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Lol.. nice story Dodgy... My own one is much simpler. I bought a Suzuki 78 GS1000 when 18, which (after a 6500km 2.5 week Aussie TikiTour) I taught it to fly and subsequently had to rebuild it, only to sell in late 82 before coming back to NZ. I was sort of haunted ever since, by a semi regular recurring (but with different props) dream where I would walk into my garage (the main changing prop) over to a corner that I couldn't recall noticing before,... and there she was... My GSThou in all her resplendent glory.... I can't adequately explain the feeling of elation that I would feel.. but I never once got to ride it because my fucked up subconsciousness would always find some pressing matter to attend to in my dream and I'd end up forgetting about the bike or trying to manipulate the dream back to the bike, only to end up frustrating myself into waking up with a bad taste in my mouth and an increased awareness of my incompleteness. Being a tad slow it took 23 years before I finally decided...'Fuck that'.. and bought a 83 Honda FT500 off 'TradeMe' in Xmas 85 and soon had her 20yr old rubber low-siding me around a roundabout.. (as dipshits are wont to do). I didn't ride as much as I would have liked cause I felt like I was ringing her neck whenever I started approaching 100kph. I sold her to a collector after another 'on line' purchase of a perfectly decent looking 1985 Suzuki GS1100 shaft driven chunk of steel hard 'dream-tease busting' reality , complete with a nearly whole parts/project twin sister. I now sleep much more peacefully
Yer both a couple of knuckle heads who ride, getting on and long in the tooth, but God help the mongrel that gets between you an yer bike! I love that about you guys. Dream on I say. Look forward to seeing that fairing and those rims on whichever bike you pimp next Dodgyiti.
He's going to pimp out his trusty Mk2/4 and turn it into a Mk1/2
I was looking at a bike I thought was very desirable 30 years ago,I had a ride on it and lost my desire to own it.Five years later a friend had it...and i didn't want it when he offered it to me. So this year I bought the few remaining parts,seeing as it's a bit rare and I have a passion.Later I realise it's the same bike....and I still don't like it.It had moved a little further west.Westies have more hidden bikes than the rest of the whole country.
Perhaps if they registered them they wouldn't have to hide em
It's not the Western Way.
You did the housebus thing too? I'm sure we must have crossed paths more than once....I swapped my R60/5 for a housetruck.....
nice stories, guys i spent most of my youth just doing this looking at the big bikes i could not afford - and had no inclination to start my riding career on anything less than 750cc, dunno why really... back in the day in Croatia there were many 50cc bikes but they were not really considered real motorbikes (i wonder why, lol), then there were MZ 250 and JAVA 250 two strokes eastern european bikes that LOOKED like a proper big bike but were a far cry from the big jap bikes only a few wealthier guys could afford. and all the jap bikes those guys had were at least 750cc and most often upwards of 900 (like z1). so, it wasn't until i was 25 that i could buy a decent bike... but the riding experience proved to be definitely all and more i had expected it to be had there been smaller "real" bikes on the market, i'm sure i would have started riding much earlier
I put an A5 vacuum shift Eaton diff into my KM....driving a house truck like it had a Roadranger in it.'38 Bedford bus? That's pretty rare - wasn't the one that Mathew McCahon used to drive around in...?
The next step in my dreams http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List...x?id=236091829 Leave it alone ewes guys
flyingcrocodile46 The next step in my dreams http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List...x?id=236091829 Leave it alone ewes guys it's actually not a bad price given the conversion done and low kms. still needs rear shocks, lol. but i wish the paint was original. wonder why someone would repaint with such low mileage... i'm happy to ride down to rotovegas with you to check it out and test ride it for you
