouldnt ride either farther than i could push, but they are pretty. and they say the chinese are junk :P
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10-26-2009, 07:40 PM | #11 |
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cj750 being built in PRC
I am having one of the Chang Jiang 750's built in the PRC as I type. Mine will look something like this one with a few added touches. Black pipes, Front turn signals, fog lights......
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10-26-2009, 10:22 PM | #12 |
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tokarev, that's a bike I'd really like to have (minus the sidecar). Please give us details as they happen.
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10-27-2009, 12:42 AM | #13 |
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What is the top speed of the CJ without sidecar?
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[Note: Mine has the overhead-valve engine, and higher gearing] With sidecar, I Got a ticket for 120km/h in a 100km zone, but that was everything it had, 100% WFO. And it don't stop from that speed worth a hill of beans. I think my Tow Truck could stop faster. With a car on the back. Without the sidecar (It comes off easy) Really, it gets really, really nasty/scary sounding around 120-125, and really it's right out of it's rev range. Theretically, they are supposed to be able to do 135 with no sidecar, and the high-speed gearing (Mine has) On flat ground, with no wind. Realistically though, cruising speed for the OHV with the Higher geared rear end is about 90-95 with or without the chair. Beyond that you're way out of the engine's rev range, and it's baking and begging for mercy With stock rear gear ratio, 85-90 cruising speed with the OHV The flatheads, theoretically will sprint to 110-115 no bucket, higher gears, and cruise at 90. Stock gearing, Cruising speed 80km/h, bucket or not. Basically, the whole thing is built on 1938 technology. I wasn't there, but from what I gather the world was a slower, and less reliable place back then.... --Vince [/quote]
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