Trading for bikes

[clarenceada]

Answered a Craigslist barter ad last week where a lady was trying to trade two Honda Dream parts bikes for an 1990's 4x4 Toyota or Nissan pick-up. I've had an '85 Nissan 4x4 king cab (with low milage 2L engine from a two wheel truck with a header me and my son put in 4 years ago---It's a screamer I've had it to 6,5000 rpm in the dunes) for 10 years that I no longer need; so after about 3 weeks I e-mailed her even tho it was 10 yrs older than she wanted. She e-mailed me that she was interested and to send photo's, so I did. This one:



on a Friday and waited patiently for response, which she said would be over the weekend as her computer had crashed and she would go to the libary. Well by Monday and no pictures I was no longer patient and sent her an e-mail saying if she didn't like the looks of the truck I would sweeten the deal with some cash or other trades to boot and left my phone number. Well after three more days of not hearing from her I had given up on it, when she calls and leaves a massage on my machine that her car had broken down so she couldn't get to the library and had been to busy to call. We played phone tag for two more days with me getting more nervous and ticked off and trying not to show it when I finally talked to her. I was giving my best sales-men pitch about the Nissan, when she said she could give me an old ct90 to boot, when it occurred to me that she was as antsy as I was about the trade so I relaxed and made arrangements to take the truck to Eugene (which I did with a tow dolly---a nightmare to load and they don't back up) and picked up the bikes.

Well I hadn't listened to her description very closely (people have different grading systems--whats a nice bike to one person can be a pile of rust to the next) but did pick-up on that one of the Dreams had real nice pipes (heard that one before). After a 10 hr day (not as easy as it used to be) I finally get them home at 11pm and took a couple of pictures:





Will send more.

Clarence

[Dgormley]

Clarence, I'd say you did pretty good on that trade, especially if you weren't using the truck. The bikes look to be in decent shape....................................D

[Sascha]

Those look pretty good to me... Depends on if they are runners or not... Looks like you have your work cut out for you finding out if they meet the bill or not! Good luck, you will find there are a lot of guys on here that can assist so keep us posted.

-Sascha

[clarenceada]

D: Thanks, as I almost traded the Nissan for $500us for carpentry work (tried to sell it for $800, didn't even get any calls--local economy is worse then the national average --cars are not worth much) I'm tickled to death to get all four bikes for it, in fact I would have traded for any two.

Clarence, I'd say you did pretty good on that trade, especially if you weren't using the truck. The bikes look to be in decent shape....................................D

Sascha; I traded for them as parts bikes as I needed a set of pipes and she said one of the "Dreams" had a good pair; but now that I've had a chance to look the bikes over I find that they are all too complete to use as parts bikes so it's back to looking for parts.

The white bike is a c92 with engine serial no. C92e3176323 which I don't know much about so looked it up and it's a Benly of 125cc, I don't know if this is what they call the "baby Dream" I think that's a c95. I don't know if it's hard to find c92 parts or on it's collectible value.

The black Dream CA77e315899 engine no. is the way I wanted my blue Dream to be; Solo seat. the pipes are in good shape but the one of the welds has broken of the back of the muffler, wonder if anyone has had luck welding them back on-- I got a wire feed but I'm afraid it would blow holes in that thin of metal. The engine seems good with good compression and no leaks out of the cylinder or head. It even has a good headlight high and low---maybe I'll just swap the light back and forth with the blue one, iffen I ever get it running again.

The Ct 90132783 which she just threw into the deal, has compression and needs tires and new seat cover and points plate and cover (which I have), good pipe. I aready have another CT90 that I overhauled last winter but you never have enough CT90's, anybody can ride them, good for when relitives kids come around and want to ride.

After I had got these three bikes into my Chevy; I asked her if she had any other bikes she wanted to get ride of and so she showed me another garage full of motorcycles (she was getting rid of the projects that weren't getting finished) at her dads place (he is an old drag racer from the 60's and 70's in Eugene) so she showed me a CB305, CB77e1036934 engine no. parts bike missing the pipes, seat, and front fender she was asking $100, the engine turned over, so I offered her $75 and she said yes, so now I have my first ever Super Hawk---they are scarce here in Oregon, much fewer then the dreams.




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Those look pretty good to me... Depends on if they are runners or not... Looks like you have your work cut out for you finding out if they meet the bill or not! Good luck, you will find there are a lot of guys on here that can assist so keep us posted.

Sascha

I feel like Christmas came early this year!


Clarence

[clarenceada]

As I would like some information on the three twins, I'm going to split these up into their own thread.

Clarence