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Title: Er.............?
Post by: mini-thumper on July 21, 2010, 05:14:31 PM

Not for the easily embarrassed or those who've just eaten their dinner..........

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/YELLOW-PERIL-HONDA-CB250-300-RS-MINT-CONDITION-/300448257748?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item45f41c96d4 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/YELLOW-PERIL-HONDA-CB250-300-RS-MINT-CONDITION-/300448257748?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item45f41c96d4)

(http://i.ebayimg.com/22/!ByZG1NgB2k~$(KGrHqZ,!h4Ew5Cnom2WBMRgw+CJDQ~~_12.JPG)

There looks to have been a lot of money and mis-placed effort put into it, but it's wrong on so many levels! RIP

Boyd

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Post by: trophydave on July 21, 2010, 05:17:53 PM

Ohh,it's at Oakham,just down the road from me ;D

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Post by: guest7 on July 21, 2010, 06:05:06 PM

This was on Ebay a couple of years ago and I put its picture in the newsletter. The black and white image didn't do it justice  ;)

GC

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Post by: Ian on July 21, 2010, 10:25:13 PM

      Nor does the colour one!!!  :o

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Post by: 002 on July 21, 2010, 11:03:36 PM

Stylish !!!!!!!

Jethro

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Post by: SRXer on July 22, 2010, 09:10:59 AM

oh thats nasty.

I wonder if they've got matching leathers.

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Post by: guest868 on July 22, 2010, 09:23:07 AM

I would ride that. I'm nursing a semi just looking at it.
I also like the BMW K1's though...I apolgise.

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Post by: guest987 on July 22, 2010, 11:20:50 AM

Gott in Himmel :o

What a lot a 10year old can do with a box of paints.

Rob

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Post by: guest29 on July 22, 2010, 07:35:52 PM

Looks like RD 250 silencers on it as well ??? ??? ???

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Post by: themoudie on July 22, 2010, 07:56:25 PM

Aye,

Too much 'banoffee' pie after a few 'Blue Lagoons'!  :-[

"Eeeee! Dilbert, ast th' seen th' Burds custurd powder?  ???

Still awaiting info on carrier for these machines, not forgotten!

Regards, Bill.

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Post by: Andy M on July 22, 2010, 08:00:31 PM

This sort of thing worries me. I think I should either love it or hate it? All I'm thinking is that the engine cases are going to be a ****** to keep up to over the winter and the exhaust seems to lack support. I should probably stick to things that can be cleaned with a hose pipe.  ???

Andy

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Post by: 002 on July 22, 2010, 09:57:59 PM

Quote from: RobG on July 22, 2010, 11:20:50 AM

Gott in Himmel :o

What a lot a 10year old can do with a box of paints.

Rob

I can see Rob letting his son loose with some Crayola on his RS !


Jethro

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Post by: guest564 on July 23, 2010, 01:33:03 PM

It looks disgusting but its a very clean RS with 300cc conversion and with 7 hrs to go its at £155, I wonder what the reserve is. Many years ago a guy used to race a 300cc Yoshi RS and it was very quick indeed, a few aerosols of your choice and you could have a cracking bike.

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Post by: guest519 on July 23, 2010, 03:05:43 PM

Reserve set at £875  :o  a tad optimistic I feel...

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Post by: guest24 on July 23, 2010, 10:12:54 PM

looked passable until I saw the yellow sprocket and yellow main stand then it went downhill. Pass me the rose tinted specs again.

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Post by: guest905 on July 24, 2010, 06:18:31 AM

I was more interested in the red trail bike in the last photo......

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Post by: guest27 on July 24, 2010, 09:04:04 AM

That sprocket has not had a chain on it - still paint on the teeth

R

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Post by: pigafetta on July 24, 2010, 09:09:44 AM

I love it. It's so bad it's good. Not sure I'd have the bollocks to turn up at the local bikers caff on it though. I particularly like the way the paint job on the front mudguard matches the blueing on the pipes. The bloke who did the 'Yellow Peril' lettering needs a serious talking to.

The trailie in the background looks like an early XL125

Dave B

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Post by: Steve Lake on July 24, 2010, 10:58:35 AM

what can i say that hasn't been said....

Cor blimey! ...not for me, though obviously someone loves it.....but while you were looking at that Ebay entry....did you see this!!

170415702965      1/4 of a million quid for a bike......!! I've never been a fan of the italian fire engines, even if this one is made by David Kaye.

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Post by: mini-thumper on July 24, 2010, 05:24:42 PM

Steve

(http://i.ebayimg.com/16/!!qrm0mwCG0~$(KGrHgoOKisEjlLl7pG)BKfZortKhw~~_12.JPG)

This Ferrari bike also goes into the 'Er.............?' category for many of the same reasons.

Boyd

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Post by: guest7 on July 24, 2010, 05:36:38 PM

Hats off to Dave Kay and all that, but does anyone else get the impression that he's a bit of a wide boy?

GC

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Post by: Steve Lake on July 25, 2010, 10:13:36 AM

No I don't think so #1....just a bloody good engineer (though a lot of the work is farmed out) with too much spare time  :)

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Post by: guest7 on July 25, 2010, 01:33:31 PM

I only say that because he had a real taste for self-publicity in the late 80s, early 90s. In retrospect I think a bloke who makes MV Agustas in his shed probably rubbed a lot of of the precious classic types up the wrong way and perhaps that's why he seemed to get a sniffy press back then.

I agree, his engineering is just out of this world and that MV sidecar outfit he raced was brilliant, although the constant (unfounded) carping about his box section swing arm not being legal in classic racing was a sure sign that some people are bad losers. As for the swing arm, it didn't seem to make any difference how many pictures were produced showing box section swing arms 'back in the day', he just kept on getting hassle over it.

GC

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Post by: trophydave on August 12, 2010, 12:37:58 PM

Unsurprisingly the CB250RS is still listed on ebay with a starting price of £750 this time.

If anyone has got one for sale for about half that price can they please give me a shout ;D