AW

So, the DR-Z being fubared [1], I pick up the new bike [2] on
Saturday.


[1] Fixable but it will take a couple of weeks to sort it all out,
what with life the universe and everything else.
[2] Mint [3] 06 Z1000 with 6K on. Should be fun.
[3] Silver actually.

JB

"AW" <andrew_wegg@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1183668935.507872.222080@57g2000hsv.googlegro ups.com...
> So, the DR-Z being fubared [1], I pick up the new bike [2] on
> Saturday.
>
>
> [1] Fixable but it will take a couple of weeks to sort it all out,

How much ar they charging you for the stripdown/wleding/rebuild?

JB

AW

"JB" wrote:

> How much ar they charging you for the stripdown/wleding/rebuild?


Dunno yet, havn't had a chance to sort it. I've been given numbers
for a couple of local guys that can weld it up.

Champ

On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:55:35 -0700, AW <andrew_wegg@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>So, the DR-Z being fubared [1], I pick up the new bike [2] on
>Saturday.
>
>
>[1] Fixable but it will take a couple of weeks to sort it all out,
>what with life the universe and everything else.
>[2] Mint [3] 06 Z1000 with 6K on. Should be fun.

Coo! Everyone I know who's owned or ridden one loves them. Which
seems odd in the face of TOGs continuous assertions that they're a
poor seller (which I can't actually contradict).
--
Champ

ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer
My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle
To email me, neal at my domain should work.

AW

Champ wrote:

> Coo! Everyone I know who's owned or ridden one loves them. Which
> seems odd in the face of TOGs continuous assertions that they're a
> poor seller (which I can't actually contradict).

They're over-priced as new (or so I'm told) and depreciate like
buggery from the new price - they're what - 7K+ new? This one, less
than a year old, from a dealer, 4.6K and there's some further
negotiation to be done when I pick it up - they won't go any lower on
price but will haggle over a lid or somesuch. Apparently it was up
for 5.0K last week but the rubbish weather is hitting bike sales.

Wicked Uncle Nigel

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, AW
<andrew_wegg@hotmail.com> typed
>Champ wrote:
>
>> Coo! Everyone I know who's owned or ridden one loves them. Which
>> seems odd in the face of TOGs continuous assertions that they're a
>> poor seller (which I can't actually contradict).
>
>They're over-priced as new (or so I'm told) and depreciate like
>buggery from the new price - they're what - 7K+ new? This one, less
>than a year old, from a dealer, 4.6K and there's some further
>negotiation to be done when I pick it up

Ooh, I *hate* buyers who start all that last-minute haggling malarkey...
;^)

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in
Performance Bikes and Fast 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 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

AW

Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:

> Ooh, I *hate* buyers who start all that last-minute haggling malarkey...
> ;^)


Not as much as I do!

Wicked Uncle Nigel

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, AW
<andrew_wegg@hotmail.com> typed
>Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:
>
>> Ooh, I *hate* buyers who start all that last-minute haggling malarkey...
>> ;^)
>
>
>Not as much as I do!

Heh. I'll have a ginga with me for protection. ;^)

No worries. I'll be trotting to the bank tomorrow. Do you have a
preferred denomination?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in
Performance Bikes and Fast 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 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

AW

On Jul 5, 10:44 pm, Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:

> No worries. I'll be trotting to the bank tomorrow. Do you have a
> preferred denomination?


Whatever it comes in, really. I've given the old bus a wipe over
tonight and it looks fab. Don't wanna part with it now! But needs
must when the Devil vomits in your kettle

Whinging Courier

In article <1183668935.507872.222080@57g2000hsv.googlegroups. com>,
andrew_wegg@hotmail.com says...

> So, the DR-Z being fubared [1], I pick up the new bike [2] on
> Saturday.
>
>
> [1] Fixable but it will take a couple of weeks to sort it all out,
> what with life the universe and everything else.
> [2] Mint [3] 06 Z1000 with 6K on. Should be fun.
> [3] Silver actually.

Black ones are faster
--
CBR1000 GS450 FZ1-N
BOMB#14 ibW#40 LotR#0 BOTAFOT#157 BotM#3

AW

On Jul 5, 11:22 pm, Whinging Courier
<markonuse...@TAKEITAWAYyahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Black ones are faster


Possibly.

Whinging Courier

In article <1183674613.677074.181270@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups .com>,
andrew_wegg@hotmail.com says...

> On Jul 5, 11:22 pm, Whinging Courier
> <markonuse...@TAKEITAWAYyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Black ones are faster
>
>
> Possibly.

Well, not with me riding it but that's what I've heard.
--
CBR1000 GS450 FZ1-N
BOMB#14 ibW#40 LotR#0 BOTAFOT#157 BotM#3

Bear

In article <5f5ageF39tvchU1@mid.individual.net>, SD says...

> I own three Hondas[1]

> [1] Yes, Champ & Bear, I *know*.

The CBX is exempt from all criticism, forever, coz it's just the
silliest technical answer to a problem that didn't exist, ever.
--
Bear

AW

SD wrote:

> I must admit that bike pricing causes me more than a few problems,
> from a logic point of view.


Logic....bike...


Bzzzt.

AW

On Jul 5, 11:50 pm, Bear <bastardDOTb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> WUN is a prime example.


Don't really care TBH. I like old brit bikes, you don't. Yes
they're rubbish in comparison with pretty much anything contemporary
from Japan but WTF.

AW

Bear wrote:

> heh. Self delusion 101 is working to plan
>
> See my reply to AW - "misty-eyed, dopey bastard with a large wedge
> burning a hole in his back pocket needs to relive the childhood that was
> once so cruelly denied him".


*Now* who's rationalising?!-

Wicked Uncle Nigel

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear
<bastardDOTbear@gmail.com> typed

>"misty-eyed, dopey bastard with a large wedge
>burning a hole in his back pocket needs to relive the childhood that was
>once so cruelly denied him".

<waves>

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in
Performance Bikes and Fast 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 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

AW

Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:

> See, when I was young and impressionable, my mate Adie[1] had this 750
> Commando. And it was green. BRG. Lovely, it was.
>
> BRG. That might be the answer.
>
> [1] Not that one. A male.


There was a black interstate down the road when I was a nipper and I
had a mates with a green fastback and a Yellow roadster...

Just one of those things I had to have at least for a while. Maybe
when I have more time/space I'll have another.

Though I have a itch for a Panther M100 that remains unscratched

Bear

In article <1183676111.944161.221820@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups .com>, AW
says...
> Bear wrote:
>
> > heh. Self delusion 101 is working to plan
> >
> > See my reply to AW - "misty-eyed, dopey bastard with a large wedge
> > burning a hole in his back pocket needs to relive the childhood that was
> > once so cruelly denied him".
>
>
> *Now* who's rationalising?!-

Bob-on, as it happens. See WUN's response.

He's hopeless, but he's honest.
--
Bear

AW

Bear wrote:
>
> See? Delusional.


sigh. I accept you hate Brit bikes. There's nothing to discuss.

Bear

In article <1183676687.633397.136640@57g2000hsv.googlegroups. com>, AW
says...
> Bear wrote:
> >
> > See? Delusional.
>
>
> sigh. I accept you hate Brit bikes. There's nothing to discuss.

It's not hate, so much as deep, deep embarrassment.

I would have thought a great engineering nation like the UK could have
done so much better.
--
Bear

Wicked Uncle Nigel

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear
<bastardDOTbear@gmail.com> typed
>See WUN's response.
>
>He's hopeless, but he's honest.

Can I have that (suitably adjusted for tense) on my gravestone?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in
Performance Bikes and Fast 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 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

Whinging Courier

In article <MPG.20f789d94d98c29098a1cf@news.individual.net> ,
bastardDOTbear@gmail.com says...

> In article <1183676687.633397.136640@57g2000hsv.googlegroups. com>, AW
> says...
> > Bear wrote:
> > >
> > > See? Delusional.
> >
> >
> > sigh. I accept you hate Brit bikes. There's nothing to discuss.
>
> It's not hate, so much as deep, deep embarrassment.
>
> I would have thought a great engineering nation like the UK could have
> done so much better.

Maybe they had the talent but the backing was sadly lacking and any
future development was scuppered, thus.

BTW, if you've KFd me, that's a shame, 'cos just for one night at least,
you're making sense to me.

Tomorrow's another day, but, but right now I want to bask in the glory
of feeling god[1] and good it is, my chum.

[1] Originally said good but God's about where it's at I think.

--
CBR1000 GS450 FZ1-N
BOMB#14 ibW#40 LotR#0 BOTAFOT#157 BotM#3

Bear

In article <z$2z8laHqXjGJAmj@rcav8r.demon.co.uk>, Wicked Uncle Nigel
says...
> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear
> <bastardDOTbear@gmail.com> typed
> >See WUN's response.
> >
> >He's hopeless, but he's honest.
>
> Can I have that (suitably adjusted for tense) on my gravestone?

Be my guest.
--
Bear

Wicked Uncle Nigel

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear
<bastardDOTbear@gmail.com> typed
>In article <z$2z8laHqXjGJAmj@rcav8r.demon.co.uk>, Wicked Uncle Nigel
>says...
>> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear
>> <bastardDOTbear@gmail.com> typed
>> >See WUN's response.
>> >
>> >He's hopeless, but he's honest.
>>
>> Can I have that (suitably adjusted for tense) on my gravestone?
>
>Be my guest.

I am obliged.

In fact...

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

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 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

Bear

In article <z$yz8kbX6XjGJAm9@rcav8r.demon.co.uk>, Wicked Uncle Nigel
says...
> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear
> <bastardDOTbear@gmail.com> typed
> >In article <z$2z8laHqXjGJAmj@rcav8r.demon.co.uk>, Wicked Uncle Nigel
> >says...
> >> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear
> >> <bastardDOTbear@gmail.com> typed
> >> >See WUN's response.
> >> >
> >> >He's hopeless, but he's honest.
> >>
> >> Can I have that (suitably adjusted for tense) on my gravestone?
> >
> >Be my guest.
>
> I am obliged.
>
> In fact...

Yes?

To thank/punish me, buy SD's CBX and bequeath it to me.
--
Bear

Wicked Uncle Nigel

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear
<bastardDOTbear@gmail.com> typed
>In article <URNaHnepNYjGJAx1@rcav8r.demon.co.uk>, Wicked Uncle Nigel
>says...
>>
>> You've still got to get it out of the garage. Don't think she'll be
>> swayed by a small thing like the UK legal system. She'll *frown* at you.
>
>From what I understand of her thus far, she seems an eminently
>reasonable woman, who for some reason collects basket-cases.

I don't think one counts as a collection.

Yet.

>> Never have I wished more for there to be an afterlife.
>
>Ok; here's a deal - you have my permission to come back and haunt me.

"Permission"? Are you trying to spoil it completely?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

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 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

Bear

In article <nu$moPgiUYjGJAVW@rcav8r.demon.co.uk>, Wicked Uncle Nigel
says...
> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear
> <bastardDOTbear@gmail.com> typed
> >In article <URNaHnepNYjGJAx1@rcav8r.demon.co.uk>, Wicked Uncle Nigel
> >says...
> >>
> >> You've still got to get it out of the garage. Don't think she'll be
> >> swayed by a small thing like the UK legal system. She'll *frown* at you.
> >
> >From what I understand of her thus far, she seems an eminently
> >reasonable woman, who for some reason collects basket-cases.
>
> I don't think one counts as a collection.
>
> Yet.

*ding*

> >> Never have I wished more for there to be an afterlife.
> >
> >Ok; here's a deal - you have my permission to come back and haunt me.
>
> "Permission"? Are you trying to spoil it completely?

I honestly think that you'd be more shocked than I.
--
Bear

christofire

Bear wrote:

> > > Look at it this way - I'll have to own a Honda - that alone
> > > should be encouragement enough.
> >
> > But, but, but...
> >
> > Never have I wished more for there to be an afterlife.
>
> Ok; here's a deal - you have my permission to come back and haunt me.

A poultergeist who flicks the kill-switch *just* as you go to set off
each time would quickly lose it's appeal. It'd be easier to just buy
the bike.
--
Christofire DIAABTCOD#1 DS#9 ZX-10R
www.liveforspeed.net

Bear

In article <xn0f8d6mxxapri009@news.motzarella.org>, christofire says...
> Bear wrote:
>
> > > > Look at it this way - I'll have to own a Honda - that alone
> > > > should be encouragement enough.
> > >
> > > But, but, but...
> > >
> > > Never have I wished more for there to be an afterlife.
> >
> > Ok; here's a deal - you have my permission to come back and haunt me.
>
> A poultergeist who flicks the kill-switch *just* as you go to set off
> each time would quickly lose it's appeal. It'd be easier to just buy
> the bike.

But that would mean I'd *bought* a Honda.

I couldn't live with that kind of shame.
--
Bear

platypus

christofire wrote:
>
> A poultergeist

Chucks the turkeys around?

--
platypus

"It was not yet obvious that the war
would bring misery to the whole world,
but it seemed probable that it would do
no one any good - except the contractors."

Wicked Uncle Nigel

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, christofire
<chris@ukrm.org> typed
>Bear wrote:
>
>> > > Look at it this way - I'll have to own a Honda - that alone
>> > > should be encouragement enough.
>> >
>> > But, but, but...
>> >
>> > Never have I wished more for there to be an afterlife.
>>
>> Ok; here's a deal - you have my permission to come back and haunt me.
>
>A poultergeist who flicks the kill-switch *just* as you go to set off
>each time would quickly lose it's appeal.

Well, quite.

<thinks>

If there is an afterlife, do you think cans of diesel would be
available?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

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 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

christofire

platypus wrote:

> christofire wrote:
> >
> > A poultergeist
>
> Chucks the turkeys around?

<bitew> leave off - it's hard enough to string a sentence together

--
Christofire DIAABTCOD#1 DS#9 ZX-10R
www.liveforspeed.net

AW

Bear wrote:

> > I would have thought a great engineering nation like the UK could have
> > done so much better.

I think that considering the management ineptitude, lack of investment
and development and so on, the British bike industry did amazingly
well to stay on top for so long.

AW

Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:

> She'll *frown* at you.

I tend to get the rolling of eyes rather than being frowned upon.
Equally terrifying.

Champ

On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:52:01 -0700, AW <andrew_wegg@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>> I expect to swear at it quite a lot fairly soon, mind.
>
>Oh yes. Ask me about the horn.

"Gives you the horn, does it?"
--
Champ
ZX10R
GPz750turbo
neal at champ dot org dot uk

Champ

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 00:45:46 +0100, Bear <bastardDOTbear@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Look at it this way - I'll have to own a *Honda* - that alone should be
>encouragement enough.

Oh, c'mon, it's one of the 3 [1] Hondas I'd be happy to have in the
garage

[1] CBX, RC30, RC45.
--
Champ
ZX10R
GPz750turbo
neal at champ dot org dot uk

Bear

In article <pfvr83heqgs0n8mk6rc6g8ovdsqdm8cnl3@4ax.com>, Champ says...
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 00:45:46 +0100, Bear <bastardDOTbear@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Look at it this way - I'll have to own a *Honda* - that alone should be
> >encouragement enough.
>
> Oh, c'mon, it's one of the 3 [1] Hondas I'd be happy to have in the
> garage
>
> [1] CBX, RC30, RC45.

Well indeedy.

Still Hondas though.
--
Bear

Grimly Curmudgeon

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Bear <bastardDOTbear@gmail.com>
saying something like:

>> sigh. I accept you hate Brit bikes. There's nothing to discuss.
>
>It's not hate, so much as deep, deep embarrassment.
>
>I would have thought a great engineering nation like the UK could have
>done so much better.

Sadly, they did. We had some of the greatest designers in the world, but
most of the scribbles never reached production. If they had reached the
showrooms they'd still have leaked and broken down, but oh, the
delightfulness of them.
<thinks>
I've just described the Italian bike industry.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

Grimly Curmudgeon

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Bear <bastardDOTbear@gmail.com>
saying something like:

>The CBX is exempt from all criticism, forever, coz it's just the
>silliest technical answer to a problem that didn't exist, ever.

The rotary Suzukis are right up there, too.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.