Unemployed TV presenters auction their bikes

[Voltaire]

Richard Hammond and James May have fallen on hard times thanks to Jeremy and his Once Were Top Gear , " cook me some steak Paddy" incident :laugh:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/bikes/68157096/jobless-extop-gear-presenters-auction-off-motorcycles

[george formby]

Nearly $14'000 for a fizzy?:shit:

Un bee leave able.

[Swoop]

Hammond owned a Lead Wing?:confused:

[pzkpfw]

Inaccurate implication click-bait thread titles in KB. Who'da thunk it?

[Oscar]

Twenty-three hundred quid for a CB200?!


What foolishness is this?
The CB200 is quite possibly THE most boring piece of shit ever made.
Honda made up for a low HP number by making sure it weighed as much as a small planet.

[Erelyes]

Hammond added: "As a serious collector of motorcycles, it's important to review one's stable regularly, and the Bonhams Stafford sale is the ideal opportunity to move bikes on and possibly acquire new ones. I also have a canoe, and some Wharfedale hi-fi speakers, if anyone's interested".

I love it, you can bet he actually does have a canoe and some speakers he wants to get rid of. Real lads!

[pritch]

The article is clear that the bikes were up for sale before the fracas. Besides which their contracts only expired at the end of last month or thereabout, so they won't be lining up at the soup kitchen for a while yet.

It would seem though that as well as the three presenters either having been declined a new contract, or having declined one, the Executive Producer of Top Gear (an old school chum of Jeremy Clarkson) has now left the BBC.

There may soon be a new "Not ToP Gear" programme on another channel.

Not that I watched Top Gear much. I've found Clarkson's boozed-up arseholery and its aftermath much more interesting than the TV show. :whistle:

[Banditbandit]

May and Hammond are doing other things as well - some of which are inflicted on us through our TV screens ..

Clarkson, on the other hand ...

[Rhys]

Clarkson, on the other hand ...

only has the royalty from his books and dvds and income from writing for the Sunday times and his radio work

poor buggers income is probably under a mil per year

[swarfie]

only has the royalty from his books and dvds and income from writing for the Sunday times and his radio work

poor buggers income is probably under a mil per year

In pounds too I'd say:cool:
Gotta feel sorry for them...not
And I'm with Oscar about CB200's....madness

[jellywrestler]

In pounds too I'd say:cool:
Gotta feel sorry for them...not
And I'm with Oscar about CB200's....madness

often the bikes that everybody owned are the most popular, look at army indians, not worth a cunt full of cold snow in their day but nowadays they go for a bomb.

[swarfie]

look at army indians, not worth a cunt full of cold snow in their day but nowadays they go for a bomb.

+1 on that...if you are a "rider" they're still not worth a cooont full of slushy mush. I blame 'The Worlds Fastest Indian' for the astronomical prices some people seem to pay for anything with 'Indian' on the tank:facepalm: Some of Indian's products can rightly demand a good price...but not Army Indians IMHO. Having ridden one years ago, I've not been more disappointed in a motorcycle since riding a 125 BSA Bantam having just got off my YL7 100cc Yamaha Twin when I was a teenager. There will always be grey porridge out there which only makes the real bikes seem worth paying something for. Not that the Yammy was anything to write home about....sure was better than any fluffy chook I ever rode though:laugh:

[pete376403]

morphing into an "Indian" thread... in the '60s my mum used to read the "Auckland Weekly News" - if you recall the pink newsprint paper cover you'll know the one - the inside cover always used to be an advertisement for Valentines surplus in Hamilton. They had army Indians new in the crate for about 20 pounds. What are they selling for now?

[swarfie]

morphing into an "Indian" thread... in the '60s my mum used to read the "Auckland Weekly News" - if you recall the pink newsprint paper cover you'll know the one - the inside cover always used to be an advertisement for Valentines surplus in Hamilton. They had army Indians new in the crate for about 20 pounds. What are they selling for now?

I remember looking at one in the early 70's in Valentines. They were asking $120 which was a lot of moolar then. Seems ridiculous what they're fetching now. A school mate choppered one which seemed the best thing to do to one at the time. It even featured in the NZ Motorcycle News. Wonder where it is now....still wouldn't want it tho...POS:pinch:

[Voltaire]

I quite like these ones.
They looked at WW2 BMW's and came up with a Guzzi.
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