The Horror, the horror....

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The Horror, the horror....


Cobram 11-20-2007, 11:00 PM
    From the Dutch CX site....



I speak no Dutch, and read just as much, but I think this pic is a bike in a junkyard near the ocean somewhere.

1978 CX500 - I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got here, or how I'm going to get out.

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HotFoot 11-21-2007, 2:28 AM
That's Jonah's CX... regurgitated upon the shore by a very large fish a long time ago.

Madonna started a cult after its discovery off the coast of Israel a few years ago. She and her followers go down to the beach in the dead of night to dance (naked), sing songs and pray for world peace.

Al Gore was there to pay his respects a few weeks ago and now has the CDI unit and is claiming to have designed/invented it.
'80 CX500 Deluxe (Roadworthy)
'79 CX500 Custom (Parts)

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Randall-in-Mpls 11-21-2007, 7:26 AM
LOL
'78 CX500 - The Black Maggot

CX500 Factory Service Manual
1978 CX500 Parts Manual

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dozer1 11-21-2007, 8:35 AM
I bet with some seafoam in the tank she'll start right up.
1979 CX500 Deluxe
1980 CX500 Ratbike "Stella"
Dozer1 AKA Snowplow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TK5VY90ILs&feature=related

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Vikeyboy 11-21-2007, 8:42 AM

The carbs act like they're flooded.

 


Vikeyboy
1982 GL500i

No man knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan, and raised an adolescent.

- Marcelene Cox ( Writer, 1899 - 1998 )

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RichNCT 11-21-2007, 9:35 AM
The real shame is that it appears to be a CX500E.  The knobby on the front wheel is a hint that torture was involved in it's final days . . .  That would be a tough place to work on it, especially at high tide!
Born to be relatively wild

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MIOB 11-21-2007, 1:02 PM
The title says: een tweede leven. That means: a second life.

I wonder what they think they can revive here....

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TwoW4B2C4V 11-21-2007, 1:34 PM
LMAO

OK, sorry, but I'm going to have to report you guys to the screen writers guild, you're not supposed to work while on strike!

As soon as AL "the sky is falling" Gore saw the picture, he promptly fueled his private jet, burned 55,000lbs of fuel flying to the site, then took his convoy of 6MPG SUV's there to make sure it could never run again, after which he proudly patted himself on the back and gave himself some carbon credits.
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Harold 11-21-2007, 2:01 PM
It's a Sea Ex-650

Wasn't it in the U.K. somewhere a little while back, a bunch of containers washed off of a floundering ship and spilled their contents all along the coast. I remember seeing news stories showing people pulling new motor-cycles, among other things, out of the surf.
I wonder if it they were ever able to get titles for them.

"People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than biker gangs."

1978 CX500
1980 CX500 Custom
1981 CX500 Custom
1982 GL500 Silverwing
1975 XL-100
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Anonymous 11-21-2007, 2:12 PM
Sea-ex 650?

You die now. . . .

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TwoW4B2C4V 11-21-2007, 3:37 PM
Sea-X650 with SeaFoam Flooded Carbs. I swear if you look at the air box just right you can see the Madonna too (the other one.)

The "Napoli" was the ship that grounded off the coast of Devon in England. The bikes were BMW's in the crates, worth about 15000 Pounds each...the fine for not giving them back (if caught) was 2500 pounds. Our English listers probably remember that many of the "salvaged" items were showing up on eBay, some of them even listed their provenance as "The Napoli." When the fines and threats didn't work to keep people away from the beach, suddenly the looters were destroying the environment by leaving stuff on the beach.
The UK has entire towns and villages which used to alter navigation beacons to ground ships and liberate their cargo.
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b100koczur 11-21-2007, 5:17 PM

I'll grab the pitchforks, and you grab the torches, we're going to loot something!!  Yup, the laws of salvage stretch wide and far, why just today, while working on an unamed state highway, I found an old fuel tank for a "Lawn Boy" mower.  I hope there is no fine for keeping my booty.

That poor old CX.....I'm sure many had the same reaction as me.  It was like looking at any dead, beached sea creature, it's suffering is over, but it's still a bit sad to realize it had to go.


Brian
Duluth MN

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squigbobble 11-25-2007, 3:48 PM
Looking at the pic, I'd say the back wheel and plastic parts are usable :D
'83 CX500 Eurosport - distributed around my cellar.
'98 Bandit 600 - passed the MOT with no work, wtf?!

Fan & flywheel puller kits, £3 + postage

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dozer1 11-25-2007, 4:37 PM
Sea-ex, that gave me a stroke of genius. i now am going to purchase a vanity plate that says SEEEX. get it? SEE-EX.ha, ha, ha.My excuse for that is i am only 18.
1979 CX500 Deluxe
1980 CX500 Ratbike "Stella"
Dozer1 AKA Snowplow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TK5VY90ILs&feature=related

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rodent 11-25-2007, 5:20 PM
that's pretty bad dozer1

78 cx500 (rodent)(my twisted twin)
82 cx500c (parts)
86 cmx450 (wifey's)
and in the future who knows

http://s218.photobucket.com/albums/cc275/rodentcx/CX500/

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Anonymous 03-27-2008, 9:43 AM
I'd say it had enough sea foam already!
 dozer1 wrote:
I bet with some seafoam in the tank she'll start right up.

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Synapse 03-27-2008, 11:46 AM
Hi Cobram,

Please post the weblink for the dutch site you found that pic off of so i can go and have a nose around, looks interesting!
Thank you kindly

Synapse

Don't just dream your life, live your dreams ;-)

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fll1441 03-27-2008, 1:02 PM
The Dutch site, and a few others, are linked from the page below:

http://www.cxclub.dk/links.html
1982 CX500 Custom

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Timothy_D 03-27-2008, 3:23 PM
If you think this is bad, an e-bay seller, Pinwall Cycles just disasembled a working, driving 10,000 mile CX650C to sell the parts on E-bay.  In fact ,they have videos of it being driven, gauge tests, and even a stator output test. 
THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE BIKE. (except for a small dent in the fuel tank)

Stupid bastards. I could see disassembling a wreck, or even a high mileage bike. . . but 10,000 miles, that shop owner should have a rim job.  And by a rim job, I mean a rim shoved up his arse sideways.  (Front rim.  WITH a tire on it.)

Two CX500 Turbos, GL650I, CX650C, CX650E.

Why do I own five bikes? Because I'm not married. DUH! (and I haven't taken a vacation in two years. . . . )

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TwoW4B2C4V 03-27-2008, 5:47 PM
 Timothy_D wrote:

THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE BIKE. (except for a small dent in the fuel tank)

Stupid bastards. I could see disassembling a wreck, or even a high mileage bike. . . but 10,000 miles,


Well, mechanically there might not have been anything wrong, but whenever you see a car/bike/truck whatever in running condition being disassembled for parts...there's usually a BIG problem with the paperwork.  Call me cynical, but I bet the whole bike is as Hot as the exhaust pipe.



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Cobram 03-28-2008, 12:46 AM
 Synapse wrote:
Hi Cobram,
Please post the weblink for the dutch site you found that pic off of so i can go and have a nose around, looks interesting!
Thank you kindly
Synapse


http://www.hondacx500.nl/

There's a way to get at the root site, it'll work with most browsers.  Right click over the image, then in the window that pops up choose "properties", you will usually get the site where the image is hosted, copy and past into the address bar.



1978 CX500 - I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got here, or how I'm going to get out.

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George in Indiana 03-28-2008, 2:12 PM
 TwoW4B2C4V wrote:
 Timothy_D wrote:

THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE BIKE. (except for a small dent in the fuel tank)

Stupid bastards. I could see disassembling a wreck, or even a high mileage bike. . . but 10,000 miles,


Well, mechanically there might not have been anything wrong, but whenever you see a car/bike/truck whatever in running condition being disassembled for parts...there's usually a BIG problem with the paperwork.  Call me cynical, but I bet the whole bike is as Hot as the exhaust pipe.




For those wanting top dollar for a car or motorcycle, parting out will usually make you much more $$$ so it's not always something crooked going on.  About 2 years ago someone parted out a somewhat beat up 650 Turbo on ebay.  Yes it was a school bike so the legal and paperwork issues would cause problems.
After the auctions were over I started adding.  I stopped counting at $10,000.00.   I've seen exactly one 650T sell for $10,000.00.  It only had a few hundred miles on it, was NOT a school bike and was quite possibly the best one in existence.  The illegal beat up school bike made much more money.

There's also a few dealers who order new bikes, take them out of the crate and gut them.  They put the parts up on ebay with a "buy it now" and can triple their profit on that bike over selling it.  I've been buying wear and tear parts for my Busa that way.  Cush rubbers would have cost me $60 bucks from my local dealer.  I bought a brand new drum assembly with bearings, sprocket and cush rubbers installed for $50.  Saved $10 bucks and I have valuable spare parts.  Dealer made a huge profit.

Of course with the above you have to factor in labor to disassemble everything.  And for complete classic vehicles it's blasphemy imo.

CX500 TURBO
CX650 TURBO
'86 Honda Elite 150 Deluxe
'04 GSX1300R Hayabusa

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Anonymous 03-28-2008, 8:08 PM
"For those wanting top dollar for a car or motorcycle, parting out will usually make you much more $$$ so it's not always something crooked going on."

That's a far reaching blanket statement. It may hold true for a rare vehicle (such as the example you cited) but doesn't hold water for run of the mill iron. A regular CX is worth more in one piece than the sum of it's parts, especially when you factor in that maybe 60% tops, of the parts have an eager market.
If the bike was in decent shape, you could get between $1500-$2500, which is what low mileage examples sell for. If you factor in the cost of dismantaling, selling etc., they would have been better off selling it whole.
The Turbo bikes are as rare as hens teeth, and have a lunatic fringe following, the Custom realistically doesn't have this kind of cache.
I'll keep an eye on Pinheads auction, if the results prove me wrong, I like my crow crispy with some BBQ sauce.

CED

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George in Indiana 03-28-2008, 10:08 PM
He's already up to $350 with over 4 days to go. A decent CX650 ended yesterday with a high bid of $505.

The bike that Pinwall is parting out may have made it to $1500 if a major bidding war were to break out. It'll be interesting to see what the parts go for.
$2500? Not unless it was found in a forgotten storeroom still in the factory crate.
CX500 TURBO
CX650 TURBO
'86 Honda Elite 150 Deluxe
'04 GSX1300R Hayabusa

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Cobram 03-28-2008, 11:32 PM
The GL650Custom may be a rare bike...I've never seen one in the flesh.  I think there's more people chasing parts than looking to buy a running bike in this case.  It's rare in the sense that there aren't too many, so parts are probably tough to come by, but it's no where near as desireable as a Turbo or EuroSport.  This difficulty in obtaining parts (as compared to the relative abundance of CX500 parts) might just make the sum of the parts worth more than the whole.

1978 CX500 - I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got here, or how I'm going to get out.

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George in Indiana 04-02-2008, 9:01 PM

Round one is done and I see he hit $2,000. He still has unsold parts that can be relisted plus he has additional parts in the store section.

Furthermore there's plenty of other parts I didn't see him list such as handle bars, controls, gauge cluster, forks, electronics, cooling system parts, brake hardware and much more.

If he goes for a round two, I say the potential for $3,000 is there. Compared to recent prices I doubt that bike would have gone for more than $1200 whole.


CX500 TURBO
CX650 TURBO
'86 Honda Elite 150 Deluxe
'04 GSX1300R Hayabusa

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Anonymous 04-02-2008, 10:19 PM
Well, you were right G in I, it still makes me cringe like nails on a chalk board when I see perfectly good machinery stripped for parts.

The 5 second rule DOES NOT apply to my baked crow, thank you!

CED

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Timothy_D 04-03-2008, 4:53 PM
I didn't say it wouldn't be profitable, or that I don't understand his motivation. . . . I said that he should have a rim shoved up his arse sideways for doing it.

Two CX500 Turbos, GL650I, CX650C, CX650E.

Why do I own five bikes? Because I'm not married. DUH! (and I haven't taken a vacation in two years. . . . )

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George in Indiana 04-03-2008, 6:16 PM
My reply was to TwoW4B2C4V's comment on "hot as an exhaust pipe".
CX500 TURBO
CX650 TURBO
'86 Honda Elite 150 Deluxe
'04 GSX1300R Hayabusa

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Timothy_D 04-03-2008, 9:20 PM
Maybe. . . . .

Two CX500 Turbos, GL650I, CX650C, CX650E.

Why do I own five bikes? Because I'm not married. DUH! (and I haven't taken a vacation in two years. . . . )

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George in Indiana 04-04-2008, 12:09 AM
Nah, most likely lost title.

No way he'd put the frame up for sale with a close up pic of the vin tag if it was stolen.
CX500 TURBO
CX650 TURBO
'86 Honda Elite 150 Deluxe
'04 GSX1300R Hayabusa
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