Now that's what I call good timing

Early August - win a couple of perfect condition OE silencers for the
Ducati, on Ebay, for £65.

New ones are something silly like £200 each.

Zymurgy kindly URs them from Born Iron, where the seller resides.

I pick them up yesterday, and we have a chat about buying spares that
one doesn't actually need, but which are too good to pass up and which
might come in handy.

This morning - the Duke blows a hole in its left-hand can.

 

Born again Irish ?

Nice. Result on your other win too ..

Cheers,

Paul.

 

Indeed. And it comes with a second bike for spares, which is a result.

As for the Duke - see the 'Paging Bonwick...' thread. Something of a
bugger....

 

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I'm surprised that over the years you've not discovered that ANYTHING bought
"just because" will be used within days of getting it. It's worse if you
*didn't* buy the bits though, because the need stays and you've got nowt to
satisfy it.

Examples.

I bought some new gold machine heads for a Gibson I own because they were
going cheap. The week after, I needed a new one when I smacked one off the
guitar. Trouble is, the broken one wasn't a gold one so I STILL had to buy a
set of non gold ones.

I acquired some 3 stage pearl paint in Kwak orange and promptly binned the
fucking bike. I neeeded to buy MORE paint coz there wasn't enough when it
came to the painting.

I looked at a SOC to replace my (then) current SOC (Cavalier SRi) for
carting crap and running errands. I'd had my Cav for 7 years or so when I
looked at a Honda Civic and was contemplating a swap. I got the Civic and
thought I'd give a bit of a tarting, but before I could, some **** nicked
the Cavalier and although I got it back a couple of days later, it was
fucked. I now needed the Civic and I never got round to tarting it up.

I stopped scarfing eBay soon after

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