What becomes of the broken bucketed?

[F5 Dave]

ok while this might appear similar to the Ivan thread I want to hit it from a different angle.

While driving the van to work (it's ok I have bike stickers fitted) I wonder what actually happens to the buckets that people sell & we never see again. Pre TM I had friends sell buckets that had no chance of becoming street legal, no road parts, race seats, no airboxes etc

What is their fate? People must buy them thinking they will tinker with them but never finish, or never get the balls to front up to a meeting?

I mean we all know 'Gunnas' (gunna get a round toit etc). The absolutely pathetic people in life that you wonder how they manage to hold down a job, never get anything done etc. But are there really that many people like that? I only know 2. & one of them managed to race a bucket + larger bikes & I've seen that bucket again.

So where are the rest? In a corner of the garage with a sheet over them, after 10 years taken to the tip?

Sketchy, where's your ex Goat RG100, that was a bike capable of race wins?
Or Bayden's old Kawasaki.
Or Glen's RZ/MT125, or Kawasaki?

[Buddha#81:Me]

My first bucket a MB100 was sold cheap, with the understanding that its was to be ridden.........came out once and has never been seen again.......imagine
how big our feilds would be if all the buckets come out of retirement.

[Joni]

Quite a few dead or retired buckets in Chch land up in our garage... Doh!

Kickaha feels the need to collect them in case he needs it one day...

[koba]

Im gunna build one one of these days....

[F5 Dave]

Yeah people starting off are building them. But what about the old ones?


As a side-note what about the sidecars? When I first started racing at Ohakea there were about 20 that turned up to the GP. Now the class is dead. So did they all go to the tip? They're a bit big & bulky to all be languishing in garages.

[NSR143]

I always try to add caviet relating to sale price... If they are not seen racing within 3 months they owe me another $50 or $100, i did this with some leathers recently

[Skunk]

Id love to get my hands on Pickle/Speedpros old one. Skiddys got it I think but I have no contact number.

[F5 Dave]

I know how to get hold of him, but What's the point? no one to race against + you have to concentrate on what you have or there will be endless moaning about how you can't afford to keep the ever expanding fleet going.

Simplify simplify.

[Skunk]

Not my style. The money thing is getting better too. Just not yet.

I'm more interested in making sure it doesn't get trashed and keeping track of it.

It's a one day thing. Not a right now thing.

EDIT: I can see Dave now shaking his head, throwing his hands up in despair...

[nudemetalz]

There were bucket-sidecars back when I raced at Wigram in the late 80's.
Awesome fun to watch.
How the heck would you get on at the Slipway with one. Hard enough to pass on a bike let alone something 3 times wider !!!

However, I could be keen on building one if someone else is. Wouldn't want it to be the only one of course

[Pumba]

My RX is a bucket that dissapeared from Mt Wellington and hasent been seen in a few years, and my understanding is that I am the 4th owner scince it was seen last. So they do turn up now and then.

Being heavely involved in boat racing over the last 12 years the same thing happens, extremly quick, hot boats dissapear and resurface years later, normally when they resurface the current owner doesnt have a clue what they have got and that is the time to get in and get a bargin

[F5 Dave]

Not my style. ... :

Sorry? you have a style?


Clan Griffith seem to have bought a bunch of fast Manuatu ones over the years but haven't seen them for a while, problem being it is a distance to wgtn, although we used to make the trip in the other direction all the time.

Actually I might give Dave a call, just found his card.

Rams very fast TS100 was sold to a friend & was then stolen to show up later as pieces. Dumb crooks, steal a unique looking 100 festooned with handmade watercooling etc, what are you going to do with it Duh!

[Kickaha]

As a side-note what about the sidecars? When I first started racing at Ohakea there were about 20 that turned up to the GP. Now the class is dead. So did they all go to the tip? They're a bit big & bulky to all be languishing in garages.

Thye're not to big and bulky to languish up against the outside of the garage though trust me I know

[MattRSK]

This time I'm really gunna..........

[Sketchy_Racer]

I sold my old RG100 to a guy called Stanko on here. I think he still has it. It's named the yellow peril. It has been modified a bit since i had it.

That thing certainly went well, just struggled with reliability.