The Man With Only One Bike

<whimper>

--
Platypus
Z200 - The Kontinent Krusher
DIAABTCOD#2 GPOTHUF#19 IbW#47
BOTAFOS#6 BOTAFOT#89 FTB#11
BOB#1 SBS#35 ANORAK#18 TWA#15
IBB#9 OMF#21

 

A Z200? I had one. I found every ride surprisingly forgetful.

 

I've already agreed to buy a well-used sports-tourer. I won't need two.

 

You needed to take it on more interesting rides, then.

 

platypus wrote

Why? Now you have no need to make a choice of steed when you ride.
Decisions are not good things to have to be making when you are riding,
having one less is a bonus.

 

When do you want to take delivery?

 

Not bad for a furriner, not bad at all.

 

I fear the Z200's brakes.

 

ASAP, ideally, but I won't have sufficient funds until the end of the month.

 

Kawasaki have 0% on their new bikes at the moment, spread over three
years.

Apparently. I'm trying not to think about it. Or the 700 quid-ish FC
quote I got from motorcycle direct.

<twitch>

 

platypus wrote

All men fear what they do not understand. You should be lusting after
what you do not have.

 

Next Friday (31st) evening?

 

I understand them all right: they're crap. I lust after decent brakes.

 

I've done the "new Kawasaki" thing.

A beige one?

 

It was the 0% finance that finally made me go and buy the 10R. Once I
found someone willing to sell me one at what I considered a good price
it was a done deal. Of course the fact that it was blatantly obvious
that Kawasaki would sanitise the fucking thing when the new model came
out didn't influence me at all...

 

platypus said...

I have a spare GPZ500 front caliper here, yours for fiver. You'll find a
m/cyl cheap and I'm sure you can molish a mounting bracket for it.

 

If I didn't suspect you'd already had the snip I'd make sure I removed
any chance you had of breeding in the future by kicking your bollocks
up and out of the top of your head.

 

I think a GPZ500 caliper on a Z200 would be even more frightening than
the OE cable version, IYSWIM.

I mean, you'd flip the bike completely over.

<Pause. Thinks>

OK, as you were.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Christofire

Oh.

****.

I do not want a ZZR1400, I do not want a ZZR1400, I do not want a
ZZR1400, I do not want a ZZR1400, I do not want a ZZR1400, I do not want
a ZZR1400, I do not want a ZZR1400, I do not want a ZZR1400, I do not
want a ZZR1400, I do not want a ZZR1400, I do not want a ZZR1400, I do
want a ZZR1400, I do want a ZZR1400, I do want a ZZR1400, I do want
a ZZR1400, I do want a ZZR1400, I do want a ZZR1400...

Erm...

Anyone interested in a GTS1000 at all?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of
the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

As I've clearly not been paying attention, what happened to the Garage
Queen's ugly sister?