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From: Bob Myers on 3 Mar 2010 13:55 don (Calgary) wrote: > > It's kinda like going in the way back machine for me. I used to own a > Custom, although mine was an 82, so I am familiar with the bike. I > wouldn't be buying it for performance reasons, although I recall the > 750 as having decent acceleration. Ah, THERE'S the explanation. I was wondering about this choice, too, but there's certainly no rational accounting for the nostalgia factor in something like this. Enjoy your "new" bike, Don...:-) Bob M.
From: Bob Myers on 3 Mar 2010 13:57 TOG(a)Toil wrote: > On 3 Mar, 08:09, Mark Olson <ols...(a)tiny.invalid> wrote: > > <snip> >> >> Now this, a Honda S65, my first bike (no, that isn't me) I would like >> to own again, for the nostalgia value: >> >> http://theselvedgeyard.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/ky0577-150dpi.jpeg > > The bike's lovely. The rider looks like the object of one of > KrustyUS's murkier fantasies.... Very unlikely. That rider appears to be both over the age of 15 and human. Bob M.
From: don (Calgary) on 3 Mar 2010 17:59 On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 07:09:37 +0000, totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older Gentleman) wrote: >don (Calgary) <hd.flhr(a)telus.net> wrote: > >> I don't need another bike. I really don't want another bike. >> >> But then I check the online adverts and look at the pictures and next >> thing you know I need a bigger friggin shed. >> >http://calgary.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-motorcycles-street-cruisers-cho >ppers-1981-Honda-CB-W0QQAdIdZ189065406# >> >> If it's still available this weekend I am in trouble. > >That's a rather nicely modified example of a not very good motorcycle. >Depends on price, I suppose. CAN2300 = GBP1500, more or less. Not out of >court. Actually price would be third, fourth maybe even fifth on my list of reasons to, or not to buy this bike. First I would have to want to bring another bike into the fleet. Then it would have to be mechanically sound. After that I would have to have the room for it, short of parking it on the street. Fourth it would have to be a bike I would ride. I don't care to keep garage ornaments. Then the price might be the next most important factor. Sure there has to be value, but $500.00 either way is not going to alter my standard of living. This type of bike is not going to appreciate or depreciate significantly so I could sell it for pretty much what I bought it for.
From: don (Calgary) on 3 Mar 2010 18:00 On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:25:56 -0800, Sean_Q_ <no.spam(a)no.spam> wrote: >don (Calgary) wrote: > >> I'll talk myself out of this. Maybe I need to go to a meeting or >> something. > >A 12-step Motorcycles Anonymous meeting? > >SQ I don't know Sean, the way you are always buying, selling, modifying bikes you might need one of these twelve step programs too. ;-)
From: Road Glidin' Don on 3 Mar 2010 18:22
On Mar 3, 4:00 pm, "don (Calgary)" <hd.f...(a)telus.net> wrote: > On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:25:56 -0800, Sean_Q_ <no.s...(a)no.spam> wrote: > >don (Calgary) wrote: > > >> I'll talk myself out of this. Maybe I need to go to a meeting or > >> something. > > >A 12-step Motorcycles Anonymous meeting? > > >SQ > > I don't know Sean, the way you are always buying, selling, modifying > bikes you might need one of these twelve step programs too. ;-) Agreed! |