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Clubroom => Bike Talk => Topic started by: Quicksilver on August 04, 2008, 05:14:05 pm
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After reading about Colj500 picking up his XL250 roller at dump I thought I had best use my contact at our local rubbish tip ( His sister married my brother ;D ) .... It a hill billy thing .... ;) lol..
Looky what he got me today..... ;D plus some roofing iron I was after too.
Not a bad little bike. Mostly complete only real damage is to speedo and headlight must of happened when it was chucked out of the trailer/ ute. Bloody thing still has key in it. ;D ;D ;D.
(http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii279/Quicksilver_032/DSC00515.jpg)
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amazing ,,what a ripper, :o some people have no respect(busten up the speedo). >:(
girl question ! what year is it ??? thanks.
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Based on the similarity of the graphics to the ones on my 74 TS185, and the alloy lower fork legs, I'll guess that its a 74 model.
I've got my eye on a 73 (I think) TS125, but the price will be higher than Quickie's score!
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Great little bike,our son took the cr125m for a ride on a natural terrain track on the weekend and had a hoot :o Didn't come home with much fuel though. :'(
Should be more of these on the track,if the DO YOU MOTO can be so popular why not these. ?????
Some one start a revival ;D
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Nathan. When your out and about chasing up TS bikes if you come across and TS100 with silver tank let me know. Im chasing one.
(http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii279/Quicksilver_032/TS100.jpg)
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Join the que.... :D
If I find one, I'm keeping it, at least until you find me a DT100 with the cross-over pipe.
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Thats in better nick than the TC100 that I got given last week, a top find for a tip bike. I am glad I am not the only one who looks for bikes at the tip/dump. Good luck with it.
CJ
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Web search tell me she's a "1974 Suzuki TC125 Prospector" Ummmmm maybe I should restore it. :-\ One day. ;)
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$265-00 off ebay a few weeks ago AND LOCAL ;D ;D ;D
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F#@$%^&^%$*&*&^###$> ::)
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Bit of a splash with hose made a differance. Quite suprised how soild it is. Seat base is excellent with not hint of rust. Old girl even still has a battery in it :o. Its got faults as expected the kick start only grabs when it feels like it. Rear wheel has many loose spokes with a few broken ones.
She needs a decent tank as the the tank on it has a large dent on left side its also missing the coil. Speedo and headlight are badly damaged and will need top be replaced. The rear guard has number of splits and will also need replacing.
I will restore this old tub. Dunno why, just feel like doing it. 8) I will get to it in time. I would be very interested in hering from anyone that has any spares for this little rocket.
(http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii279/Quicksilver_032/DSC00548.jpg)
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Looks great already. :o
Quicky what is that little silver lever,just above the stand,near where the front sprocket cover is ??
Silver hammer head thing ????
Is it a pull start or oil dipper ;D ???
Thanks
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Nathan. When your out and about chasing up TS bikes if you come across and TS100 with silver tank let me know. Im chasing one.
(http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii279/Quicksilver_032/TS100.jpg)
i have one of these or somthing bloody similar but it could be 50cc ? did they come as a fifty i cant read the comp plate has the same induction into the motor deal going on too
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Looks great already. :o
Quicky what is that little silver lever,just above the stand,near where the front sprocket cover is ??
Silver hammer head thing ????
Is it a pull start or oil dipper ;D ???
Thanks
THATS TO TIE THE SHEEP ON THE BACK WITH.
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Looks great already. :o
Quicky what is that little silver lever,just above the stand,near where the front sprocket cover is ??
Silver hammer head thing ????
Is it a pull start or oil dipper ;D ???
Thanks
Thats the high/low range shifter. Thing has 10 gears ;D 5 low range, 5 high range. Neat huh. ;)
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Nathan. When your out and about chasing up TS bikes if you come across and TS100 with silver tank let me know. Im chasing one.
i have one of these or somthing bloody similar but it could be 50cc ? did they come as a fifty i cant read the comp plate has the same induction into the motor deal going on too
Email me a pic of it freaky. ;D
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Freaky email me a piccy if the "unknown one" May be able to do something here as i already have one to collect in Adelaide;) cheers Tim754
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Quicky I have a 73/4 TS125 runner and a 73 TC100 same as Col500s. Both need resto but which one leaning towards the 125..... Bugger Could have sent the 100 up to ya couple weeks bacK :( Tim
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Quicky I have a 73/4 TS125 runner and a 73 TC100 same as Col500s. Both need resto but which one leaning towards the 125..... Bugger Could have sent the 100 up to ya couple weeks bacK :( Tim
We'll work out a way Tim
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Na it aint got one of them hi range low range thingos, its similar shape but musnt be the same box but its a similar design. the kids used to ride it around in the paddock, im sure its a 50 or 100cc somthing or other
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TS50. a very close cousin to one at my sisters place, I am interested Freaky :)Cheers Tim
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Exactly how interested Timbo? looks like im going to the NAts so could meet you in transit if 'interested' involves coin :O) but not exactly sure i have the room though in the beast on this run
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yeah, check the dump alright. My fathers stoopid girlfriend thought a good clean up was in order and tossed out a YZ 360 (incomplete but with very straight tank frame and suspension) that i had stashed for a rainy day. I tell you I could have cried when I returned home after living interstate for a few years to find out that it went to the local tip!
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yeah, check the dump alright. My fathers stoopid girlfriend thought a good clean up was in order and tossed out a YZ 360 (incomplete but with very straight tank frame and suspension) that i had stashed for a rainy day. I tell you I could have cried when I returned home after living interstate for a few years to find out that it went to the local tip!
F#@k that. :o. .......................... Have your father's stoopid girlfreind replace it for you ;D Ya know ;) next time a nice YZ360 pops up on ebay. Tell to win at all costs. :P :P
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Rocket i bought a YZ360b frame, tank, seat and suspension from a local guy who found it at the dump. Where was the dump your YZ ended up at?
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I feel a warm fuzzy story about to unfold here ;)
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i sense an ownership claim :D
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i've got my chips and beer and i'm just getting ready for the show!
YZ360's mmmmmmm..........
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this is good nah hang on when i use to live in qld some one stole mine what the frame number :P just jokeing lol
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A well known Speedway identity and fellow Villawood club member of the '70's tells the story that during the mid '60's he took 3 car boot loads of BSA Gold Star and other old British racing bits and dumped at the Fairfield council dump.
Even in the mid '70's he regreted doing it. But he was philosphical saying because he and others dumped the surpus 'junk' it made what survived that much more valuable ::) ;).
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This is the bit that is ironic, you see my fathers stoopid girlfriend has still got the first cent she ever spent so it's safe to say she would have checked the cheapest way to get the bike offloaded. Mundoolun tip (near Jimboomba QLD) is (was) free to the public, but Logan Village tip would probably have cost a nominal fee to dump such items, so my guess would be Mundoolun (she can't remember) But what will haunt her forever is the fact that she junked a very valuble collectors item. So I hope one day when she is watching antiques roadshow or similar, the experts happen to stick it in one more time!!! I'm not very bitter about it though.
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I'm not very bitter about it though.
:P ;D
Yeah, and I've got a nice bridge I can sell you ;D.
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probably made out of recycled YZ 360's ?
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Shit...small world! The guy i got it from picked it up in Beaudesert. You got any more parts for it?
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Shit...small world! The guy i got it from picked it up in Beaudesert. You got any more parts for it?
;D ;D ;D :D ;)
There you go Rocket, you can untie her now and cease the slapping!
Mystery solved.
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rub the salt in
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My two best dump shop finds to date, $40 for the TM (was missing a tank and the pipe was wrong) and $20 for the italjet.
(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2008-1/1296303/Miniresize.JPG)
(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2008-1/1296303/TM125.JPG)
Over the years I've seen an almost complete XL250 Motorsport and an SL 125 both in bits. Of course at the time I had no where to put them. And to make it worse they wanted about $15 each.
Brent
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It's amazing what you could find at the dump. A few years ago when vintage was pre '75 and earlier, i found 2 RM250a's, one with no engine at the local tip. I pulled the carby off one of them and left them there thinkin they were useless to me...
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nah, Maico she might be stoopid buts she's thorough. Was old mate in Beaudesert also peddling a Kombi ute and a few XT500 Donks?
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Disreguard Wombats earlier post and tie her back up and continue the slapping...
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I would at least be happy to learn that maybe the bike was saved from being landfill. On another note, I once knocked around with a neighbourhood kid whose father managed the Browns Plains Tip. He seemed to have a new bike every month, one that i recall was a great find was an RM 250 A/B? which only needed petrol and a seat, but after ocky strapping a pillow to the frame and raiding the victa tin we were in business. There should be a special event for old turds you can find at the tip, call it dump class maybe?
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Hey rocket i remember him saying the YZ was in the back of a Kombi. The clown cut the straps holding the tank on instead of undoing them when he bought the tank round to find out what it was. I was hoping to make a bike out of it but YZ360b parts are a ridiculous price if you can find any. At least you know where it is now!
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This story is choking me up. :'(
I'm reminded of my neighbours little girls losing their cat many years ago.
Whilst they were on holiday the cat was being looked after by friends about twenty miles away.
Cat got out, cat got lost and the girls were heart broken on hearing the news.
Nearly one year later the cat turned up at the girls home.
No doubt an epic adventure to navigate some 20 miles of suburbs!
Cat was a bit stand-offish as cats can be - but understandably miffed.
Annoyed is a better word...
Vandys right, go back to slappin' that woman.
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This story is choking me up. :'(
I'm reminded of my neighbours little girls losing their cat many years ago.
Whilst they were on holiday the cat was being looked after by friends about twenty miles away.
Cat got out, cat got lost and the girls were heart broken on hearing the news.
Nearly one year later the cat turned up at the girls home.
No doubt an epic adventure to navigate some 20 miles of suburbs!
Cat was a bit stand-offish as cats can be - but understandably miffed.
Annoyed is a better word...
Vandys right, go back to slappin' that woman.
I have a similar story only difference is I dumped the cat 30 kays away and he returned 12months later pregnant ::).
Yeah, he was pretty pissed off and stand off'ish as well, as cats are ::)
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that cat would be worth heaps if he :o was pregnant ;D ;D. jimson
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unfknblvable,
did you also notice that the previous owner had also replaced the rear gaurd with a nos item which still has the label attached to the underside of the gaurd? Nice straight tank though. I believe the rest of this bike is floating around Grantham somewhere, thats where it came from. I picked it up about 15 years ago, so I am stretched to remember exactly where, good luck though. I believe there is an annual swap meet out that way, you may been just lucky enough to find the engine stuffed into some home made go-kart or something similar.
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that cat would be worth heaps if he :o was pregnant ;D ;D. jimson
Probably, but I don't think I would be worth much as a vet ::)
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I found a SR500 donk at Toronto tip a few years ago and took it home for $20. Few weeks later a mate brought over and SR500 minus top end that he was given so we put the dumpster engine in and with new oil and plug it ran!!! Then subsequently sold it for a handsome amount...
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Got another dump score today ;D. Will post a picture tomorrow. This time a Honda. Not a great collectable model, or even sort after for that matter. But Hey.. $20 from the dump and its in decent condition too. Cant beat it I reckon.
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design would have been more fun as actual 10 speed.... low range is seriously low.
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* A few years ago I bought a Mk4 Triumph Metisse less engine from a bloke who had originally found the complete bike on the Inverell tip.
* A Victorian mate was in line to enter the tip a few years ago and happened to look into his rear view mirror and saw handlebars poking from a trailer a few cars behind. As there was a bit of a traffic snag he walked back to the bike and discovered an almost complete Bultaco M11 (Bultaco Metisse) . My mate offered the bloke $50 for the bike and they pulled over and swapped trailer contents. As well as the Bully he got a Deltex Rockhopper and a cherry pre war BSA pushy.
*Another old Vintage racer found a '76 WR250 Husky less motor, One of those mid 80s Kawasaki 250 2 stroke racey type road bikes (KR250?), that just needed plugs to go and a nearly complete KLX 250 all within a fortnight at the Wallgrove tip in Sydneys west.
* Back in the early 90s I was up in Mackay, Qld visiting a mate whose job was to service agricultural pumps and compressors on banana farms and other businesses. I went out with him on his run one day and at the end of the day he had to service a compressor at the local bus depot. As we were leaving we spotted something shiny sitting up on top of a pile of old bus tyres and other dumped shite. On a hunch we walked over to the pile and discovered a straight as a gunbarrel '74 Maico narrow alloy tank. As my mate was an old Maico racer we got a little excited and started to dig through the junk looking for the rest. After an hour we'd managed to find an almost complete '74.5 250, the only things missing being the back wheel, seat, pipe and assorted nuts and bolts. The next day while Rob was working I decided to pull down the engine and discovered that it was on original bore, with little work under its belt. The big end was trashed but other than that it was A1. It even threw a good spark. The back wheel turned up a month or so later at a swap meet, so Rob put the bike back together and raced it in a couple of beach races up there before selling it off to Paul Chipendale who had Andrew Bailey riding it from time to time.
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i didnt mange to find ant thing at the dump but i found a ts100 during a hard rubbish collection i was on a training run cough to the pub ;D asked the owner of the house they said it was ok to take even ran just no guards so i rode the thing home ;D (around one block )
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In 1996 we found a complete SL 125 honda at Menai tip that only needed petrol. It was almost completely covered in rubbish .We still have it on my brothers property. The only work done on it over the last 12 or so years is a new rear tyre, air filter ,chain and accasional oil change.
About ten children have learned to ride on this bike and it gets a ride nearly every week-end.
Great little bike. My brother calls it the quite achiever.
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i did a big dump this morning but could not find any bikes in it
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don't forget that Firko had to dig around a fair bit to find the maico
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hoony you have too offer the man in the office a cash incentive /spotters fee and tell him to ring you lol.deepending on which tip .
i have a friend at sims metal lol
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hoony you have too offer the man in the office a cash incentive /spotters fee and tell him to ring you lol.deepending on which tip .
i have a friend at sims metal lol
Nobody could pay me enough to dig through the dump Hoony is talking about.
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i did a big dump this morning but could not find any bikes in it
lol...hahahahehehe....ahh hoony you CRACK me up.... :D
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My MR175 came from the dump as a complete rolling chassis less tank pipe and motor...........six weeks later a mate found the side cover there..........then about six weeks after that a bloke turned up with motor,pipe,tankand allnew engine parts ,still in their wrappers,and said if I didn't want them they were going to the dump..............silly question really !..........turns out it was a bike I had given his brother-in-law about ten years ago..................now I've got three of them.
Roger
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I grew up in an outer sydney suburb which had the local municipal tip nearby (pushy distance). once or twice a week after school, we'd head down there to scoop up the offerings from the seventies' mass-produced society. anything and everything was had from metals to jewellry to household goods of every kind to mags (of every kind....) to lawnmowers, bicycles, motorbikes (normally bits of) and cars. You'd be amazed at the number of old holdens people would drive and leave at the tip when rego ran out. We trashed scores of them in the scrub in every imaginable way. We all made small fortunes from onselling retrieved 'junk'. For some, it was their job and they made big money. One guy went on to importing container loads of Royal Enfields and things from India. Same dude ran a corker of a business cleaning out houses of people recently deceased, keeping unwanted valuables as part payment. Antiques in other words. Made a fortune.
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just went to the tip to get rid of some oil and look what i picked up while waiting in line ;D looks like a dr100 with a 125 engine its not too vintge but it was free so ill live with that even came with 2 new valves
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Its a 1988 model
(http://w1.bikepics.com/pics/2003/08/02/bikepics-58540-full.jpg)
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came up as an 89 k model according to suzukicycles.org
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My first real bike was a YZ125e It was a wreck, when i got it it would of been about 1983 I was 13 I had to tell mum I found it at the tip (she hates noisy dirt bikes >:( ) If she new I payed $75 she would have realy fliped out. ( One of the many bikes I should of kept Iwish I could find another one for the same price)
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Got a bit sidetracked and didn't get that picture up when I said. Anyway here it is now. CB100 from the tip. Price $25. ;D
I have given it a good cleaning. Points were closed so I opened them, fuelled it up, hooked up a battery and she ran, sweet little engine without a trace of smoke and no noises or rattles. Still had the key in it.
(http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii279/Quicksilver_032/DSC01539.jpg)
Other tip find this week is this CB350 twin. Engine turns over and has decent compression. We did a quick search of the metal heap and found the parts scattered around the bike. Unfortunately we couldn't find left muffler, forks, front guard or right hand side cover. This one I will restore. I like the old CB twins. It also has the key. Another $25. ;D If anyone has the missing parts id be happy to purchase/swap for them. ;)
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The 350 is a good score Quicky 8) I had one a few years back it had Dunstal mufflers on it bloody loud doing shift work I don't think the neighbours liked it ;D jimson
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The 350 is a really excellent score, as people pay big money for those in the post classic vintage road race scene.
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I might have to get to a dump if anything like what you guys have found is in store ;D
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quicky i have some old cb manuals kicking around cb 750 and 350 yours for post cost
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I might have to get to a dump if anything like what you guys have found is in store ;D
Go directly to the metal heap. Search yourself then go to store to pay for it. ;). GET A RECEIPT with frame and engine number 8). You need to look yourself as most of the folks running tip shops or the staff they use wont pick up this type of thing.
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quicky i have some old cb manuals kicking around cb 750 and 350 yours for post cost
Caps... Done mate. Email me direct. We will take from their. Thanks buddy.
Cheers Quicky
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Email sent ;)
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Dump day today !! and found this between some old ceiling plaster..Pretty brittle,has good colour 8) Think its about 30 years old ?
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i found a 81' it250 at the local dump a couple months back, in peices, about 80% complete, $20