Optimistic sellers

[sidecar bob]

Clutchpurse owners club a mate used to refer to them. They'd come into the shop with branded BMW gear. Pull out their notebook and jot down the prices, then return later in the day to buy selected items.

Oh, you mean "the novelist" the internet kind of killed them, they were the people that would tour the car yards on a Saturday morning writing down all the build dates & mileages & prices of the cars. Always accused the dealer of asking "top dollar"

[husaberg]

explain the hurricane X75 then?

I can't. How can anyone explain an ugly abomination that didn't sell at all well when new that people ask telephone numbers for now. It further condemns the average BSA buyer.
They are the people at the classic festival that believe they are a small cut above everybody else.

OK I'm going to perversely say that i kinda like the X-75. Maybe I impressionably thought the name was cool but Ifirst saw it thumbing through 2nd hand cycle magazines I used to buy as a schoolkid.

I saw one at a bike rally as a lad. I'd never seen anything that cool before.

Hand on heart, always thought they were a Triumph till I Googled it just now.

Vetters prototype had forks 1 inch shorter than a standard BSA or Triumph three.
but because he had used road race Cerani forks for the prototype he had to make 2 inch extensions
The brits somehow never measured the forks and made them 2 inches longer.
It was not intended to be a raked chopper.
He argued for about 6 months about the colour, he wanted yellow, the management wanted red. hence the compromise.
The engine is BSA rocket three. hence the sloping cylinders, from memory it was to be a BSA but they went bust in between.

It looks like there is at least 6 X75's in NZ

[sidecar bob]

Not a bike, but seriously W.T.F? Check out his houses for rent too, just plain creepy.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used...1061089138.htm

[husaberg]

Not a bike, but seriously W.T.F? Check out his houses for rent too, just plain creepy.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used...1061089138.htm

Careful he's a Wizard.

[jellywrestler]

The engine is BSA rocket three. hence the sloping cylinders, from memory it was to be a BSA but they went bust in between.

the engines in te rocket threesidents were the same, just bsa tipped there's forward a few degrees, the poms were way to fucked by then to build another engine with sloping cylinders!!!!, easier to drill engine plates. the T160 leaned forward, way better look in my eyes at least.

[husaberg]

the engines in te rocket threesidents were the same, just bsa tipped there's forward a few degrees, the poms were way to fucked by then to build another engine with sloping cylinders!!!!, easier to drill engine plates. the T160 leaned forward, way better look in my eyes at least.

I could be wrong, it wouldn't be the first time, but I am sure the BSA and X75 actually had the cylinders sloped 15 degrees or so, as did the late T160's. Compared to the t150's
Hele wanted to do the three way back in 1962/1963 Turner poo pooed it.

[sidecar bob]

Careful he's a Wizard.

He's a fuckin nut job, that's what he is.

[JimO]

He's a fuckin nut job, that's what he is.

yor not wrong

[jasonu]

. Always accused the dealer of asking "top dollar"

I've never heard of a car dealer asking for anything but top dollar.

[Black Knight]

He's a fuckin nut job, that's what he is.

Imagine having that guy for a landlord

[Crasherfromwayback]

Yeah nah...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/a.aspx?id=1138510068

You could buy this over priced pill of junk parts, spend thousands, and maybe, just maybe, have something similar to these bikes.

[Banditbandit]

Yeah nah...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/a.aspx?id=1138510068

You could buy this over priced pill of junk parts, spend thousands, and maybe, just maybe, have something similar to these bikes.

's not even all there ... an incomplete basket case for stupid money ...

[pritch]

Because BSA people are far more stupid than Triumph people?

Well I have had both, but since I have the Triumph now can I claim to be getting smarter? For the money he wants for that triple I'd rather have the new Thruxton.

[jellywrestler]

Yeah nah...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/a.aspx?id=1138510068

You could buy this over priced pill of junk parts, spend thousands, and maybe, just maybe, have something similar to these bikes.

it'll sell, probably to aussiw where a lot of older dukes have gone for silly coin

[Crasherfromwayback]

it'll sell, probably to aussiw where a lot of older dukes have gone for silly coin

Yeah. Aussies are a silly bunch...