Good lookin Sprint or what?

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Good lookin Sprint or what?

motogrady

Looking thru EBay and Clist, just kinda seeing what’s listing for what, this one popped up.

Good looking or what?



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Re: Good lookin Sprint or what?

oldironnow
C’est magnifique !
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Re: Good lookin Sprint or what?

hacksaw
oldironnow wrote
C’est magnifique !
Huh????

French for cess pool?
I don’t think it’s that bad at all, actually it’s nice .
Inflation belongs in your tires.
Not in your grocery bill.
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Re: Good lookin Sprint or what?

Fatfatboy
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That is sweet. Great collector.

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You meet some of the best folks behind bars.
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Re: Good lookin Sprint or what?

hacksaw
Actually I don’t think the fenders are stock
But that tailite is. Yikes!
Not a fan of the seat either.
It’s just too funky a fit with those fenders
I can’t open I link to the ad , unfortunately
Inflation belongs in your tires.
Not in your grocery bill.
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Re: Good lookin Sprint or what?

motogrady
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Re: Good lookin Sprint or what?

hacksaw
Idk. Museum quality ?
The problem when a unusual or “off brand”bike
Is museum quality , the market segment is small. The people whom remember these machines from their youth
Are fewer a fewer as time goes on . Those that are die hard sprint people already have their collect level bikes.
So it’s tuff to sell at a premium.
Interesting . A good pal is into sprints. He still has one he repaired enuff to ride around for a year or so. But it’s mothballed for a while now.
I still find the fenders on this one odd looking. And that tailite , museum quality or not , has to go!!!
Inflation belongs in your tires.
Not in your grocery bill.
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Re: Good lookin Sprint or what?

motogrady

Well, it might not be Barber.
But, for a smaller collection or museum
yeah, I’d say that is museum.  

I mean, how many do you see around?
How many young guys even know about them.
Or that the first ones were 250’s, and that one is a 350.
And at one time, during what some call the golden era,
they were the shit in light dirt track.

Maybe not OEM perfect, but that bike right there is history.
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Re: Good lookin Sprint or what?

hacksaw
I am not debating the bike . What I am saying is museum quality , or whatever one wants to call it, makes it harder to sell. Enthusiasts deep into these already have one, or more.
And what you are saying about the uninitiated is correct.
They are not in the market .
They really aren’t that rare. Unless it was raced by Walter villa himself. And any of that ilk likely never left Europe.
There are a couple or so on the internet for sale. Not as clean as this one. But look complete and msybe half this ones asking price.
I did see another with those fenders. So I learned something.
But it also had the same horrid tail lite .
Egads! Thats the first thing to go!
Normally I see these with a more  balanced  type street fender where these tailights aren’t quite as goofball looking.
Inflation belongs in your tires.
Not in your grocery bill.