Optimistic sellers

[layton]

You just based that whole post on a heap of assumptions.

[Voltaire]

You just based that whole post on a heap of assumptions.

Netpicking ( formally in meatspace known as nit picking)....its the times we live in

Anyhow's..the sheds calling.... those Carbon Fiber Ali Express mufflers are going to complement the brown lowbrow custom seat and designer exhaust wrap on the Commando....can wait to put it on TM for 30K

[OddDuck]

You just based that whole post on a heap of assumptions.

Well, the crunch is if it sells for the asking price. I don't rate the odds - what else can you currently get for that money? - but maybe someone will go for it.

[F5 Dave]

Netpicking ( formally in meatspace known as nit picking)....its the times we live in

Anyhow's..the sheds calling.... those Carbon Fiber Ali Express mufflers are going to complement the brown lowbrow custom seat and designer exhaust wrap on the Commando....can wait to put it on TM for 30K

Reminds me of an old Bike cartoon with guy knocking on door, lynch mob hiding around the corner: " are you the one advertising the Chopped Vincent?"

[Voltaire]

Reminds me of an old Bike cartoon with guy knocking on door, lynch mob hiding around the corner: " are you the one advertising the Chopped Vincent?"

I've seen a few pics of chopped Vincents, believe it or not nostalgia has not always been a big thing.
Imagine Ford releasing a retro Model T in the 1960's.
I knew an old boy about 20 years ago who had among other interesting brit bikes a Brough Superior Black Alpine in average condition he picked up in the 60's for " a weeks chippie wages", think he sold it for 35K which at the time I thought was good coin ( I surely didn't have it)

[HenryDorsetCase]

Reminds me of an old Bike cartoon with guy knocking on door, lynch mob hiding around the corner: " are you the one advertising the Chopped Vincent?"

more people should do that. Vincent choppers are cool as fuck. Same as any chopper: do it right and its cool, dont do it right and its lame

[pritch]

Many years ago I met a guy, it was near Johnsonville if I recall. He'd just completed a Norvin and had worn out a rear tyre in his first afternoon of riding it. As far as I recall his bike looked good. Done right it's OK, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that.

[malcy25]

Interesting. I've not heard that about zinc before - I'd have thought the opposite, the zinc would make a relatively soft bearing surface on steel etc and thus actually help correct torquing. Perhaps the zinc then flows away under high pressure, thus reducing the clamping force? Or the zinc shreds in the last phase of tightening, hence the torquing issue? Curious.

Agree with lightly oiled or 243 Loctite (formulated to same viscosity as light oil), clean threads, no dirt, no bent or bashed threads, should be able to twirl a fastener home between finger and thumb or else something's wrong.

Your alloy spacer: I take it that this was alloy contacting a steel sprocket? I've tended to find that alloy on alloy grips really well, the metal bonds together... alloy on steel doesn't, it forms a bearing pair instead and things slip.

From memory, the term he used in relation to the zinc plating was "torque scatter", but I was struggling to keep up and it was 15 years ago.

Hub is mag or alloy (with steel inserts for the threads), spacer is alloy, alloy sprocket. I think there was some crushing of the spacer or sprocket and tension being lost, which then lost the interface

[jellywrestler]

Many years ago I met a guy, it was near Johnsonville if I recall. He'd just completed a Norvin and had worn out a rear tyre in his first afternoon of riding it. .

i like comedians.

[HenryDorsetCase]

i like comedians.

I realise you have a Vincent, but even a restorer such as yourself must see that every chopper, every NorVin or VinCati (my personal favourite) must increase the value of the remainder?

I know a few hot rodders and they get similar reactions from the VCC as they are taking the angle grinder to a 34 Ford - more power to them IMO.

[F5 Dave]

What, 240V or are thinking higher?

[HenryDorsetCase]

What, 240V or are thinking higher?

11kV FTW!!!!!

[Banditbandit]

Calling superannuation "welfare" implies you are getting something that you haven't earned. OK there's a few who are going to move from "welfare" to super but the majority have worked long and hard by the time they get superannuation

You're preaching to the choir buddy. Having said that even adjusting for inflation Super recipients get back way more than they put in... what is that if not welfare?

I can't tell you how many people I know who (especially in the first few years say age 65 to 70) are comfortably earning a couple hundy k a year and not ONE of them has ever said "Yeah, I wont be claiming the Super I dont need it". I know one guy who drove his fucking Rolls Royce to the WINZ office to sign up for it.

It is unsustainable in the medium term, it is mostly about boomer greed, and yes I am arguing against self interest but: it needs to be means tested and it needs to have the age increased to 68 at least. REmember who is going to end up funding this shit - your kids.

Of course as a country we had an opportunity in the 1970's to have a self funding scheme which (like Straya) could have been the backbone of future prosperity (like Straya) but that cunt Muldoon scuppered it in a fit of political pique. That fucker caused about as much damage as Pol Pot.

"Welfare" was meant to be a safety net for those in dire need ..

It started to become too expensive when too many people decided they were entitled to superannuation because they paid taxes all their lives ..

Entitlement was NEVER part of the equation back in the first Labour Government. You were only "entitled" to it if you passed the means test ..

back then retirement savings were tax free .. but that changed too ..

[jellywrestler]

I realise you have a Vincent, but even a restorer such as yourself must see that every chopper, every NorVin or VinCati (my personal favourite) must increase the value of the remainder?

I know a few hot rodders and they get similar reactions from the VCC as they are taking the angle grinder to a 34 Ford - more power to them IMO.

i was just laughing that some thought they could wear out a tyre in an afternoon, on something with such low horses, it wasn't till the eighties that they actually needed to do a rear tyre change in the six hour races, and those were the very latest bikes that had a few more ponies and were on the race track.

unless is was temporary kiwi on here, he could wear out a tyre just by looking it he's that good a rider.

people who associate bikes with their dollar value as to their desirability are not motorcyclists in the true sense.

[Laava]

i was just laughing that some thought they could wear out a tyre in an afternoon, on something with such low horses, it wasn't till the eighties that they actually needed to do a rear tyre change in the six hour races, and those were the very latest bikes that had a few more ponies and were on the race track.

unless is was temporary kiwi on here, he could wear out a tyre just by looking it he's that good a rider.

people who associate bikes with their dollar value as to their desirability are not motorcyclists in the true sense.

Bogan racing? Burnouts and beer?