Having just waved goodbye to my classic Spitfire in exchange for a goodly sum of wonga, my mind turned to "upgrading" [1] the Sprint and a casual browse of Haslemere Motorcycles' web site yielded a ZZR 1200 (2002 - C1H), silver, circa 2.5k miles for £4895. Sounds like a lot of bike for not too much money. If you've riffen bot the 955i Sprint ST and the ZZR, anyone care to give me their thoughts in terms of comparisons between the two? On another note, anyone ever tried adding a little Polyfilla to white emulsion to fill in cracks "as you paint" ? [1] Replacing -- jeremy '01 Triumph Sprint ST in green _______________________________________ jeremy0505 at gmail.com
No idea I used to sell a similar type of product, some years ago, called Sigma Cemset. -- Dan L (Oldbloke) My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr Space in shed where NSR125 used to be Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Patio Ornament) BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow), OMF#11
Was it any good? -- jeremy '01 Triumph Sprint ST in green _______________________________________ jeremy0505 at gmail.com
Not really. What are you trying to cover up with this paint / filla mix? -- Dan L (Oldbloke) My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr Space in shed where NSR125 used to be Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Patio Ornament) BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow), OMF#11
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Dan L The holes in the Spitfire's sills, probably. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer As featured in Performance Bikes 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 Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer
I was browsing eBay last night and saw this 2002 ZZR1200 with a buy it now price of £3,850. Silver, unmarked, FSH, 9,600 miles, colour-matched GIVI luggage. I thought blimey, that seems cheap. Item 200025470516, 3 day auction, in Cornwall.
Just some very small cracks in the room I'm in the middle of decorating, where the plaster of the wall meets the coving. I'd already used some filler but it seemed to crack again after I'd sanded it down and considered whether mising some in the paint might do the trick. -- jeremy '01 Triumph Sprint ST in green _______________________________________ jeremy0505 at gmail.com
From a dealer, I guess that's par for the course. What's it worth-ish then? -- jeremy '01 Triumph Sprint ST in green _______________________________________ jeremy0505 at gmail.com
You need something more flexible in there. Some acrylic mastic, AKA Painters Mate might be worth applying to the crack, and can be painted over once dry. -- Dan L (Oldbloke) My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr Space in shed where NSR125 used to be Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Patio Ornament) BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow), OMF#11
Off to B&Q now (exciting saturday night!), I'll take a look. -- jeremy '01 Triumph Sprint ST in green _______________________________________ jeremy0505 at gmail.com
Top man. Alternatively, get a man in, you still have Paul's number? -- Dan L (Oldbloke) My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr Space in shed where NSR125 used to be Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Patio Ornament) BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow), OMF#11
You need to gouge out the cracks and fill them. Trying to just fill the line of the crack will always fail.
My father in law (a carpenter and joiner) used to swear by Unibond, no project seemed complete without at least one application of it. -- jeremy '01 Triumph Sprint ST in green _______________________________________ jeremy0505 at gmail.com
Read and digested. Have already established with CN that it's easy to insure. That all makes sense, but I really wouldn't want / need both bikes over the winter. I'd *really* like to see what a ZZR1200 feels like to ride. -- jeremy '01 Triumph Sprint ST in green _______________________________________ jeremy0505 at gmail.com
Having just waved goodbye to my classic Spitfire in exchange for a goodly sum of wonga, my mind turned to "upgrading" [1] the Sprint and a casual browse of Haslemere Motorcycles' web site yielded a ZZR 1200 (2002 - C1H), silver, circa 2.5k miles for £4895. Sounds like a lot of bike for not too much money. If you've riffen bot the 955i Sprint ST and the ZZR, anyone care to give me their thoughts in terms of comparisons between the two? Haslemere are stupidly overpriced IME and servicing is done by a bunch of fairing scratch happy monkeys avoid
Oh they seemed so pleasant when I popped in there the other day. I guess you can never *really* tell without 1st hand experience. Wasn't a very generous p/x they offered on the Sprint (didn't expect it to be of course) but I have to say the ZZR was like new. -- jeremy '01 Triumph Sprint ST in green _______________________________________ jeremy0505 at gmail.com
seen that tatty blue '04 R1 they want £ 5k for? the salesman was visibly eembarrassed when I raised the point about its condition vs price
Can't say I noticed TBH. It's not your local bike shop, is it? IIRC you're down on the coast? -- jeremy '01 Triumph Sprint ST in green _______________________________________ jeremy0505 at gmail.com
