Something we don't do very often is selling bikes, we tend to buy them and keep them but we really need a wee clear out especially as another big trip is in the planning stage and the fleet seems to have grown to ridiculous levels recently. The sidecar we have been trying to sell for a year or so, not easy things to sell as there is a limited market, however we have dropped the price, advertised it and all we seem to get are fantasists who enjoy wasting my fecking time, question after question, Ebay, Gumtree and other such marketplaces and all filled with willy pulling fantasists probably telling their mates down the pub they are thinking of buying a sidecar!
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| Just the job for 2 fat ladies, 2 fat men or a mix of both |
Our VFR, nice honest 21 year old Honda, 41K miles and very clean £1300 and yet everybody seems to be an expert haggler now, trying to get it for a pound and a box of old Beano's plus they want a full documented service history!
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I suspect the bike game is going through hard times, especially secondhand bikes, thank god I don't do this for a living! I suppose the question is why would you buy an older bike when you can walk into a dealer with no money and walk (or ride out) with a new bike for £3 a month for three years by which time you'll be bored of this biking lark and go back to the golf club, badminton Club or wherever these morons came from in the first place. I do despair for the future of two wheels, the Scottish government trying to dissuade youngsters by declaring a climate emergency! It's all our fault, people with too much money and old bikes burning petrol for the sake of it, remember when we had heatwaves in the past? Everybody enjoyed it and said how marvellous it was, now it's the end of the world.
Rant over, and so is the good weather, now its pissing down, so does that mean the emergency is over?
We did during todays climate emergency manage a great jaunt to Kenmore for an average cup of tea served by average waiting staff, the run though was excellent and we managed Glen Quaich both ways (I will not mention the complete retards who have no idea how to drive on a single track roads) It was joyous, the red Commando burbling away, Fiona relieved to be riding her comfortable and very faithful ER6 which has just come out of a long hibernation, sunshine (well it was cloudy but my head said sunshine) Perthshire truly has some marvellous roads and scenery and its great to be able to enjoy it, BTW that Commando is for sale at a rather high price of £8K but that's how much its cost me so far, runs well, starter works and it shines up well also!
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| This was last week in Aberfeldy and I think the T3 deserved a photo |
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| The mighty Norton in a mighty setting |
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The market for used bikes in my area is a nightmare, prices are just ridiculously high. Nowadays I don't even bother to search Ebay anymore. Recently saw an ad on Craigslist for a 1973 Cb-750 for a reasonable price. In a matter of hours the price increased fourfold because someone bother to write and told him it was too cheap.
ReplyDeleteThing is I'm not convinced the bikes are selling, I see the same bikes advertised again and again.
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Gino
Aye Gino,
ReplyDeleteWe was there! You need VERY LARGE B***S to pilot a 180BHP plus 'Superbike' into Taylor's at warp speed, with low light visibility, standing water and 4 abreast at 18:15hrs after sitting around for 2 hours! The sheer brutality of the speed and sound was memorable. Modern tyre technology is light years on from a TT100. Having the confidence to use that 'grip' and find the 'edge', without falling off is all the more salutary. I'm sticking to the byeways and hoping the technology will work for me at 40mph - 70mph! ;)
As for 'FlogIt', I haven't ventured there, yet! But acknowledge that most 'wannabees' will not wish to pay the asking/cost of refurbishment price and suspect that money 'invested' in petrol engines is a 'South Sea Bubble' waiting too burst. Maybe we were lucky in the halcyon days of the '70's and didn't know it! ;) They are all bonnie bikes and the VFR is only just 'run-in'.
Good health to you both, Myreside
Aye Bill, the "hole" still holds too many painful memories for me :-)
ReplyDeleteYou passed us Thursday night doing at least 35 at Almondbank road end, we were bicycle mounted but you ignored us .......
Added a BSA Road Rocket to the stable today.....I know, it's a disease
Gino
My apologise for not recognising you on the bicycles, it was not my intention to ignore you, just unaccustomed to seeing you in lycra or plastic helmets!
ReplyDeleteAs for the Road Rocket, it appears a bonnie beastie from the limited views on Twitter.
Just returned from a windy jaunt to 'Smokie toon' for my supper and a return via Tealing, Auchterhouse, Burrelton, Stanley and Almondbank. You'll be giving the Rocket a canter this week no doubt?
Myreside
No Lycra ha ha but helmets of course!
ReplyDeleteExcellent, Rocket out today for a shakedown, minor adjustments and I think it'll be a good ane!
Gino
That sounds good. Bros and Mono washed and polished today. My rattle spray job on Ducati sidecovers proves that I am **** at it, but G3 is the dogs at removing 'minor imperfections'! Now making timing tool for the Duke and the more wiring as well.
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Lovely blog, thanks for sharing
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