Get all the parts for each, respectively, put together, & flog as projects or parts. You may make a few bob more flogging them as runners, but is having free time not more important & worth more than a few extra bob?
Pretty much where I'd got to with my thinking. The time taken to do it added to the space created by getting rid 'as is' outweighs any benefit in doing half a job to have runners.That's the correct mindset.
Which list is the Can Am on?
It's on the 'Finish and sell unless someone makes me an offer before I get to it list'
This rather hideous contraption's back. He bought it unseen on eBay from someone in North Yorkshire and last time it was in because the carbs were full of gunge.
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This time it's in because the fuel tap let go and dumped a tankful on his drive. Considering the state of the rest of it I very much doubt this is the last I'll see of it.
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I think it was standing for a long time before it was put back on the road. I couldn't make out what it was, started out like a waxy substance but as it dried it went crumbly, almost crystalline.
What's he been running it on, Weetabix?
That looks like something built on scrapheap challenge!This rather hideous contraption's back. He bought it unseen on eBay from someone in North Yorkshire and last time it was in because the carbs were full of gunge.
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This time it's in because the fuel tap let go and dumped a tankful on his drive. Considering the state of the rest of it I very much doubt this is the last I'll see of it.
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I get it with my punters "How long will it take,2 days or so ?" "No love, be finnished for just after lunch time"I emailed that bloke with the 3TA this morning to say it's done and give him the invoice, ask when he'd like to pick it up etc. He just rang and said
"I thought it'd be more than that with the state it was in."
FFS! You just can't win with customers.
Whatever became of the little pre-war French(?) bike you had?It's on the 'Finish and sell unless someone makes me an offer before I get to it list'
This is as far as I've got with the list so far as I keep finding stuff when I move things.
Build and keep
Custom GSX1100 ET. Injection, 1170, full MotoGadget, Bandit forks.
Monoshock ET. Whatever’s available here.
Build and sell or sell as projects
XS650 Tracker.
RF1000.
Dresda. RF900 engine.
Can Am.
Sell as project
XS650
1100G
SV650
Other GSX1100ET
Parts
XS650 spares.
Hayabusa running gear.
GSX1100ET engines.
GSX1100ET parts.
Other stuff as I find/remember it.
It went off to Bonham's for one of their auctions.
Not terribly far off that. It's got one of those horrible trike conversion kits, which put all the twisting forces from the rear axle on to the wrong bits of the frame.
The forces going through the individual pivot bearings must be huge as there's no provision at all for the frame or axle to tilt. So even a slight camber will load one or the other, add on cornering speed & any bumps and the bearings and tubes must take a right hammering.
Should have shortened one side of the axle to reduce the prop angle. Loads of those about too…
