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Post by mike500 on Nov 25, 2014 12:27:35 GMT -5
re5 proper unit on ebay uk eBay item number: 171552713230 he says 14,000 miles seal intact if I was going to bid I would be asking questions like did it come out of a running bike? does it have proper compression?,does it turn over? whats the history on it? or is it going to be 1 hell of a big door stop?,7 bids up to now and the only question is do you have a buy it now price regards mike
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Post by neandethal on Nov 26, 2014 15:04:54 GMT -5
i have contacted the seller to ask those very questions but no answer yet, will be really interesting to see if he posts the question and answer on his advert, will keep you all posted.
Dont worry havent put a bid in!
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Post by neandethal on Nov 27, 2014 12:21:02 GMT -5
Hi All this was his response:
Hi Ian this unit is from my own 1975 re5,I was the third owner from new,14600ms.I dropped the bike in 1982 scratched it down one side, it was as new condition and an excellent runner.I then stripped it down to rebuild to showroom condition (never happened). turns over as it should, compression all there as said before was a brilliant runner, dry stored wd/40 and wrapped. Hope this helps regards
hope it helps all interested parties
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Post by goandy on Nov 28, 2014 6:40:17 GMT -5
...and what about the rest of the bike???
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Post by neandethal on Nov 28, 2014 8:10:35 GMT -5
I have to say it does all sound very strange, but proper units so rarely appear in the UK, often in the states but importation is so damn expensive
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Carl
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Post by Carl on Nov 28, 2014 10:57:09 GMT -5
I would have expected that any low millage, good running bike that has been accident damaged and is being restored/rebuilt would have the engine removed inclusive of gear box n stuff whilst the bike is being restored and then the engine replaced (maybe with the cases being prettied up a bit).
It would be unusual to strip an accident damaged bike down to a proper unit and only have the proper unit for sale.
I would expect that a spare bare proper unit mainly becomes available when a proper unit replacement has occurred and this occurs when the proper unit itself has a problem or if the owner had an excess of NOS proper units - and if this was the case then I would think that it would be better explained that way.
Just my thoughts - I maybe wrong.
Cheers
Carl
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Post by neandethal on Nov 30, 2014 13:29:41 GMT -5
anybody on the forum buy it?
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Post by mike500 on Nov 30, 2014 16:37:02 GMT -5
£466 just hope its not a very expensive door stop
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