A parcel from a nice man in Ohio...

.... turned up today on my doorstep. In it was a wiring loom for a '73
CB450K and a couple of rubber parts that I didn't even know were
missing on mine. All that for something like thirty quid, which isn't
bad given that the wiring loom has been unavailable for some time and
it'll probably work out cheaper and/or less time consuming just to fit
this one instead of trying to unbutcher the one that's on the bike.

Now all I need to wait for is the arrival of the *other* outstanding
parcel that is on its way from Australia and contains a (supposedly
NOS) headlight rim for a K4. A part that Dave Silver can't supply any
more and CMS wants about forty Euro for one. Slightly more than a
tenner, and that's including shipping...

I know it's been said before, but isn't ebay great for ShiteOldBikes?

Oh, and the major difference between buying a part from a breaker in
Ohio as opposed to buying it from one in this country appears to be
that the parts arrive in their own bags, clearly labelled as to what
they are and what bike they're for as opposed to arriving in a torn,
oil-dripping jiffy bag containing something encrusted in ten years'
worth of dirt that, after closer inspection, may or may not be the
part you've ordered.

 

Heh.

I'd like to add that I clean, and even polish, most of the bits I flog.
For one thing, they look better in the photos.

 

Thus spake Timo Geusch unto the assembled multitudes:

About 10 years ago I bought a radiator for a knackered Honda VT500 from a
London-based breaker, over the phone. Think I paid about 24 quid. It
arrived in a ghastly, oily, misshapen cardboard "box" with virtually no
packing other than a few bits of screwed-up newspaper, and the rad was in
even worse condition than the one I wanted to replace. In the end I had
the original radiator re-cored at vast expense.

 

Timo Geusch was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Heh. And today, the parcel from Australia arrived. The headlight rim
is definitely NOS, it's still in its original Honda bag.

I is a happy bunny.

 

Bet it says " TOP " at the bottom, though.