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Don't hand any money over until you've read this...Hi Freebooter - just gone back over the photos you put up of this bike... All is not as it seems. The bike is incorrect in a number of ways - the wrong paint has already been mentioned. However, it's not just the paint, the whole tank, including badges, is just standard T140V. It also has the wrong fork legs (there should be no lugs for a bottom-mount mudguard stay) and the wrong front mudguard (should be short with no stays). Most glaring of all though... wrong carbs, these should be MkIIs. Consequently it also has the wrong cylinder head for a Special (and, incidentally, for ANY '78 onward US-spec Bonnie. Remember the Special didn't appear before '79 model year) . Add to this the wrong points (trigger) cover and it would suggest the engine is from an earlier machine altogether (pre '78). Have you checked the engine number? This should match the frame exactly and be clearly stamped T140Dxxxxxx on the crankcase. Even if it's stamped as a T140D then there's still plenty wrong with it!My advice - bearing in mind that the only things that are genuinely "Special" about it are the wheels, frame, rear caliper carrier and the side-panel badges - is to view it with suspicion. Certainly these points should dramatically alter its asking price! If I were you, I'd look elsewhere for a nice, standard T140V or E and leave this one in the shop. The vendor either doesn't know what he's selling, or does, and is hoping you won't notice.
Don't hand any money over until you've read this...
Hi Freebooter - just gone back over the photos you put up of this bike... All is not as it seems. The bike is incorrect in a number of ways - the wrong paint has already been mentioned. However, it's not just the paint, the whole tank, including badges, is just standard T140V. It also has the wrong fork legs (there should be no lugs for a bottom-mount mudguard stay) and the wrong front mudguard (should be short with no stays). Most glaring of all though... wrong carbs, these should be MkIIs. Consequently it also has the wrong cylinder head for a Special (and, incidentally, for ANY '78 onward US-spec Bonnie. Remember the Special didn't appear before '79 model year) . Add to this the wrong points (trigger) cover and it would suggest the engine is from an earlier machine altogether (pre '78). Have you checked the engine number? This should match the frame exactly and be clearly stamped T140Dxxxxxx on the crankcase. Even if it's stamped as a T140D then there's still plenty wrong with it!
My advice - bearing in mind that the only things that are genuinely "Special" about it are the wheels, frame, rear caliper carrier and the side-panel badges - is to view it with suspicion. Certainly these points should dramatically alter its asking price! If I were you, I'd look elsewhere for a nice, standard T140V or E and leave this one in the shop. The vendor either doesn't know what he's selling, or does, and is hoping you won't notice.
