What becomes of the broken bucketed?

**koba** · 30th May 2008, 20:11

Originally Posted by nudemetalz

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

When I looked at the MNZ bucket rules and saw the sidecar class info I drew a few ideas out on a sketchpad.
Dunno how well it would all work tho.

I would like to do one in the distant future but it isn't likley to happen any time soon due to the skunk style of lotsa wee toys to tinker with!

**stanko** · 30th May 2008, 22:34

Originally Posted by 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.

I still have it, we ran it at the Cams meet last weekend , will be at BOB next week, its being ridden by Cameron Jones

**Skunk** · 31st May 2008, 08:53

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

Or Glen's RZ/MT125, or Kawasaki?

I have Glens KH less the top end of the motor - Gavin 'lost' it.
The KH had been modified by Gav and was no longer functional. Got the swingarm and other pieces.
I have a new frame, replacement engine parts and bits to get it together again though as a road bike not a bucket. Hardly the same bike after all the 'broken' bits are replaced. But that's where it went.

I also have Glen's RZ/MT less the engine. Glen kept that.
The RZ frame was fucked - bent forks and other bits after it's crash at the Lower Hutt Riverbank carpark. Wheels were OK though. They're going on the TZR/TF125 bucket I'm building for Leigh. Got the swingarm and other pieces.

**Buddha#81:Me** · 31st May 2008, 09:27

Originally Posted by stanko

I still have it, we ran it at the Cams meet last weekend , will be at BOB next week, its being ridden by Cameron Jones

Ohhhh NZ 125GP Champ on it, how does the other Team YL Factory rider feel about that then?

**stanko** · 31st May 2008, 13:03

Originally Posted by Buddha#81

Ohhhh NZ 125GP Champ on it, how does the other Team YL Factory rider feel about that then?

hes coming right

**dangerous** · 1st June 2008, 08:39

I reckon you are on the right path Dave, most end up at the back of a garage or behind it rottoing away... why these people wont sell I dont know you can offer them money but they dont get back to ya... in the mean time they rot away a bit more, its like they are hanging on the the last thread of there childhood...
Then theres the tidy buckets like my MT replica, it sat for ages in a garage and would still be there had word of mouth not goten to me and I offered him some doe (helped that he wanted money for a hot rod)
I got this bike with a MB proddy, Gav brought that from me and it has never been seen since?

**Kickaha** · 1st June 2008, 08:46

Originally Posted by dangerous

I got this bike with a MB proddy, Gav brought that from me and it has never been seen since?

I think you'll find those bits ended up with James and Neil

**Buddha#81:Me** · 1st June 2008, 11:21

Kickaha and Diesel Pig are guilty of hording bikes that don't get to see the light of day!

**Sully60** · 1st June 2008, 12:32

Originally Posted by Buddha#81

Kickaha and Diesel Pig are guilty of hording bikes that don't get to see the light of day!

As opposed to the ones that end up at Ivan's that get pulled apart and left outside

**dangerous** · 1st June 2008, 18:17

Originally Posted by Kickaha

I think you'll find those bits ended up with James and Neil

Just like the club slut did

Originally Posted by Buddha#81

Kickaha and Diesel Pig are guilty of hording bikes that don't get to see the light of day!

arnt they just, whats the deal there do ya reckon?

**stanko** · 1st June 2008, 18:43

Supply and demand, market forces etc. If we let alll the old shitters and not so shitters onto the market it will be flooded and people would care even less about them. People that hoard old buckets are doing the bucket community a service. Its just like the tax cuts if the cuts are too big everyones mortgage will go up. I commend DP and Kickaha for their community minded and unselfish work

**gav** · 1st June 2008, 19:20

Yip, James reckons he will use that MB, he has an NSR250 rolling chassis it may find a home with. Sometimes wonder what happened to some of my old bikes. Back when I was racing in Nelson, i sold 3 or 4 ready to race bikes to guys keen to get into the sport. I know where one, my old hot TS90, ended up, the guy seized the motor and stored it under his house, but he then boarded it up and its probably still there. He's since sold the house. In 50 years or so, someone might find it, wonder what they will think of it? Don't know what happened to couple of the others, AJTurbo might know? G4TR 100, with pipe, big carb, rearsets, clipons etc. Suzuki GT50? Yoshi CB100? CG125? hmmm

**stanko** · 1st June 2008, 19:26

There my old bucket in your sig Gav !

**dangerous** · 1st June 2008, 21:01

Originally Posted by gav

Suzuki GT50?

hahaha... that the one you did a runner fom the coppers on Gav

Originally Posted by stanko

There my old bucket in your sig Gav !

yeah... and he primed that lovely white tank in matt black... what was he thinking

**Kickaha** · 1st June 2008, 21:04

Originally Posted by dangerous

Just like the club slut did

You still whining about that?

Originally Posted by dangerous

arnt they just, whats the deal there do ya reckon?

I think the deal is they both do a lot more racing all over the country than you ever have/will so they pick and choose what bikes and what meetings they will do

Originally Posted by stanko

I commend DP and Kickaha for their community minded and unselfish work

Your appreciation for our efforts is duly noted, I'll change your next bike tyres for free