I am *so* tempted

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=018&sspagename=STRK%3
AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=280087096265&rd=1&rd=1

Honda Fireblade combo

 

The paintjob sucks harder than an electrolux, tho'.

 

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 07:21:15 +0000,

You've got nowhere to keep it.

What's the new addition, so casually dropped into another post, to the
fleet then?

 

My thoughts exactly. If he was a proper dealer rather than a dodgy
backstreet trader, he could sit it in the showroom.

Gednose. Something dreadful.

--
platypus

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to
give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise
bald and unconvincing narrative."

 

Trouble is, these days I'm keeping stuff, which is why there's no
space. Perhaps I'll flog the Z650. Actually, somebody here was
enquiring about my CD250 a couple of months ago. Time to dig out some
old emails.

How could you!

It's this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....MEWN:IT&viewitem=&item=150094332075&rd=1&rd=1

I've just spent a surprisingly small amount of money at Dave Silver's,
for a very large box full of NOS components. He has an amazing amount
of stuff for these (well, the engine's the same as a zillion other
Hondas), all from a job lot purchase, but when it's gone, it's gone.

Bargains included:

Brand new complete fork legs at £39 each (+VAT).

Wheel rim £15

Owner's handbook £3.50

There's a strange atavistic pleasure to be had from unwrapping
components and knowing the last person who touched them was some Jap,
possibly now dead, over 30 years ago. The fork legs were wrapped in
lovely brown paper with Honda stamped all over it, and then sealed in
polythene.

I get the same pleasure from undoing some fasteners on immaculate low-
miler old classics, and knowing that, again, the last person who
touched them did so in Japan, decades ago. Maybe I'm just strange.

 

I saw that at Sarratt a few years ago. It looked curious, in a "leading
link forks on a blade?????" kinda way, but seriously fucking ugly.

--
ogden
sv650sk5 (chick wheels) cg125 (dead wheels) zx7r (hasn't even got
wheels)

buy tat here: http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZdr.daifQQhtZ-1

 

If that's a Merlin Coachworks job (can't be arsed to look at the link),
then *very* rideable.

I've seen similar (think it was a TL1000) travelling along the twistier
bits of the A68 at a very respectable speed.

 

Ahhh... I thought I'd seen it somewhere before too.

 

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I'm desperate to get my eyes repaired after seeing that paint "job"


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

On 2 Mar 2007 01:20:48 -0800, TOG@toil, ,

snip>

Let me know if you want to sell it because someone was telling me
today how much he wants a decent one.

Is it destined for Jamie? Only a 17 year old could want one of those
in yellow. Get it sprayed back to silver asap.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, The Older Gentleman went on about:

"DINO JETTED"

Hahahaha!

 

TOG & The Doctor keep bees, so they're entirely comfortable with things
that are yellow and black.

 

"trouble"? The only problem with the Ural is the feebleness of the
acceleration and dis-acceleration, and the only trouble has been domestic.

--
platypus

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to
give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise
bald and unconvincing narrative."

 

So which cemetary will the good doctor be planting
you in should you decide to come home with this thing?
We can leave holy pushrods on your grave, or something.