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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: Nathan S on June 13, 2009, 09:53:44 pm
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Everyone has a story of the bike that they wish they still owned - whether its the 490 Maico that sold in 1987 for $500, or the YZ360A that they got a case of KB larger for, everyone has a story....
What's yours?
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Mine story is pretty under-whelming - its a 1977 Honda XL175. I got this bike in 1987, through a round-about process, but it was my first bike (and my first rebuild, now that I think of it).
It got flogged to hell and back - drowned, jumped, over-revved, crashed, neglected and generally treated quite poorly. Eventually, it becoming a problem child due to having both a slipping clutch and stripped kick-starter splines (think about it).
As a late teen I sold it for $50 to a mate. He on-sold it to another mate for $50, and I'm pretty sure it got burnt in the bushfires of Xmas day 2001.
Of all of the bikes I've sold since, it would be the bike that I'd love back. Yes, I know that it was a flogged out old paddock bike, but I still wish I had it.
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Mine would be a YZ100C I bought it in 1977 it was like new not a mark on it, I kept it for three months raced it once and than sold it. I don't think there were to many of them around, even back then. All I have is a shitty out of focus photo of it to remember it by.
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All of them...
But I guess in particular, my 1980 IT175G. For some reason that thing struck a chord with me, even though it was the worst wheelie bike ever. My favourite dirtbike thing to do was wheelies, and I was passably good at them. The IT however had a nearly vertical balance point, and at that time I didn't know to use the rear brake... Anyway, I sold it to buy an XT500G. Go figure. Glad I have an IT175G under resto right now, but I'd rather have the original. Second would be my 1979 TT500F. I know where that one is, one day I'll make the effort to buy it back.
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worked all summer at the local paper mill to save enough to buy a Mugen ME250 kit from Al Baker - ended up selling the 80 kitted CR250 for $750 - wish I still had that as it was awesome!
Rossco
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Back in 1980 my older brother bought a new IT 175G. I was under strict instruction NOT to ride it - he made it clear that physical harm would follow if ridden. It was too much for me and I took it around the block one day before he got home from work. There had been a recent shower and the road was steaming and shimmering as I went around. The last corner before home and the bike was warm and I wanted to know if it had much go , so I wound on the throttle and wound up on my bum. I did my best to cover up the scrapes but it had never been down, so my goose was cooked. I never got to ride another! Bit of a shame that.
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Rossco you Dickhead, how could you!!!!!!!!!!!
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Rossco you Dickhead, how could you!!!!!!!!!!!
You must know rossco!!lol
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Rossco I am amazed you got so much for that red lemon....
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I wish I'd never sold my...
1977 XR75K4 (purchased new)
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Weslake Mk4 500 Speedway Bike
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sorry I confessed now!!! Craig - go to buggery ;D
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Rossco
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September build 1973 GTR XU1 (Tangerine)
It was one of the (reported to be) Bathurst models.
Sold in 1998 for $6K, good money at the time. Same car was sold 6 months ago, post restoration, at a Classic Car auction for a reported $135,000
Money aside, it was the car that i always wanted and i will never be able to have again.
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Bahnsy has done you a favour Rossco, I'm now turning my disgust onto him. Bahnsy, how could you? you must be pissed off I reckon
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3 x Beeza Bantams and 1 x Deckson Eagle 80
as for cars my genuine green and gold Goss Special hardtop should have stayed but I don't get so emotional over cars ::)
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Should have kept my '79 CR360 mugen Fox bike imported from the US. I sold it a few years ago after building a 490 Maico that was better to ride but the Mugen was cool and much rarer.
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My 1967 XR Falcon. 100% original 289 V8. I put a twin system on it and then, curse myself, removed the lovely original bench seat and installed two XD Falcon bucket seats. Sacrilege! It went really well and looked great in white. Sold it for very little, before they became worth money. Best vehicle I've ever sold was my 1982 Range Rover. I celebrated for days! I sold that for three times more than the XR Falcon. Now I could buy 20 RR's for one XR..
The bike I regret selling was my 1988 KDX200. I bought it new (the only bike I bought new) and I loved it. I should never have sold it and I wish I had it now. I sold it after going for a ride at Stockton beach on a mates YZ250. Never liked the YZ (as an enduro bike). Damn.
And the wife regrets me buying and selling most vehicles, and far too often. And has never forgiven me for selling the Subaru Forrester we had from new, and then buying an Alfa 156. Silliest car I've ever owned, and I've owned a Triumph Herald!
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WILL NEVER SELL the Torana 8) good bikes and bloody good memories, and that's all they will be ;D
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my 48 215 panel van. any one know what that is?? yes car
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An "FX" Holden.
If we're talking cars, then I wish I'd never sold my Series 4 Mazda RX-2. Probably THE rarest of the old Mazdas in this country.
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my ex ray vandenberg rm500 for obvious reasons :'(
my atk 605 cool bike 8) :'(
and my 1968 black corvette convertable doh :'(
come to realise now i think long and hard before i sell something
i like ;)
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Ex Jeff Leisk 84CR500 RE. sold it in 1986 to a kid from Brisbane for I think $1500. As soon as he wheeled it out the door I knew I had done the wrong thing. Also my 85 CR500 RF. I rode that in everything mx,dirt track,long track,desert racing, road racing all with just a change of wheels & gearing
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My SLR 5000, it could tow a bike trailer with 2 bikes quite comfortably at 180 Kph ::)
My KX 250 A3, sold for $50.00 as it had blown windings in the ignition, new ignition at the time was around $300.00 plus, much more than what the bike was worth at the time.
KX 250 A4, swapped it for an old road bike that I never used. Couldn't give it away at the time, was lucky to unload it before it became worth even less ::)
My 86 KDX 200 & 87 KX 125
Should have put the 200 motor in the KX frame for 88.
Still think about doing it now.
My green Acerbis headlight & KDX rear guard, stored them for 19 years, e-bayed them after a shed clean up.
18 months later I aquire a KDX, missing headlight & rear guard. Doh
I would be hopeless trying to predict the stock market.
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My Husky 360 Auto back in 1977, My 490 Maico in 1983 and the 250 square barrel Maico that was resold recently for 4 times what I sold it for. For road bikes I shouldn't have sold my Yoshi equipped Kawasaki Z1R mK1 to the dipshit that wrecked it within a week of buying it. As far as cars go I still regret selling my ex Apendix J road racer turned road car turned drag car FJ but I'm glad it's still living in good hands in Mackay NQ.
BELOW...Me and my beloved beige FJ with my mate Bill and his 48/215 (a genuine 48 model) at his grandmas South Coast holiday house circa 1971. That was the first time we ever took our girlfriends away for a whole weekend sleepover and I remember every moment. Funny that ;)
(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-8/1062154/fj%20holden.jpg)
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3 x Beeza Bantams and 1 x Deckson Eagle 80
as for cars my genuine green and gold Goss Special hardtop should have stayed but I don't get so emotional over cars ::)
doc , i had the blue goss , only car i have ever missed , and it went 25 years ago , best mechanical sex aid a young man could own ,
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Silliest car I've ever owned, and I've owned a Triumph Herald!
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Triumph Herald I had one of those it was my first car I sold it a few weeks ago.
The one thing I will say in it's defence is that from the top of dandenongs to the bottom not even a hot holden/Ford could keep as they had to brake on the corners. :-)
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JohnnyO
I could own the 79CR360 Mugen Fox bike, I purchased from Mike Downey two years ago.
Bike has since been restored, I raced it for one Viper season.
Mainly just like to look at it.
Frank
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No 1
I did a beautiful resto on a DT2 in about 1977 and I thought it was a bit boring compared with my other bikes at the time so I sold it quite cheap ($300) to a mate who wanted a bike to ride to work. I would have sold it for lots more if it hadn't been my mate. He didn't think much of it either and 2 weeks later sold it for $800 before I even knew he was thinking of selling it. I now sell things for what they are worth (to mates or strangers).
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FIAT 124 sedan rally car I sold in 1988 for $1500 when moving to Townsville. The logic was I was going to be driving a company car up there and I had two other cars already. I did like it a lot, but the 124 didn't have A/C (duh) so it went to some loony who blew it up within 2 weeks of getting it and he then just left it in the street with expired rego (still in my name). The Main Roads dept got up me for "dumping" it and I later realised it was way better fun to drive than any car I have had since.
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Pigmy that would be my old 360 Mugen, i sold it to Mike a few years ago. Do you still ride it? Is it still painted in Fox colours?
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I wish I had never sold my 1994 Husaberg :-\, but I was fortunate enough to buy it back!, still bewildered by my good fortune!, Thanx Bahnsy ;)
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JohnnyO, I do race the bike in Viper series, find the bike a bit of a handful.
Lee Hogan former pro racer loaned the bike for a photo shoot and article on vintage mx, featured in
dirt action magazine about a 18 months ago.
Will send you article if i can find it, he rates the engine highly, suspension poor.
The bike needs fox colors added to tank to complete.
I remember when Mike first got the bike and how good a condition it was in.
I also imported my RA125 from the USA, it was ridden by Brian Myerscough in the the US nationals.
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Hey Pigmy i would love to see a photo of your RA 125 if you cant post photos feel free to email it to me [email protected]
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Pigmy is there any factory parts or trick stuff on your 125? The 360 would look right if the tank was repainted in Fox colours. It was apparently a genuine Fox factory built bike from the US. Got any pics of it and the 125?
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Wish I had never sold my YZ250J (had the radiator on the front guard....)
Swapped it for a Yammie SRX250 commuter bike! What a dumbarse!!! The YZ never ran right, I think it was something to do with the homemade powervalve I turned up on my Dads lathe after blowing the old one out the side while riding a hare scramble....
Swapped th SRX for an XR600 and sold that to build a diff for my A9X Torana Hatch......
Then I was made to sell that to by a bloody house!!!!!
( You can live in a car but you cant race a house!!)
Could never get the powervalve linkages to work right on the old YZ anyway.....
After all this I still loved the thing and would LOVE to have it back.....
Last time I saw it, it had a purple painted frame, bodged up exhaust, and a purpley splotchy patterned seat....
Anyone know where it is now in NZ????????
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Silliest car I've ever owned, and I've owned a Triumph Herald!
nothingn wrong with the herald, i build one and restored it when i was a kid, kept it for years, stored under cover till finally sold it off, turn up 3 years later with some fat wog driving with the roof off and i nearly cried. it was like your fat uncle ridding your new Pee wee, i was almost tooting my horn at the light to tell him to get out..........
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So....let me get this right Freaky. Fat wogs aren't allowed to drive their own Triumph Heralds with the top down. ;D That's politically incorrect on so many different levels yet so bloody funny.
I had a Triumph Herald for about 3 weeks when I was a kid and it was without doubt the worst piece of shite I've ever owned. Sadly I couldn't find a fat wog to sell it to so I gave it to a bloke who stuck a 272 Customline V8 in it and raced it at Castlereagh drags until they told him it was a dangerous piece of crap and not to bring it back.
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my 1st car was a Triumph herald too,twin SU's,semi extractors,(not quite the full bit ?? ::),4 on the floor,very cool 8),sold it to an old lady for $2fiddy,she wrapped it round a telegraph pole pissed 1 week later,couda cried,my hero was a guy 2 streets away with a grey motor shoved in his,chained the rear axles for limited movement,regret selling my 73 B50SS,seemed like a good idea at the time :P
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Ahh foresigtht I wish I had some.
Sold the Vincent to finance a waterbottle speedway outfit. Yep what a fool. Even hated it when built as it was a light switch. The Cole-Elstar I got from Donny Stafford (basically an aluminium jap but looked way cool) and finally my lime green Sandman Panelvan and a laugh for eveyone the orange P76 I was bequeathed. Wish I had them now. While the P76 would have boiled going round the block I would still like to tow the bikes with the van.
NQ Rosco
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Na the herald was a sweety, only car i owned where i could unbolt the complete body work ,take it off and work on the chassis rails, and how cool was the nose cone, maybe you just didnt set up the rear independant suspenions right ? I had a mate who had a Ford cosworth motor in one from and early lotus cortina with downdraft webers, it also had some vented trick brakes on the front, wish i knew where that ended up. I remember we stuck a lead weight on the front bar to keep the front down as he did the big highway run to see how fast it would go. At that time i had a Daytona RX7 and on the same run it was flat out in 5th and the rev counter buzz siren was going off the whole time , i know we had past the 220 mark as the speedo ran out at that, and that was way before the buzzer when off and we kept going, it was a maztec bridgport so it had legs, needed seals and for some stupid reason i changed the motor over rather than the seals ( worst mistake i ever made >:(- well one of them) wish i knew where that motor went. ::)
Other regret bike related, was a KTM 125 i had, not sure of the year but i rode it in the 80's think it was a GS ? anyhow i rode that sucker on enduros' MX and even on the road, bloody great little bike it was full size ( i was 6ft) but was as light as a feather and you could throw it around, for some reason it would always leak through the impeller shaft, bogged it up so many times actually no end of times , then it finally got so eaten away in there ( it was like a white rust in the alloy) i had to sell the bike as the cost of a new side cover was so expensive. 3 weeks later i find out that some guy in melb or somehwere was doing reconditioned ones for next to nothing. Spew..... had i only know that earlier. ::)
Going by my sexy fluro pants and helmet im going late 80's, but im sure someone can tell me the year of the bike. actually lookinng closer i still have that Honda tyco race jersey at home ( must get that onto ebay) was cotton and had a big padded front panel :D
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Red hubs+ frame make it an 89 or 90 model, Freaky.
I had an 88 KTM125GS - but it was actually an MXer with a compliance plate (yes, the compliance plate matched the bike ;) ). Nice bike to ride - and it was my first 'non-dunger' bike...
Bad points were a nasty spike in the fork travel, an amazing appetite for rear brake pads, and the fact that my 94 TM125 did everything better (including MX).
As a poor apprentice, it seemed pointless to have all of that money sitting there tied up in an inferior bike, so I sold it. I guess its a candidate for inclusion in this thread at some stage in the future.
This is the first day I rode it - must have only owned the bike for a week or so when this was taken.
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f128/annaandnathan/Bikestuff/June17-09Nathan046.jpg)
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f128/annaandnathan/Bikestuff/June17-09Nathan055.jpg)
And yes, the spots on the photos are from the digital camera's flash. :-[ :D
Edit: That's 'my' YZ125C in the back-ground, back when it was an unmitigated shet-box.
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Soul. "To racing sidecars.... ;D)
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not sure nat it had a red seat. cant say i rember the hubs but i do remeber the shroud stickers wher elike red/blue strips
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JohnnyO - does this look familiar? One of the boys racing here in Nelson NZ ownes it and sorry mate but it's a bloody gem, not that fond of the red bikes but this one is special.
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worked all summer at the local paper mill to save enough to buy a Mugen ME250 kit from Al Baker - ended up selling the 80 kitted CR250 for $750 - wish I still had that as it was awesome!
Rossco
Hey Ross.I raced there at Bryant park a few times in Tassie .There was a guy there with a 1980mugen 250 one year(81?) Was that you?
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1 wish i never sold my 250 tiger 70. it was incredibly fast but unbelievable worn out everywhere. last time i rode it at amaroo dirt track the current lightweight aust title holder with a c15 special told me after practice that he could not keep up with it on the back straight. it revved so hard the gudgeon pin clips would shrink and jump out and leave tram tracks up and down the bore! on that particular day it spat a push rod straight out through the the covering tube at the start line in the first race. the amazing mr Ted carey's cams is what made it go. i'd love to have another go at it now. cheers wally.
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would you believe i also sold an excelsior manxman 500 for 15 quid! has any seen how rare the 500 is? and the telephone number type price that would buy one now? ...wally
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I'm selling all my bikes and bits :'( wright now so I'll come back when there gone & tell you what I already know I wish I never sold my... :-[ jimson
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oh this thread is just too painful..... OK things I sold, real deal A9X Torana....15K seemed like good deal at the time and a beach front house in Cottesloe, which took two years to sell for a laughable amount.
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Bought a '73 SC500 barn find (had been in the shed since '77) a few years ago just "because no-one else had one" & I was going to restore it. Usual story though - too many projects, not enough room, had no real love for it etc so sold it to a fellow club member. In hindsight it didn't take up that much room really :(
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THIS IS ALMOST TOO EMBARRASING TO ADMIT BUT I TRADED IN MY OSSA PHANTOM FOR A YAMAHA DT250A SO I COULD RIDE TO WORK WHEN I WAS AN APPRENTICE. FROM MEMORY I GOT $500 FOR IT. I STILL LOSE SLEEP THINKING ABOUT IT AND THAT WAS OVER 30 YEARS AGO........
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My younger brother and I equally owned an ex Anthony Gunter TKA KX 250- in '82/3. First disc braked dirtbike most of us had seen, together with "ultratrick" braided brake line! Handmade trickery abounded on this bike and it was truly special - until the younger brother siezed it, stuffing the topend. The hassles that occured in trying to get a cylinder for it - had to come from Japan via a VERY slow boat - took it's toll, so I sold my half to my brother and he then traded it on a KDX250 - sacrilege!
The 1st model KLX250 - wouldn't pull a sick sailor off ya sister, but damn it handled. Just goes to prove that power corrupts!
On the car front, I sold an original XU-1 for $3500 to buy a block of land. :'( :'(
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85 CR500 , Sold to buy moder KTM 380 only to find out 3 mths later were now eligable for VMX and E38 charger sold when kid arrived to get "family car" !!! Holden vh commadore 4 cyl, give me a gun!!
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My ex Neville Cutts CR480 RC factory bike .Sold it in the 90s for about a grand.Needed some work though.Honda Australia sold the 2 off at the end of '82 and my mate bought one and I tracked it down later on.Probably worth a pretty $ now. My race kitted dax 'from around '75 also I would love to have kept. >:(
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My ex Neville Cutts CR480 RC factory bike .Sold it in the 90s for about a grand.Needed some work though.Honda Australia sold the 2 off at the end of '82 and my mate bought one and I tracked it down later on.Probably worth a pretty $ now. My race kitted dax 'from around '75 also I would love to have kept. >:(
You must have had the one with the missing fork leg due to it being broken while bush bashing it? Both those bikes surfaced recently. The motor was sold out of the other one 20 years ago.
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My ex Neville Cutts CR480 RC factory bike .Sold it in the 90s for about a grand.Needed some work though.Honda Australia sold the 2 off at the end of '82 and my mate bought one and I tracked it down later on.Probably worth a pretty $ now. My race kitted dax 'from around '75 also I would love to have kept. >:(
You must have had the one with the missing fork leg due to it being broken while bush bashing it? Both those bikes surfaced recently. The motor was sold out of the other one 20 years ago.
Correct ,that was one trick torquey 4 speed big bore.
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They are Mugen's from the frame up. Not much interchanges between them and a standard bike. Tank, seat and sidecovers are the main similarities . Even the footpegs dont fit.
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I wish that I never sold my beautifull Greeves Challenger.Actually I didn't sell it Tony MacMahon from Retro Racing sold it for me.I bought it from Bernie Addems when his museum closed down .I had all my bikes at Mum and Dads at the time and I knew that another bike there would probably be the last straw so I keep it in my van for a few days and arranged with Tony to keep it as his shop.It was going to be on display in the window to replace a twin pipe CZ that was sold .So all was cool until oneday a few weeks later I got a call from Tony to say that he had sold the bike for me!I told him it was not for sale but he sold it anyway. :-\
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ok. in 1982 i wish i didnt play up on my big breasted blond girlfriend (she dumped me) whose father owned a pub and a honda/suzuki dealership! damit!
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In 1972 Maico importer Blair Harley imported a second hand but very trick 250 square barrel Maico for then Danish racer Per Klitland. Per won a lot of races on it including the Grand National at Christmas Hills, Victoria until the new radial models were released and the bike was sold. The next owner, Dave Cuneen won a lot of dirt track races on it and was the bike that got him into A grade. The bike then went to Chris Ellis who placed in an Aussie dirt track title on it before selling it to "some mate from up the road".
15 years went by and VMX was underway and one day I happened to buy a bunch of rooted and rusty old Maico stuff from a mate of a mate. Among that stuff was the easily recognised but rusted solid squarie engine, butchered frame and distinctive alloy tank from the Klitland/Cunneen/Ellis bike. I picked the eyes out of the stuff and sold the rest off at swap meets. One thing I threw out was the rusted solid squarie crank which I figured had been butchered and beyond help as the flywheels had been drilled like swiss cheese and filled with epoxy and some weird billet rod fitted hung off it. The barrel was rooted and over maximum but had some nice porting so I kept it and still have it in my stash.
Two years ago, while chatting to Per Klitland in the car on the way to CD4 he informed me that the bike had in fact been Adolph Weils actual works GP bike from 1970 and had an engine full of factory tricks..hence the swiss chees crank and billet rod. At the time there wasn't any importance thrown at the bike, as Per said "it was an obsolete old square barrel, everyone wanted the trick new radial model".
So there you have it, I had most of an actual works bike in my hands and had let it all go for six pack money, my "wish I'd never sold" bike. That's probably as close as I'll ever get to anything even close to a works bike again.
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Pretty much along the same lines, but they were stolen.
My original side port Jawa 2 valve Speedway bike and worst of all my dads 650 Triumph that had been "Twingled" ( Twin firing together ), that won the 7hr race at Musswellbrook in 1962.
Dad had just rebuilt it and we had a 20th reunion with all the riders involved.
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ok. in 1982 i wish i didnt play up on my big breasted blond girlfriend (she dumped me) whose father owned a pub and a honda/suzuki dealership! damit!
you must have been on "the drugs" then Kane ;D
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for eveyone the orange P76 I was bequeathed. Wish I had them now. While the P76 would have boiled going round the block I would still like to tow the bikes with the van.
yes old thread ,new Australian Icon car show on TV and the P76 could always fit a 44 in the boot + a smooth rider 8)
cheers a
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The 350 KSS Velocette , the R50s BMW , the KTM in my avatar ,the 86 EXE 250 , the 86 EXE 125 , the vespa , the P76 motor I had in my series 3 landy , the landy , and on and on. :'(
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God this does pull at your heartstrings, when you think of all the sad old guys regretting the sale of a loved one. Hell i regret selling every bike i ever bought from my Yammy 90 traile to my Z1R with the 18" front wheel and every thing else inbetween except maybe a norton 750 fastback which with its oil leaks got oil all over my new white road race boots from medal boots na but i even regret selling that as they are worth about 15,000 nowdays but money aside its just the bikes I LOVED THEM ALL. ::)
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84 ktm 250 ex gerhard rond bike that he used in the 4day out here.sold to pay fines getting busted at menai for unregistered,uninsured,not producing a licence,riding in a manner dangerous to the public (wheelstand when coming out of a trail onto the road and not seeing the cop car coming around the corner)also calculating to decieve (# plates of and old dt) sold it to some kid in 88 who wanted something to learn on.
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Just my all original 84 CR 500 that I bought in 1990 for $1200 in Esperance, W.A. and took back to Tassie and then sold it to rent a house. What was I thinking? :'( :'(
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I know a fellow in Ballarat that was doing repair work for this other fellow, this fellow owed the other fellow that did the work around the $1000 dollar, but that fellow was having problems paying for it, so he asking the repairer if he would take a bike as payment and he said bring it around, so the fellow did just that, and when he open up the back of the van, inside sat a complete YZ360A. he had a smile from ear to ear after the fellow when home.
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My KX250 A5 that I bought fresh in the box and a Bantam 175 Bushman that was immaculate.
And I wish I still had my dad's Tiger100 and my 2 Valve Jawa Speedway bike that were both stolen way back in 1985.
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My '66 Ford Thunderbird convertible for $400 back in 1981, a rare Hemi Pacer 4 barrel coupe for a disgracefully low amount that I've blocked from my memory bank, my Champion framed Yamaha SC500 flat tracker for $1000 and 10 years later my Maico SC500 for 3k to the same bloke. As Frank Sinatra sang in 'My Way'....."regrets, I've had a few" :'( :'(
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For me it was my 1988 Yamaha DT200R, first one in NZ,i owned it for 15 years,did 80 odd thousand kilometers(fully regd,rode it to work ,club moto-x,trailrides etc)sold it in 2003 to buy our first house after i had just done a frame up rebuild,bought for $5.500 in 1988 and sold for$3.000 in 2003, it had two genuine piston kits in this time but was still on the original bore!(i pat myself on the back for running that in so well), bottom end had never been split but it was getting due because of the very few and far between odd neutral in the g/box, i have to admit i shed a tear when it left my house down the road on the back of a ute, man those bikes were tough! the only problem i had in the whole time was the powervalve crapping itself but it was fixed under warranty and never played up again.
cheers Dale.
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jeez a 360A that would be a keeper
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I do believe it was sold for big buck later on, the original owner would had wished that he still owned it I would say.
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Let's just not go there, oh hell.... 1966 MGB Mk1 owned for 22 years, YZ250B (long story) RM125 (First 0f the RM's) Twin Cylinder Puch Various BSA's Bantoms and Goldstar. A couple of old girlfriends I should not have let go. On that topic my girfriend is a really great girl, attractive, loving, thoughtful, giving etc... I can not understand why my wife doesn't like her. (joking of course) They have never met.
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I wish i still had my RM465 from 1982
I wish i still had my Kx250 from 1985
I wish i still had my Ktm250 exc from 1992
I'd buy any of them back right NOW if i could find them!
all in that order!
Kt
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I wish i never sold my JAP 500 and Ossa 250 shortcircuit bikes. With Spare JAP motor $1500 the lot. :'( :'( I cringe
Mark
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Then of course there was my EH.
Probably the first one around with an L.S.D, plus Bert Jones X.U.1 cam, Repco finned brake drums, lowered 3/4 " 186S headers, 2 inch exhaust [sand bent by me], Fiat 1500 bucket seats, all breathing through ONE! original carby for max pulling power of my heavy old 3 bike trailer.
A fun machine to drive. Put out more H.P. in top gear at 30mph on berts dyno than a Mark 2 Zephyr full chat.
Fun to drive. Ah well it was 40 odd years ago!
cheers pancho.
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Not to mention Mark that your JAP was once GC's.
Sacrelige.
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My Yamaha 305 YM1 bought new in 65 - needed a Valiant to cruise the streets on Sat night.
My BSA Victor Special of 68 - nominated to race minus the road gear in the 69 Tassie MX Nats - Army said no no - went awol to watch anyway - once again traded in for a Jap sedan (bloody cold & wet in Vic in june)
My 1973 KTM mxer - complete with Jockstrap holding tank on - first one the scrutineers at the Gold Coast International had ever seen - second to Per Klitland at Maryborough the previous week (credit the speed of the bike more than me) - got married - nuff said.
Should start a thread for bikes not owned but ridden - and wished we had.
Mike
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Thats enough of that Slides, I'm still shaking my head. No wonder my Dad kept shaking his head and saying things like bloody wanker!! If the JAP was still around and complete i would be prepared to offer real good dollars for it. And i mean serious $
Mark
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You'd have to outbid me first.
I promise I won't open up that wound again. ;)
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I think I'm unlucky with cars. Sold a Green HJ Sandman Panlvan, to buy a 76 Mustang style celica. Sold mum's Orange Leyland P76 when she deceased. Prinstine condition and received the princely sum of $500. Mike also had a 73 KTM bought from Athol Patterson to race in Sub Juniors and used to lend it to Steve Cramer when he broke his (generally the gear lever, wonder why?) Have all the parts to rebuild one now but with 4 fused discs I lack the motivation. Interested? I over in Wello Point.
Rosco86
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Hey Slides, how much would a Hagon JAP be worth complete unrestored? Just ballpark. I thought the price tag on the old 5 studder on here a while ago was o.k those fully restored ones at the S.A. classics,...hmm, i'd pay maybe ::)not saying but its closer to 10 than 5 Mark
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Can't really add to the bike theme, but I looked at/and passed on, a 327 HK/HG? Monaro coupe at a car yard in Sandgate in 1987. $2500 was a bit over my budget at the time.
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Mark, I'm no expert and up until recently had NFI on what bikes could be worth.
How close it is to original, it's competition credentials and it's traceable race history can & should be a big part of what a bike is worth.
I have a Rotrax Jap Speedway bike in the shed ( not quite complete ) but have no idea of its history.
A bike is only worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and/or what you're prepared to accept.
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Agree 100% Slides. I told a bloke that i'd pay 10k plus for the right speedway/longtrack/shortcircuit bike and he thought i was nuts!. It just has to have the right medicine.
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you should have bought matts hagon jawa 3800.00 it was a steal.you all new it was a pre 65 bike.ie frame between engine and gearbox
jim
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You're right Jim, a bargain if you have the cash at the ready's.
Any idea who bought it by the way?
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no idea.wish i did that jawa was quick it was the 1 matt road at raymond terrace nats 2009
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I sold my HT 350 bathurst monaro and bought a gemini panel van how stupid was I ?
Can't really add to the bike theme, but I looked at/and passed on, a 327 HK/HG? Monaro coupe at a car yard in Sandgate in 1987. $2500 was a bit over my budget at the time.
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i would not own up to that you must now send me all your montys
jim
ps mine is on the water
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Obviously you hit that tree with your head? ;)
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at terminal velocity!
Obviously you hit that tree with your head? ;)
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sure I'll swap the montys for a HT 350 bathurst monaro!
i would not own up to that you must now send me all your montys
jim
ps mine is on the water
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Bought mine in 84, still have it, the boys will fight over who inherrits it, wish I never sold my YZ250G ($500) in 86, my WR200 (awesome trail bike), my first Husaberg (98 FC400), my first PE250B in 78 (have 2 now)....theres a few more but enough pain.....if TMBill puts his list up well be here for another 15 pages. ;D
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Interesting I sold mine about that time I wonder.............
Bought mine in 84, still have it, the boys will fight over who inherrits it, wish I never sold my YZ250G ($500) in 86, my WR200 (awesome trail bike), my first Husaberg (98 FC400), my first PE250B in 78 (have 2 now)....theres a few more but enough pain.....if TMBill puts his list up well be here for another 15 pages. ;D
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Nah.....1 owner with books, the bloke worked in the mines.
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no worries I still have all the books for mine