Found a mint XJ

**98tls** · 29th June 2009, 21:31

Originally Posted by Edbear

Funnily enough I don't really mind being a Grandpa, I still love bikes and riding, even if I do have to lanesplit up this way...

It was my mother that was the biker and it was her BSA Bantam 125 I learned to ride when I was 12 and still have deep fondness for them! She also liked borrowing my T500 to go visit Grandma down in Tauranga from where we lived in Warkworth. Swore she never took it over 90 though...

Nice,good job your not in my lounge,would have to grab a few cold ones and sit round talking about the old days like the sad old buggers we are.......what a hardship eh?

**Edbear** · 29th June 2009, 21:40

Originally Posted by 98tls

Nice,good job your not in my lounge,would have to grab a few cold ones and sit round talking about the old days like the sad old buggers we are.......what a hardship eh?

LOL!!! That's the good thing about bein' older, I guess, you have things to reminisce about.

Me and the Missus been doin' a bit o' that lately... She reminisces about when I was skinny and handsome and I tell her I'm twice the man she married...

**98tls** · 29th June 2009, 21:44

Originally Posted by Edbear

LOL!!! That's the good thing about bein' older, I guess, you have things to reminisce about.

Me and the Missus been doin' a bit o' that lately... She reminisces about when I was skinny and handsome and I tell her I'm twice the man she married...

Every time i laugh at the pairs of no longer fitting womens leathers round here i get reminded of how loose my helmets become these days

i mean the bike helmet.

**Mom** · 29th June 2009, 21:44

Originally Posted by 98tls

Yes mate we sure are.

Originally Posted by Edbear

Hey, do you think we've hijacked the thread....?

Shut up the pair of you!

No, I am the hijacker here...

Them were the days eh boys

**98tls** · 29th June 2009, 21:46

Originally Posted by Mom

Shut up the pair of you!

No, I am the hijacker here...

Them were the days eh boys

lol,did you check your PO box girl?

Shit sorry to the thread starter,its been well n truely basterdized.Sorry.

**Edbear** · 29th June 2009, 21:47

Originally Posted by 98tls

Every time i laugh at the pairs of no longer fitting womens leathers round here i get reminded of how loose my helmets become these days

i mean the bike helmet.

Originally Posted by Mom

Shut up the pair of you!

No, I am the hijacker here...

Them were the days eh boys

Your timing is impeccable as usual, funny you should drop in about now....

(Sorry, I can resist anything but temptation...

)

**98tls** · 29th June 2009, 21:56

Originally Posted by Edbear

Your timing is impeccable as usual, funny you should drop in about now....

(Sorry, I can resist anything but temptation...

)

Laughed so hard i now need to spend a few hours on the inhaler

Off to dream of the Summit road and old 500/4s.

**Kickaha** · 29th June 2009, 22:03

Originally Posted by 98tls

How about a 750?Know a bloke with one he was going to restore but seems to have given it away and may well part with the motor,still runs ok.

No after a 600 only as most parts will interchange with the 550 I am building for pre82, I'm really only after a head complete with cams

**ynot slow** · 29th June 2009, 22:06

Nice bike at the time and still is.Mate had an XJ1200 when he was in the army,had it new then he was posted to Egypt for 6 months or so.Was ok as he left his bike at his parents place and told his younger brother start it each week or so and if it travels anywhere lookout.The brother had an XJ 550 off hand,just prior to his brother returning chucked his rear wheel on the 1200 as the 550 was near bald,the older brother took a second to work out the joke,his mum said noone rode the bike at all off the section,but there was a large black mark in garage.Boys being boys.

**Edbear** · 29th June 2009, 22:09

Hey, how'd this thread get back on topic so fast...?

**Subike** · 29th June 2009, 22:24

This is a good thread,
Good score on the XJ.
I still love tucking in behind those front runners on my old XS1100, eh 98tls, get them a bit worried when she wobbles aroud the corners lol,
Old school elctrics dont let you down like the new fandangled computor programmed engine management thingies.
Just kick em into life and ride them till the gass runs out,
Yamaha tourers have always been known for a long life at big throttle openings,
I dont think you will have much trouble finding forums that focus upon the XJ.
Good bikes always have a good following

**98tls** · 29th June 2009, 22:37

Originally Posted by Subike

This is a good thread,
Good score on the XJ.

I dont think you will have much trouble finding forums that focus upon the XJ.
Good bikes always have a good following

And generally on such bike dedicated forums theres some really clever buggers that when bits are no longer obtainable just go out to the shed and make em (TLDV8 off here for one),he whipped up a billet rear master cylinder in his shed that was such a piece of work it resides on my mantlepiece rather than my bike.