14-06-13, 07:38 PM
Yes, I think you'd have made a good bike journo. Better than some of the stuff I've read in Performance Berks etc.
A colleague spotted the bike on Ebay, good price and owned by a Guernsey copper. Thought that might mean it would have been well looked after, which, apart from the Guernsey sea air eating away at the paint on the engine cases and requiring replacement of a few rusty nuts and bolts, it was. The price was largely due to it not having been subjected to UK taxes. And the seller wrote me a receipt for less than I actually paid, so I didn't have to pay much tax on it when I brought it in. You gotta love coppers!
At the time I was working at a Yamaha dealer, so the few things that needed doing didn't cost me too much either.
A colleague spotted the bike on Ebay, good price and owned by a Guernsey copper. Thought that might mean it would have been well looked after, which, apart from the Guernsey sea air eating away at the paint on the engine cases and requiring replacement of a few rusty nuts and bolts, it was. The price was largely due to it not having been subjected to UK taxes. And the seller wrote me a receipt for less than I actually paid, so I didn't have to pay much tax on it when I brought it in. You gotta love coppers!
At the time I was working at a Yamaha dealer, so the few things that needed doing didn't cost me too much either.