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K2-K6:

--- Quote from: Laverdaroo on April 01, 2023, 04:53:49 PM ---And gold sovereign rings

Mytchett Lark road was always the test track for the mechanics at Motorcycle City at Farnborough. It was like 20 Laguna Secas all rolled into one and always a great test road after the bikes had had their thing done in the workshop. Lived around there for a good 15 years.


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Ridden and driven it for years, now has all sort of restrictions on it as so many accidents from peeps lobbing it at the trees. There's at least six flower shrine pinned to the surrounding timber as testament  :o

K2-K6:
Haven't seen many...... Lark...... around there though  ;D

Laverdaroo:
Yeah, cold sausage fingers on my phone and the dreaded spell check gremlin

It always did have accident written all over it. Mychett LAKE Road that is


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Oddjob:
The bike whilst complete, well almost complete is a rust bucket, most of the chrome work, whilst not looking that bad is essentially junk, the front mudguard is junk, the chain guard doesn't look that bad but from experience I'd say it would be very difficult to replate, I'm doing a 550F chain guard as we speak and mine is really hard work and it only had small pits in it, those will be big pits.

I'd buy it to break it but I wouldn't bother trying to restore it, too much work and the 550F has some rare bits on it that are very hard to find.

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Fork ears will be rotted out inside, fork sliders will need hard chroming.
If it does not turn over who knows what the inside of the engine/gearbox  might be like .
The advert saying he does not have time does not sit right somehow given that it was his fathers - at least that's how the listing reads..
My thinking is it is better to buy one that already had some tender loving care /dosh spent on it that's cosmetically sound just needs fettling to taste.

Simons 500 is testimony to buying something already pretty good when he bought it that he is improving with his ownership.

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