Oh great...

There's an NSR 250 on fleabay not too far from here. It's one of those
bikes that I've always want to try so I'm starting to get the
Lozzo-style twitch...

And at that point I realise that it's being sold by the same bloke
who's selling a certain BMW RS that has been mentioned on here before.

 

Well, seeing that I'm also looking at an RX-7 I seem to have discovered
an oil well in my back garden.

Although at closer inspection it's probably the Range Rover again...

TBH there are a couple of bikes I'd just like to try for a few months
and that's one of them. The folks at work have quite got used to
changing the list of bikes I commute on on a regular basis.

 

In

I'm still mental enough to do that deal y'know....


--
Pete M - Scouse Git Extraordinaire
Alfa 155, Ford Capri (alive again!), Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2
OMF#9

"This is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules"

 

Well, I haven't forgotten you...

The trouble is that I've just spent around 600 quid to sort out the
problems that (a) I was aware of and (b) the mechanics found. So
somehow I need to get that money back. I guess that I can sell the car
for a grand or so after I checked the LPG conversion (I guess the tanks
are empty again...) which would help.

 

In

Yarghh! This is beginning to look expensive, however... stranger things have
happened.

--
Pete M - Scouse Git Extraordinaire
Alfa 155, Ford Capri (alive again!), Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2
OMF#9

"This is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules"

 

Well you do seem to keep doing this...

Might be an idea unless something really expensive is about to fall off, to
actually run it for a while so you get your monies worth, rather than
selling it on and then potentially ending up with another stack of expensive
problems you need to shell out for, on its replacement.

 

Around here, certainly...

I'm pretty sure it's the lack of gas - I filled it up when it was
pretty warm outside, the mileage just about tallies and the mechanics
drove it back on gas so my guess it's just empty again.

Needless to say the gas fuel gauge never worked.

 

Well, the trouble in this case is that I really don't like driving it.
It's just not "me", if you know what I mean.

 

Oh, I forgot - YGM.

 

they're all like that. about as reliable as honda speedos and GS
alternators.

 

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Cue Joseph Lucas - the man who invented darkness...

 

I feel the need to put in a good word for Joe Lucas. The reputation of crap
perfomance form Lucas electrics is mostly based on things about 30-50 or
more years old. There are 2 points to note:

1) The systems which were common then have been supserseded - for example,
we now thing a 60W headlamp is normal, even on a bike, or even 2 of 'em for
main beam. 50 years ago, you were probably lucky to get 24W.

2) all systems deteriorate. Take a look at the early jap bike electrics,
and most of them, these days, are just as flaky. Some were a damned sight
more flaky rather sooner, like GS/GSX alternators...
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Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twittering
from the strawbuilt shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing
horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed."
Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

 

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Ooooooh! Pointy stick heap good medicine, arAustin.