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**F5 Dave** · 14th December 2023, 17:15

Originally Posted by jellywrestler

not clear? he didn't say a fucking word is a far stretch from not clear.....

Only when questioned. So trying to hide it until called out.
To most of the country , to our shame, we have forgotten all that strife, witnessed only on Stuff etc photo's for a few days.

**Laava** · 14th December 2023, 18:14

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

Didn't go higher than the (pillion?) Seat.

Um, yeah. So like, completely submerged. He was not clear about that at first was he?

I was in cyclespot last weekend and asked the cafe guys there how high the water was and it was up to the top of their counter top. So, effectively totally submerged, every single bike in store except for maybe three or four on a dais. Engines full of water, no big deal if you can drain it and get it going but it is all the places where it should never go that is problematic like inside brake systems, electronics , steering heads etc. And if the water has silt in it, the problem is far worse.
Not insurmountable but personally if I was buying a bike like this, I would still treat it as still needing to be stripped and inspected

**F5 Dave** · 14th December 2023, 18:41

Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase

. . . and become something akin to my Star Trek Christmas tree ornaments* at that point.

*yes, its a thing. Yes I have... several.

Ohh, checking internet. . . Bah. Tòo expensive for me to buy in bulk and Graffiti my wife's increasingly insane collection of Christmas decorations while she is out.

**F5 Dave** · 14th December 2023, 18:46

Originally Posted by Laava

I was in cyclespot last weekend and asked the cafe guys there how high the water was and it was up to the top of their counter top. So, effectively totally submerged, every single bike in store except for maybe three or four on a dais. Engines full of water, no big deal if you can drain it and get it going but it is all the places where it should never go that is problematic like inside brake systems, electronics , steering heads etc. And if the water has silt in it, the problem is far worse.
Not insurmountable but personally if I was buying a bike like this, I would still treat it as still needing to be stripped and inspected

So, the muffins may have survived if they were on those little serving towers. . . . I mean if you didn't mind few day old muffins imbibing slit spray and vapours.

**Laava** · 14th December 2023, 19:11

I am well known for eating food that is marginal to say the least. At our house I eat right overs, that means left overs that are right over the point of being left overs! So yeah, deluge fresh is the way I see it!

**HenryDorsetCase** · 14th December 2023, 20:56

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

Ohh, checking internet. . . Bah. Tòo expensive for me to buy in bulk and Graffiti my wife's increasingly insane collection of Christmas decorations while she is out.

I may or may not have a standing search on tardme for "hallmark star trek". The last one I bought I got from Amazon aus with free shipping. Pewter Enterprise NCC -1701 (think original Star Trek) which was sort of expensive but still under a hundy.

**dangerous** · 17th December 2023, 18:04

WHAT in fucking gods name... 19k after ya tore it to pieces, what ya sell the rest for 30k...fucking monkey humper...https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/m...ing/4472707292

**Laava** · 17th December 2023, 18:29

It looks like it is broken in the middle and the engine is slipping out! I approve of the simplicity, but for gods sake step back from time to time and take a look at what is going on. If it looks funny to the eye, it is a fail IMO.

**F5 Dave** · 17th December 2023, 19:21

Worst use ever of RD400 tank. Pipes will be horribly restricted if they contain baffling. Bet Damon sneered if he did indeed make them.

**neels** · 18th December 2023, 10:23

The price is not as silly as some, but I don't get it. It started life as a proper trail bike, and you've made it less functional?

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/m...7&bof=d1KmJF5j