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    Quote Originally Posted by bogan View Post
    What about this one then?

    http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/moto...-938499558.htm

    Too expensive, old, custom, poor handling/ride, and it has a silly name!
    NICE Sculpture/artwork - shit bike - I'd hate to ride that fucker ... and certainly not worth 45grand ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    There's your problem: no one RIDES these bikes they trailer them to cafes and such and park them outside.
    Pretty sure the point of those things is to be cafe/lounge art. No one rides them because they are ridiculous.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drew View Post
    Seems like we're just picking on bikes we don't like.
    Yep, this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    There's your problem: no one RIDES these bikes they trailer them to cafes and such and park them outside.
    Quote Originally Posted by Jin View Post
    Pretty sure the point of those things is to be cafe/lounge art. No one rides them because they are ridiculous.
    Surely not? I'm sure they could set the record on the Coro loop

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    Quote Originally Posted by Autech View Post
    Surely not? I'm sure they could set the record on the Coro loop
    is that the loop down to the end of the street (and push back) after Coro Street finishes?

    How's the fucking thing ever going to get a warrant with two inch wide, two foot long dump pipes?
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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    is that the loop down to the end of the street (and push back) after Coro Street finishes?

    How's the fucking thing ever going to get a warrant with two inch wide, two foot long dump pipes?
    Haha, and people say my VFR is loud!



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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    They are unbelievably awesome IF you are Classified Moto

    http://www.bikeexif.com/1982-yamaha-virago

    but if you paid ten large for your donor then did all that work to it it would owe you way more than the very cool Apache helicopter Classified Moto XR600 also on tardme for $35k
    Drool. Sometimes things don't have to make sense.

    On that note I'd seen an XV on TM for 1.2K, just this morning. It'd make an ideal donor - think it was a shaftie though.

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    That said, a few years back, I met a guy rode a Big Dog chopper from LA to Sturgis over 2 1/2 days - he broke down at the WalMart parking lot in Barstow where I first met him; got back on the road after fixing his wiring problem, and we leapfrogged each other over most of the next day; my V8's gas consumption was much worse and is, but he had a smaller tank. And his bike was a hardtail... Many bikes accused of being Trailer Queens have never been trailered.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    If no one else wants this for a signature..................
    All yours. Should have said 2002 I think.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bogan View Post
    What about this one then?

    http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/moto...-938499558.htm

    Too expensive, old, custom, poor handling/ride, and it has a silly name!
    Well done. I think this falls into the category of
    I made a huge mistake. Please make one too so I can be shot of this thing and buy the holden my wife said I should have got.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Drew View Post
    Chain drive XV is pretty rare I think. 400 k's traveled is pretty impressive. I have no idea what it's worth, but doesn't seem ridiculous at 10k.
    I heard that model has the same front wheel and handlebars as a katana.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Autech View Post
    Haha, and people say my VFR is loud!



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    Should hear the ugly S&S custom Harley that's at work at the moment. THAT thing is loud.
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    which brings me back to point Z. - use premium fuel.
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    And the right plugs. And condoms.
    Quote Originally Posted by Akzle View Post
    never really believed in em. which i suppose is why my bike runs rough and i have kids.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OddDuck View Post
    Yeah, it's been fun... but it's only fun for the rest of us for so long. Time to get back on track.

    How about this? Somewhat unusual case.

    Less than 400km's, effectively mint... but I'm really not sure why someone would collect this. Or am I missing something and these were awesome bikes?
    Rare in NZ - probably around 20 brought in new. That's the continental version which differs in minor detail from what we got here.
    I've just sold the TR1 motor I've had sitting for about 15 years. Never going to build what i wanted around it now.
    Not awesome bikes, but could have been so much better....Overpriced, yes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    is that the loop down to the end of the street (and push back) after Coro Street finishes?

    How's the fucking thing ever going to get a warrant with two inch wide, two foot long dump pipes?
    There is no shortage of sympathetic inspectors to give warrants to these. My neighbour works occasionally at the testing station and when he is the only bike-friendly insp on duty he cuts them off before they can spend their money on the wof and tells them he will not give them a warrant based on their exhaust. I spose they go to a bike shop to get them?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Laava View Post
    There is no shortage of sympathetic inspectors to give warrants to these. My neighbour works occasionally at the testing station and when he is the only bike-friendly insp on duty he cuts them off before they can spend their money on the wof and tells them he will not give them a warrant based on their exhaust. I spose they go to a bike shop to get them?
    I've had to warrant a couple of these things. They're a nightmare to ride (apparently only until you learn the technique) but someone has seen fit to certify them for use on our roads. So if everything works as the certification demands, who am I to say it can't have a warrant?

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