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Marketplace => For Sale => Topic started by: vandy010 on June 12, 2008, 09:56:41 am

Title: Bultaco sherpa
Post by: vandy010 on June 12, 2008, 09:56:41 am: i'm just throwing this one up for a freind and all inquiries should be forwarded through the ebay advertisement.
i know this bike pretty well and rode it a few years back and personally, i think it's a real gem and a great example of this model

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=330243520156&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=014
Title: Re: Bultaco sherpa
Post by: Wombat on June 24, 2008, 07:19:32 pm: Hey Vandy (and any e-bay Gurus), I followed your mates Sherpa and it came in under reserve both times it listed.
I believe it started at $1000 and passed in at $2550.
Next time it passed in at nearly $2800 give or take.

I've only just signed up for e-bay so I don't know shit, but I'm wondering if $1000 is too low a start price if reserve isn't reached at nearly $3000?
Is there a guide or some rule for a start price comparative to a reserve price? :-\

Anyone, anyone... somebody?
Title: Re: Bultaco sherpa
Post by: Quicksilver on June 24, 2008, 07:29:22 pm: Nah mate. Start a $1 and watch the fight till your reserve is meet, if meet.
If your reserve is $3000 no point starting it at $2500 will just cost you more in listing fees plus the $10 whack they hit you to use a reserve.
Title: Re: Bultaco sherpa
Post by: vandy010 on June 25, 2008, 08:57:07 am: every auction is different Wombat and it all depends on who wants what and how much they're prepared to pay.
i'm yet to speak to my mate to see what he's decided to do. he had it in the back of the trailer at CD5 and recieved a good amount of positive interest in the bike then. it's his call really.
Title: Re: Bultaco sherpa
Post by: Wombat on June 25, 2008, 12:56:35 pm: I bid on that Sherpa (through a friend) on both occasions; highest bid first time and second highest next time.
This is what convinced me to join up on the e-bay thing.
I see more and more items I'd like to buy but I can't keep asking my mates.

So anyhoos, I've jumped into the e-bay world and I'm trying to deciper 'the system'...
Title: Re: Bultaco sherpa
Post by: VMX247 on June 26, 2008, 10:33:19 pm: I have just spent 20 min looking for this Bultaco sherpa thread, as I have just placed my eyes on the one in this quarterly VMX mag,yep i know its a 200cc 1965 in the mag, from a girls view this bike has got to be the easiest looking bike to work on.The simplicity is incredible.
Well, I'm happy & will now go and read the write up about this little beauty..
What a gem :-*
Title: Re: Bultaco sherpa
Post by: Tim754 on June 26, 2008, 10:47:01 pm: Alison just to confuse I will tell you that Bultaco used the "Sherpa" Name for some of its mid to late sixties Motocross bikes as well as the trials mounts. Surprisingly the trails were "Sherpa T" and the scramblers "Sherpa S " :D Tim
Title: Re: Bultaco sherpa
Post by: VMX247 on June 26, 2008, 10:54:17 pm: Thanks Tim,but she is still so easy on the eye. 8)
Title: Re: Bultaco sherpa
Post by: VMX247 on June 28, 2008, 06:43:28 pm: Read the artical in the vmx#34.
what a history,they didn't make enough :'( and I still WANT ONE.
Title: Re: Bultaco sherpa
Post by: David Lahey on June 29, 2008, 09:51:17 pm: Quote from: Tim754 on June 26, 2008, 10:47:01 pm
Alison just to confuse I will tell you that Bultaco used the "Sherpa" Name for some of its mid to late sixties Motocross bikes as well as the trials mounts. Surprisingly the trails were "Sherpa T" and the scramblers "Sherpa S " :D Tim

and don't forget the Sherpa N trail bike

VMX247, which Bultaco is it you are seeking? Is it that particular model Sherpa S featured in VMX or are you just enamoured by the minimalist design of early Bultacos in general?
Title: Re: Bultaco sherpa
Post by: Tim754 on June 30, 2008, 10:48:30 am: Oops OK ;) Does anyone have a piccie of an "N" series machine.I cannot locate the couple I have.
N must be that the Spanish confused Trails with Nails........... ::) Cheers Tim
Title: Re: Bultaco sherpa
Post by: VMX247 on June 30, 2008, 11:39:47 am: yes some more photos of the T, S and N would be great. :o

feetupfun,,,yes enamoured by the minimalist design of the early Bultacos in general..
What the heck, if ya have a spare S like the one in vmx34!
well I'll take it off your hands ;)
Title: Re: Bultaco sherpa
Post by: David Lahey on July 01, 2008, 07:55:23 pm: I do have a M3 Sherpa S but it is in pieces awaiting lots of TLC so does not look impressive at all at the moment, but will look nice eventually. It is an earlier model than the one in VMX the main differences being that it is a 125 and has a low pipe.
Here is a photo of a 1960s Bultaco that I have gone as far on the cosmetics as I am likely to go. It is a series one M49 Sherpa T, made in 1968.
Title: Re: Bultaco sherpa
Post by: David Lahey on July 01, 2008, 07:59:44 pm: Having a bit of difficulty adding more than one photo per posting
Title: Re: Bultaco sherpa
Post by: David Lahey on July 01, 2008, 08:00:37 pm: And the last photo
Title: Re: Bultaco sherpa
Post by: David Lahey on July 01, 2008, 08:08:26 pm: Here is what a Sherpa N looks like. The N stands for....... agricultural
Title: Re: Bultaco sherpa
Post by: David Lahey on July 01, 2008, 08:48:00 pm: This the first model Sherpa T (M10) which was first shown to the public at a bike show in 1964 but was sold in 1965 and 1966. It shares the unusual head finning pattern with the M11 Pursang and the Mk2 Matador
Title: Re: Bultaco sherpa
Post by: VMX247 on July 04, 2008, 01:46:36 pm: Very very nice,thank you feetupfun.
I will be having a closer inspection, ;D if I spot one at our VMX meetings.

Quote from: feetupfun on July 01, 2008, 08:08:26 pm
Here is what a Sherpa N looks like. The N stands for....... agricultural
Agricultural ::)
Title: Re: Bultaco sherpa
Post by: holeshot buddy on July 04, 2008, 06:52:22 pm: AGRICULTURAL should"nt this be in
the CZ forum then ;D ;D