Well... errrr.... not any longer.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/260675740621

Bought it on a £1250 BIN. It was creeping closer and closer, and was
into four figures, and I was preparing a snipe, but decided that if I
was aiming to snipe at £1150 or thereabouts, another £100 didn't make
any difference.

Now for the difficult bit: explaining it to The Doctor.

TOG@Toil <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Well... errrr.... not any longer.
>
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/260675740621
>
> Bought it on a £1250 BIN. It was creeping closer and closer, and was
> into four figures, and I was preparing a snipe, but decided that if I
> was aiming to snipe at £1150 or thereabouts, another £100 didn't make
> any difference.

Looks rather nice.

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78 Honda 400/4 in black
98 Yamaha YP250 Majesty

TOG@Toil wrote:
> Well... errrr.... not any longer.
>
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/260675740621
>
> Bought it on a £1250 BIN. It was creeping closer and closer, and was
> into four figures, and I was preparing a snipe, but decided that if I
> was aiming to snipe at £1150 or thereabouts, another £100 didn't make
> any difference.
>
> Now for the difficult bit: explaining it to The Doctor.

Very clean looking. Never *really* wanted one but it looks like a good
example of the breed and they were nice to ride in the day.
I guess you decided against the ST4S.

Mine has all systems go with Kev and Senna colours are in hand (1). The
forks are being converted to K-Tek Brembo radial spec also.

(1) Not grey but the black option, like this:
http://www.sfmoma.org/images/artwork...427_01_c03.jpg

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Hog

TOG@Toil wrote:

> Bought it on a £1250 BIN. It was creeping closer and closer, and was
> into four figures, and I was preparing a snipe, but decided that if I
> was aiming to snipe at £1150 or thereabouts, another £100 didn't make
> any difference.

It's not as if you'll have a licence to ride it.

--
Simon

sweller <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> TOG@Toil wrote:
>
> > Bought it on a £1250 BIN. It was creeping closer and closer, and was
> > into four figures, and I was preparing a snipe, but decided that if I
> > was aiming to snipe at £1150 or thereabouts, another £100 didn't make
> > any difference.
>
> It's not as if you'll have a licence to ride it.

That occurred to me as well :-/

****.


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The Older Gentleman wrote:
> sweller <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> TOG@Toil wrote:
>>
>>> Bought it on a £1250 BIN. It was creeping closer and closer, and was
>>> into four figures, and I was preparing a snipe, but decided that if
>>> I was aiming to snipe at £1150 or thereabouts, another £100 didn't
>>> make any difference.
>>
>> It's not as if you'll have a licence to ride it.
>
> That occurred to me as well :-/
>
> ****.

Why what have you done?
Anyway you surely have a Chilean licence by now..........

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On 22 Oct, 10:09, Champ <n...@champ.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:20:29 -0700 (PDT), "TOG@Toil"
>
> <totallydeadmail...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >Well... *errrr.... not any longer.
>
> >http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/260675740621
>
> *Finally* you buy a decent old bike :-)
>
> It looks beautiful. *Next summer we should meet up, with me on my
> GPz750 Turbo (also in red and black) and get some pics

Cheeky cnut. Next summer sounds like fun, pre-supposing I still have a
licence then, of course.

Champ <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:20:29 -0700 (PDT), "TOG@Toil"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >Well... errrr.... not any longer.
> >
> >http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/260675740621
>
> *Finally* you buy a decent old bike :-)
>
> It looks beautiful. Next summer we should meet up, with me on my
> GPz750 Turbo (also in red and black) and get some pics

*Snarl* Another wasted journey - all the way to bloody Norfolk.

It looked great. In a nice garage under dustsheets, and absolutely
immaculate. Owner had had it for six years. New tyres, new brakes, new
chain & sprox, new fork seals.... I was drooling.

So I turned to get my helmet out of the car and he fired it up, and my
head snapped round as I thought: "That doesn't sound right!" and
gestured to him to turn it off.

I fired it up and my first thought was that the exhaust had failed,
where the headers siamese. But no, it was induction noise.

It had ****ing S&B air filters on it. No airbox at all, and this
couldn't be seen from the pix because the air filter is totally obscured
by the side panels, and it as sure as **** wasn't mentioned in the
description.

He was startled at my reaction. He'd bought it like that and of course
didn't have the original airbox and plumbing. I thought I'd give it a
chance and tried it anyway.

t ran like a sodding two-stroke. Zero power below 7000rpm and then it
took off. If you opened the throttle at 75mph in top, all it did was go
"BLAAAAAHHHH" and bog down.

So I left it and advised him, when he re-listed it, to mention that it
had those damn filters on it, but he said he was going to find an airbox
and intake hoses and put it back to stock.

He offered money off the price, but I simply cannot be arsed fiddling
around myself with it, especially trying to sort the jets (God knew what
jetting it was running).

WHY CAN'T PEOPLE BE MORE ACCURATE IN THEIR DAMN EBAY DESCRIPTIONS!?


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steve auvache <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> It needn't have been. I reckon that after considering those items
> commonly available in Norfolk and not so common elsehwere which may cause
> simply going there to buy them to be a good idea that you could have done
> worse than to fill yer panniers with a half a gross of baby turkeys. The
> place must be awash with truckloads of them being delivered ready for the
> xmas fattening farms. You could have split them with WUN.

You postings are getting *odder* by the week, and that's worrying, you
know....


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Kawasaki GT550 Suzuki TS250ERx2 GN250 Back to nine bikes!
Try Googling before asking a damn silly question.
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steve auvache wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:12:49 +0100, (E-Mail Removed) (The
> Older Gentleman) wrote:

/snip/

>> *Snarl* Another wasted journey - all the way to bloody Norfolk.
>
> It needn't have been.

You could've dropped-in for a cuppa while you were here...

> I reckon that after considering those items
> commonly available in Norfolk and not so common elsehwere which may cause
> simply going there to buy them to be a good idea that you could have done
> worse than to fill yer panniers with a half a gross of baby turkeys. The
> place must be awash with truckloads of them being delivered ready for the
> xmas fattening farms. You could have split them with WUN.

Mmmmmm!

Norfolk Blacks!

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Rusty