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eldomike

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« on: August 03, 2018, 08:12:33 AM »
Hi, I buy and sell a lot of vintage bikes and have run across a small hoard of Simplex parts that I am selling...I have posted a link to the ebay items on the classified section  ...feel free to contact me direct for inquiries...hopefully this stuff will help get/keep some of these bikes on the road...
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Re: introduction
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2018, 08:18:33 AM »
Welcome Mike!  Do you restore any bikes?  If so, feel free to post some pictures, even if they aren’t Simplex.  We don’t discriminate against other makes around here.
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« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2018, 09:33:13 AM »
Thanks Rick...my main interest lies with Moto Guzzi but I like pretty much anything old...
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Re: introduction
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2018, 11:59:42 AM »
Did you go to the VMBC meet in Portland last week?
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Re: introduction
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2018, 01:46:56 PM »
Welcome Mike and Howdy from Texas. I'm shocked that there's someone out there that's listing parts at a fair price. Yes do like Rick said and post some pics of the bikes you have. Shoot we would like a pic of the stash pile of simplex parts you have.  :o
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Re: introduction
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2018, 05:05:16 AM »
Quote from: RickS on August 03, 2018, 11:59:42 AM
Did you go to the VMBC meet in Portland last week?

Didn't make the meet...I was in Kansas picking up this pile of parts  ;D
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« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2018, 05:05:51 AM »
Quote from: oil-lamp on August 03, 2018, 01:46:56 PM
Welcome Mike and Howdy from Texas. I'm shocked that there's someone out there that's listing parts at a fair price. Yes do like Rick said and post some pics of the bikes you have. Shoot we would like a pic of the stash pile of simplex parts you have.  :o

See the link for pics ...

https://mikeskaggs.smugmug.com/Simplex-Parts-/
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Re: introduction
« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2018, 06:00:27 AM »
That is some stash of parts! Any early direct drive bikes?
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Re: introduction
« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2018, 06:44:56 PM »
Quote from: RickS on August 04, 2018, 06:00:27 AM
That is some stash of parts! Any early direct drive bikes?

Afraid I wouldn't know...any good reference material on the web?
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Re: introduction
« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2018, 03:40:51 AM »
Quote from: eldomike on August 04, 2018, 06:44:56 PM
Quote from: RickS on August 04, 2018, 06:00:27 AM
That is some stash of parts! Any early direct drive bikes?

Afraid I wouldn't know...any good reference material on the web?

 This site is really is the only game in town when it comes to Simplex. 
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Re: introduction
« Reply #10 on: August 09, 2018, 03:45:32 PM »
I hope you didn't pay a ton of money for the parts. :-) Even though that is a hall. The community isn't that big and most of us are in it because we love the bikes. Not a boat load of money to be made because the market isn't HUGE.
But I'm sure that if you offer them up at a reasonable price the guys that are looking for parts will bite.
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Re: introduction
« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2018, 03:58:21 PM »
Quote from: Cocina_47 on August 09, 2018, 03:45:32 PM
I hope you didn't pay a ton of money for the parts. :-) Even though that is a hall. The community isn't that big and most of us are in it because we love the bikes. Not a boat load of money to be made because the market isn't HUGE.
But I'm sure that if you offer them up at a reasonable price the guys that are looking for parts will bite.

Dave,  he has sold some of these parts in the last couple of days on eBay, and believe me, he is making a pile of cash!  I can't believe what some of this has sold for!  I bet he will get 5 times his money back on what he paid, and I have have no idea what he gave for the collection of parts!  lol

Maybe those other clowns on eBay will see how Mike's stuff sells and will auction their stuff instead of putting unreasonable prices on it and have their shit listed for over a year with no bites!
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Re: introduction
« Reply #12 on: August 09, 2018, 04:12:58 PM »
I saw the parts on ebay.
Not super. I didn't search the closed simplex stuff. Why are people paying so much for parts?
i can't believe that I'm spending more on parts that the bike is worth after you put it together.
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« Reply #13 on: August 09, 2018, 04:31:55 PM »
Quote from: Cocina_47 on August 09, 2018, 04:12:58 PM
I saw the parts on ebay.
Not super. I didn't search the closed simplex stuff. Why are people paying so much for parts?
i can't believe that I'm spending more on parts that the bike is worth after you put it together.

That's what I said!  I have no idea why someone would pay $200 for used flywheel cover when you could buy a brand new reproduction, which no one could tell from original, for $110.
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« Reply #14 on: August 10, 2018, 05:36:36 PM »
Well I picked up a cover for 50 dollars up at Portland and I thought that was high.
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