Paging TOG - Valuation, please

I've had a change of heart.

The VFR is washed, polished and has an MOT and tax.... I'll keep it for
now.

But.... it looks like a 750SS may well join it in the garage.

 

It's funny, outside the Internet and especially ukrm, I don't know
/anybody/ who collects vehicles. But around here, it's like you have to
have about four bikes to feel normal.

1) SOB
2) Sprotsbike
3) Lardy tourer
4) Unreliable Italian exotica

 

Says the man with 4 cars, 10 bikes and 2 mortgages...

 

Do as I say, not as I do

P.

 

Honda 400 Four and SL125, check.

Ducati 750SS, check

BMW K1100LT, check.

Ducati again. 'Cept it ain't unreliable.

 

TD wrote:

ST 1050?

Ah, right. As you were.



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It's very common with cyclists.

I have a full-suspension mountain bike for marathons, a winter road
bike for training and am just about to build a summer road bike for
enjoying long sunny Sundays.

Now I just need a fixed single-speed for going to the shops, and a
hardtail mtb and I'm just about covered.

Maybe a BMX as well for fun.

 

Heh. I've got a full-susp jobbie I bought last year, never yet been
used for anything serious, but doesn't half make easy work for my
still permanantly painful upper body; then there's the Cadex MTB I've
had for 15 years or so, good for speed on smooth surfaces, and the
Mercian road bike, now almost a period piece, that still just feels so
'right'.

I've never understood fixers - is it just a question of making it
harder to prove yourself, or what?

**** off to alt.wishiwashtillateenager.dreamers wher your sort is
tolerated.

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I'm not *entirely* sure you painted an attractive picture of yourself there!

 

Bloody fazer failed on that last time, and a loose footpeg bolt. Cunts
never rang to inform me of the disgrace - if I'd been told, I could
have brought the superglue and allen key with me and got a free same-
day retest...

 

<faints>

One interesting thing with fixies is how you can do a track-stand at the
lights. Sarah's father used to ride home fixed-gear from RAF Halton to
Southampton (and back - about 160 miles round trip) at the weekends when he
was an apprentice.

 

Ooh, that's only £200 more than a mate of mine paid for his 2000(w)
naked SV recently.

It sold with a hideous aftermarket bikini fairing, no recent service
and the squarest back tyre I've ever seen. It was hunting badly after
a couple of days, but the dealer sorted that.

I haven't the heart to tell him he's been severely had, and I couldn't
bear to hear him justifying paying over the odds, as I know he will.

 

It's called "making it it difficult for yourself" and something I'll
never get my head around. If you just wanted to do this, you'd just
get a bike made out of lump-iron, whereas most fixers are
ultra-lightweight, and the lack of gears is often cited as in the
interest of weight-loss.

So make it lightweight so it's less effort, then take away the gears
so it's more effort. And anyway, single speed !== fixed gear.

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Full sus almost makes it too easy, which is why I'd like another
hardtail.

I've decided my summer road bike must be Italian with Italian kit on
it, just to be "right".

Comedy value. You can leave them unlocked outside any shop and
they'll never get nicked. If they do, you know the rider will fall
off within seconds.

Shouldn't we all?

 

Remember fixed != singlespeed. A fixed will be a singlespeed, but a
singlespeed is not necessarily fixed.

 

And the problem with that is?

 

But that's not running, mine still is.

It needs completely stripping down and rebuilding, new exhaust, new
chain, new fork seals etc. It's time to let it go. By which I mean let
it sit in the garage until I decide what to do with it.

 

Speaking of which, are you doing the IOM End To End again this year?

 

I'll be if you threw a couple of grand at it, rather than spending
that on another bike, you'd get exactly what you wanted and you know
its provenance.

Ok, so you'll never get the money back if it's sold, but you'll have
the bike you want.