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What do you do when you're restoring an old bike?

 
 
The Older Gentleman
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      08-01-2010, 04:53 PM
Buy a second one, of course.

I want to get to grips with the project TS250 before the end of the
summer, and in the past I've found that having a second bike, as a donor
and for showing you what bolts onto where and how when you're
reassembling the thing and have forgotten to photograph the vital bits
(ahem), is a Good Thing.

So I've bought this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=330454509700

Doesn't seem a bad buy for £510. Might have some nicer components than I
have already on mine, which can be swapped over, and when the project is
finished, I'll simply re-sell it.


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      08-01-2010, 05:00 PM
In message <1jmi8mf.2g1zn8fy9ou8N%(E-Mail Removed) .uk>, The
Older Gentleman <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>Buy a second one, of course.


/nods gravely

>a second bike, as a donor
>and for showing you what bolts onto where and how when you're
>reassembling the thing and have forgotten to photograph the vital bits
>(ahem), is a Good Thing.


I concur.

> when the project is
>finished, I'll simply re-sell it.


Uh!?
/panics
Don't you just keep them?


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      08-01-2010, 10:15 PM
The Older Gentleman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Buy a second one, of course.
>
> . . . having a second bike, as a donor
> and for showing you what bolts onto where and how when you're
> reassembling the thing and have forgotten to photograph the vital bits
> (ahem), is a Good Thing.


Very true. Hopefully one that in the end has a different set of faults
and/or desirable upgraded parts.

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