Sniff ... it's gone

My RD250 that is, loaded into a van and off to its new home in Wales.

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jeremy
'02 Fazer 600 in blue
_______________________________________
jeremy at hireserve dot com

 

As long as it went to a good home.......

I've been fiddling with the CB750 this morning, trying to find out why
the speedo and tacho illuminations were u/s. Pulled off the side panel
to look at the fuses, and a loose bit of wire that had been jammed into
a block connector fell out. And that was the tail light going on strike.

Someone had bodged a feed from the tail light into the main loom. Why?

Because when the connector in the headlight for the clock illuminations
comes undone (as it had), it takes the feed to the tail light with it.
Oh, it also serves the pilot light in the headlight.

Re-connect connector, and all's well. We have clock illumination, and
working tail light. And parking lights.

Next stop is to replace the bust choke cable & knob. Tippetts of
Surbiton don't do ShiteOldHonda spares any more, I've just discovered.
They flogged all their stock to Dave Silver last year.

 

Yep I think it has - familiar story, the guy had one the same colour
when he was 17 and has been looking for one to rekindle his youth...


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jeremy
'02 Fazer 600 in blue
_______________________________________
jeremy at hireserve dot com

 

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I'm writing something right now about that sort of approach. "Your first
classic" - I think the four reasons why people buy classics are:

1. Because they used to own one and want a wander down Memory Lane

2. Because they always wanted one and never had one.

3. Because they just fancy something old as an alternative to whatever
modern stuff they've got

4. Because they just fancy "doing up an old bike".

Price doesn't really matter for (1) that much. For (2) it's quite
important and (3) and (4) usually buy something cheap and in boxes, get
totally out of their depth, and end up spending fortunes.

 

The Older Gentleman wrote

**** me here it goes.

He hasn't fucking had the job two fucking minutes and he is here asking
us for fucking copy.

5. A basket case is all I can afford.

 

.... the fucker.

 

As a (2) I'd disagree slightly. I wasn't too bothered about the price of
the Zephyr, as long as it was "right", IYSWIM.

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X
BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

Am I bollocks!

(I will, though.... some time)

 

That's fair enough. It's usually worth spending the extra to get a
decent one, rather than spending less and thinking: "Oh, that'll be easy
and cheap to sort out...."

Ask Dodger.

 

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:53:44 +0000,

Eh? What now?

 

I was thinking about that cheap H1 you bought, which I so nearly bought.

In a life full of lucky escapes, I count that as my luckiest.

 

Heh, made me chuckle that did.

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X
BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

You also need to consider that many of us, at a younger age, had /no fucking
idea/ of what was good or not. Hence my pathetic nostalgia for shit like
the CB500T...

 

Where we you when I needed to offload three of the damn things, a couple
of years ago?

 

I had to look twice to make sure it wasn't you posting the comment above...

 

Lashed to the mast.

 

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:20:38 +0000,

Why so?

All it's had done to it is a cleaned set of carbs, and a new fuel tap.

Oh, and a pair of fork seals, where it had stood for ages.

Okay, it's been a bit fickle at times, but they were like that when
new.

 

And where do you think I fall in this?

 

steve auvache says...

6. £20 was all I could afford.

 

Thou truly art the Master of Understatement.