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stockcar · Post by **stockcar** » Thu Nov 01, 2018 11:49 am

a couple on MCN bikes..........

https://www.motorcyclenews.com/bikes-fo ... a/7715324/

number 48?? think he's getting mixed up as didn't think they were numbered??

https://www.motorcyclenews.com/bikes-fo ... a/3576086/

Uncle Bob · Post by **Uncle Bob** » Thu Nov 01, 2018 1:59 pm

On the first one for £11k I'd want better than those cheap Chinese shock(er)s and a 85mph speedo!

Second one is probably where 1000's will go I guess, but not quite yet I think unless you are lucky. The last I saw sell on Ebay which was a while ago (last year?) was around the £7k mark.

When you look at other bikes that sell for higher amounts then they have to be 100% original really, not have replaced parts, and that is what these sellers are forgetting, but then they haven't sold have they.

stockcar · Post by **stockcar** » Sat Nov 03, 2018 1:08 pm

agreed certain Kat sellers (just like 90% of the rest of the 'classic' market) are living in cuckoo land spurred on by the "investment" line peddled by various publications

whats the deal with the numbering the 1st guy claims?? never heard of it before

PaulD · Post by **PaulD** » Sat Nov 03, 2018 5:30 pm

Ok I know both these bikes are 1000’s and mine is an 1100 but the first bike with the standard exhaust on it has silencers that doesn’t have holes in the end plates exactly like the ones fitted to my bike? All the Kats I’ve seen have the holes. Which is correct or are they both correct?

pookie · Post by **pookie** » Sat Nov 03, 2018 5:31 pm

Maybe it's limited because of the wonky left side engine emblem, haven't seen many like that, everything seems 'limited edition' these days, but worse of all is the use of the word 'unique', according to the dictionary it means 'of only one' so how can a massed produced thing like a motorcycle be unique?

fossie · Post by **fossie** » Sat Nov 03, 2018 7:12 pm

Technically he is correct it is number 48 Just like mine are number 112 , 365' etc. There was no line sent to any particular market and Heron never kept a log , so a correct fact but totally irrelevant !

As for hole is silencers , just a model change as in early ones didn't and later ones did, but after 30 odd years mix and match, who knows .

PaulD · Post by **PaulD** » Sat Nov 03, 2018 8:58 pm

fossie wrote:
As for hole is silencers , just a model change as in early ones didn't and later ones did, but after 30 odd years mix and match, who knows .

Ta boss, just had a look at the set you donated and they have holes in the end of silencers

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