Rickman-framed Kawaka T

**98tls** · 10th August 2015, 20:02

Originally Posted by Motu

I didn't have 2 Rickmans to wonder that, but I had a Rickman and a Cheney, both with T100C engines. I'd be a very rich old fart if I still owned everything I've had over the years - I always sell before they become trendy.

Methinks most in this thread share that last sentiment.

**sidecar bob** · 10th August 2015, 20:09

Originally Posted by Motu

I didn't have 2 Rickmans to wonder that, but I had a Rickman and a Cheney, both with T100C engines. I'd be a very rich old fart if I still owned everything I've had over the years - I always sell before they become trendy.

What's trendy about a Rickman Metisse nowadays, most people wouldn't have a fuckin clue what one is.
It's just an old motorbike, not a bobbed SR400.
You'd be rich? Why, what are they worth now?

**husaberg** · 10th August 2015, 20:41

Originally Posted by sidecar bob

What's trendy about a Rickman Metisse nowadays, most people wouldn't have a fuckin clue what one is.
It's just an old motorbike, not a bobbed SR400.
You'd be rich? Why, what are they worth now?

Fuck all, id take that one off your hands if that makes you feel better, swap you a KX65 and a KTM50

**sidecar bob** · 10th August 2015, 20:55

Originally Posted by husaberg

Fuck all, id take that one off your hands if that makes you feel better, swap you a KX65 and a KTM50

I'd rather swap it for a Hyosung Aquila 250. I think they are going to be the next smart investment behind old recipie Milo.

**husaberg** · 10th August 2015, 20:58

Originally Posted by sidecar bob

I'd rather swap it for a Hyosung Aquila 250. I think they are going to be the next smart investment behind old recipie Milo.

See that's why you have ended up with an old Pommy shitter. Plus mates like Scivvy. The old milo fetish will be a hard habbit to break, esp when the packet is left open.

**Motu** · 10th August 2015, 21:15

Originally Posted by sidecar bob

What's trendy about a Rickman Metisse nowadays, most people wouldn't have a fuckin clue what one is.
It's just an old motorbike, not a bobbed SR400.
You'd be rich? Why, what are they worth now?

They know a lot more about them now (it's only a click away) than they did in the '70's. They were just worn out uncompetitive MX bikes, there was no classic racing, let alone VMX. I paid $400 for the Rickman and $500 for the Cheney, both without engines, it was hard getting anyone interested in them. I swapped them both for a nice '61 Norton 99, about $1500.

**sidecar bob** · 10th August 2015, 21:25

Originally Posted by Motu

They know a lot more about them now (it's only a click away) than they did in the '70's. They were just worn out uncompetitive MX bikes, there was no classic racing, let alone VMX. I paid $400 for the Rickman and $500 for the Cheney, both without engines, it was hard getting anyone interested in them. I swapped them both for a nice '61 Norton 99, about $1500.

The guy I got mine off also had a CZ400 bought very early 70's that had replaced the Rickman.
The big 2 strokes slaughtered the old 500 twin.
He also had enough other cool old shit to make your head cave in, not just bikes either.
Most of it looked like brand new.

**Motu** · 10th August 2015, 22:49

I watched MX when the Rickman was king, magic stuff....a few years later I saw the one I would own coming last in every race. I made it into a road bike, a power to weight ratio not seen on most road bikes of the time, it was a lot of fun. Late '70's a mate of mine put some non operating lights on a CZ400 and used it as a road bike (we did that all the time, I rode my sidecar on the road like that too - Blackadder it was later called). I didn't like the Cheney, the Rickman was made for scramble in padocks, it was built to slide...the Cheney was shorter and made for MX tracks, point and squirt pivot turns, not my style.

**sidecar bob** · 11th August 2015, 07:29

You owned Blackadder? The BSA twin big wheeler? That thing is still pounding the track, I know it well.

**Voltaire** · 11th August 2015, 17:07

Rickman...wasn't he the keyboard player in Yes?

Now enough of that old Pommy shit, here's a proper cool bike that old codgers like Mootoo only dreamed of, y'know bikes that run.

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You didn't get proper exhaust wrap like that back in the day from Hemplemans.

**Motu** · 11th August 2015, 17:46

The W650 never had a chance to be unwanted, it went straight from new bike to collectable without passing through ''who the fuck would want one of those''. It was never available to the bottom feeders.