Sounds like a good deal to me.....with that little bit of history getting it going will be easy, carb clean, plug clean and fresh fuel , cheap filter on ebay brum, brum :lol........if for some reason it dosn't start you'll get your money back in the spring no problem :thumbup
(12-12-15, 11:58 AM)red98 link Wrote: Sounds like a good deal to me.....with that little bit of history getting it going will be easy, carb clean, plug clean and fresh fuel , cheap filter on ebay brum, brum :lol........if for some reason it dosn't start you'll get your money back in the spring no problem :thumbup
:agree
Hoping to strip it down, I mean supervise my boy doing it
It'll be good for him as he's wanting to do mechanics when he's older
Colin
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Ride fast, ride a red bike :-)
At 13 thats a great way to start, thats a lot of learning for £50.......easy to make a profit if sold on once running, that will be another lesson learnt :thumbup
(12-12-15, 05:17 PM)red98 link Wrote: At 13 thats a great way to start, thats a lot of learning for £50.......easy to make a profit if sold on once running, that will be another lesson learnt :thumbup
:agree
I think it's a better Xmas present than most stuff :lol
It'll get him off the couch and away from the TV and be the envy of his mates I'm sure
Think the idea will be.....
Strip it down, get it running, use it for a season to get him into it sort of idea and then either sell or exchange up if he's still into it.
Yes £50 to start, plus parts, plus gear etc, but it'd cost a lot more if I just got a bike already running and he won't gain the experience of stripping the engine and getting it working, which in my opinion is the most important part in this
Colin
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Ride fast, ride a red bike :-)
(12-12-15, 08:27 PM)red98 link Wrote: only down side.....bastid to wrap up and how are you going to get it in his stocking :lol
Dam, I never thought of that! :b
Maybe I'll just get a wee model bike and wrap that and put that in his stocking
That'll give him something to think about :lol
Colin
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Ride fast, ride a red bike :-)
23-12-15, 08:47 PM (This post was last modified: 23-12-15, 08:47 PM by unfazed.)
I started my kids on a TW125 in the fields near home around the 13 year mark.
Local farmer is into bikes so we had full access to fields which were not in use.
They learned to ride, stop, fall, race, slide, fall,and wheelie on it. (they fell a lot at first)
Bought it as a ratteler for €425 stripped the chassis and they helped paint it and put it back together.
Rebored it, put new pistons rings and gudgeon pin into it.
Had over 2 years fun on it and sold it for €600. :woot
When they were ready for the road I put them on the Serow.
Good idea mr bloggs.........so, we want a picture of santa (thats you sinto ) on the roof trying to get the bike down the chimney.....hope we're not going to be disappointed christmas morning.......
Those look like how it'll end up if I try to get it down the chimney :b
Sorry to disappoint you all but it'll be left in the garage
Part of the deal of me getting it is....once I've done it up and my boy has used it for whatever time scale that is, once I'm ready to sell it on, I've to offer to my mate, who got me the deal, first refusal for his grandson
Colin
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Ride fast, ride a red bike :-)