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Place your bets, gentlemen...

Posted by Brickboy <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Brickboy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 12, 2024, 4:07 pm

Yes, after what seems like years but is in fact just two months (probably the longest I've ever contemplated what to buy next) after despatching the R100ST its place has been taken.

I think it might have been Chazzy who said that the definition of madness is doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome so: mad I am (mind you, I'm running out of options for buying something I've not had before) and madness has been enacted today.

After much chat, thanks Nigel B and Mad Mike, I've sidestepped the enticements of Enfield Classics (it's still available though and still calling to me) and Notruns too - never had a Notrun and that was very, very difficult to resist. Instead, I've come 'home' as it were to my favourite big single - AJS. When it arrived I started it: first kick and then it sat ticking over. This is what we like to hear.

So, gents... you may now place your bets

Simon

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Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 12, 2024, 4:19 pm, in reply to "Place your bets, gentlemen..."

Simon that looks so nice and I love those singles. I would love one but the roads around my area are so bad old Brit bikes are now useless plus the driving standards in the London area are bloody frightening and I sure don't want to ride without indicators or very good brakes. Enjoy your new bike mate and I hope it gives you plenty of smiles to the mile. Oh by the way I give it 6 weeks

The oldest rocker in town!

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Posted by Hants Ian <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Hants+Ian' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 12, 2024, 5:17 pm, in reply to "Re: Place your bets, gentlemen..."

I would have thought that with all the 20mph limits in London the brakes would be more than adequate. Anyway when the poison dwarf brings in the man with the red flag none of this will matter.

The light at the end of the tunnel maybe an oncoming train

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Posted by 6TDen <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=6TDen' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 12, 2024, 5:25 pm, in reply to "Place your bets, gentlemen..."

Wow that looks lovely and worth £100 of anybody's money, please reserve my offer but I won't be able to receive the bike until at least the middle of next week.
And Jerry if you think the driving is bad where you are try a day out in Biggleswade. I guarantee you will be back on the A1 heading South before the Town clock strikes 12.
Den

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Posted by ChazzyB <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=ChazzyB' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 12, 2024, 5:27 pm, in reply to "Place your bets, gentlemen..."

That's a 350, not a big single.

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Posted by ChazzyB <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=ChazzyB' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 12, 2024, 5:29 pm, in reply to "Re: Place your bets, gentlemen..."

Oh, it is a 500 according to the gubmint.

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Posted by ChazzyB <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=ChazzyB' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 12, 2024, 5:30 pm, in reply to "Re: Place your bets, gentlemen..."

But you need to tax it...

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Posted by Brickboy <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Brickboy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 12, 2024, 6:44 pm, in reply to "Re: Place your bets, gentlemen..."

Apparently not, according to the nice chap at DVLA...

It's 'not registered for road use' which is the first time I've ever seen that on a V5. The PO couldn't recover the original registration but got an age related one the usual way via a club dating cert. The age-related registration number was issued but the bike was recorded as first registered in 1984.

The DVLA assures me I can ride it anyway and a letter and photocopy of the dating cert will sort it all out in a few weeks!

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Posted by ChazzyB <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=ChazzyB' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 12, 2024, 10:38 pm, in reply to "Re: Place your bets, gentlemen..."

Similarly, my own 18S was first registered in October 1986!

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Posted by spriddler <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=spriddler' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 12, 2024, 5:37 pm, in reply to "Re: Place your bets, gentlemen..."

Nice, a 1955 model 18S. That and the equivalent Matchless G80S are my favourite tourers.
The beginning of a faultless 2 months and 3,800 mile European tour with my '54 350cc Matchless. Slept in the tent every night.

'There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at at the flood.....'

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Posted by Brickboy <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Brickboy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 12, 2024, 6:27 pm, in reply to "Re: Place your bets, gentlemen..."

Spridd, you are a man of glorious fortitude - the furthest I rode my previous singles was about 90 miles a day for a couple of days. With a nice bed at the end of each day.

I shall aspire to your level of hardiness - perhaps I'll try and tour this next year... perhaps!

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Posted by Tonupdave <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Tonupdave' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 12, 2024, 7:00 pm, in reply to "Re: Place your bets, gentlemen..."

Always been a singles person and done many thousands of miles on them OK many years ago but was using the Ariel up and till six years ago I still hope to ride the doc and others say no the old Ariel has never let me down the clutch did loose drive once going to work in London on the Chelsea embankment but soon had it onits way the centre nut came undone good job it's a dry clutch .

Tonupdave..T.U.D.

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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 12, 2024, 5:57 pm, in reply to "Place your bets, gentlemen..."

Looks nice Simon.

I reckon it might make it into the new year

Who needs a signature anyway......

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Posted by MadMike <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=MadMike' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 12, 2024, 6:31 pm, in reply to "Place your bets, gentlemen..."

That message has been there for 2.50 hours now. Have you sold it yet?

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

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Posted by Brickboy <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Brickboy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 12, 2024, 6:45 pm, in reply to "Re: Place your bets, gentlemen..."

Did I miss your offer, Mike?!

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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 12, 2024, 9:19 pm, in reply to "Re: Place your bets, gentlemen..."

It might last until January 2025. I will up the offer of 1 Frank and bid you 5 Franks. Den, its your bid now

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Posted by 6TDen <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=6TDen' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 13, 2024, 8:15 am, in reply to "Re: Place your bets, gentlemen..."

Fellow bikers bidding against each other, how unethical. I shall gracefully withdraw with my sense of honour in tact.
Den

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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 13, 2024, 5:04 pm, in reply to "Place your bets, gentlemen..."

Another nice looking bike Simon.

You do seem to have a knack for finding nice examples of the many that have passed through your garage.

Serious question, not meant flippantly. Have you ever had any "trouble" with the DVLA WRT your frequency of bike changes after short ownership periods ? I seem to recall reading somewhere of someone who had been accused of being an undeclared dealer by the DVLA after a large number of changes within a short period of time.

Nigel B.

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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 13, 2024, 10:53 pm, in reply to "Re: Place your bets, gentlemen..."

Nigel, there was a situation many years ago where they would declare you as a dealer if you bought and sold more than 6 vehicles in one year. Not sure if that applies now. When my Nephew was selling a few cars he was declared a dealer in a Court case and guilty of selling a dangerous vehicle. Maybe if he was just a person not dealing, he might not have been jailed.
Of course, he was a dealer buying and selling auction vehicles and he sold a real horror car.

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Posted by Brickboy <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Brickboy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 16, 2024, 9:29 pm, in reply to "Re: Place your bets, gentlemen..."

I've never had any problem with DVLA - in fact I rang them about the Ajay's weird not for road use taxation class the other day and they were excellent.

I think the most I ever sold in a year, about twenty years ago, might have been five but I did start that year with five in the garage. I'd decided I wanted to own the big four I'd lusted after when I was poorer: CBR1000, ZZR1100, FJ1200 and whatever big tank Suzuki were making. I added the obligatory T140 for classic status. Two bikes is ok in my world, five was ridiculous because I only rode the one nearest the door and there was always 'something needing doing' which ate all my wages - new rear tyres, chains and sprockets, rotting silencers and collector boxes being the big culprits! It was fun going very fast though. I'd already had lots of practice at being poorer so I got rid of them!!

In an especially indecisive year I might sell three but usually they last at least a year before they go unless I end up hating them in five minutes - the last one like that was a Ducati 900SSie. One 60 mile ride and I couldn't move my neck properly for a week and writing on the whiteboard at work was hard because my wrist hurt so much!! I had a look back and see I've sold two bikes in the last year - the R100ST and the S8 that came with the knackered clutch which the PO 'honestly didn't know about'. I suppose I could probably claim a large tax rebate if they ever suggested I was a trader! As I don't go on expensive holidays, and my other hobbies: reading, walking, running, swimming and cycling are basically free I've been lucky enough to try out many of the bikes I always wanted but couldn't afford. Ironically, now I can afford them I barely ride them. I think the V Strom, perhaps the best bike I've ever owned, might have done 600 miles this year. Pathetic!

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