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dickturpin

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Rip-off?
« on: 17 February 2014, 09:58:24 pm »
Maybe just a moan but are we being ripped off?.....I mean £30 for an air filter.....get real!
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ChristoT

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Re: Rip-off?
« Reply #1 on: 17 February 2014, 10:00:27 pm »
Moaning about being robbed....


... by Dickturpin!  :pokefun :lol :lol

But yes, you're right. We're a soft touch, really. To arms (or handlebars, maybe?) fellow bikers?
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dickturpin

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Re: Rip-off?
« Reply #2 on: 17 February 2014, 10:02:23 pm »
I was once told that the most expensive fluid on the planet was printer ink....maybe air filters trying to get in on the act!
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Dead Eye

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Re: Rip-off?
« Reply #3 on: 17 February 2014, 11:31:48 pm »
But for what Air Filter? OE then yeah, tha'ts a rip-off. K&N, not so much
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Re: Rip-off?
« Reply #4 on: 18 February 2014, 06:39:12 am »
this is an age thing....i moan about the cost of everything   :\
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Re: Rip-off?
« Reply #5 on: 18 February 2014, 07:36:42 am »
You worry me, I do that too!
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bri h

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Re: Rip-off?
« Reply #6 on: 18 February 2014, 08:15:30 am »
waggon wheels were huge..
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Re: Rip-off?
« Reply #7 on: 18 February 2014, 08:45:42 am »
That's the dealer price for OE. Can be bought a lot cheaper on ebay  or go the K&N route. Its not just an age-thing-compared with price for air filter for my car-its def. a rip-off! I query prices these days & have learnt to haggle-which doesn't come naturally to a lot of us in this country but im learning fast :lol
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Re: Rip-off?
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J_Dub

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Re: Rip-off?
« Reply #10 on: 18 February 2014, 10:15:46 am »
K&N still £33.81 at Calsport and free P&P

Just bought one.

Thanks for the reminder.  :)
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Re: Rip-off?
« Reply #11 on: 18 February 2014, 11:35:48 am »
Quote from: bri h on 18 February 2014, 08:15:30 am
waggon wheels were huge..

No it was just you were smaller and you thought they were bigger, it is me that is huge now!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol
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dickturpin

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Re: Rip-off?
« Reply #12 on: 18 February 2014, 07:34:52 pm »
Quote from: J_Dub on 18 February 2014, 10:15:46 am
K&N still £33.81 at Calsport and free P&P

Just bought one.

Thanks for the reminder.  :)

£50.11 at Calsport for thou filter
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Re: Rip-off?
« Reply #13 on: 18 February 2014, 07:47:41 pm »
Yamaha parts for the Fazer 1000 and 600 seem ridiculously priced to me. I sometimes have a look on the AJ Sutton website just out of interest. I'm a sucker for trying to keep fixings and fastners original and the price of some of them are shocking. Brand new Fazer brake calipers work out at about £600 each  :eek That's nearly two grand for a set  :eek. I don't need any but who would ever pay these prices ? How do they sell them ? Most people are obviously going to go the 2nd hand route if they need anything like this.

I wonder how much it would cost to build a Gen 1 Fazer 1000 based on new parts prices ?

Makes you realise what good value a complete bike is.
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