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Supermofo wrote: Sat Jan 20, 2024 11:56 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Fri Jan 19, 2024 9:07 pm
Pirahna wrote: Fri Jan 19, 2024 9:04 pm

What's wrong with that?
Nothing, it's just it's usually large capacity tourers you see for sale with that kind of miles (and mainly Hondas and BMW's), not Yamaha shopping bikes.
At my mates house for a beer or 8 and his 1290 Super Adventure has just clocked 142k
Used year round? My experience of year round biking is that the mechanicals are fine if looked after, it's the verdigris on the wiring that kills them.
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Pirahna wrote: Sun Jan 21, 2024 12:08 am
Supermofo wrote: Sat Jan 20, 2024 11:56 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Fri Jan 19, 2024 9:07 pm

Nothing, it's just it's usually large capacity tourers you see for sale with that kind of miles (and mainly Hondas and BMW's), not Yamaha shopping bikes.
At my mates house for a beer or 8 and his 1290 Super Adventure has just clocked 142k
Used year round? My experience of year round biking is that the mechanicals are fine if looked after, it's the verdigris on the wiring that kills them.
Yeah he's been riding Colchester to either Hackney or Green Park in London all work days, all weather's. He finished his last London commute Friday and it's currently properly salt slathered
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kendo57 wrote: Fri Jan 19, 2024 8:03 pm Bike is ok but why park it in a field
Hoping it'll take root and grow into a 1000?
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When one off makes you think "Thank fuck for that"

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Supermofo wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2024 11:04 pm When one off makes you think "Thank fuck for that"

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315094043020
Come on. Seriously, an orange oil filler and blue hoses! Is there no sense of style anymore?
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No mention of the massive filter stuck on the back?

I'd assume it's the engine breather, but they usually have tiny little filters on them?
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So many levels of the wrong.
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This one isn't as horrid as it could be, but I've got a full house on my ebay bollocks bingo card, all the correct phrases, the incorrect spellings and even cropping half the bike out of the pictures!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285669629049
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KungFooBob wrote: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:22 pm This one isn't as horrid as it could be, but I've got a full house on my ebay bollocks bingo card, all the correct phrases, the incorrect spellings and even cropping half the bike out of the pictures!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285669629049
120 BHP. Isn't that a learner bike?
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Yorick wrote: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:24 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:22 pm This one isn't as horrid as it could be, but I've got a full house on my ebay bollocks bingo card, all the correct phrases, the incorrect spellings and even cropping half the bike out of the pictures!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285669629049
120 BHP. Isn't that a learner bike?
But the seller reckons it eats GSXR 1000s.

So it must be speshul.

Just like the blerk's speolng
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Dino readout :lol: :lol: :lol: Think my son had one of them when he went through his Jurassic world period at 5
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KungFooBob wrote: Tue Jan 30, 2024 9:06 am No mention of the massive filter stuck on the back?

I'd assume it's the engine breather, but they usually have tiny little filters on them?
What's the filter foam on the handlebars? Anyone have an idea, because I haven't a clue?
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KungFooBob wrote: Tue Jan 30, 2024 9:06 am No mention of the massive filter stuck on the back?

I'd assume it's the engine breather, but they usually have tiny little filters on them?
Stranger still, it's a 'caged sock filter' for a Weber carb. :think:
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I've got a ZRX11 in the garage, but I'd really like one of those new Z900RS'... maybe there's something I can do?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266650918076

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KungFooBob wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2024 9:58 pm I've got a ZRX11 in the garage, but I'd really like one of those new Z900RS'... maybe there's something I can do?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266650918076

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Skub wrote: Sat Feb 17, 2024 8:26 pm :shock:
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:D There's something quite sweet about that, quite what they were trying to achieve I dunno :eh: but they've put a bit of effort in.
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Has Bellwood moved into his pipe and slippers phase? Beige on a bike is just wrong...
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