Bike wanted for unusual swap....

Greetings one and all!

This is a long shot, but I thought I'd give it a go (wot's to lose?).....

I'm an Old Fart (lifelong/year round) Biker in me 50's and I've been without
a bike for the last 2 years. This stinks (bigtime) and I *will* have another
bike in the New Year, if I have to nick one of yours!! (OK, OK, only
joking!!

My situation is I'm low on funds right now (like if you were *as* low on
petrol, you'd already be crappin' for a garage to suddenly appear out of the
gloom!) and so I've got a bit of a strange idea:

I don't know if anyone here is into 'serious hifi' and is into valves (or
thinking about valves) but I've got a pair of gorgeous 60wpc Dynaco Mk IIIs
that I could spare if anyone wanted to trade a bike for them.

See:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/keith_g/Dynacos.jpg

(EAR pre not included...)

They are in tip-top condition, neat as ninepence, virtually 100% as made
with no silly mods, although spares and parts for silly mods are readily
available - Google for them (these amps are Merkin classics from the 60's -
think 'Indian' here.... ;-) They go like the clappers, don't smoke or drip
oil, have reasonable tyres and have a bit of MOT and a scrape of tax left on
'em (enough for a bit of a quick winter piss about, anyway....) and are
*eternally* fixable should/when the need arises...

I'm looking for a bike pretty much to match the above spec. Not too fussed
what, but a tidy beemer (wot don't piss oil all over me boots) would be high
on the list. I paid £800 for the amps 3/4 years ago and they are worth what
anyone is prepared to pay - pretty much like Luvly Old Bikes....!!

I would be very pleased to hear from anyone who is interested/curious/dead
soft when it comes to swapping stuff.....

Thanks for your time, have a good 'un!

Keith G

 

I'd like to welcome the nice Mr. Garratt back to ukrm.
Unfortunately I'm in his kill file after pointing out
an error in one of his posts, as are so many on uk.rec.audio.

I wonder how long it will be before the nasty Mr. Garratt appears?

Here's what he posted on ukra (about ukrm) yesterday:

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Keith G wrote:

What *are* you talking about? I thought you were selling an amp?[1]

I'm not interested, not curious but a soft bike in the vein you describe can be found here:

http://ratbike.org/photos/y252pangk1.jpg

 

Hey Champ, thanks for the quick response!

I hear what you are saying, but I don't like 'flogging stuff' much, I prefer
a nice swapsie with a like minded soul - *cherished* for *cherished* kinda
thing! (I don't hate these amps! ;-)

Also, it's too risky - Dynaco stuff is plentiful in Merkinland and can go
for silly cheap money at times. Over here in Blighty, 60 watt monobloc valve
amps don't drop off every tree, believe you I....!!

I suppose I should have said full spec, audition and a shitload of pix
available to anyone who is interested, as well!! (I'm in St Neots, Cambs,
right on the A1.)

There might just be a little 'pippin' out there in 'ukrmland' that wants to
be mine - you don't know if you don't ask, do you?

;-)

Cheers.

 

Keith G wrote:

<snip>

Every time some twonk posts an unusual "swap" advert like this, I have
to:

a) Tell them that this is about the stupidest way of doing a deal that
can be thought of, as illustrated by:

b) An ad from LOOT I had pinned on my office wall for years: "Six foot
long Indian python, in excellent health and feeding very well, will
swap for Reliant Robin estate or van". In other words, what this
imbecile was hoping was that, out there somewhere, was some sad bastard
with a Plastic Pig who really wanted a python.

If these horrible things are as good as you think they are, Ebay them -
probably as good a bellwether of values as you'll find. Take the cash,
and wave it under the nose of someone selling a bike.
To sum up: money talks. Crap old hi-fi kit doesn't.

 

In

Excellent !

--
Steve Parry

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

http://www.arrivedeprived.org.uk/

K100RS SE
F650
(not forgetting the SK90PY)

 

<TOG@toil>; <>; <>
wrote in message

****!

I guess I got a 'Don't arst stoopid questions on ukrm' A-Level first time
out eh?



(Python? Who TF mentioned anything about *pythons*.....???)

 

'Snipper'

 

I used to love Noel Edmonds's Multi-coloured Swap Shop and the swaps
that used to come on as an interval to the other stuff that was going
on. They always seemed to be offering stuff like crap plastic watches
worth 10p and wanted something like a set of walkie talkies.

 

Strange, but mebbe no bad thing!! ;-)

As indeed I was (it was my son's) - I swapped it (with suspicious ease, now
that I think of it) at St Neots Motorcles for an incredibly glitzy POS
called a Suzuki Marauder 800. Wot a gutless fekkin' thing that was - a
'lesson for life' - get a bike out on to the A1 before you'll say you'll
have it!!

(No doubt that just pissed a few more people off in here....)

I'll get me coat, then... ;-)

 

Whinging Courier
() says...

I once came across an ad from some people who wanted the use of
an astronomical telescope, and were prepared to offer home-made
lemon curd in return.


--
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Suzuki GS550 "I like that. Nicely shite" - TOG
Golf GTi 16v
ANORAK#17b BOMB#19 BOTAFOT#138 BREast#5 COFF#24
COSOC#8 DFV#11 STG#1
Remove location from email address to reply

 

In the back of the Daily Sport was it, Sir?

(Dirty sod).

 

How very odd! Everyone knows the standard exchange rate for an hours
astronomical telescope use, is one 8" strawberry pie.

 

800ukp in 2000 at ca 20% depreciation/year = 327.68 ukp

Good luck.



--
Martin:
"For a minute there, you bored me to death."
VTR1000 Firestorm
TDR250 http://ukrm.net/BIKES/Yamaha/tdr250.html
martin dot smith nine zero three at ntlworld dot com

 

The python tale was 'an illustration', prolly dumb of TOG to imagine
you capable of non-literal thinking, if only Jesus had realized how
dumb the human race is, he'd never have bothered with parables.

 

Get away.....


<rest of the 'me too' butt-kissing snipped - can't be doing with it....>

 

Hmm, the amps in question are getting on for 40 years old, if you follow
this line of reasoning (you a bean-counter by any chance?) it makes the
average Vincent worth about 60p then??? (More with a full tank, of
course.....)

Anyway, I had a couple of friends round last night and we put the Dynies on
(not my idea and first time for nearly a year) and 'kaboom' - they fekkin'
rocked!! I had forgotten how good (grippy) they were!!

So...

Mebbe I'm not so keen to get rid after all and this morning's backache* is
telling me 'think Raleigh Runabout' anyway......!!!


*New development - had it for a few days now. No idea what's brought it
on....

 

What, the Pig or the snake?

 

Dry yer eyes Elrond.

Jeez, I didn't realise binning you was going to upset you quite so much. If
it makes you happy, I'll fish you out again and we'll see how it goes....



In here? He probably won't - I can't cope with the piss-few posts we get in
ukra, so I don't think I stand a chance in Hades of keeping up here. Anyway
I don't have a bike right now and I'm not a 'wannabee poster', like I said,
so I'm not going to stay...



Btw, bit pathetic that wasn't it? - Trying to 'drop me in it' with the
'rufty tufty' bikers in here???



Keep it 'Strictly Ballroom' Elrond and we'll get on - OK?

(Can't say fairer than that, can I?)

Eee, ya hafta fekkin' larf....!!!

 

Oh dear, another silly little muppet trying to impress the Old Hands here...

Wake up you gormless little boy - I've got/had him binned so I don't have
his fucking posts do I ? Read Elronds's words again - *carefully*, or get
someone to read them to you....

If only one or two of you stooopid ankle-biters would stop and think before
you post your clever little remarks, you wouldn't make yourselves look as
fucking thick as you obviously are.


<rest of the soft shite snipped>


Now, you'll have to forgive me, I placed my 'swap ad', watched it go up like
a Brock's Benefit and can still see where it burned out! But I gotta go - a)
I don't have a bike and b) if nothing else, there's no way I can cope with
the sheer number of posts here, despite the fact some of them (not yours
matey, I'm sorry to say - from what little I've seen) are a hoot and a damn
sight more fun/interesting than the samey-samo poop we get in ukra on a
daily basis, atm.....

(Good old ukrm, nothing changes does it? - A dozen or so *bikers* and 20,000
munchkins trying too look hard and get noticed....


So long gents.... ;-)