Bikeless

I consider myself a biker, but not a Biker. Maybe a I'm a
motorcyclist, but that word sounds a bit 'was in a collision with' for
my tastes.

Certainly I consider my bike(s) to be primary transport and a part of
who I am.

 

You only have to look inside my garages to see I DGAF either.

I'm a motorcyclist, not a 'biker' because I don't like the stereotype
associated with that word.

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike
in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

 

So why label yourself as anything? I have my naked Zed and Ihave a V-twin
cruiser stylee thing and it matters not a jot to any of the other people I
know which bike I turn up on.

Well worn myths?

I'm neither an upside downie, a power ranger, a born again, a patch wearer
or someone who describes himself as "a biker", so now I'm wondering just wtf
I am. (Apart from a ****, but that goes without saying).

See... there's your prob, riding safe. Everyone knows that to be a real bike
rider, you have to ride like a **** at twice the speed limit through traffic
so thick you can't see beyond your nose and anyone who sees a complete twat
on Youtube doing it is "boring and pretty useless at filtering"

 

The Japanese consider the letter "4" on its own to be fucking bad ruck. So
what you've got is a 400/four, not a 400/4.

 

/Googles.
Bloody hell.
Maybe they *haven't* forgotten the war.
Exporting all them inline fours to the rest of the world....

 

Fondle yourself a bit and he'll give you more than that.

 

To corner the ebay market in NOS reflectors?

 

Are you some kind of a stalker?

 

They haven't

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12260577

 

Heh. You have no idea

Re 400F bits - having collected more than a whole dismantled bike in
Jarrow, there just wasn't room for the dismantled pig and the engine
you've still got. I'll pop up in the next couple of weeks - if you're
still in Norway, I'll check with Adie.

In the meantime, I'm wondering just what a set of NOS forks is going to
make. The last set I saw on eBay went for £800....

Seriously, the stuff I collected in Jarrow made the last lot look like a
cheap boot sale haul. I think I've got something like 200-300 NOS
components, all in their original wrapping. It's going to take ages to
sort it all. I've just shoved the choice bits up tonight (NOS seat,
exhaust, forks, indicators, rear light, wiring loom, top yoke and more).

 

Jeez. Some nice stuff there.
Good job I've spent all my money on Fishermens Friends and socks.

 

That's only a fraction of it. Newly rebored barrels with NOS .25mm o/s
pistons and rings, brand new front wheel, brand new brake disc (God
knows why - they never wear out), NOS mirrors, engine cover, bead
blasted and as-new crankcases, refurbished cylinder head, NOS OE
indicators (very, very hard to find now, for European spec bikes),
innumerable powder coated parts, refurbished frame WLB, the elusive tool
tray and lid, NOS idiot light console, NOS pillion footpegs, and Christ
alone knows how many small packets with NOS singple bolts, washers, nuts
or springs inside them.

I'll have a load more stuff next week, and the week after that, and the
week after that.

I've just been irritated by some kow-it-all who queried whether the seat
was genuine, and insisted it should have a real leather cover! Twat.
I've just blocked him - if he bids, he'll be trouble, I can just sense
it.

 

**** me, if he's the unluckiest man in the world to survive 2 blasts like
that and *still* reach 93 years of age, I'd like to see the luckiest bugger.

Must've been a fucker though, getting out of Hiroshima and heading straight
to Nagasaki for the re-run.

 

Like they wouldn't fork out for your stupid asking price for the ropy
400/4 last year, you mean?

How would you know? AFAICT you don't have a good one amongst the three
you mention, although I suppose it's possible that the CBR is. You
should be old anough to learn your lessons by now - nobody will pay
decent money for a poor example of the 400/4, and nobody will pay good
money for a GS500 full stop.

 

The market rate is the rate the market's willing to pay -
unsurprisingly. The way to find that is stick them on ebay with a 99p
start & set the reserve at whatever you want[1]. You can then decide
whether to hang on to them until the market improves (in the case of
the Four) or be more realistic.

TOG's perfectly capable of giving an opinion based on lots of photos.

[1] Which is exactly what I'll be doing with the RED Tiger[2] in a few
weeks, after the obligitory 'anyone want it before I stick it on ebay'
post here.

[2] Which is looking almost as good as new after a weekend's fettling &
cleaning. FS365 is wonderful stuff.

 

Good old solid Sweller type technology with no electronics. Obviously )

 

You're so right Andy. I had to sell the XJR for the cash. Sad.
So I won't be getting another bike any time soon. Super sad.
And just cos I are a fee-mail doesn't mean I'm short, FYI *scowl*.
I'm in Salad Dodger proportions, if you must know =)

 

Yeah yeah sorry. Stream of consciousness bull crap on my part I suspect.
Chacun a son gout, as they say in Germany.

 

You haver never seen any of my bikes so you are totally unqualified to
comment on their condition.

Which means that you are being a nasty ignorant trolling ****.
**** OFF.

 

Gosh you boys are so easy to wind up. Look at 'em go!

<RiffRaff> THEY DIDN'T LIKE ME! THEY NEVER LIKED ME! </RR>

I think tbh I stopped being rufty-tufty some time ago. I dunno. I was
asked once which would I rather give up, the bike or the lifestyle
(rallying and hanging out with like-minded enthusiasts at pubs)?
Well, now I've decided.

You can all get to feck, I'm off on my C-90 (I kid, of course, for all
you take-it-all-seriously types!*).

Love and pistons