Thumper Club Forum
Club House => Chatter => Topic started by: guest7 on October 30, 2009, 08:48:30 AM
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Here's a question for you, what bike do you most regret selling?
I haven't owned anything outstandingly valuable or attractive, but I had a real pang when I sold my first BMW R80 and my wife even gave a little sigh when it rode away. I can't explain what it was about the bike that had got under my skin, but I did miss it.
As horrible as they were, I shouldn't have sold a job lot of two complete Starfires and one scrap one for £495!
I miss my DR350, not because I liked it that much but because I really miss dirt-biking. The DR was ok, but a bit too road-oriented for the dirt and amazingly uncomfortable (and gutless) on the road.
GC
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With nearly 30 years of motorcycle ownership under my belt you can guess I've let some goods ones go(maybe not so good in some eyes), memories of good times with some probably outweigh the actual bike.
I am left with a shed full of sh1t whilst I got rid of these;
Jawa 350 combo
Cossack combo
My T140V :'(
Triumph pre unit chop
SR500 spoked wheel, minter
CBX1000 twin shocker, well sorted
Z1000A1
Harris Magnum 2 with tuned GS1000 motor
S1 White Lightning
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Sell a bike - I thought you were supposed to take them apart and leave them in the shed...
Sold a GS750 for a KH250 and cash to help get the Triton running - GS was a lovely bike the KH was a pile of pooh, but the Triton was my daily ride for about 5 years.
Sold that to my best mate - well swapped it for a running Jawa 500R, he bought loads of stainless goodies for the Triton and then sold it to my wife as a box of bits - she was expecting a running Triton.
So not many regrets - oh got riped off on a CD175 - a non runner that I pushed across Milton Keynes to swap for a set of metal profiles front forks for the T500, the guy (Biggles you know who you are) then welched on his side of the deal knowing full well I would not push it all the way back again. Oh Well I do have "mug" stenciled across my head....
R
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Throwing out my old Belstaff as it didn't fit and was beginning to smell a bit weird. Could have sold it and bought another one - out of my price range now....
Richard
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XS750 - very clean, had only done 6000 miles in 14 years - I spent a few quid sorting the stuff that should have been done under warranty by the PO (rings, primary chain etc.) and it was lovely. SWMBO seemed to like it in spite of (or maybe because of) the vibration that cropped up at about 70-75, in all it was a lovely bike. Then I got stricken by Meniere's Disease (look it up if you're interested) and it sat in the garage, unridden for 3 years before I admitted I would probably never ride again and sold it.
6 months later I had an op that cured me - AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!
There's an XS850 near me I'm casting sideways glances at now ... who knows?
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Fantic 240, made me look as if I could ride off road.
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My old Suzuki SP370 - apart from the crap lights, a wonderful little thumper. I had fitted mine with a lower front mudguard, road tyres and gold (painted) rims - this was in 1985 ish, well before Supermoto was born. Eventually traded it in against a BMW R45 after replacing all the bits I'd fitted. Sadly the old SP was burnt out a few weeks later after the new owner got it stuck in mud on private land - I think the landowner found it first. Bugger :(
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I think just about every bike I have owned I regret selling :-[
I will include some of the list
1970 Honda SS125 (passed my test on this bike)
1964 Sports Cub T20SH (1 of many) including a "Super Cub"
1971 Honda CB175
1999 Bandit 600
2001 Bandit 600 Naked (...Wicked)
2005 Bandit 650
1978 SR500 Spoked Wheel restored (photo recently added on here)
1979 Honda CB650 Custom...lovely and comfortable
1997 SR400 Class Winner at Stafford Show
1988 SRX 400....now this one does make me cry ..letting this one go...but the kickstarts arent kind to my hip
I think these are the ones I regret most.... (I still have a photo of me on my Honda SS125 just after passing my test...I will dig it out and post in on here)
Ian :)
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Honda 400/4
It sounded just lovely through tunnels/between high walls etc
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Fantic 240, made me look as if I could ride off road.
From what I know about the Fantic it was a stand-out model, being very close indeed to what the works boys were riding at the time.
Honda 400/4
It sounded just lovely through tunnels/between high walls etc
My first 400/4 had such a worn brake calliper pivot bolt that on bumpy roads the calliper could clout the disk making a noise like the bells of Notre Dame. :D
Agreed, a marvellous bike, although I've sold two and given away two.
Did I mention the absolutely pristine VF1000F that I sold? I had no real regrets about that one as it was one of only two motorcycles I've made a profit on!
GC
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My XL100. Second Bike I owned and saw me through my 6th form days when I only had money from odd jobs and smoked. Ran for ever on a tank full and was the ideal bike for the single track country lanes around mum amd dads.
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Years ago I had a Goldwing 1000cc it was brilliant took me down the coast of what was Yugoslavia around Albania to northern Greece then over to Corfu then onwards to Italy I wished I still had it
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Has to be my 1976 KH400. Very nice and so easy to live with. 8)
As to which bike I wish I still owned, this has to be my 1980 XS1100E, stolen by pondlife in '93. :'(
Hang on , there's also my 1974 500/4, first big bike on passing my test. :)
Blimey the list goes on..............
Misty eyed, :(
Rob .
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I don't think I could go round regretting things, it's the way you learn. There are a couple of obvious bad decisions of course. For example I had a '94 F650, a proper one built by Rotax. Decided I needed more power and bought an R1100R that was a pointless badly made piece of junk. I was then offered about the last R80GS ever made, but like the idiot I was back then, believing the adverts, I thought I'd have another new F650 instead. That had been got at by the Tractor Company's cost cutters and promptly died in the desert due to the famous load bearing lip seal in the water pump. While I regret not getting the R80, it would honestly have been a waste, I'd have got bored with the oil changes or fiddled with something and wrecked it and sold it on, so I can't really say I regret it that much. Now if I was offered that bike in that condition now.....
I think people need to go through the stage of not knowing what they really want, or is that heading towards Zen or something. For me, I've settled on Bonnevilles and MZ's. Only addition I really fancy is either a Rotax-zed or a Scrambler.
Andy
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Now why the F did somebody have to ask this? The voices in my head are back!!! Thanks a lot!
T500P,
OSSA 250 Enduro,
Watsonian Bambini on aforesaid T500P.
Many other great bikes came and went but those were irreplaceable.
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None,
I sold the XT and missed it but when I got it back I sold it again. No happy with what I have had, do have and may have in the future. Part of bikings big adventure.
Steffan
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Hello Steffan
Did moses ever sell that Triumph? Or iam i thinking of somebody else.
Gaylord....Live long and protest!
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Velocette Viper 350 complete with the fibreglass engine covers.
newsagent from luton bought it.....he was reading MCN at 4 in the morning. was on my doorstep at 7 with a wad (this was before telephones had reached rural norfolk in any quantity !)
i regretted that as he wheeled it out of my garage.
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Xr400 for me, you you could do just about anything on on it (including falling off!)
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Hello Steffan
Did moses ever sell that Triumph? Or iam i thinking of somebody else.
Gaylord....Live long and protest!
??? I have no idea what you're on about ???
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Hello Steffan
Moses Triumph was heard throughout the land and stuff. Ok maybe not the most accurate quote but its from a old story book. I dont belive any of it because it was probably a BSA anyway.
yours the GAYLORD......
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Well Gaylord, if it's just a storybook, I wouldn't expect you to take it too literally. :-\ Though why your literary tastes, however incredulous, would be of any interest to me, I have no idea. ??? But hey, thanks for sharing it with me all the same.
What is interesting is that you disbelieve this story you mention on the basis, not of contradictory evidence, but on a seemingly unfounded judgement as to the probability that a triumph was a BSA? A bit like crossing a busy traffic junction with your eyes shut, having just been told told the lights are red, but choosing to think they are probably green...
Further wouldn't it make more sense to check the accuracy of the citation first before passing judgement as to its credibility?
Steffan
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Surely, just before the end, Triumphs were BSA - and AMC and lots of others too.....
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Sod it, i must have picked up a wrong stick. I snap your stick and and stamp on it.
Dont bother i is gone
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I'm taking it that this whole exchange was prompted by a reference to that venerable and ancient joke: "Did you know Jesus was a biker? In the bible it says he roared his triumph across the land"
(in basil brush voice) BOOM! BOOM! (not ;))
They say the old ones are the best you know :D
GC
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The actual quote is
"the roar of Moses' Triumph is heard in the hills"
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I had in mind that it was something along the lines of "Moses came down from the mountain on his triumph" but my memory may be playing tricks on me and no offence is of course intended to anyone if I'm incorrect!! :-\
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oops, was I too deadpan? ;D
Come back..all is forgiven
Steffan
PS what stick?
PPS I suspect that the whole thing is apocryphal. The only two references to triumph in the Pentateuch are to "triumphant" and in both cases it is God who is triumphant.
(At which point, he wraps his anorak about himself and heads out to the shed to tend to his MZs)
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She wouldn't be seen dead on a Triumph. Nortons all the way.
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Nah she rides a Sun. 175 Villers I think. Starts up every morning and manages to make Margam to Britton Ferry by night fall. Seems the denser colder air in the winter means she can travel faster in the winter, making the trip in about 8 hours as opposed to the summer when She takes anything up to 18 hours.
As to what any particular books says I guess it is all dependent on how far removed from the original author it is in time, context, translation, interpretation etc. I am sure we have all had instruction sheets translated from the Japanese or Korean etc via Swedish without the need to speak either language - ala Monty Python.
What has this got to do with the OP? Not a lot.
R
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So they post on here but just who is Gaylord...
This should answer the question! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMuV4TAcjmo&NR=1&feature=fvwp)
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ROTFLMAO! :D :D :D :D
GC
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So.....Gaylord comes(?) with a Bone of his own and is Ideal.... :-\ :-\
Bit different to a Rabbit I suppose.
Jethro
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HMMmmmmm,
Might I suggest, this is a bit more TC?
DJ Gaylord (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6GMUiWXvZM&feature=related)
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Bizzzzarrrrreeee :o ???