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You can watch The Motorbike Show 1st series on ITVX CB550K3 Resto

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AshimotoK0:
You can watch The  2011 Motorbike Show 1st series on ITVX which featured a CB550K3 Resto (was on Amazon Prime Video but purchase only)
Features 'Pete the Restorer' who ended up in prison.

Had to cringe when they used bolt croppers to cut through some pretty nice condition spokes.

Laverda Dave:
Thanks for the tip off Ash, it's on my 'To watch list' now the weather is turning iffy.

Bryanj:
He sold it to a dealer with 4 carb kits as it wasnt running right.   PD carbs again!

K2-K6:
I saw that one (550 K3) when they traded it in because not successfully sold in the subsequent period.

Took it to a dealer to cut it in for something else, went to demonstrate its "quality" to the buyer, it wouldn't start !  Then proceeded to pee petrol onto his showroom floor as it sat there with fuel tap on and float valves stuck  ;D

I quite like Cole's program making, giving a fairly gentle look into lives of people much like us on here. Often praise and interaction with people who just like doing things like this. I'd not be critical in general.

However, its something I don't like in many programs of "improving" an item or anything else really, that often the editor likes to make point of the destructive part  .... the throwing out the old, to be replaced by shiny new ..... as part of the entertainment  ?  Always seems crass and disingenuous as prop to less focused content.

Some of the discarded bits I bet over the years would be ultimately valuable as good stock diminished for things of possibly unique manufacture.

I know everything can't be kept, but sacrifice to the "drama" angle always annoying.

exvalvesetdabbler:

--- Quote from: K2-K6 on November 13, 2025, 09:42:19 AM ---
Some of the discarded bits I bet over the years would be ultimately valuable as good stock diminished for things of possibly unique manufacture.

I know everything can't be kept, but sacrifice to the "drama" angle always annoying.

--- End quote ---

That's why my loft is full of stuff that might come in handy one day.

3 tanks up there somewhere, one has a lump of resin rattling around inside, one has a small dent and one has a small hole where an aftermarket seat base  rubbed through. What you you do with them?  There are pattern new tanks available which is a better starting point for anyone in need.

Regards
Dave

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