Optimistic sellers

**F5 Dave** · 27th May 2018, 19:09

Taking a sabbtical from racing only 27 years in.
If you can finish that race without crashing or blowing it up nothing else matters. But if you have to 50/50 then its a risk worth taking.

Track days? Pah! -- Sunday outing with slight rush of blood to the head.
Racing, there is a gap which is going to last 1.01 seconds and I'm taking it.

**FlangMasterJ** · 27th May 2018, 19:35

Originally Posted by Scubbo

"well done"

https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/mot...ebb8237bce6a03

If it was black with brown accents it'd be sweet.

**F5 Dave** · 27th May 2018, 20:21

As long as Brown, smelt like The Real Deal.

**husaberg** · 27th May 2018, 21:21

I don't actually mind it
Although that emgo exhaust is ridiculous on a GSXR750.
get rid of the silly brass and copper take of 5k and the silly paint i actually like it

**ellipsis** · 27th May 2018, 23:55

...I bought a 50 quid CB250 in '83 as a bit of a hobby to keep me fucking off for a pint or two too early with nice people in a pub about 50 meters from home... while rebuilding the engine I would sometimes spliff a bit of good hash and sometimes that would result in stripping the paint from the frame and putting expensive yellow paint on all the tubing and bits that held all the bits together...the tank and panels were original green with the factory decals,when the thing was all bolted up, it looked hideous, (upon reflection)...with a couple of short megaphones to make it noisy, it became my ride...

...I had a wee Triumph but it couldn't really be trusted on big jobs...

...a 50 quid Honda motor with 50 quid of new parts means fuck all when some cunt like me, at the time, rebuilt it...I got a couple of thousand k out of it before some kid in the back seat of a car going past me on the A3 into London caught my attention, a bit like those Garfield toys that silly people stuck on their back windows...he was pointing to the stern of the CB...I looked back and I had a white plume of smoke coming out from under the seat...the new cam seals and white metal wank were burning oil as quick as it could get there...it seized up a couple of times in the next mile or two...it finally shit itself about two hundred meters from a bus stop...I'm not sure if I even gave the CB a second glance as I leaned it on a sign post and ran for the bus...but I do have a photo to prove that I was once a cunt that did silly things, and probably still am...a lot of these bikes in previous post should be left leaning on a post on the side of a road somewhere, with the key in the ignition...

...as an aside, the wee Triumph kept on trucking enough that I brought it back home...I couldn't really figure out why...it seized more often than a too lean two stroke, but some cunt as dumb as I was, fell in love with it and swapped me a Bedford TK with a thirty foot trailer for it...I won on that one by a particularly large margin...a massive margin...dumber cunts are handy at times and there seems to be no lack of them...

...pees in luv...

**jasonu** · 28th May 2018, 02:27

More like a wet dream at that price
https://bend.craigslist.org/mcy/d/19...600135509.html

**Laava** · 2nd June 2018, 13:10

While there is a lot to like about this machine, the price still seems a bit high....
https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/mot...ab15bbceef89c7

**F5 Dave** · 2nd June 2018, 15:23

I didn' even look at the price. I'd rather own a pink people mover.

Vin number, yet to get full certified- read. . . It failed.

**AllanB** · 2nd June 2018, 15:51

Originally Posted by Laava

While there is a lot to like about this machine, the price still seems a bit high....
https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/mot...ab15bbceef89c7

The application is better than most of the genre. I was going to say well built until I saw the close up images of the frame welding.

Priced to never sell - you can pick up a well sorted AC Cobra replica for $50-60k and still get the wind in your hair.

**Dadpole** · 2nd June 2018, 16:54

Originally Posted by AllanB

I was going to say well built until I saw the close up images of the frame welding.

Bloddy 'ell. I don't remember welding that - although it looks like my (not so) handiwork. squawk squawk splat

**F5 Dave** · 2nd June 2018, 17:18

3 approaching 4 years old. Nah. . .

https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/mot...1b0e4fb48c8368

**jasonu** · 2nd June 2018, 17:36

Originally Posted by AllanB

close up images of the frame welding.

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Bird shit!!!

**F5 Dave** · 2nd June 2018, 18:20

3 cheers Rcktfsh for starting this thread.

Moved from Behemoth to Sav. Cooking killer eye fillet and home chips with left over last crop frozen beans (just gathered the seeds for next year and listening to Mudshovel which is a bit of a whiney band i wont mention but ya know.
Geez life can be cool.