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Sold my XS2
- Thread starter BowlingSS
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Got my cast off last week and finally got my starter gear set installed today. My hand is still very sore and did not get a change to test ride it. Should be warmer later in the week for a test ride. The starter seems to work great now.
Bike on eBay.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/115141507638
https://www.ebay.com/itm/115141507638
Had one offer of 5K. Trying to get $5200. I have a lot in this one.
Did you ever get your 73?wow thats very good work there, very tasty XS2 at the rate your going and a second life time you will have saved all of the XS needing loveim impressed
I am guessing a labor of love and congratulations on that. Despite the $ parts input I would guess your hourly labor return is rather low. Hats off to you. A lovely bike.
Bike just sold. Going to Japan. Got $5595. Now on to the next one. My hand is still very sore but will start slowly.
Thanks for everyone’s support and help.
This is fun.
Bill
Thanks for everyone’s support and help.
This is fun.
Bill
I probably get a dollar an hour. I do it for fun not profit.
Congrats you did well !
I would hate to figure my hourly wage when i'm working on these old bikes, let alone the dollars spent on them. Might be cheaper to sit in the local bars all day
Bike paid for. I always worry too much that I am not going to get the money.
Possibly, but surely not if you take your health into consideration. This hobby is good for my brain. Considering the social interaction, the joy of riding the motorcycles and the quality time spent in the garage, I believe this is all money well spent. I hope to see some of you at events in 2022!
Oooohhhhh, me too Marty. I sure don't like the rules, but I will follow them because people who are waaaayyyy smarter than me have passed them along and I have kids and grandchildren to protect. Nonetheless, this whole COVID19 thing is now very old and it seems to be the eternal trip-to-the-dentist. When-T-F will it end?
As for the economics of restoring these bikes, I never even think about my own time in the mix. I have not yet sold any of my vintage bikes, but if I ever did, I'd be keen to recover only my out-of-pocket funds (parts etc.).
The labour I put into my bikes, I consider to be my mental health therapy. After a 40+year career of wearing a suit and tie, attending meetings, prepping lectures, watching my language and editing my remarks before delivering them, arguing with lazy-little-b@stard students (THEM: "Sir, I don't know how to do problem #7". ME: "You might try attending the lecture and then just doing the f@cking work rather than spending all of your time trying weasel out of doing it sonny-boy."), worrying about making quorum at meetings, f@cking around with regulations and bylaws, writing fruitless proposals, irrelevant reports and other silly minutae, I just want to play in my workshop, drink some BEvERages, watch a little TV and do some wrenching.
In my line of work (I am a university engineering professor), many folks just keep on toddling into the office and sitting there all day - achieving nothing, contributing nothing and gaining nothing from the time spent. There are nearly a dozen people in my faculty who are over 70 and about six who are over 75 years old FFS. Don't they have a frickin' life?
I am tired and cranky....and I know it. It is time to hang up the ole' T-square and do something else.
Here endeth the rant....my sincere apologies to the OP.
Pete
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You're welcome here if you ever care to ride Mississippi!
Count on it bud - you will hear the Teutonic sound of Gretel rumbling up your driveway some day.
Structural mechanics? Gawd, when one point isn't enough to make a force, Newton!
