How much did you pay for your CB77 Superhawk?

SM888 · Post by **SM888** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:32 am

[quote="gbents"]My dad just gave me his red CB77. It will be my winter project later this year. It has not run since 1982 and only has 2800 miles on it. It is all there except for one badge is missing and the front fender is an after market. The original fender fell victim to a garage door.[/quote]

ekim · Post by **ekim** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 9:55 am

gbents wrote:My dad just gave me his red CB77. It will be my winter project later this year. It has not run since 1982 and only has 2800 miles on it. It is all there except for one badge is missing and the front fender is an after market. The original fender fell victim to a garage door.

Any chance of a picture of the after market front fender? Where did it come from?

okie88 · Post by **okie88** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:01 pm

Back to the original question:

1965 I paid $1525. It ran, but was pretty rough.
1965 I paid $850. It was just a parts bike.
I used both bikes to make one good bike. I had to buy a lot of new parts and spent about 4 months working on it. In the end, I got a really nice bike, but I probably could have bought one already done for about the same amount of money.

1967 I paid $3450. This was my best deal. Bottom line, it was the cheapest. It had original paint, perfect original plastic tank badges, nearly perfect original exhausts, good seat, and ran OK.

68Cb77 · Post by **68Cb77** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 7:52 pm

Paid $1600 for this.......put a whack of dough in to get to here, not quite done yet

e3steve · Post by **e3steve** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 3:39 am

I won my '61/'64-hybrid CB, '96-"restored" -- well, painted up a bit -- on eBay (UK) and bid up to £2700 (c $5400!); I ultimately won it for £2550 -- $5100. It's a different story for me, living in Spain, as importing one from the US -- where CBs exist aplenty -- would've cost a small fortune in crating & shipping (quoted $2.8K from CA) and then, on top, the Spanish importation bullshit.

I picked it up from Rutland (near Leicestershire), UK, vanned it to Southampton, where I'm from originally.
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I then rode it around town for a few days to test its mettle. Suitably satisfied with its reliability, I rode to Porstmouth, took the 36hr P&O ferry to Bilbao & rode 13hrs across Spain to Barcelona from where I hopped on the overnight ferry to Palma de Mallorca. It's still UK registered. It stays UK registered. I ride it daily, as long as it ain't a-rainin' (it never gets wet!), and it's "t/t Nariida" (t/t = land-based tender to...), which is my main yacht where I'm 'crew' during annual refits.

I've since spent....and this is gonna hurt, guys....€3K -- $4K -- on new bits & pieces, mainly from USA, but some from Asia & UK. Well, it is my pride & joy. And I'm OCD!

It gets a full resto this winter, when I gets to use the goodies that I've bought. This is where the OCD comes in handy, as I won't stop 'till it looks -- and sounds -- like it just it just left the showroom.

e3steve · Post by **e3steve** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 3:45 am

PS: the $-cost is immaterial, within reason (stop laughing, you at the back!); it's the end result that really matters. That, and what's in your heart & soul..... We're only in This Life for a short spell!

Vince Lupo · Post by **Vince Lupo** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 12:48 pm

I've figured out that the price I originally paid for my bike, combined with the money that I've put into it over the past four years, equals two Paul Smart Ducati's.

Yes, I did say 'two'....