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Rozabikes Tim:
Think he needs some "restorative justice" ;)
Nurse Julie:
Goodness gracious me...... :o :o :o
bobv7:
Not a joke, wish it was. The brackets were badly damaged off an imported 1972 CB500 Four and if I could have found some good ones or repro I would have bought them instead. I've never been a rivet counter and every bike I've owned has proved this but in this instance I decided to get the bike back to something like original. My mistake.
Nurse Julie:
I suppose in some ways, although £1500 is a ridiculous amount of money, if you think of the work involved in restoring them as an individual part, it does stack up, almost. Although they are just a set of ears, when they are mass produced using the correct presses etc , 1000's being made and chromed at the same time, they are obviously a lot cheaper. But, they are multi part items, metal stitched and welded in places, awkward shapes, with the tin work and chroming. If this chaps labour rate was, for example £50 an hour, which is not excessive at all for a specialist, he may have spent 20 hours on them,reverse chroming, taking them apart, making new parts, repairing parts that could be saved, re assembling, tin work, polishing, chroming etc, that can add up to £1000 no problem at all. I'm not saying its worth it but specialist one off work doesn't come cheap but on a part like that, its just not worth it, if you had maybe waited, or asked on the forum, a good set could have come up.
AshimotoK0:
My mate Dodgy Roger has the best way of dealing with people like that ... send the boys round to strip half of the tiles off is roof when he's out ;D ;D Don't ask me if this is true story or not ;D ;D
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