1975 1000

[Anonymous]

Here's a Excellent Candidate for just about anything: daily rider, restoration, chop, etc..
Low serial number 992 engine, 862 frame. Foe the most part original.
New tires, some cables, brake pads.
Paint is real nice.
Seat is real nice.
Gauges perfect.
Carbs good.
New fork seals.
Slight ignition problem. Could be secondary related, could be a connection.
Still has stator 3-wire plug. Not burnt or melted.
Clean bike but dusty in the photos.
Been sitting since it got cold here.
This is the one...

Shipping to any part of the Country should be no more than $350 from Sioux Falls. I can help arrange it.

I'm "cash-hungry" for some manifold stuff, so give me some cash and it's yours.

Let me know.

Steve.

 

[Anonymous]

More pics:

 

[Anonymous]

...and cleaned-up:

 

[joedrum]

thats a nice bike ...looks to be really sound ...

 

[Anonymous]

Yeah, nice bike.
Definately a rider.
I figured somebody would've given me a offer by now.
Wishful thinking maybe?
Whatcha think it's worth Joe... ?

I've some video of it I need to get from my laptop to here. Video is of it starting and running after not being started for probably 5 months or so.

 

[joedrum]

i think times a ruff and you need to hang on to it ...its a very nice bike ..the underside is spotless ...and it cleans up nice ...to me its worth more than you could ever get for it in money ...witch makes me discount money not the bike .....the 75 got all the high end power parts in it ....hooch has all the 75 stuff in it except the carbs and that was just easy path move ...i plan on trying the 75 carbs too but its not happening till i know what the 1100 carbs are all about ....to me thats just to good a bike to turn loose of ....thats my value about the bike the best i can put it .......

 

[Anonymous]

i think times a ruff and you need to hang on to it

Good advice. Probably GREAT advice.

We'll see...

 

[Anonymous]

$1200.00 Anyone?

 

[joedrum]

wow ..there beats the heart of a great ride ...id say you are right carbs and iggy brought up to snuff and the the bike would be like new ....i like the complete showing of starting you did it gives people a chance observe how the biggest thing in starting the oldwing ...is it seems the motor is in america and the gas tank is in china and its a sloww boat from china that delivers gas to the motor ...then takes awhile to fill the four carbs ...useally one cylinder first then others come in ...there is quite a problem getting all this up to par .....most get focas on a single cause and its useally mutiproblems that contribute to the runnning poorly and most struggle getting them right .....but i can tell this bike is not far from running great

 

[Anonymous]

Shoot, this thing is a great bike!
A quick run through on bringing regular maintenance up to date, a carb cleaning and a good electrical cleaning of the ignition stuff, and this is a bike that'll get the looks.

Gotta sell it though.

My lowest Ya'll here is $1000.00. I can't go any lower.
That would have someone, about anywhere in the Country and after a days worth of cleaning and maintenance, riding a nice first year GL for about $1350.00. Maybe less if you're closer.

Tough times or not, someone needs to do some scraping.

 

[Anonymous]

A guy joins the forum yesterday and presses me hard for the VIN of the bike via PM. He has no posts.

Ya'll find something wrong with this picture?

 

[slabghost]

A guy joins the forum yesterday and presses me hard for the VIN of the bike via PM. He has no posts.

Ya'll find something wrong with this picture?

Yes. If I didn't already have so many I'd be wanting that bike myself. I can only ride one at a time though.

 

[joedrum]

yes .....id say thats strange .....some put a lot in on how low the number is ....seems crazy to think this makes a difference ....

 

[Anonymous]

Sorry my credentials don't meet your standards. Found the bike for sale when searching for '70s era Gold Wings for sale, looks like a good deal, and it was necessary to join the forum to make contact. If you were to look at this from my point of view, you might consider that when I first inquired about the bike, you right away mention that you are selling the bike for someone else, a fact which, if it is mentioned in this thread, I missed it. That is a red flag and prompted my early questions about the nature of the title and the existence of a registered VIN, because I am not about wasting your time or mine. And I didn't exactly press you about it. I asked if it was available and provided my contact info if the seller wanted to contact me. I'm looking for a rider and ready to make a transaction when I find it.

I appreciate that you and / or the seller don't want this bike to go to some young punk who may turn it into one of the many cafe style GWs to be seen in the for sale listings elsewhere. As I mentioned in our PMs, I have been riding 30+ years, not counting the machines I rode before getting legal to drive the streets. When I was a teenager, after getting off my day job pumping gas, I worked at Honda of High Point in the evenings uncrating new machines and putting them together. Bought my first street bike from one of the mechanics there, a '74 XLCH with no starter and no provision for adding one. Kick start only and it was a b!tch.

I contacted you via PM to keep our business from cluttering this thread. We are 1300 miles apart, and there needs to be enough communication for us both to be satisfied we are dealing with a legit well intentioned buyer / seller. If I don't fit the mold, I'll move on. No hard feelings here.

And to all of you, thanks for all of the good info available on this forum regarding these bikes and keeping them running.

 

[joedrum]

fair enough ...i think everything fine ...i see your point too ....in a world where the system is basicly no choice scam ...all people seem to be weary of things ...and rightly so ....

 

[Anonymous]

Well, I feel better now.
You now being out in the open and all...
I feel a bit dumb as well, but I'll get over both feelings.
Hey, we're on a Internet Forum. Crazy **** happens every day.
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The titles VIN matches the bike.
Russ has had the bike since '06.
If you are serious about the bike, I'll ask Russ if you contacting him is ok. Russ wants nothing to do with the Internet. And I mean NOTHING.
Hear me now, when I say nothing, I truely mean nothing. You being where you are scares him right off the bat. He cannot comprehend a transaction like this without concluding that it is a absolute SCAM!

But yeah, you're right. If you were some chump kid wanting to experiment your best idea of a "Cafe" or "Bobber" or some other BS floating around in your head, or if you're a "Cartel" member, then you're 100% correct, ...you ain't buying it. If the latter don't make any sense, don't worry about it.

I could blink the money to Russ and just sit on the bike. But like Slab, what am I gonna do with another one? I've my 'Wing and all its stuff, ...plus four other bikes.
I won't even keep it stock. The bike deserves more than I would give it. I'm looking to do something for the show circuit close to my neighborhood. A Comstar'd 1000 is fine for my needs.

Since originally posting this thread, I've talked to Russ a couple of times:
The clutch and throttle cables are new,
Masters and calipers have been rebuilt,
Essentially all maintenance up to date minus whatever is going on with the carbs and (I believe) funky electrical connections associated with the ignition. Russ, being an old-school retired "Master Mechanic", ...ain't nobody working on it but himself. Me just helping him to get it started was wiggin' him out a bit.

I told Russ to give this thread a look. He has a link to it. I don't know if he will. Mods would know... His IP is different than mine. Who else from Sioux Falls would be looking?

 

[dan filipi]

Ok, now I'm confused.

In your original post you said your "cash hungry for some manifold stuff" which is why your selling it.
Now you say some guy named Russ is selling it?

What's the story here?

 

[Anonymous]

It is Russ's bike.
I'm selling it for him.
I'm offering it here because:
1) one of you would hopefully restore it
2) one of you would know to use the forums for help in restoring it
3) and I could use whatever I'm asking above what I can buy it for to put towards my manifold operation.

If all I get are more business cards, or a couple more t-shirts, or one extra Solex-to-Weber adapter made, ...then these are expenses covered by doing stuff like this that helps me keep the costs associated with my manifold conversions down. I've made no financial profit on any conversion, or any part of a conversion, sold to date. Eventually I will. But it ain't today. The more avenues I create to put toward lowering my personal cash output with the manifolds, the happier we will all be.

I see it as a win-win for all involved. I'm helping Myself, Russ and whoever wants a solid '75 'Wing for the money being asked. Letting it go for $1K is really absurd. Sometimes I have to look at the struggling business ventures I put myself into and make decisions that I'd rather not make. Hustlin' this bike off to anyone but myself is hard for me being the bike-junkie that I am.

If selling the bike here is becoming a problem, then lets end the thread now and I can be done with it and move forward.

 

[dan filipi]

It's up to you if you want to remove the listing.

I'm ok with it running but I ask that everyone using our forum be totally up front with each other, especially when money is involved.
We've had a couple bad dealings last year so the Mods and I are watching closely for anything that looks suspicious and addressing it immediately. This Russ guy becoming involved and some inconsistency as compared to the original posting jumped out at me, I had to question it.
You explained it so it's all good.

 

[joedrum]

sheesh heck no cm85 its no problem at all ...i dont see any problem here at all ...none zilch ...just nothing ...the bike is a good bike ...and we are here to keep these bikes going ...that whats happening here ...so its great ....