Turning Back Odometers
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From: S'mee on 18 Jul 2010 12:03 On Jul 18, 7:37 am, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older Gentleman) wrote: > Futility Man <n...(a)futile.org> wrote: > > Now it's a John Deere Tractor/Honda Motorcycle dealership. > > There's a good joke there somewhere :-)) I thought it was code for either a Moto Guzzi or Harley Davidson dealership. WHAAAT?
From: Rob Kleinschmidt on 18 Jul 2010 12:26 On Jul 14, 11:04 am, Joyce <joyce_dehalfw...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > After viewing some used motorcycles at a local dealership recently, > I got to wondering if turning back odometers on bikes is common. > Anyone out there who might've worked at a dealership know how common > this is, if at all? Several other ways to arrive at a low mileage bike. My odometer's due to roll over forward in another year or two. For the second time. Lots of bikes spend years at a time sitting in a garage and never see the light of day. Lots of other owners break a speedo cable or other part and just never bother to replace it.
From: Futility Man on 18 Jul 2010 14:58 On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:03:31 -0700 (PDT), "S'mee" <stevenkeith2(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >On Jul 18, 7:37�am, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older >Gentleman) wrote: >> Futility Man <n...(a)futile.org> wrote: >> > Now it's a John Deere Tractor/Honda Motorcycle dealership. >> >> There's a good joke there somewhere :-)) > >I thought it was code for either a Moto Guzzi or Harley Davidson >dealership. WHAAAT? It would be a great joke if it were HD but it's not. Sorry. Plug 1333 Congress Parkway, Athens, TN into Google Maps and select Street View. Compare the signs at the opposite ends of the parking lot. The business name now is Ritchie Powersports and the closest intersection is Burnsbrook. Below is the URL. If your computer has wrapped it, copy the whole thing and paste it somewhere else, remove any > marks and spaces, then copy the whole corrected thing into the address bar of your browser: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Athens,+1330+Congress+Parkway,+TN&sll=35.454273,-84.619811&sspn=0.007341,0.0209&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=1330+Congress+Pkwy+NW,+Athens,+McMinn,+Tennessee+37303&ll=35.456353,-84.619617&spn=0.007271,0.0209&z=16&layer=c&cbll=35.454606,-84.619452&panoid=3MZBTEU1diSpfFd1oqyL0g&cbp=12,129.32,,0,-2.22 -- Futility Man
From: S'mee on 18 Jul 2010 16:48 On Jul 18, 12:58 pm, Futility Man <n...(a)futile.org> wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:03:31 -0700 (PDT), "S'mee" <stevenkei...(a)hotmail.com> > wrote: > > >On Jul 18, 7:37 am, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older > >Gentleman) wrote: > >> Futility Man <n...(a)futile.org> wrote: > >> > Now it's a John Deere Tractor/Honda Motorcycle dealership. > > >> There's a good joke there somewhere :-)) > > >I thought it was code for either a Moto Guzzi or Harley Davidson > >dealership. WHAAAT? > > It would be a great joke if it were HD but it's not. Sorry. > > Plug 1333 Congress Parkway, Athens, TN into Google Maps and select Street View. > Compare the signs at the opposite ends of the parking lot. The business name > now is Ritchie Powersports and the closest intersection is Burnsbrook. > > Below is the URL. If your computer has wrapped it, copy the whole thing and > paste it somewhere else, remove any > marks and spaces, then copy the whole > corrected thing into the address bar of your browser: > > http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Athens,+1... > > -- > Futility Man Oh I believe you, you just got whooshed with an OLD joke.
From: BrianNZ on 19 Jul 2010 01:46
Rob Kleinschmidt wrote: > On Jul 14, 11:04 am, Joyce <joyce_dehalfw...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> After viewing some used motorcycles at a local dealership recently, >> I got to wondering if turning back odometers on bikes is common. >> Anyone out there who might've worked at a dealership know how common >> this is, if at all? > > Several other ways to arrive at a low mileage bike. > > My odometer's due to roll over forward in another > year or two. For the second time. <Applause!> > > Lots of bikes spend years at a time sitting in a > garage and never see the light of day. Guilty...... > > Lots of other owners break a speedo cable or > other part and just never bother to replace it. > > > Guilty again. that was on the old darmah. A few months after the speedo cable broke the speedo was trashed in a crash 9In the mean time I got off a speeding ticket using the cable as an excuse "No-one passed me and I hadn't passed anyone....")....so I put a Honda 125? speedo on it for legal purposes....a few weeks back I scored a second-hand Ducati speedo off 'trade me' and I'm going to get it wound back to zero, ready for the rebuild. I'll never sell that bike. It needs a ground up rebuild...spend $12k on a $6k bike type thing. |