Sounds like a grade 1 arsehole Geoff, but I cant find anything aabout him on the web, all that I can find is good.

No negative feedback on E-Bay, so perhaps people are just bying ornaments !

Some of his stuff looks really good, but now we know better.

Whenever I sell a bike, I make the buyer aware of any known faults, and ask them to sign to say that it is bought as seen, and with no guarantee implied or given.

Dont know if that covers me in the event of any problems, but it seems the "right" thing to do.

If it threw a rod then either the rod was already cracked or perhaps a catastrophic oil pump failure Trident oil pumps can give a lot of problems.

Think you should take "Mr James" for whatever you can.