Looking to buy yourself a Christmas prezzie, Bonhams

SkinnyPinny

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https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/26118/

Been checking (spending fantasy lottery winnings :D) Bonhams Winter Sale, some exceptional looking bikes in the auction, as well as these,    any opinions?
Lot 555 ?81 Jota
Lot 566 ?81 Jarama
Lot 639 ?78 3CL great colour, IMO!
Was the Jarama much or at all really any different?
Stuart
 
Fetched back to the UK by slaters and sold into the UK due to poor sales across the water..
  As Phil Todd mentioned the orange Jota is in the middle of the dodgy Crank bearings.
Regards Andy 😁
 
SkinnyPinny said:
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/26118/

Been checking (spending fantasy lottery winnings :D) Bonhams Winter Sale, some exceptional looking bikes in the auction, as well as these,    any opinions?
Lot 555 ?81 Jota
Lot 566 ?81 Jarama
Lot 639 ?78 3CL great colour, IMO!
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Nice items in the lost from 220 to 230.
Katana at 554 just prior to Jota at 555.
Tasty MVs at 649 and 650
Agree re 3CL at 639, but for me the pick of the crop of modern bikes is the Suzuki GS1000S ?Wes Cooley replica? at 640, even if the exhausts have been butchered.
 
I'm going to bid on this Enfield Interceptor tomorrow [/url] https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/26118/lot/252/?category=list&length=383&page=1. I remember the VMCC prize draw, my dad and I bought a good chunk of tickets and Bicester where the auction is only 20 minutes down the road.

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...but since this one https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/26118/lot/205/?category=list&length=383&page=1 went for ?10,350 I don't stand much of a chance.
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I bid on a '77 Mk-1 Guzzi Lemon on the BAT auction site last night: it had been prettied up a little but was still very far from mint/original. I baled out at US$16,700 which (inc BAT comms+ CIF + clearing into Aus) was of the order of AUD$28k+    :o :o :o
 
Blimey, my retirement fund is looking good. Guzzi Mk 1 LeMans, Ducati MHR and Laverda Jota. None of them restored, but all in good running condition. As I get older, the sporty riding position gets harder to maintain for any length of time, so I suspect their days in my ownership are numbered. Although I suppose I could put big cowboy handlebars and highway pegs on the Jota.  ;)
 
Dellortoman said:
Blimey, my retirement fund is looking good. Guzzi Mk 1 LeMans, Ducati MHR and Laverda Jota. None of them restored, but all in good running condition. As I get older, the sporty riding position gets harder to maintain for any length of time, so I suspect their days in my ownership are numbered. Although I suppose I could put big cowboy handlebars and highway pegs on the Jota.  ;)
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Buy a cheap Triumph, nobody wants them but they are good bikes.
 
ditch the Jolta, get a TS, fit a JotaJoe side stand kit, make your own handlebars and then mod the fairing to suit.
CLEM
 
With commissions

Jarama ?8800
3CL was a genuine Jota ?17700
Orange and silver Jota with a dented frame and numbers in the dodgy range ?17100

Stupid.

 
Yes the Jarama is the bargain Laverda but the best buy in the whole auction was the very tidy Morini 500 at ?2875 cracking little Italian 500 for nothing with very good history.

Geoff
 
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