Thumper Club Forum
Club House => Chatter => Topic started by: mthee on April 15, 2020, 10:15:11 PM
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Ok, lockdown game alert!
You've got £5k to spend on a bike currently for sale online.
Here's my choice, costing £3699, with the change going to a professional to create wheelchair access for my son;
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264684118349
Who's next? ;D
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I think this is good value for money....and it's a Thumper.....
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/293497968520
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I like both of those guys!
Here's mine :- https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324089589385 (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324089589385)
I had a Funduro a few years ago and really like it, but these offer a really quirky road bike look and FI which gives much better fuel economy.
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Right I like this game and if I've done it properly I would go for;
eBay item number:
233511576726
I know it doesn't look right but I'm sure you can find it. I have a thing about 400cc singles having had an SR Yamaha and a GN Suzuki neither of which I should have sold. If finances were different I would be seriously talking to Herald about one of their 400cc classics.
Ian
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Vespa gts300 please ! At least it's a 4 stroke.. 0 miles ones for £4995 can't find item numbers .
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Is this the one Spooky?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/153851070467
Hope this is the one you're looking for Smithy. Very nice....I was thinking about buying one myself last year actually 🤔
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233511576726
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Mine would most likely be the red and white triumph speed triple... number 283844108916,
Miss my triples I’ve gotta say. Also I gotta say “good game, good game “ to coin a well know game show phrase 😉😉👍
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Is this the one Spooky?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/153851070467
Hope this is the one you're looking for Smithy. Very nice....I was thinking about buying one myself last year actually 🤔
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233511576726
That's the very one Ian, lovely and very practical particularly with an electric start. That was the only drawback with the SR and the GN they were both kickstart only.
Ian
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Ok, lockdown game alert!
You've got £5k to spend on a bike currently for sale online.
Here's my choice, costing £3699, with the change going to a professional to create wheelchair access for my son;
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264684118349
Who's next? ;D
Hmmm......Looks like an import not UK regestered...not sure if you can regester it as the chair is on the wrong side for the UK :-\
For Me - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264682744938
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Doh!!! ;D
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Totally impractical (probably) but I just love the look of these Italian mini-thumpers of 150 / 175cc. Although this one dates from the 60s most of them were manufactured in the 50s. I'd settle for a Mondial / Morini / Gilera / Bianchi etc!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MV-Agusta-Rapido-Sport-150-RS-1965-STUNNING/402133337630?hash=item5da103c61e:g:m0oAAOSw30Jd7OI5
Regards
Tony
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Aye Rossco,
The MV's a bonnie bike, but I suspect a bling special! :(
Half full nuts on the ends of the axles.
Brake arms half on the splines and the front brake arm at angle that would indicate little or no effect when applied. :o
As for what would I throw a few bob at?
One of these, not necessarily this one: MT350 (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Harley-Davidson-MT350-MOT-ride-away-all-original-ex-MOD-FSH-PX-Swap-sell/333562424207?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649)
And one of these and put a 10ton Boughton or Cookes timber winch on the back of it, even though it is out of the price range! ;) ;) ;): Field_Marshall_tractor (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Field-marshall-tractor/153721278876?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649)
Dream on sunshine! ;) Stay clear of the lurgy.
Good health, Bill
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Hmmm......Looks like an import not UK regestered...not sure if you can regester it as the chair is on the wrong side for the UK :-
Ok, my revision is;
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184196859063
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Mine would most likely be the red and white triumph speed triple... number 283844108916,
Miss my triples I’ve gotta say. Also I gotta say “good game, good game “ to coin a well know game show phrase 😉😉👍
Here's your link, Michael;
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/283844108916
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Vespa gts300 please ! At least it's a 4 stroke.. 0 miles ones for £4995 can't find item numbers .
A lad I work with has an Anniversary special edition one of these with an Akrapovic can. It sounds really good and he says it goes very well too. His other ride is an immaculately restored 350LC Power Valve...
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Cheers for the link Matt. Oh and the Enfield would DEFO be my second choice, good shout👍... I’d obviously take a lot of the weight off it and “customise” it... bit of a street tracker style. Rigid rear end maybe... ooo eeerrr vicar 😉
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Been on your brother's one? How's he doing?
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Even though I have Biggles my classic efi, I would certainly like one of the new Trials efi Bullets, but red or green ?
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Yes I’ve had a couple of small runs on big bro’s Enfield Matt.... life in the sloooow lane, which i must say is appealing more and more to me nowadays. I defo do miss my speed triples as I still think they are superb road bike, but I’m not riding anything like has fast as I used to. Plus I think if I bought another the temptation would be there for me to give it some ‘beans” 😉 So the tracker and my ktm390 will do me nowadays..... that is unless maybe an Enfield interceptor just happens to come up nice n cheap like.... they do make lovely street trackers😁🤘
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https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1190348
Ron.
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OOOOOOO yes please! That is lovely and very well done. Now where did my wife hide her bank book??????
Ian
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ural is still uk legal. right hand sidecar cutoff is set at 1981, anything pre 81 can still have a chair on the right. but as its not uk registered id just be careful, there are a lot of folks trying to sell late urals and cossacks as well as the chinese flathead copys as early models. im not saying this isnt. im just saying do your homework so you dont get lumbered with an unregisterable unusable uninsurable machine. check the pics against the model historys. that bike looks like its got an alternator on it, which afaik wasnt a standard fixture in the 1960's but it could just be a later one.
having said all that, im not sure a cossack/ural/dnepir would be my choice for a sidecar hack that requires reliability, they dont have a great reputation as long running machines. id be getting it fitted with a bmw engine just for the sake of being able to get back home again.
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ok, this is over your budget at 5.5k but he says in the ad that he is open to offers so you may get away bidding 5k considering that nobody is bying at the moment. this is a bit more likely to reliably start every day and get you home again without the assistance of the rac man. obviously you are going to need to find thee funding for the mods you need to do to transport your son, but you have the extra advantage of not having him sat facing oncoming traffic in the rh chair!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Triumph-bonneville-T100-sidecar-outfit/153890899827?hash=item23d49cc773:g:Uv8AAOSwZWpejPfM
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or this guzzi t5 850 outfit, under budget too.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Moto-Guzzi-T5-850-Sidecar/303540690080?hash=item46ac6f5ca0:g:R9sAAOSwh55eeQvL
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Love that Bonneville outfit!
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Always fancied a Panther M120
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New(ish). I’m tempted by CCM GP450, Himalayan, Duke 390...but all my bikes are Classic insurance, so maybe a SLR650/Honda Vigor with luggage added is a sensible cheap Himalayan?
Other classic options are Transalp (a comfy NTV?), Honda Dominator, XR400. Or maybe a NICE Cx Euro for £2.5k (mine is languishing). - strike that, I give mine to a shop and say come back in £1500 time.
Enfield Interceptor looks nice, but surprising long stretch to the bars (I’m 6’ tall).
Discussing bike histories the other day, the bike that was most fun WHEN IT WORKED was TDR250. Really opened my eyes after getting off T140. The two together would be a great garage full, but I’m not sure Igave the skills to keep TDR running, or out of hedges...
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Royal Enfield Bullet Electra X 500 2006 499cc
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Oldtimer, I think if I had only the Bullet, I'd swap for the two bikes you have now!
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Oldtimer, I think if I had only the Bullet, I'd swap for the two bikes you have now!
Oh you are SOOOOOOO tempting me not!!!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D