The crinkly honda

Hi, my poor track bike ('97 CBR600F) went for a sideways somersault
yesterday at Oran Park and isn't looking so good. Don't know if she is
salvagable yet. (The rider, one of my wife's friends, is sporting a broken
thumb and sprained ankle, but is otherwise OK).

I've heard there is some guy in Western Sydney who can straighten frames and
forks - Alderman? Aldershot? Aldersomething? Anyone know his details?

Also, anyone got any recommendations for people in the Sydney area who can
decrinkle a fuel tank?

Also, who are the decent wreckers in Sydney? I need a couple of hundred
parts...

Cheers Manning

 

Correction; your wife's friend needs a couple of hundred parts.

The frame-straightening bloke is Laurie Alderton. He's out at Smithfield.
Pre-99 CBR600's have steel frames, making them some orders of magnitude more
recoverable after a big stack, which is handy.

The money it would take to bash and pull the tank straight again is better
spent just buying a less-thoroughly hammered tank from a wrecker. It's a
track bike, it values multiple spares over perfect components without a
fallback, which bring us to...

....Metropolitan Motorcycle Spares are the biggest and, if they like the look
of you, the cheapest.
Eastern Creek Motorcycle Wreckers are trendy bitches and probably won't
stock anything for a bike made as long ago as 1997.
A1 Road&Race in Arncliffe used to be cool, but they've changed hands since
I've last dealt with them.
Southwestern MC Wreckers in Warwick Farm are likely to be quite cheap, too.
Sydney M/C Wreckers in Alexandria tend to be on the expensive side.
Brisons in Rydalmere and All-Sun (are they still) in Hornsby, I've never
dealt with, but the few times I rang them, seemed like a decent bunch.

If you wish to repay this gush of information, you can put me onto an
orthopedic surgeon who isn't a condescending, arrogant wanker.

 

Your wife's mate sounds like a highly competent wrecker.

--
Conehead
"Because they *thought* they where smart and could go fowards easily, after
not to bad a show first year out,they perhaps have changed to much and now
putting it all back again ?"
Hatz, in gibberish mode, again.

 

Will do, as soon as I find the tooth fairy and the leprechaun who's hiding
all that gold. (Why do you think I left the medical profession?)

Seriously though, thanks heaps IK. (Have you sold that Spada yet?)

Manning

 

Sadly, the girl in question would need a few years to get the money
together, she is on a very low wage and can't afford much. The poor girl is
absolutely devastated about the damage she's done, and I'm sure she'll give
me whatever she can manage, although I suspect it won't be much. She's
currently losing money from not working anyway.

I don't believe you should lend a track bike (or anything else) without
being prepared to accept the consequences, and I knew beforehand that if
anything happened, she would not be in any position to make recompense. So I
have no-one else to blame, and in the same situation I'd do it all over
again. The $4K I am down is not fun, but far from devastating either.

Generally I think acts of generosity eventually get rewarded. Maybe I'm
wrong and I'm just a sucker, I'll find out one day.

Cheers Manning

 

Well, seeing how the alternative is to be an arsehole...

 

hey, you're married

 

Awww, come on Marko, there's a pretty broad line between arsehole and
"yeah, you can borrow my bike to go racing on and if you crash I won't
be selling your internal organs to pay for the damage if you can't cover
it"...

big (says the guy who's Spada was crashed by _lots_ of people...)

 

And besides - what would IK's organs be worth anyway? Probably not enough to
get a decent set of levers...

Manning

 

I dunno, I'd pay you the price of a set of levers just to see his face
when he wakes up in the bathtub full of ice...

;-)

big

 

A Kodak moment for sure.....

Cam
'03 954

 

In aus.motorcycles on Mon, 10 May 2004 18:51:55 +1000

Check a Dr McGilvray at Hornsby Sport Medicine 99871311

I believe he's an orthopod, I had him do work on my ankle which wasn't
broken,just Not Happy in a very painful can't-walk way, and he was good.
If he's not a sawbones he will no doubt know someone who can saw your
bones.

Bit of a trot from you though.

Zebee

 

Nah, they're based in Tasmania.

(Personally, I think it's irresponsible to _borrow_ a bike you
can't pay for / pay the insurance excess of, but then what would
I know?)

-----sharks

 

Swap you for a magnetic monopole.

-----sharks

 

I'm glad you didn't tell me that before "borrowing" either VTR!

Hammo

Still up for _that_ weekend?

 

Done - they're on the shelf, next to my bottles of dark matter.

Manning

 

Hope its not a ferrous shelf.

Hammo

 

yeh and look what the last bloke did to it the best yet

get a new one yet ???

 

what part of the anatomy are we talking about ??

had my cage accident and still have my foot thanks to one guy when i in fact
should be looking around for an air shifter

he does feet and legs

he does charge by the arm and leg though
fortunatley insurance paid all bills

 

Save Ferrous

Nev..
'03 ZX12R