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Offline EML

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Re: Never been raced.....
« Reply #15 on: February 03, 2010, 10:54:05 am »
here we go-Back in the day-when I spent some time with the then sidecar mx world champ, he offered his EML Jumbo to me so I could sell it down under. At the time he was given 2 outfits per year ( more if he crashed one) and at then end of the season he could dispose of them however he wanted.
I advertised it for $10.000 and was basically laughed at. At 120hp and 210kg it was very hard to beat as he had shown with 4 titles in a row.
That same bike is now not worth a cracker as you can't race it anywhere but in 10yrs that may change.

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Re: Never been raced.....
« Reply #16 on: February 03, 2010, 11:27:13 am »
Can anyone/someone on this forum come up with a plausible/believable reason why the current World Speedway Champion is supposedly selling the one and only bike that he won that World Title on a couple of months ago.


To pay his medical bills?

I was suspicious about it too, but if you were seriously interested, it'd be pretty easy to sus it out before parting with any cash.
Watching the seller's feedback/account status would be a pretty good indiciation of whether it was the real deal or not.

The good thing about telling the truth is that you don't have to remember what you said.

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Re: Never been raced.....
« Reply #17 on: February 03, 2010, 12:17:01 pm »
I spoke to Crumpy yesterday and that bike is 1 of about 7 he used in the Grand Prix last season. He bought it out here to practice on and has the others back in England which he will use some of for this season. He has at least 1 of the bikes from each World Championship year.
He rode the bike listed on ebay last week at Nudgee north Brisbane.. it's the real deal.

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Re: Never been raced.....
« Reply #18 on: February 03, 2010, 09:18:08 pm »
Bit rich for me, i could pay 15K for an ow40 or similar, but thats an emotional buy anyway
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Re: Never been raced.....
« Reply #19 on: February 03, 2010, 09:51:01 pm »
As Johnny has stated one of many bikes , time to cull collection. Study posted pics and you will notice different bikes in shots  ;)