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I need a bigger garage!

Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 4, 2024, 6:22 pm

The oldest rocker in town!

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by Will <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Will' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 4, 2024, 6:36 pm, in reply to "I need a bigger garage!"

Haven't you got a dining room you could use? I'm sure the Old Mod wouldn't mind a bike or two in there. Keep the race bikes in there in winter, and the winter hacks in there in summer.

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by Andy C <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Andy+C' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 4, 2024, 7:39 pm, in reply to "I need a bigger garage!"

Sure you have enough paddock stands Jerry - is it one for every bike ?

And I thought my garage was crowded

Who needs a signature anyway......

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by Nigel B <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Nigel+B' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 4, 2024, 8:35 pm, in reply to "I need a bigger garage!"

I need a bigger garage!

Sadly that doesn't work for long - you just expand your "stuff" to fill the space available !

Nigel B.

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by 6TDen <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=6TDen' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 4, 2024, 9:08 pm, in reply to "Re: I need a bigger garage!"

Tell me about it!
Den

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by geoff the bonnie <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=geoff+the+bonnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 4, 2024, 9:18 pm, in reply to "Re: I need a bigger garage!"

My garage is 24 by 12 foot wide and pretty much full with 4 bikes and a ramp. I also have a lot of gear on 4 layers of wall shelving all around the perimeter. 10 large filing cabinets for power tools and batteries and 7 tool cabinets. Of course, there is a nice Sony stereo and about 1000 CDs plus a DAB radio.

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by Leon Novello <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Leon+Novello' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 4, 2024, 11:23 pm, in reply to "I need a bigger garage!"

I have only needed one bike to keep me poor, more than one is asking for trouble as far as I`m concerned.

Leon Novello

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by jimmy <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=jimmy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 5, 2024, 8:19 am, in reply to "Re: I need a bigger garage!"

Haha Leon. Great statement

I have had 2 for the last 20yrs or so and I feel kinda guilty if I spend too much time on one and neglect the other. Another issue (for me), last year I was out on the T160 riding by a petrol station. Knowing I was going to be using it the next day, I thought about a refill, then remembered I had filled it a few days earlier and only done about 20 miles. Next morning I set off for the TOMCC Branch meet....and promptly ran out of petrol a mile or so later. It was the Hinckley Bonnie I had filled earlier. I usually set the trip odo, but the T160 did not have the reset cable fitted...does now, and I had misunderstood the 'advice' I had got a few years earlier about running around with both taps open

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by Will <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Will' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 5, 2024, 8:56 am, in reply to "Re: I need a bigger garage!"

I currently have 3 bikes in the garage and I sometimes struggle for space between them when fettling.

What I find completely baffling is how the hell did I manage when I had 7 bikes in the same garage?

I can only assume its an age problem. I'm not as young, lithe & nimble as I used to be so can't squeeze & kneel in confined spaces like I used to.

Plus of course sodding big modern bikes do take up more space than most old clunkers. But at least the moderns don't require constant fettling.

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by MadMike <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=MadMike' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 5, 2024, 9:30 am, in reply to "Re: I need a bigger garage!"

How many bikes? Well at the start of the year I sold Three bikes, and prior to that, about five years or so, I sold six bikes.

All were kept in my double garage. And it was a little "cramped." So now I have four bikes and a moped on the garage along with a pump up workbench on which one bike is parked. So I must have plenty of room? Errr well I also have a lathe and a milling machine in the garage, plus of course a fair amount of domestic stuff. Free space? What free space. I think that when you remove some bikes the garage walls simply close in.

Other opinions may be available but this one is always correct.

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by Tonupdave <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Tonupdave' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 5, 2024, 10:03 am, in reply to "Re: I need a bigger garage!"

Bought a double garage with three bedroom bungalow attached most bikes were four two Hinkley Triumphs the Arie and the Pan plus the Volvoand workbench I built a workshop in the garden with the powered tools lathes and drill press plus clock repair tools .. the garage has the walls with tools displayed..bit of a bore when you need a tool to do something in the house though ..

Tonupdave..T.U.D.

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by nek <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=nek' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 5, 2024, 4:00 pm, in reply to "I need a bigger garage!"

Khant will be putting a a camera outside your house if he sees that.

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by Brickboy <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Brickboy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 5, 2024, 6:20 pm, in reply to "I need a bigger garage!"

I don't need a bigger garage as I have just the V Strom. What I need is an idea of what bike to buy to go with it!! The garage is large, the Strom only medium sized. I've veered between AJD, VFR800, Velo, BSA... sigh! Great time to buy but my brain has frozen lol

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by MadMike <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=MadMike' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 5, 2024, 7:15 pm, in reply to "Re: I need a bigger garage!"

Triumph Speed 400.

Other opinions may be available but this one is always correct.

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by Brickboy <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Brickboy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 6, 2024, 8:35 am, in reply to "Re: I need a bigger garage!"

Mike!! I'm shocked! I thought I was supposed to have a Dommie

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by MadMike <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=MadMike' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 6, 2024, 3:43 pm, in reply to "Re: I need a bigger garage!"

You can have the Dommie. Just send the money and Jeremy will collect and deliver to you.

Other opinions may be available but this one is always correct.

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 6, 2024, 10:38 pm, in reply to "Re: I need a bigger garage!"

Jeremy? Blimey Mike you sound like my mum

The oldest rocker in town!

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by 6TDen <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=6TDen' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 7, 2024, 9:40 am, in reply to "Re: I need a bigger garage!"

It's the tight underwear that makes him sound like that.
Den

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by CrazyFrog <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=CrazyFrog' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 5, 2024, 6:56 pm, in reply to "I need a bigger garage!"

I'm fairly sure there's room for one more Jerry

You don't have to be crazy to post here, but it helps....

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 5, 2024, 10:45 pm, in reply to "Re: I need a bigger garage!"

I do have two more hidden away in another garage just don't tell the old mod.

The oldest rocker in town!

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by 6TDen <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=6TDen' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 6, 2024, 9:02 am, in reply to "Re: I need a bigger garage!"

I have always been brought up to not tell lies so you had better hope that the old Mod and I don't perchance meet. Of course
I have heard that paper money dulls the memory!
Den

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by MadMike <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=MadMike' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 6, 2024, 3:46 pm, in reply to "Re: I need a bigger garage!"

Large quantity, a couple of carrier beats stuffed to capacity with £50 notes is perfect.

Other opinions may be available but this one is always correct.

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by 6TDen <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=6TDen' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 6, 2024, 4:16 pm, in reply to "Re: I need a bigger garage!"

Absolutely, feel free to sub him.
Den

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by MadMike <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=MadMike' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 6, 2024, 5:15 pm, in reply to "Re: I need a bigger garage!"

Dub him? What me? I am just a poor old pensioner. Remember somebody just stole my winter heating payment. Woe, woe thrice woe. How will I ever survive the upcoming acetic winter? Oh I know, I will set light to those bags of £50 notes that will warm me up.

Other opinions may be available but this one is always correct.

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by MadMike <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=MadMike' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 6, 2024, 5:16 pm, in reply to "Re: I need a bigger garage!"

Dub him? What me? I am just a poor old pensioner. Remember somebody just stole my winter heating payment. Woe, woe thrice woe. How will I ever survive the upcoming acetic winter? Oh I know, I will set light to those bags of £50 notes that will warm me up. Look it is so cold my frozen fingers are rattling the send button.

Other opinions may be available but this one is always correct.

Re: I need a bigger garage!

Posted by 6TDen <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=6TDen' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 6, 2024, 9:14 pm, in reply to "Re: I need a bigger garage!"

The finger rattling is caused by a lack of Merlot. Just top up with a few glasses of the vineyards finest and the rattling will stop.
Den

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