I feel sorry for the charity the money is going to...
Interesting crowd if you Google them. Sounds a bit new age hippy.
Forum whore
I feel sorry for the charity the money is going to...
Interesting crowd if you Google them. Sounds a bit new age hippy.
Too old to die
They will be a bit new age unhappy when they realise they are lumbered with the tip fees.
The best way to forget all your troubles is to wear tight underpants.
Slightly Hardcore Biker
No tip fees for that, just bend it in half and pop it in the recycling bin this thursday...Originally Posted by Dadpole
High miles, engine knock, rusty chrome, worn pegs...
Brakes as new
Geriatric hoon
I was thinking that a lot of the stuff we see here would be best on a Cold Kiwi bonfire. Of course they'd be incapable of getting there under their own steam.
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
Bored Room
By the recent examples this is a bargain.
https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/mot...9ee85e7c1dcd5d
I'd put the frame, forks and wheel on TM and build up the bike as a 57 Triumph.
DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.
No8 Wire Extraordinaire
What a waste of fucking time.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
BogOff-Cant you see I'm busy?
Someone bought it
Forum whore
$4.5kSomeone bought it
Whats the engine and work worth? Plus the rest. I don't know but there has been money spent. And a lot more to go!
Bored Room
there is enough rolling chassis Thunderbird, engine and box to make that worthwhile plus all that custom shit can be flogged off for good money to other hackers and bodgers. Hack a Honda not a Triumph ( hmmm make a good t shirt)
DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.
Ta
Seems backwards. The Honda is already built to a decent standard .
Bored Room
Its more to do with the numbers made and nostalgia than engineering.
I've just finished reading Edward Turners Biography, he was the Manager of Triumph from the 30's to the late 60's.
He went to Japan in 1960 and was blown away by the air conditioned factory's, modern assembly methods, extremely high standards and build.
His comment was there will probably be no British motorcycle industry in 25 years.
He went to Honda, Suzuki and Yamaha.They relied on the fact that the Japanese only made at the time under 500 cc bikes so not a threat.
What was interesting is that he was a skilled engineer both on paper and on the shop floor and test rode bikes at random.
He also designed a square 4 engine that turned up later as a Suzuki layout as well as the Speed Twin that led to the Bonneville.
DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.
Forum whore
and then they added a cylinder to that to become the trident and then they added a cylinder to that that was the quadrant.
from 1938 they didn't pick up a clean sheet of paper to design a new model, just altered the old prewar one a bit more.
Rasta Ratskins
Still working for HD?
Only a Rat can win a Rat Race!
BogOff-Cant you see I'm busy?
Has to be a con. Why would you pay $4.5k, when the reserve was so much lower, at $3k - FFS
Anarchic Wild Child
That's called Free Market competition - more than one person wanted it - and were prepared to pay for it ..Has to be a con. Why would you pay $4.5k, when the reserve was so much lower, at $3k - FFS
And because a rebuilt one goes for stupid money ..
$29,500 ... asking ..
https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/mot...8593265eca61a6
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