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Offline VMX247

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Re: I wish I'd never sold my...
« Reply #60 on: October 31, 2011, 11:50:10 pm »
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)
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Re: I wish I'd never sold my...
« Reply #61 on: November 01, 2011, 10:38:06 am »
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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Re: I wish I'd never sold my...
« Reply #62 on: November 06, 2011, 09:58:12 am »
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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Re: I wish I'd never sold my...
« Reply #63 on: November 06, 2011, 11:33:29 am »
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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Re: I wish I'd never sold my...
« Reply #64 on: November 06, 2011, 02:11:16 pm »

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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« Reply #65 on: November 06, 2011, 02:45:48 pm »
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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Re: I wish I'd never sold my...
« Reply #66 on: November 06, 2011, 06:40:38 pm »
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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Re: I wish I'd never sold my...
« Reply #67 on: November 06, 2011, 07:15:18 pm »
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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Re: I wish I'd never sold my...
« Reply #68 on: November 06, 2011, 07:17:07 pm »
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.

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Re: I wish I'd never sold my...
« Reply #69 on: November 06, 2011, 08:02:49 pm »
jeez a 360A that would be a keeper
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« Reply #70 on: November 06, 2011, 08:32:29 pm »
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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Re: I wish I'd never sold my...
« Reply #71 on: November 08, 2011, 01:19:03 pm »
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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Re: I wish I'd never sold my...
« Reply #72 on: November 08, 2011, 03:38:05 pm »

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!

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Re: I wish I'd never sold my...
« Reply #73 on: November 08, 2011, 08:20:28 pm »
I wish i never sold my JAP 500  and Ossa 250 shortcircuit bikes. With  Spare JAP motor  $1500 the lot. :'( :'( I cringe
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Re: I wish I'd never sold my...
« Reply #74 on: November 08, 2011, 10:38:57 pm »
 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!
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