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Offline mike the bike

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Re: New member from Bicester
« Reply #15 on: August 21, 2017, 08:18:33 PM »
You're right Trig, no one was more surprised than me to get £55000 for it.
Where's that 10mm socket got to?

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Re: New member from Bicester
« Reply #16 on: August 21, 2017, 08:42:50 PM »
You're right Trig, no one was more surprised than me to get £55000 for it.

 ;D ;D My first house was £11,800, knocked the vendor down from £12,320  :) Had to work night shift for 3 years at the grand old age of 18.

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Re: New member from Bicester
« Reply #17 on: August 21, 2017, 09:56:00 PM »
Hah bike-for-house a common ailment then. (and drums and synths it seems)

In my case I needed a deposit for a tenancy which is even more pathetic. It left me with enough afterwards to try a modern 'serious bike' so I bought an R1100S - it was very fast and very top heavy what with the generator sat on top of the engine, fuel tank after that, and I am hardly built for rugby, nor basketball. That was sold to actually buy a house and I wasn't sorry to see it go!

Had a whizz round on the CB750F1 this evening down to Oxford n back. The throttle despite quite a bit of cleaning of the cables and mechanism (smooth operation now) seems very stiff. Hand achingly so, it is hard to set the revs at low speed.


 

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