it's up to $9000 after one day. 2 guys going back and forth. the other one sold for $15600 and it wasn't finished as nice as mine, it really sucks watching this.

 

How much time do you have into the build?Selling all that work would be hard.

 

Up to 14.1k already!!

This one might go up near 17-18k. What do ya think?

 

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i too am curious, if you dont mine enlightening us, how many hours/dollars are in the build?

i would love to take the ds frame and put a medium power motor in it (im in illinois...and we ride some long flowing hills in wisconsin...but i cant see using more than 100 hp, and we only hit the BIG dunes once a year)

the last one looked kind of hacked, its obvious there was a lot of time spent planning everything out on this one.



Edit* jeffroe, where in wisconsin is verona? (what part?) im in norther central illinois (about an hour from the il/wi line)

 

the builder was offered a complete running ds and a complete hayabusa bike and $5k cash to build a bombusa out of the two. he turned him down because he figured he would be making about $5 bucks hr. if you look at the frame in my pic's you'll see that he cut the frame in half and then built around the motor with all mandrel bent tubing connecting and streching the frame forward and down to fit the motor. even the custom made header and pipe to muffler is all hand bent. the fuel tank fill neck was hand cut and the fuel tank and rear frame of the bike was all hand made. plus the 12" aluminum over swing arm and shock remount. when you see the finished all powder coated frame it looks easy, but go out in the garage and cut you frame into 3 different sections and start fabing stuff together and you'll find out why it take so much time to do it right. i did the frame on my 760 last year and i think i remember spending about 40+ hrs just taking it apart and sand blasting it and reassemble and that was just bolting stuff back together. i live just 5 miles west of madison wi.

 

ahh ok. my firendsh ave 600 acres just north of monroe WI.

 

oh no!!!! the guy who put my busa on ebay did'nt set a reserve price (friend of mine) and now it's to late to put one on there? i sure hope it goes higher than $14800

 

im about 99% sure you cant add one once the auction is started and has bids. (although i have never really looked into it, so he may as well try)

you can always end it early, but that is kind of against ebay rules.

what were you guys hoping to get out of it?

seeing as how the last one went for 15,600. i would hope yours hits 16k at a minimum (this one was definatly laid out nicer, and fit and finish is visibly nicer as well)

 

well at this point my buddie dosn't want to get into trouble with ebay by ending the auction early. i sure hope it goes much higher than where it is, i have alot more than that in it even befor all new plastic and bearings and brakes . i guess thats what happens when you let someone else put this stuff on ebay for you. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]

 

jeffroe, check ur PM (sooner better than later!)