Scored a 1970 US90! Barn fresh beast....

[Thorpe]

As to how much did I have to pony up for the little fat bottomed boy... Take a guess...??

[Jason125m]

Well, around here, that is a 1200 Dollar bike. Id say, you paid around..... 250 ( since the title says score, haha )

[Thorpe]

Is that 1200 Canadian, or American?? (We may have to sell this thing in a joint effort, and split the profits!)

[Bretmd94]

Vin decodes as a 1970, or 1971... Anyone know how to tell the difference?

The 70 and 71 are identical. Its kind of a grey area on what year bike you could have. It really depends on when it was sold. I can't find the site that had the numbers cut off that was sure to be made in 71', most are in the middle grey area that could be either.

[Bretmd94]

Is that 1200 Canadian, or American?? (We may have to sell this thing in a joint effort, and split the profits!)

That is in Canada. That is probably a $500 bike in these times. If it had perfect condition tires it would be worth roughly $1200 as a set just went for that on ebay last week.

They were going for a bit more 3 years ago, the tough times have caused the value to drop a bit, plus more and more have been found and saved due to more people knowing how rare those tires are.

[Jason125m]

Is that 1200 Canadian, or American?? (We may have to sell this thing in a joint effort, and split the profits!)

Haha, yeah... Canadian. Which is actually worth more now than american! Take that americans haha. That would get that much easily around my area... Canadian prices are rediculous. Was up to a 1.38 for a litre of gas!

[Thorpe]

Shoot... I may just box it up and send it that way! Got it running this afternoon!

[Thorpe]

It ran yesterday, than quit running, and sparking for me... After a couple hours of dinkin' with it, and a few calls to "mullet" here on the forum, got it rehatched out and running again... *dirty grounds.... *grumble*grumble* Runs amazingly well for a 41 y/o machine!

[Jason125m]

Awesome man! What are you going to do with it? Keep it? sell it?

[Thorpe]

I would really like to turn it into a atc70 for my two boys, I think....

[mullet]

I saw Chris Angel turn a 90 into an 70 one time..

Glad you got it running again! I'm sure if you decide you don't want to keep it, someone here would be thrilled to own a first year US90.

[Thorpe]

Is he going to be in the Twin Cities anytime soon??

[Lord Letto 20]

Put it on Ebay, if it's all original, good shape and one of the first years made, be ready to see a lot of money i think.

[Thorpe]

Shape isnt too great...It is all original. I have an offer to trade it off for a pretty solid 1983 atc70... I think I may go that route, being I have been wanting one for awhile for my "kids" *cough cough* At least thats what I tell my wife "for the kids"...

[oneroom42]

if you get one 70 you'll end up with another and another and another... thats just the way the 70 fever goes, lol!!