I like the Duc
I like the Duc
Quote Jan 2020 Posted by Katman
Life would be so much easier if you addressed questions with a simple answer.
Restored Kawasaki 750 H2
Up to 17K so far.
( no pic as TM pics are now getting to large for KB)
https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/mot...dedbf0424146a0
DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.
Now that is pretty. Someone should show that to the 20k one oft referred to on the optimistic thread over the years.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
Classic rego.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
I used to like projects, getting up early and standing outside the shop waiting to get the Trade and Exchange,phoning up hoping someone would be home and getting there first with the cash to buy.
Then the research of old magazines and books. Going to swap meets and rummaging
thru rusty bits to find a gem.
There were no repro parts much then.
Now its look on Trade Me, a few hours of internet research and hit the buy it now button, followed by buying bits on TM,Ebay and on line shops.
I just sold a 52 Triumph Thunderbird Project after it sitting around for 4 years.( there is part two to this story).
Lots of parts, many new repro ones,
My oldest project is a 1959 T110 that has been apart with rego on hold since my first Son was born. He is now 23.
I bought it as a basket case in 1991 and had it fully restored in 12 months and rode it to the IOM TT.
Brought it back here in 1993, it 'nipped up' and got pulled apart and put in boxes.
Got a good project story to share?
DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.
Haha - that's the problem for us "mature" types - how we best spend our time.
Back in the 90's when we lived in Tokoroa, I bought our eldest son a Suzuki X7 to learn to road ride. It was a honey of a bike to blast round the country lanes. Anyway, I sold it when he went off to varsity and astoundingly, it is now owned by one of our neighbours here in Coromandel. I say "owned" rather than ridden because it hasn't been started for several years. It also has heaps of additional spares which were purchased as a job lot by the current owner. He has no plans to do anything with it and I really ought to buy it for nostalgia's sake. Trouble is, actually riding my current road bike takes up a lot of time plus sea fishing with my wife so in all probability, it would just sit in my shed too. Life is really tough
Seeing as Voltaire mentioned the 50's T'bird, I've attached a photo of my 1955 Tiger 100 (photo taken in 1968). It was my only transport and carried me everywhere in all weathers. I actually know who currently owns it in the UK - good to hear that it still exists!
cool pics blackbird, i owned a suzuki x7 250 in 1989, it was a good bike at the time, first time i did the ton was on that bike {only just}
quite hard to find an x7 nowadays
'the stickiest situation since sticky the stick insect got stuck on a sticky bun'
Cpt Edmund Blackadder
Thank you! Yep, they were good for around the ton but their real charm was their light weight meaning that they could really be chucked round the country lanes and the howl was something else! Even if I don't buy it, I must go round to the neighbour and see exactly what he picked up in the way of spares. I know there's a whole engine plus sundry internal parts. I think he said he had a rolling chassis too.
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