What ever happened to...

20th December 1998.

PS - just discovered : first GL1500 clutch slip post - 24/09/99.



--
| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C
|_\_____/_| ..73850../..18203.../..3184./.19406
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG*
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4
'^' RBR Landmarks: 5 Pts: 90 Miles: 455

 

Wrong again.

Oh dear, oh dear. What was Borg saying about "projection" recently?

 

Wrong. Well, right insofar as "possibly" encompasses a multitude of
sins, most unknown to me, but no, not the Bear I was thinking of.

And that's as much as any of you are gonna get. Nobody GAF anyway.

 

Nice.

 

Google is indeed your friend. Or your enemy.

I break into a cold sweat at the thought of someone digging out some of
my early postings.

 

Yes - I know what you mean - you used to write some quite good stuff...

 

<googles>

 

Memorieeeeeeesss.

 

Cnut. I remember using Internet Mail & News, Version 1.1 for the Mac,
and getting the piss ripped......

 

I found what I think was my first post, an attempt to sell a stack of MZ
bits - 24/05/98.

 

Early 96 for me.

Then I went AWOL for quite some time. Is it time for this thread
again already?

 

Yes and No.

I've still got boxes of brand new Venhill throttle and clutch cables for
ETZs, a load of gearbox shafts for 4 speed ES/TS models and other bits
and bobs that aren't really worth selling; new tachos (they just don't
break) and the like.

I had two Saab hatchback loads of mostly NOS parts. I sold them at the
prices in the 1983 trade price book - bear in mind MZ parts were stupidly
cheap - and still made ~£500.

If only eBay existed then....

 

I'd try popping a new tacho up anyway, just to see. I mean, there are
people restoring MZs properly now, amazing though it may seem. I bet
there's more than one person out there hunting for an NOS tacho for a
Supa 5.

I know how you feel. I had a loft full of boxes of gaskets and other
stuff. I kept a representative sample, but sold the vast majority for
the equivalent of about 50p a set - hundreds of sets.

I see that there are reports that the taxman is going to look at the
numbers of trades on Ebay, at last. It's going to be interesting when he
comes across people who break bikes down to their last component - as I
do - instead of flogging them whole.

"One dead Honda 400 Four - 275 trades...."

(What's gratifying is that my policy of assembling a sort of "bank" of
parts to keep the 400 Four running for the foreseeable future is
working. One failed restoration project I bought came with a couple of
new bagged throttle cables, which I salted away along with some other
stuff (new clutch parts, points, etc), and then flogging the rest on.

The originals started dying recently (only lasted 28 years!), and it's
very satisfying being able to reach into the box, pull out a new pair,
bolt them on, and think: "That's that sorted for the next
quarter-century, then."

 

I like the box it comes in. That eighties Soviet era design and print;
the gaudy colours and semi technical silhouette design (very iPodish);
sums up a whole period of my life.

The hassleometer is getting too high for my liking. I may stick out a
few cables especially as a lot of old MZ dealers no longer stock 2 stroke
parts.

Oooh, some people are in for a nasty shock..

I had to actually buy a set of MZ points when I prepared the Frankfurt
machine; that was a nasty shock.

Although my high point is buying a new gearbox layshaft for the ES at £25
then finding a box full of the bastard things.

 

LOL

I did it the other way around - sold those little orange reflectors that
go on the sides of the headlight shells of Honda 400 Fours and the like.
They fetch a fortune, considering what they are.

And then buy a CB750. Guess what it was missing off the headlight, just
after I'd sold the last pair?

(Actually, I've just sourced some more)

 

<TOG's first Post>

From :
Subject: Gaskets

ivE goT sOMe gaSKittS 4 SaIl iF yOu waNt TheM. CA11 ME If Yoo Want It.
ive g0T a mac Yoo no.

 

I've got a CB750 headlight shell in the garage somewhere.

 

I've got one in a box, somewhere. It says "AUDI" backwards on it,
from the bootlid impact - would that increase the value?