(11-10-16, 11:42 AM)NorthWestern link Wrote: Looking around for a new bike at the moment and peoples descriptions including:
"Tasteful mods" - your looking at a bike with gold chazzo leavers and a purple pro bolt kit.
"Massive Spec" - aforementioned "tasteful mods" and perhaps some semi fancy brake pads and/or a host of non performance related bolt-ons even going as far as listing the handlebar grips and spark plugs.
Listing the bike as a 2010 etc when it is in fact a late registered earlier model. The seller knows this so why not list it as such.
"Wants for nothing" - then explains a small crack in the fairing or torn seat.
"First to see will buy" - you have seen the listing on for weeks...
and on...
Similar to this I hate it when you go to a dealers that you've had dealings with for many happy years, to then pop in and find that the normal person you deal with is on holiday, so you think OK! I'll speak with someone else as you feel that the standards of the normal person should be the same as everyone in the company, but the person you end up speaking with is full of crap and spins you a load of lies and tries to sell you something completely different to what you are enquiring about eg "I'm looking at buying an MT-10 whats the best finance deal you can do for me" "well sir on the Honda Goldwing we can offer you a Blar Blar % over Blar Blar months, how does that sound" "when is John back off his holiday as you're bloody useless" :lol (that actually happen to me the other day, I don't think he works there anymore)
to top it off, they know its shit so wont even give their phone number.
I did offer the guy £450 for it a few weeks back but he claims its worth every penny of the £999 he has it advertised for even with a knackered battery/tyre/paint etc
to top it off, they know its shit so wont even give their phone number.
I did offer the guy £450 for it a few weeks back but he claims its worth every penny of the £999 he has it advertised for even with a knackered battery/tyre/paint etc
That is FOCCING funny, it looks like it's been fished out of a swamp and they want £999 for it :rollin
Also claims it is the same engine as the R6 :rollin
When I emailed the womble he still didn't back down on the R6 part :rollin
and he states that he used to be a motorcycle mechanic :rollin :rollin
Quote from the advert: 'Yamaha fazer fzs600 has been resting covered up in my back garden for over a year now' Yeah! covered up at the bottom of the swamp in his back garden :rollin
Also
Quote from the advert: 'This motorbike should pass an MOT without any advisory apart from front tyre ' A pointless comment as it will have an advisory (what a dick)
(11-10-16, 02:44 PM)Fazer99 link Wrote: [quote author=BBROWN1664 link=topic=17546.msg243569#msg243569 date=1476191676]
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When I emailed the womble he still didn't back down on the R6 part :rollin
and he states that he used to be a motorcycle mechanic :rollin :rollin
Quote from the advert: 'Yamaha fazer fzs600 has been resting covered up in my back garden for over a year now' Yeah! covered up at the bottom of the swamp in his back garden :rollin
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Quote from the advert: 'This motorbike should pass an MOT without any advisory apart from front tyre ' A pointless comment as it will have an advisory (what a dick)
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Pisses me off when people are trying to sell things for £1000+ without an MOT. I mean who are they trying to kid with all that 'it will pass first time' bollocks
They can use all the shitty excuses in the world but at the end of it if they honestly thought it would pass first time then they would fork out the 30 odd quid to help it sell.
to top it off, they know its shit so wont even give their phone number.
I did offer the guy £450 for it a few weeks back but he claims its worth every penny of the £999 he has it advertised for even with a knackered battery/tyre/paint etc
"...Has been resting covered up in my back garden for over a year now..."
Along with the other bodies?
Does he live in a cemetery perchance? :lol
I was gonna say the engine had seaside salt air erosion, but Croydon certainly rules that out, and it would be more be likely fire damage from rioting.
I would imagine that a combination of neglect and jet washing is why the paint has flaked so badly, which is a shame on a low mileage bike.
More people are born because of alcohol than will ever die from it.
13-10-16, 08:28 AM (This post was last modified: 13-10-16, 08:33 AM by crickleymal.)
The idiot on the moped I've been encountering the last few days. Not content with having an illegal L plate 2.5 inches across :eek they also ride at 22 mph in the gutter. That's bad enough but this idiot has a habit of filtering past traffic to the front of the queue at traffic lights. All well and good you say, that's what bike are for. But if you then travel at 22 mph all the traffic you've just overtaken then has to overtake you within 100 yards of the lights FFS.
Not content with that, I was stuck behind a bus and a car trying to get past a pushbike which was using the cycle lane. (since adding in a cycle lane on both sides of the road it's made the space for cars 6 foot narrower which makes it harder to overtake bikes if there's opposing traffic). Bugger me if this prat then undertakes me and the car in front and is contemplating undertaking the bus as well when the bus fortunately managed to get past the bike.
have a word with him, he may take it kindly if he's genuinely a learner...........if he tells you to foc off then grip the foccer and tell him he's giving you and bikers a bad name and other road users will look to squeeze you/force you off the road then give him a dig :rolleyes
(13-10-16, 08:28 AM)crickleymal link Wrote: The idiot on the moped I've been encountering the last few days. Not content with having an illegal L plate 2.5 inches across :eek they also ride at 22 mph in the gutter. That's bad enough but this idiot has a habit of filtering past traffic to the front of the queue at traffic lights. All well and good you say, that's what bike are for. But if you then travel at 22 mph all the traffic you've just overtaken then has to overtake you within 100 yards of the lights FFS.
Not content with that, I was stuck behind a bus and a car trying to get past a pushbike which was using the cycle lane. (since adding in a cycle lane on both sides of the road it's made the space for cars 6 foot narrower which makes it harder to overtake bikes if there's opposing traffic). Bugger me if this prat then undertakes me and the car in front and is contemplating undertaking the bus as well when the bus fortunately managed to get past the bike.
I feel your pain as I get a lot of this kind of thing where I live. unfortunately it's not until they have an accident or gain a few years of road experience they realise what dicks they are being. It doesn't help that a lot of the Police I know don't actually know the full laws on L plate riders as the other day a lad on a moped with L plates had a pillion on the back rode past an officer down the white line and did nothing, so I stopped next to the officer and asked why he did nothing and he didn't know that it is illegal for learner riders to carry pillion passengers :wall
(13-10-16, 11:41 AM)Fazer99 link Wrote: [quote author=crickleymal link=topic=17546.msg243670#msg243670 date=1476343721]
The idiot on the moped I've been encountering the last few days. Not content with having an illegal L plate 2.5 inches across :eek they also ride at 22 mph in the gutter. That's bad enough but this idiot has a habit of filtering past traffic to the front of the queue at traffic lights. All well and good you say, that's what bike are for. But if you then travel at 22 mph all the traffic you've just overtaken then has to overtake you within 100 yards of the lights FFS.
Not content with that, I was stuck behind a bus and a car trying to get past a pushbike which was using the cycle lane. (since adding in a cycle lane on both sides of the road it's made the space for cars 6 foot narrower which makes it harder to overtake bikes if there's opposing traffic). Bugger me if this prat then undertakes me and the car in front and is contemplating undertaking the bus as well when the bus fortunately managed to get past the bike.
I feel your pain as I get a lot of this kind of thing where I live. unfortunately it's not until they have an accident or gain a few years of road experience they realise what dicks they are being. It doesn't help that a lot of the Police I know don't actually know the full laws on L plate riders as the other day a lad on a moped with L plates had a pillion on the back rode past an officer down the white line and did nothing, so I stopped next to the officer and asked why he did nothing and he didn't know that it is illegal for learner riders to carry pillion passengers :wall
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I thought learners could carry a pillion passenger if the passenger had a bike licence....has that changed?
13-10-16, 12:27 PM (This post was last modified: 13-10-16, 12:28 PM by Fazer99.)
(13-10-16, 12:01 PM)dickturpin link Wrote: [quote author=Fazer99 link=topic=17546.msg243686#msg243686 date=1476355266]
[quote author=crickleymal link=topic=17546.msg243670#msg243670 date=1476343721]
The idiot on the moped I've been encountering the last few days. Not content with having an illegal L plate 2.5 inches across :eek they also ride at 22 mph in the gutter. That's bad enough but this idiot has a habit of filtering past traffic to the front of the queue at traffic lights. All well and good you say, that's what bike are for. But if you then travel at 22 mph all the traffic you've just overtaken then has to overtake you within 100 yards of the lights FFS.
Not content with that, I was stuck behind a bus and a car trying to get past a pushbike which was using the cycle lane. (since adding in a cycle lane on both sides of the road it's made the space for cars 6 foot narrower which makes it harder to overtake bikes if there's opposing traffic). Bugger me if this prat then undertakes me and the car in front and is contemplating undertaking the bus as well when the bus fortunately managed to get past the bike.
I feel your pain as I get a lot of this kind of thing where I live. unfortunately it's not until they have an accident or gain a few years of road experience they realise what dicks they are being. It doesn't help that a lot of the Police I know don't actually know the full laws on L plate riders as the other day a lad on a moped with L plates had a pillion on the back rode past an officer down the white line and did nothing, so I stopped next to the officer and asked why he did nothing and he didn't know that it is illegal for learner riders to carry pillion passengers :wall
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I thought learners could carry a pillion passenger if the passenger had a bike licence....has that changed?
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I asked if Learners can carry passengers at the riding school where I got licence from and the head instructor stated that at no point can a rider on L plates carry a passenger, he did go into more detail about it but I can't remember the other stuff and the long and short of it is no they can't carry passengers at all.
(13-10-16, 12:01 PM)dickturpin link Wrote: I thought learners could carry a pillion passenger if the passenger had a bike licence....has that changed?
Yes - One of the many changes when the test rules all changed.
It may be in this case, as happened to me once, I was the qualified rider riding my friends bike that had L plates on with him on the back. We got stopped but the only thing that was potentially illegal was displaying L plates that were not needed.
I used to ride my Moped with my dad (usually when he was pissed) on the back to get home from the pub.
The problem with all that is that people now think they can do it too. I was in an antique place and the owners were getting pissed off with everyone saying "will you take"
I don't do rain or threat there of. dry rider only with no shame.
