That's just got expensive

"Just calling about your Guzzi heads; I've had them apart and both the
exhaust valves are slightly bent - did you know that?"

"Oh, and the faces need machining"

"Do you want me to carry on?"

 

WTF have you been doing to the poor beastie!!

 

Just spoke to Motomecca about the replacement valves:

"Have you been thrashing it by any chance?"

 

just throw it in a skip, and get something decent.

 

I have a rather interestingly shaped exhaust valve from my Spada as a desk
ornament. And yes, I too thrash it a bit.
Oh, and I don't have a spare rear m/cyl cap unfortunately.
JB

 

Heretic.

JB

 

ouch!

--

 

Surely, as a motorbike, that's what it's for?

 

Good work fella!

 

<is the correct answer!>

JB

 

"Thrashing it like a **** guv'nor"

I remember that sodding thing disappearing into the distance at
Chimay.

P.

 

OK then what do you suggest?

You have a budget of £3k and it needs to be cheap, fast, handle well,
good looking and interesting.

 

Yamaha XJR1300

 

Not all that fast, certainly slower than a ZRX (also in budget).

 

lots of stuff's in budget - I can't see Simon on a race-rep, a muscle
bike's definitely his style. Sure, the ZRX would fit the bill too.

 

Nasty. I don't want people to *know* I have a small dick.

 

oops, too late.

Seriously though, 3K's enough to buy into any class of bike you fancy.

 

...but they're either ugly, boring or have certain connotations.

Triumph Speed Triple perhaps but they're as common as muck.

 

Surprise answer, rating compliance on 2 from 5: RF900.

 

you'd be looking at a 955i Triple for that money, and IMO, they're
seriously ugly.

<fx: thinks>

BMW R1100S.