You know I was looking for an early GPZ900R?

Well... errrr.... not any longer.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/260675740621

Bought it on a £1250 BIN. It was creeping closer and closer, and was
into four figures, and I was preparing a snipe, but decided that if I
was aiming to snipe at £1150 or thereabouts, another £100 didn't make
any difference.

Now for the difficult bit: explaining it to The Doctor.

 

Looks rather nice.

 

Very clean looking. Never *really* wanted one but it looks like a good
example of the breed and they were nice to ride in the day.
I guess you decided against the ST4S.

Mine has all systems go with Kev and Senna colours are in hand (1). The
forks are being converted to K-Tek Brembo radial spec also.

(1) Not grey but the black option, like this:
www.sfmoma.org/images/artwork/large/99.427_01_c03.jpg

 

It's not as if you'll have a licence to ride it.

 

That occurred to me as well :-/

****.

 

Why what have you done?
Anyway you surely have a Chilean licence by now..........

 

Cheeky cnut. Next summer sounds like fun, pre-supposing I still have a
licence then, of course.

 

*Snarl* Another wasted journey - all the way to bloody Norfolk.

It looked great. In a nice garage under dustsheets, and absolutely
immaculate. Owner had had it for six years. New tyres, new brakes, new
chain & sprox, new fork seals.... I was drooling.

So I turned to get my helmet out of the car and he fired it up, and my
head snapped round as I thought: "That doesn't sound right!" and
gestured to him to turn it off.

I fired it up and my first thought was that the exhaust had failed,
where the headers siamese. But no, it was induction noise.

It had fucking S&B air filters on it. No airbox at all, and this
couldn't be seen from the pix because the air filter is totally obscured
by the side panels, and it as sure as shit wasn't mentioned in the
description.

He was startled at my reaction. He'd bought it like that and of course
didn't have the original airbox and plumbing. I thought I'd give it a
chance and tried it anyway.

t ran like a sodding two-stroke. Zero power below 7000rpm and then it
took off. If you opened the throttle at 75mph in top, all it did was go
"BLAAAAAHHHH" and bog down.

So I left it and advised him, when he re-listed it, to mention that it
had those damn filters on it, but he said he was going to find an airbox
and intake hoses and put it back to stock.

He offered money off the price, but I simply cannot be arsed fiddling
around myself with it, especially trying to sort the jets (God knew what
jetting it was running).

WHY CAN'T PEOPLE BE MORE ACCURATE IN THEIR DAMN EBAY DESCRIPTIONS!?

 

You postings are getting *odder* by the week, and that's worrying, you
know....

 

You could've dropped-in for a cuppa while you were here...

Mmmmmm!

Norfolk Blacks!

 

Take it from this senile old git, if you are spared, it will probably
turn pepper-and salt.