Smells funny?

bigblackfalco · Post by **bigblackfalco** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 2:46 pm

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMW-R1100S_W0QQit ... dZViewItem

throttlemeister · Post by **throttlemeister** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 2:57 pm

His feedback looks ok. 0 negative, and previous items seem to have been bikes too. For an ebay scammer with good ratings you would expect lots of cheap shit to build ratings before going for the big bucks. So, for intends and purposes, this looks ok. Ask for the VIN if you aren't sure.

But, me personally would never buy a bike unseen and would never pay before I had seen it with my own two eyes and heard it run. But I am funny like that.

sproggy · Post by **sproggy** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 2:59 pm

It's just an early 1100S with highish mileage (by normal bike standards) and no attractive extras or accessories. The fake BCR paint scheme won't help as there'll be the assumption that it's there to hide accident damage.

It's nothing special - the price seems realistic to me.

dali's moustache · Post by **dali's moustache** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 3:43 pm

Viewing his other items for sale it looks as though he's a bike dealer. The other bikes he has for sale are more realistically priced which suggests either he doesn't know the true value, which I doubt, or there's something not 100% with it. Prior comments to this thread [fake paint] and the images on the listing suggest the bike will have had cosmetic renovation - for whatever reason, I dunno. But nothing beats seeing the bike in the flesh, as it were. A hpi report will only help if the bike has had accident damage recorded; not everyone follows the insurance route these days.

A boxercup for two and a half grand is a snip. Go check it out; we can only advise.

sproggy · Post by **sproggy** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 4:08 pm

dali's moustache wrote:Viewing his other items for sale it looks as though he's a bike dealer.

He pretty much states that in the item description.

dali's moustache wrote:The other bikes he has for sale are more realistically priced

More realistically than this one? Why? £2,500 for a repainted, 38k mile, 8 year old S seems realistic to me - neither too high nor too low.

dali's moustache wrote:which suggests either he doesn't know the true value

What, about two and a half grand?!

dali's moustache wrote:A boxercup for two and a half grand is a snip.

It would be a snip, but this isn't a BCR by a long stretch - just a blue and white standard S without the BCR stickers, carbon, suspension etc.

It's November, the weather is cold, and bikes are hard to shift. Plus the 1200S is now available so 1100S values will take a hit. Good, original bikes will sell before tarted up ones. £2,500 is fair if the bike has a clean history and no hidden problems, expensive if this isn't the case.

Not sure why this rang alarm bells with anyone - the price of entry to the 1100S club is a lot lower than it used to be.

winger · Post by **winger** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 4:29 pm

Ditto!!!!

throttlemeister · Post by **throttlemeister** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:04 pm

You mean I got cheated with my £5200 entrance ticket to the club??

Still loving every minute of it. Too bad bikes here are so expensive.

winger · Post by **winger** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:02 pm

Sproggys covered it already,why the drama??? £2500 ain't cheap.

Boxered · Post by **Boxered** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:27 pm

If it was a genuine bcr Mamola rep, then £2.5k would be cheap (very), but, as Sproggy points out, this is no genuine mamola rep!
1, wheels should be blue, not white.
2, no graphics.
3, no carbon head covers.
4, suspension looks std height (difficult to tell from photo's)
5,I think this is the same bike offered by this very same vendor two weeks ago, which supposedly sold for £3500 on ebay!
non of the above detracts from making it a reasonable price for a reasonable bike..... but I think he may be trying to pull the wool over a keen non afficianado!

'scuse my drunken ramblings, but I am half way through a rather good bottle of Chilean Merlot..Hic...Burp

Steve

Nero · Post by **Nero** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 1:15 pm

Err hellooo. Originally DDP.

Check this thread: viewtopic.php?t=2489&highlight=

Nero

theseadog · Post by **theseadog** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 5:10 pm

Nero wrote:Err hellooo. Originally DDP.

Check this thread: viewtopic.php?t=2489&highlight=

Nero

Oh now you've gone and spoiled the fun, I was sitting back chuckling gently to myself with each subsequent post

The chap is legit as far as I know, and he's making a loss on it ! Must just want rid.

Blackal · Post by **Blackal** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 9:02 pm

Three things:

1) What's a DDP?

2) It's not a bad looking bike.

3) Doesn't seem like a bad price (unless "Trixers" take the pi55 for it not being "genuine")

Interesting slant with the white wheels rather than the blue

Al

theseadog · Post by **theseadog** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 9:10 pm

Blackal wrote:Three things:

1) What's a DDP?

2) It's not a bad looking bike.

3) Doesn't seem like a bad price (unless "Trixers" take the pi55 for it not being "genuine")

Interesting slant with the white wheels rather than the blue

Al

Al DDP is what the bike was ( as well as being a shed ) when I bought it it's Dog Dick Pink, which people who won't admit to suffering the condition will insist it's either salmon or tangerine.

It looked better before I stripped it prior to chopping it in.
For 2.5 I'm tempted to buy it back again !

It runs like a train.
White wheels were because I didn't want blue, was intending doing something differant with the front paint scheme, but having painted it once, never found the time to re-do it again.

throttlemeister · Post by **throttlemeister** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 9:10 pm

Dog Dick Pink?

Blackal · Post by **Blackal** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 9:23 pm

throttlemeister wrote:Dog Dick Pink?

No.............

The only two shades I know of are:

Donkey-Shit Brown (fairly self-explanatory)

Dog-Knob-Red (Porsche colour)

Al