66 Triumph T100

[Oggers]

One for sale close by. Tempting. Deos not run - I am told it did, but battery has died...hmmm, and when it did run, it was lumpy. Could be a relatively easy fix perhaps....It looks to be all there. Paintwork/chrome seems OK...could be a goer at 2500 notes.....

Thoughts welcome....

[Rex]

Nice bike, and given the brief description probably worth the money.
Worth checking to see if it's really a late  "SS" or an early "S". Different model and different value.

[iansoady]

That could be a good price. However.....

I never understand why people put bikes up for sale with "minor" problems. Being of a suspicious turn of mind I can't see why, if all it needed was a battery, the owner wouldn't fit one and increase its sale price by £1,000 or thereabouts as it would then be a runner.

I must confess to having fallen for this sort of thing myself in the past......

[Oggers]

Ian

I am exactly with you there......The owner tells me he has simply given up on it. He has a modern T100 and cannot get on with the controls of the older bike, connot be bothered fixing it, basically wants rid. However, as you say if it was an easy fix, why not fix it and command a higher price....He did say it ran last summer.

Could all be genuine, could be big trouble....difficult to know without firing it up, but I quite like the look of it and the engines on these things are pretty solid I believe.

Non-matching numbers apparently.

[iansoady]

If you could get it for say £2,000 or less it might be worth a punt. I had one for a short while but it wasn't really my cup of Assam.

[mini-me]

 Offer £1500 and assume its totally fuggered and in need of a complete rebuild, which it probably is.
Regard with suspicion everything owner tells you.

Its not running because you'd hear all the horrible noises frommthe engine.

[Oggers]

Update - viewed last night. Total waste of time. Frame clearly stamped T100S, engine clearly stamped 3TA, head looked like a 350 also. No spark when cranked and battery hooked up, needed paint/electrics and Lord knows what else as it didn't fire up. He was firm at 2850! - which as a decent 59 5TA just sold on Fleabay for 2800 is optimistic to say the least. 

[iansoady]

Now you can look for a proper bike!

[mini-me]

He has recently realised he bought a pig in a poke, and now wants to find as big a mug as he is.

We will see a lot more of this as born agains think they can make an investment out of a "classic".

There was a similar phenomenon in the early 1980s when bike prices rose dramatically  and loads of non bike types got well taken in, buying all sorts of crap for silly money as long as it  looked like a bike. "

"Investments"

[Oggers]

I think you can still make a bit of money from a classic bike, providing one buys wisely in the first place - which clearly he didn't. It helps if you can read the obvious engine stamps! 

I am on the lookout for something to strip and restore, but thin on the ground. Perversely, basket cases are almost as much as the decent running bikes.....and yes Ian, I would like something a little different.