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MOTOBRICK MARKETPLACE => NM ~ Not Mine - Just Compeled To Post It Up => Topic started by: frankenduck on November 03, 2021, 07:11:36 PM

Title: K75 "Speedway Racer"
Post by: frankenduck on November 03, 2021, 07:11:36 PM: Check out the tires.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/265388429797
Title: Re: K75 "Sppedway Racer"
Post by: Chaos on November 03, 2021, 07:27:56 PM: Yikes! They'd look more at home on a '53 Buick.
Title: Re: K75 "Sppedway Racer"
Post by: The Mighty Gryphon on November 03, 2021, 07:30:48 PM: Too embarrassed to list this "no-expense-spared custom work-of-art" as a cafe racer. 44271
Title: Re: K75 "Speedway Racer"
Post by: Past-my-Prime on November 03, 2021, 08:31:55 PM: $18 K! yikes! you could buy four or five of my bikes for that kind of money, maybe six on a good day, and they ALL would have a "numbers-matching 750cc BMW triple cylinder engine with a five-speed transmission."

Maybe it's the "charge a lot and people will think it's worth a lot" mentality.
Title: Re: K75 "Speedway Racer"
Post by: Laitch on November 03, 2021, 10:38:29 PM: Here's some information (https://collectorsautosupply.com/coker-525-550-17-excelsior-blackwall-tire/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIttnAw9X98wIVUvvICh1wiAF6EAQYCCABEgKODvD_BwE) about one of the tires on that contraption.
Title: Re: K75 "Speedway Racer"
Post by: frankenduck on November 04, 2021, 12:50:58 AM: Quote from: Past-my-Prime on November 03, 2021, 08:31:55 PM
"numbers-matching"

I have no idea what this means on a K75. I know that some bikes used to come with an engine serial number that was the same as the frame number but that's not the case on K bikes. I think that practice might have gone away when VINs got standardized.
Title: Re: K75 "Speedway Racer"
Post by: beemuker on November 04, 2021, 09:31:24 AM: that seat makes my butt hurt just looking at it, but i guess this is "art" and not really meant to be ridden.
Title: Re: K75 "Speedway Racer"
Post by: Chaos on November 04, 2021, 10:43:52 AM: Quote from: Laitch on November 03, 2021, 10:38:29 PM
Here's some information (https://collectorsautosupply.com/coker-525-550-17-excelsior-blackwall-tire/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIttnAw9X98wIVUvvICh1wiAF6EAQYCCABEgKODvD_BwE) about one of the tires on that contraption.

Very concise proof that whoever concocts these contraptions is clueless
Title: Re: K75 "Speedway Racer"
Post by: beemuker on November 04, 2021, 01:58:44 PM: Quote from: Laitch on November 03, 2021, 10:38:29 PM
Here's some information (https://collectorsautosupply.com/coker-525-550-17-excelsior-blackwall-tire/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIttnAw9X98wIVUvvICh1wiAF6EAQYCCABEgKODvD_BwE) about one of the tires on that contraption.
haha, I'm sure a Tube Type 4 Ply Polyester tire is going to make this handle much better than stock. I just got back from the grocery store thinking what a great job the fatherland did on my R11 suspension. Orka is remarkably flickable for such a heavy bike. Super smooth on my crappy rural road too.