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  1. #6706
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    Quote Originally Posted by Crasherfromwayback View Post
    , and I don't remember that.
    Why the fuck would you???

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    Quote Originally Posted by jasonu View Post
    Why the fuck would you???
    Cause I'm a train spotter, and I sold the things back in the day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ellipsis View Post
    ...by my reckoning, according to these prices, I must have about 29,000 bucks worth of Honda parts in my sheds...I'm booking a 6 month Euro-Tour right now, then I'm going to get busy on Toss-me...yeehaaaa...
    I paid for a major rebuild of my BMW by going round my shed and putting al the old parts and shit on trade me ... I could not believe the prices idiots paid - like $45 for a BSA Bantam front brake activator lever and a rear brake pedal.

    I didn't give a shit - everything paid for the rebuild AD a year's registration. .
    "So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Banditbandit View Post
    I paid for a major rebuild of my BMW by going round my shed and putting al the old parts and shit on trade me ... I could not believe the prices idiots paid - like $45 for a BSA Bantam front brake activator lever and a rear brake pedal.

    I didn't give a shit - everything paid for the rebuild AD a year's registration. .
    BSA Bantam parts in the shed

    At a swap meet years ago an old guy had a BSA Bantam in bits and I was in the next spot. He hassled me to buy it and I said no...no....no... as I was in Brit bike POS rehab.
    Relented and gave him $175.00, took it home, loosely assembled it put it on TM and sold for $400.
    Not a bad Sundays work.
    ( old story)
    DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.

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    Whereas you should have taken it out to the moors, dug a deep hole and driven a waratah or two through it and buried it under.
    As a public service.
    Don't you look at my accountant.
    He's the only one I've got.

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    Fool. If he'd pipe wrapped that all the way up to the top of the headers he could have sold that for $12,995.
    And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.

    - James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.

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    Quote Originally Posted by riffer View Post
    Fool. If he'd pipe wrapped that all the way up to the top of the headers he could have sold that for $12,995.
    I was wondering how long the spaghetti holding the seat up would last

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    Not long with my fat arse on it.
    And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.

    - James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.

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    it looks like industrial pallet strapping
    and the name on the tanks done & dusted

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    ...I love it and the price is only slightly more than I would want to pay. Having had immense fun on one and knowing how to make one go quicker without doing all kinds of mechanical shit to it makes me love it even more. One mans meat.... Heavier seat stays are cheap and easy. It would look good between the Hondas and Harleys... The wrap would go, and the bent end bit on the pipes...

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    Quote Originally Posted by T.W.R View Post
    it looks like industrial pallet strapping
    and the name on the tanks done & dusted
    Should've been fucking rooted.

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    Looks bloody awful. Still, looks aren't everything... as I was saying to my reflection the other day...

    Side issue: why do people obscure the number plate? I know there was a problem 20 years ago with cheeky people changing ownership of other people's vehicles, but that issue was sorted out. So why?
    High miles, engine knock, rusty chrome, worn pegs...
    Brakes as new

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    Quote Originally Posted by Honest Andy View Post
    Side issue: why do people obscure the number plate?
    "Cause previously if you asked at the Post Office they'd give you the address of the owner. That was in case you'd been in an accident and needed to contact the other party. Nowadays because people misused that facility and used it to steal bikes and cars, I understand that it has been withdrawn.

    Now the miscreants advertise on Facebook "wanted to buy" and rob the prospective seller when they meet up to do the deal.
    There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop

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    Yeah that's it, now I remember
    Nowadays only insurance companies etc are allowed to get the info. So that's all good
    High miles, engine knock, rusty chrome, worn pegs...
    Brakes as new

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