Just Bought Something - How Long Can I Keep This Thread Going?

Is it from another country far, far away?

 

Engine size?

 

BMW?

 

Only two pages Steve you’ll have to try harder next time

 

Ha ha! I resisted joining in, that bloody @dilligaf gets me every time with this sort of thing , at least I won't be falling for that again after showing such restraint here!

 

Yeah but I didn’t buy a Feckin BMW

 

No, far worse, wasn't one of your (very) long threads about a fecking trailer?

 

What’s the matter with you
It’s a Feckin lovely trailer
Just used it this weekend
Definitely more interesting than a BMW

 

Which basically means no room for the FEB

 

Ha!

Ja, I did tell Jez about my secret love affair, but did not want to open a thread in the Triumph forum...

About the Racer: Steve, I think you just made the same experience that I went through with the Thruxton R
WITH lowered handlebars to fit the fairing... I was in pain almost all of the time, especially the joints behind my hands.
That’s when I traded the R for the T120. And learned the hard way: no more café racers for me.

The NineT Racer is sold in Germany with very few miles on for ridiculous low prices. It’s a shame.
Same as the Husqvarna Vitpilen 401. Retail price: 6.300,-€, selling new at the moment for 4.100,-€
A joke!

But at that point you realize, that most of the folks who buy these bikes are 50+ and discover that a more upright driving-position isn’t such a bad long-term investment.

Well and since Jez ‘leaked the news’: I just ordered this one:


That’s the NineT/5 (based on the Pure). I think the /5 (Germans call it “Strich Fünf“) is also called Wunderbike for some reason in the english-speaking places. Wiki and Google kept quiet about why...
But I am sure, you guys have some very enlightening ideas...

Anyway: IMHO it is one of the most beautiful bikes in production right now. So I traded my fairly new Husky in and now I am anxiously awaiting my first teutonic machine

Steve, it is a shame that you have to sell the Racer and probably loose quite some money. Such a beauty...

Oh and for anyone who might ask: the Tractor stays in my garage as well! It is too good a bike.

Cheers!

 

This is the Svartpilen (so it is the scrambler, not the cafe racer). The one I just sold. I am 1,8m tall and it did not look that ridiculous when I checked in a shopping window...
The bike is not tiny. The average human looks more like this on it: