Optimistic sellers

[Laava]

So, just for some perspective, some people are a bit more realistic about their sale chances...
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/moto...1359838838.htm

[F5 Dave]

10 years old and less than 1000 k. Clearest way to put the born again off motorcycling then. Shit this is worse than I remember from the 70s. In the shed it goes.

[AllanB]

So, just for some perspective, some people are a bit more realistic about their sale chances...
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/moto...1359838838.htm

Mid life crisis that did not pan out as he predicted .........


Good buying.

[EJK]

So, just for some perspective, some people are a bit more realistic about their sale chances...
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/moto...1359838838.htm

I'd rather buy a McDonald's big mac combo.

[Drew]

10 years old and less than 1000 k. Clearest way to put the born again off motorcycling then. Shit this is worse than I remember from the 70s. In the shed it goes.

I think it's a typo, since he's had to replace the tyres. At least I read it that way, can't imagine why he'd comment on the tyres otherwise.

[F5 Dave]

Cracked after ten years

Dunno, still overpriced for two 1985 GSXR750s worth of cash.

[OddDuck]

10 years old and less than 1000 k. Clearest way to put the born again off motorcycling then. Shit this is worse than I remember from the 70s. In the shed it goes.

It's probably the godawful handlebars. Change them for something plain and practical and it'd hugely improve* the bike and therefore bump up the mileage per year.

* well, it's still a Harley, some people love them but it may not be to sir's taste.

[Voltaire]

If they looked like this I'd have one, my back and wrists less so but...

Needs spoked wheels.

Sort of Harley meets Ducati , like that would ever happnen

[swarfie]

And ditch the car tyres

[T.W.R]

10 years old and less than 1000 k. Clearest way to put the born again off motorcycling then. Shit this is worse than I remember from the 70s. In the shed it goes.

It's probably the godawful handlebars. Change them for something plain and practical and it'd hugely improve* the bike and therefore bump up the mileage per year.

* well, it's still a Harley, some people love them but it may not be to sir's taste.

I know where there's a 2005 Dyna parked up in a shed after a 1st ride home from Dunedin to the Ashburton area dairy farmer did the really really want must have trip, ordered the bike waited a couple of months for it to arrive at McIver & Veitch got a whole lot of S&S parts fitted went & picked it up, rode it home and didn't like it so it got shoved in the shed behind some tractors

If they looked like this I'd have one, my back and wrists less so but...

Needs spoked wheels.

Sort of Harley meets Ducati , like that would ever happnen

Hints of XLCR in it's looks
spoked wheels & tires those ones look like they've been sourced through a army surplus store & off a old WLA

[T.W.R]

Here's a beaut $3250 buy-now....wonder if that's for the cost of silicone used, even the tires have had a blast

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/moto...1360167981.htm

[pritch]

Here's a beaut $3250 buy-now....wonder if that's for the cost of silicone used, even the tires have had a blast

How exciting, it's local. Think I might be able to restrain myself though.

[F5 Dave]

See? That Hardley attempt actually looks to have some purpose. A reasonable steering head angle and once reasonable tyres fitted would likely handle ok, if a little bendy Forks etc. If it were cheap enough you could throw out the ditch pump and source, say, a Firestorm engine and end up with something quite fun.


Of course a $4000 Firestorm would be a better basis to start from. Just sayn.

Fun fact: my middle name is actually Harley.

[old slider]

If they looked like this I'd have one, my back and wrists less so but...

Needs spoked wheels.

Sort of Harley meets Ducati , like that would ever happnen

lol, didn't it happen? Harley now own Ducati? been waiting for some to say that sounds like a nightmare for 24/7 roadside assistance. lol

[pritch]

Harley now own Ducati? been waiting for some to say that sounds like a nightmare for 24/7 roadside assistance. lol

I remember a road test I read in an Australian magazine years ago. It started out like, "I'm standing at the petrol station wondering why the Ducati won't start. That's OK though I'm used to this, I just road tested a Buell."

That used to play on my mind when I had the Duc, but to be fair the only 24/7 call I had to make was my own fault.