Old Car and Bike rambling

I picked up a Cycle-X 4-2-1 exhaust system in the spring for a price I could not refuse. The previous owner wasn't happy with the visual styling or the sound output of the exhaust system on his cb750F. While he was happy with the performance and the ground clearance, he preferred the sound of his old kerker exhaust to the new Cycle-X exhaust which he found too buzzy. He listed the pipes for sale on the 1100f forum but there were no takers after his slightly negative review of the pipes. Then he listed them on ebay and I watched the auction close with no bidders. Still recovering from my family's financial mess from the winter of 2009, I was determined not to be drawn out from the shadows to buy the pipes until he lowered the price some more and relisted. After receiving only 1 bid for the whole week, I decided to put in a bid during the last hour and step away from the auction feeling confident that I would not win and feeling even better that I had atleast tried to buy them at