SOB opinions

I've been itching to add another SOB to the fleet and spotted 140233837946
and 270238632593 on fleabay.

ISTR that these were nice practical workhorses in their day, solid and
reliable. Why do these two look different for the same year, was it a
model change or two optional versions under the same name.

What does the team think of these as a town hack with occasional short
motorway trips, the main objectives being agility in town traffic and
enough speed to get past the trucks in lane one.

 

They're shit.

HTH.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique,
typed

Ugly, underpowered, old.

Perfect for you. You should buy them both.

 

If you really must have a Superdream, you probably ought to talk to Zymurgy,
who currently has the National Collection.

 

platypus wrote:

Thanks for that, now I have the measure of what bikes he's looking at I
don't have to waste time opening the ebay pages.

It's also prompted me to open a killfile, anyone considering a
Superdream deserves ignoring

--
Lozzo
Suzuki SV650S K5
Honda CBR600 FW trackbike
Yamaha SR250 Spazz-Trakka
Suzuki GSXR750 L
Suzuki TS50X
Suzuki TS50X

 

You do know that Paul's got five of them in one of his repositories?

 

They look different because one is blue and one is silver without the
decals.

HTH

 

Heh. currently looking to downsize and relocate the national
collection of Superdream treasures, but my search is coming up
nought.

Have you tried selling stuff that is located in another country. It's
a right ****.

Cheers,

Paul.

 

That's a sickness, a different thing altogether

--
Lozzo
Suzuki SV650S K5
Honda CBR600 FW trackbike
Yamaha SR250 Spazz-Trakka
Suzuki GSXR750 L
Suzuki TS50X
Suzuki TS50X

 

Oh, that's what they are. I cba to look. If sir desperately must have a
Snooperpooper, the 400 is the only one worth entertaining. The 250 is an
asthmatic pile of poo. 400 has all the crappy finish and rotten parts,
but at least can keep up with traffic.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

I just need some time. Like 3 months gardening leave. However, I can
guarantee that 'someone' will find me better things to do with my time
off than tinkering with old shite in the driveway.

Hmm. Like finding a new job. Arse.

P.

 

Bit like selling a motor in one country for use in another.

You _sure_ you can't help me out?

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Reviews at the time alleged that it was possibly a better bike than the
400/4.

 

Bike journos, eh? Whadda they know?

I never owned, but had plenty of rides on both the 250 and the 400 SD
when they were new. Out of the showroom the 250 was ok, but they rapidly
became something awful as time passed. Only the extra power made the 400
tolerable; indeed, I knew a few couriers with an SD 400 as reserve bike,
for they could be picked up (with a wheelbarrow full of spares) for the
price of a packet of cornflakes.

To say they might have been better than the 400/4 was a travesty.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

I don't get this.

As far as I'm concerned, there are three classes of bikes to own:

1) Genuinely desirable bikes

2) Bikes that are outdated but tug the heartstrings

3) Pieces of shit owned for economic reasons.

It's 2008. What the **** are you on?

 

I suppose a lot depends of the objectives of the review. The 400/4 was
a nice bike for the open road but the extra power is useless in town.
Lightweights are all about agility and the 400/4 was a heavy machine
for its day. This is the reason why you still see city couriers on
90s and 125s.

You can have a lot of fun on a lightweight, they bring out the 1950s
teenager in me, I would like to get a Bantam to fool around on but
the money they fetch nowadays is just plain stupid.

 

I happen to like lightweights for town use and the SD was the iconic
lightweight in its day. Big bikes are fine on the open road but a
pain in the city.

 

It's not lightweight, though - it's a lardy old heap of underpowered
crap weighing around 170kgs.

That's almost as much as my 750SS and around the same as many modern 600
/ 1000cc sportsbikes.

 

I'm trying to arrange my collection of bikes to suit your categories
and I'm struggling.

Kawasaki ZX10R: Category 2.

KTM 690SM: somewhere between 1&2 because a 650 single *has* to be
outdated.

BMW K100: I suppose it's a 3 but someone has to buy them.

Acid.

 

Iconic? You must have lived through a different 1970s and 1980s to me
because I never considered a fucking wet dream to be iconic.