Kawasaki W800

[Raymond]

Good job well done @Raymond. Now you got more space to store more crap you will never need!

Thanks, Ads, but just one accidental lapse such as an SR500 would soon disprove that one!

Nope, not going to happen, we're trying to reduce the number of sickles in the shed . . .

 

[Adamc]

Thanks, Ads, but just one accidental lapse such as an SR500 would soon disprove that one!

Nope, not going to happen, we're trying to reduce the number of sickles in the shed . . .

Old classic bike sales are tough at the moment in Blighty. It seems to be a buyers market as prices are still dropping if there is any real intent to sell. However many sellers are still asking top money...

 

[ThatXS650Guy]

Well done. Every time I make more horizontal space; I cover it right up. Rinse and repeat.

 

[Its been a long time]

Old classic bike sales are tough at the moment in Blighty. It seems to be a buyers market as prices are still dropping if there is any real intent to sell. However many sellers are still asking top money...

Lots of bikes been for sale for a very long time. It's a case of "honestly darling, I've tried advertising my bike everywhere but nobody's interested in buying it".

As ever, a bike will sell at the right market price. It's just that the market is dire presently. Myself, I let my Bonneville go a year ago for what I thought was a pretty low price. Today, I see bikes the same at £1000 less and not selling.

I just have a £3000 XS650 that I have the best part of £6000 in. Good job I'm not selling!

 

[Raymond]

. . . just have a £3000 XS650 that I have the best part of £6000 in. Good job I'm not selling!

Think I'm in a similar situation. Miss November agreed-value insured at six but on the UK market right now? Don't think so. Selling the XS at all would need luck finding an interested party.

 

[MaxPete]

Yesterday, remodelled the garage. First, take stuff outside

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Measure and cut some wood

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Strap the walls. The old wooden door used to sit on two trestles as my workbench


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Now some hefty timbers from an old piano will at last find their new vocation

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Back door/work bench now fitted, still with its glorious knob of course (before anybody asks, that leg on the right was set straight before it was secured)

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And a full-length fitted worktop, salvaged from a shop counter. Storage over and under

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Then shove all the clutter back in again

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Much tidier, work bench now solid-mounted, chucked out lots of rubbish. Even cleaned the windows.

Now about that Royal Enfield gear box . . .

The new garage / workshop looks great Raymond - very nicely done indeed!

As for old bike prices...yup, same here. Our vintage bike group has a serious problem, IMO as the average age is creeping up and younger people are simply not taking up riding...anything. As I understand it, motorcycle sales have really tanked across Canada and bikers are aging-out.

The Essex-Kent Section of the CVMG (Canadian Vintage Motorcycle Group) of which I am a member, has about 60-65 registered members of whom about....20-25 ride reasonably often but some sections are smaller and as I said, the average age has to be upwards of 65-70. I think that I am the second youngest in my Section and I'm 66. The youngest guy is, I think, 64.

That inevitably must mean that there will be a glut of nice used bike coming onto the market over the coming decade or so - which as a "younger" person, is a good thing - but for the hobby as a whole, it cannot be seen that way at all.

Anyhow, I am having fun and am planning a good long ride out to Newfoundland this summer - so lucky me!

Pete

 

[jetmechmarty]

The problem with prices down is that it’s easier to accumulate more bikes. I know where I can get bikes cheap or free.

An XS650 can tour. Some other old bikes can tour better. The Guzzi I had was a freebie and awesome mile muncher. It could carry six bags of groceries. Too bad I drove it into a truck.

 

[Mailman]

Yesterday, remodelled the garage.

Shop looks great Raymond! Spring is just around the corner!

 

[Raymond]

Shop looks great Raymond! Spring is just around the corner!

Fingers crossed.

 

[jetmechmarty]

I wish you were my neighbor, Raymond. You could guide me to better organization for sure. @Mailman I could use your influence as well. I get a little garage time to tinker with motorcycles and too often I spend all that time trying to put things away. Organization relieves stress.

 

[RC4MAN]

Oh Gawd, don't get me started. Our AR (Anal Retentive) GM is on a 5S kick here and wants the whole plant just "so-so", everything aligned, labeled, decide if it's Hot, Warm or Cold. He's even got stickers on his desk where he places his stapler and coffee cup. We're going to start being graded on how we do. UGHHHH!

 

[jetmechmarty]

He's even got stickers on his desk where he places his stapler and coffee cup.

Nope! That would send me right back to stress land. There’s clutter, organized, then OCD. Either end of that spectrum is a problem. IMHO.

 

[Raymond]

. . . You could guide me to better organization for sure. @Mailman I could use your influence as well . . .

How could I have have misled you so badly? My attempts at order are a vain attempt to cling on as everything all on all sides gradually falls into eternal disorder and time ceases to mean anything.

 

[JOHNDADDY]

Just stop wrenchin, then you can keep everything in it's place
Go out and dust you're tools or???
Sick Sick Sickness!
Gotta Love It!

 

[Its been a long time]

How could have have misled you so badly? My attempts at order are a vain attempt to cling on as everything all on all sides gradually falls into eternal disorder and time ceases to mean anything.

The word you're looking for, is entropy.

 

[Raymond]

Oh, I know the word entropy well enough. Will never forget Brian Cox, the physicist one, sitting on the sand on the Coast of Bones in Africa talking about the Universe, its final descent into entropy and using one of his marvellous analogies to illustrate just how long that will take.

 

[Its been a long time]

Oh, I know the word entropy well enough. Will never forget Brian Cox, the physicist one, sitting on the sand on the Coast of Bones in Africa talking about the Universe, its final descent into entropy and using one of his marvellous analogies to illustrate just how long that will take.

Always happens a lot quicker in a shed or garage though!

 

[Raymond]

Always happens a lot quicker in a shed or garage though!

That short quip encapsulates so much of our shared truth hereabouts it's just brilliant!

 

[TX650A Van Islander]

The new garage / workshop looks great Raymond - very nicely done indeed!

As for old bike prices...yup, same here. Our vintage bike group has a serious problem, IMO as the average age is creeping up and younger people are simply not taking up riding...anything. As I understand it, motorcycle sales have really tanked across Canada and bikers are aging-out.

The Essex-Kent Section of the CVMG (Canadian Vintage Motorcycle Group) of which I am a member, has about 60-65 registered members of whom about....20-25 ride reasonably often but some sections are smaller and as I said, the average age has to be upwards of 65-70. I think that I am the second youngest in my Section and I'm 66. The youngest guy is, I think, 64.

That inevitably must mean that there will be a glut of nice used bike coming onto the market over the coming decade or so - which as a "younger" person, is a good thing - but for the hobby as a whole, it cannot be seen that way at all.

Anyhow, I am having fun and am planning a good long ride out to Newfoundland this summer - so lucky me!

Pete

Good on you to plan to ride to Newfoundland! What bike will you take?

There a lots of not-selling older bikes on the market here in BC. Definitely a buyer's market. My son is picking up his first bike, a 2018 Suzuki GSX250-R, on Thursday. $2500 with less than 8500 kms. That seller started advertising it at $4k.

 

[Its been a long time]

That short quip encapsulates so much of our shared truth hereabouts it's just brilliant!