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dudley472
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Posted: Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 12:15 pm |
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pretty no??
and for quite literally next to nothing, just passed its mot this mornin
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ClassicMCnut
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Posted: Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 12:35 pm |
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Jammy sod ................. well done though
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Posted: Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 12:35 pm |
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TRIPLET
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Posted: Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 03:10 pm |
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superb,that looks as good if not better than any Sunbeam i have seen
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dudley472
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Posted: Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 03:29 pm |
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| thanks folks, i bought it to sell on but its so nice i will keep it for a while, strange thing happened on the way home from the mot, i was sitting at some lights in neutral with the clutch out , hands not even on the bars and all of a sudden the bike lurched forward a good couple of feet, like i'd been hit from behind.............i hadn't and the bike didn't stall just carried on ticking over as normal, perhaps it wasn't in neutral properly??? who knows, very odd
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Posted: Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 05:20 pm |
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looks great, i thought they were worth a fortune? or is the next to nothing really quite expensive?
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jamie.s
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Posted: Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 06:04 pm |
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iand wrote: l is the next to nothing really quite expensive?
That was my thought, then I rememberd he owns a vincent, so says it all really.
Most bikes must seem cheap compared to one of them ...
Next to nothing on a bike like that I would class as around £1000, bet it was more like 4-5k though !
I think the right term Dudley would be "cheap", not next to nothing. (depending on how much you payed of course)
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dudley472
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Posted: Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 06:37 pm |
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ok i take your point.... just because i have a vincent doesn't mean i have loads of cash, i'm just a normal s***kicker i just decided along with mrs dudley that when a few quid came our way i would invest it in a vincent, after all what good is it in a bank, i don't particularly believe in bikes as investments it just happens to be a happy coincidence that the price has gone sky high, i could not afford one now thats for sure, i ride it regularly but the problem is you can't leave it anywhere........, its insured for 25000, unbelievable but as its a series B bike its probably worth more, ridiculous !!!
the sunbeam was 2500, i think that was cheap
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Posted: Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 06:55 pm |
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dudley472 wrote:
the sunbeam was 2500, i think that was cheap
Yup that counts as cheap!!
Kept an eye out for them for ages as I think they're wonderful, and scruffy examples (which yours looks far from - its a beaut) go for 3k upwards minters more like 4-4.5k
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Posted: Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 07:00 pm |
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Sounds like a good deal (though not "next to nothing"  )
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dudley472
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Posted: Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 07:02 pm |
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| everything is relative............., it is potentially 2k less than its worth
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Posted: Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 07:04 pm |
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blimey that does sound like a relative bargain!!!
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Posted: Sat Oct 4th, 2008 08:04 pm |
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thats lovely 
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Posted: Sat Oct 4th, 2008 08:45 pm |
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dudley472 wrote: thanks folks, i bought it to sell on but its so nice i will keep it for a while, strange thing happened on the way home from the mot, i was sitting at some lights in neutral with the clutch out , hands not even on the bars and all of a sudden the bike lurched forward a good couple of feet, like i'd been hit from behind.............i hadn't and the bike didn't stall just carried on ticking over as normal, perhaps it wasn't in neutral properly??? who knows, very odd
Grandad used to have one of those and it used to suffer clutch rod welding. The clutch rod would weld itself at one end. I believe that a mod came out to prevent it from happening.
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dudley472
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Posted: Sat Oct 4th, 2008 08:48 pm |
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| it was the strangest thing, i'll look into that cheers
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