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General => General => Topic started by: fazernigel on 09 November 2012, 04:33:12 pm
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Hi Everone
With the NEC show coming up i wonder what is the best bargain you've ever had at the show or anywhere to do with bikes?
Five years ago i bought a waterproof textile jacket from the Truimph stand at the NEC for £25 which has served me summer and winter since and is still waterproof and looking like new. Absolute bargain and top quality.
Has anybody else picked up a Biking bargain?
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Blue & white BKS Silverstone 1 piece leather suit, £200 last year. Was happy with that & my AGV Stealth SV for £110.00. Both from bike show. :)
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As new, never worn shoei multitech with extra tinted visor, pinlock, whisper strip, chingard £185 and a yamaha RD 500 LC YPVS found amongst the weeds in someone's garden £500 :)
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Stainless pipes and Titanium end can made by Akrapovic for my Urban Tiger FireBlade for £280 at the Ali Pally show several years ago? Absolute bargain
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On christmas day about ten years ago I bought a little Honda VRX 400 - this one:
(http://www.motorbikespecs.net/images/Honda/VRX_400_NC33_Roadster_95-99/VRX_400_NC33_Roadster_95-99_1.jpg)
I paid £1000 for it with 6000 miles, kept it for 18 months and 24000 miles and sold it for £1100. Free biking for 18 months - my best bargain by miles
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2000 GSXR 750y for 500 sheckles.
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Carbon Can Co. stainless oval can with removable baffle for Gen 1 Thou. 6 months old, not a mark on it. £16.55 off Ebollocks.
£10 p + p but it was only 10 miles up the road so picked it up. Still going strong 6 years later :D
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got a pair of akito gloves for 15 quid from a local bike shop. i wore them nearly everyday for 3 years until the fingers wore out. they were warm and they'd hold out the rain for a good hour before soaking through. they were great.
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full black frank Thomas onesies for 100 notes as well. used only on the occasional film shoot
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full black frank Thomas onesies for 100 notes as well. used only on the occasional film shoot
what sort of film shoot? :lol i hope you cleaned them afterwards
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Electrically heated jacket £40 of e bay second one for partner £36 Polar Heat . Can't see them at the moment but great buys !
Most impressive gadget, twin air horns with compressor around £14 great shock and awe factor !
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Dude, ex BBC wardrobe
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My ex was given a Suzuki GN125 that had been stood for a few years & had done 13K miles. I did a few bits to it, came up like new, she couldn't get used to having a bike with gears/clutch so I sold it on ebay for nearly 800 quid!
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the smile i get flat oot on the fazer ............................priceless
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£5 for an unused Akito jacket :thumbup
My 125 was £200 for a 10 plater... was a bargain til it blew up 600 miles later :wall Although on the plus side I sold it for £100, it saved me £100+ for a train ticket for the week and I got a week of practice for my mod 2 so it worked out quite well.
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complete blueflame exhaust system for using my bike to design the high level set up ...result
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Kwak GPZ550 bought for £1400, ridden 105,000 miles over 5 years and sold for.........£1400.
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my Fazer 600! bought July 2011 for £1500 on 02 plate with 6500 miles on clock ok so now only upto 10k on clock but wow what fun i have had getting back into biking!
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:) Hi Guys,
I've picked up a few real 'goodies' over the years .. but thinking about it now I recon my best ever bit of Bike related kit was a £4.99 Pin Drill from a modelling shop.
This tiny tool went on the bring so much pleasure to so many people .. it's all quite amazing! :eek
You see .. my Gen 1 was the very first bike that Mike GTX (Falcon 269) Ivanised .. after he had done his own.
I got the little pin drill jobby in preparation .. it's the jobby that he drills out those small holes with .. after the job was done I gave Mike the tool (and a bacon butty as we do)
It's the very same tool that he still uses today .. several years and many hundreds of very happy bikers with big 'Grin Factor' faces later.
Bloody good value for money is that .. I recon :D
Stay Safe Now Y'all ;) Trev ( the Polar Bear, Spain)
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Akrapovic complete system for Gen I in great condition, I bought last week...100 GBP :rollin
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I picked up a Yamaha 535 Virago in exchange for a bottle of whisky. The collector box was completely eroded, had been in storage for over 3 years so no MOT or TAX or even been turned over in all that time. The collector box was cut out and a B&Q shovel was welded on to close the gap (I kid you not), new plugs oil filter and got it MOT'd, all for £40. I cleaned the bike up and swapped it plus £300 for a Fazer 600. I sold the Fazer 600 for £1500 and bought the Fazer thou which I still have and have done a few modifications.....pictures below
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my 1982 suzuki gt 250 x7 bought on evilbay 4 yrs ago for £250....rode it home put in shed and not moved since...value now between £750 / £1000 :D
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My leatherman multitool has helped me out countless times. Saw it on a stall at a car boot sale 14 years ago, asked how much and the guy said £2.50!!! Honestly say it has been on my belt every single day since. It has been replaced twice free of charge under their no quibble warranty and upgraded once. Cant imagine life without it by my side as I use it hundreds of times a day at work as well.
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£4200 on a Fazer 6 in November 2000. Probably worth £750 now, more if I broke it and sold the parts.
£288 per year / 5 p per mile depreciation. A bargain I reckon. No plans to get rid of it so the costs should keep falling! Will it make 20 years old I wonder?
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Bout 12 yr ago my boss was rentin me a super4 for 80 shekels pw. Took it out 1 day after a service and rode over a pothole and the tank ruptured pissin out fuel over the engine. I took it back and told em i'm gonna rent from a different company and the owner told me he had carbed fzs boxeye 22k near mint condition for £2500. He had £300 deposit from me boss and wanted £500. I gave him £200 and my boss not knowing paid £2000 @ £80 pw. When it was paid i gave the hire shop £300 and ended up payin £500 for it. RESULT :-)
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bought my silver fzs 1000 for the same price as a blue one :lol ...........bargain
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Does this forum count? It's free and I have learned so much and saved myself a fortune by doing work myself instead of having to pay someone else to do it.
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bought my silver fzs 1000 for the same price as a blue one :lol ...........bargain
U just gotta learn how to ride it now (he aims low lol)
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got my fazer 1000 for £1200 (17k on it's back and dark grey/silver combo ;))
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got my fazer 1000 for £1200 (17k on it's back and dark grey/silver combo ;) )
Wow that is impressive! I bought my first 600 for more than that it had 20k on the clock itself...
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Did a straight swap of my '07 plate Tiger 1050 for my current '10 plate FZ1 8) Happy bunny! :D
Also bought my first Fazer 600 for £2500 about 11 years ago, traded it in 18 months later and with nearly 30,000 extra miles on the clock. The salesman said he'd give me £2600 for it! :D
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£200 for a low mileage p plate 600 diversion. did a lot of miles on that before the fazer.
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1963 Triumph Thunderbird, passed my test in 97, my dad said what ever bike he had in the shed I could have, a great introduction into motorcycling, master one of those, and everything else seemed easy.
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My best biker bargins, my weise voyager jacket £55 instead of £130, my weise compass jacket £90 instead of £160 all thanks to fowlers winter sale. My xs arai chaser helmet in silver frost £190 instead of £297 and my 2xs jts waterproof leather gloves with knuckle protection £50 my parents payed £30 as they were my xmas pressie. On the whole i've been rather lucky!! :D :D
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just rememebered after reading theru about other bikes people bought & sold for a profit, I bought a superdream 250N for £120 quid just after I passede by bike test rode it for 2 years then sold it for £350 in 1996
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Bought a wine coloured 2 year old BMW R850R MU for £3000 with genuine 2300 Miles on the clock, ran it for 4 years traded in on a New BMW R1200R SE for £5000--bargian of the century. :pc
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Won on EB few weeks ago..complete frame (in gold) with documents and valid MOT for 27.50 EUR. Swingarm, airbox and few racing bits such as modded airbox cover, passenger R1 footpegs, swingarm spools, original crash protectors, were also included...sweet deal. Good start for new project:o)) Akrapovic 60mm exhaust downpipes for 100 GBP were on top of that (mentioned previously).