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Re: The Quotes Museum
« Reply #260 on: July 12, 2018, 21:24:54 »
June 12 2018  RHill1207  bemoans depreciation. "Folks I purchased a 2017 650 XT  around June 2017 and whilst I am over the moon with the bike.  I spoke to a fellow owner who related that the value of his bike also 2017 650 has dramatically decreased."

The replies are typical

Fatrat:      They all do that sir.

MartinW    Not necessarily all of them.

                I paid £3995 Brand New in 2004 and as it has a Silver Frame it is
                now worth £28000.

Fatrat:       You do know that's not real silver?

MartinW      :shock:
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Re: The Quotes Museum
« Reply #261 on: August 08, 2018, 00:00:39 »
Pop goes the Wurzel thread.


defies description.

here it is http://www.v-strom.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=34943.0

 lol lol
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Re: The Quotes Museum
« Reply #262 on: September 10, 2018, 11:54:49 »

In Tuskers' thread on whether to or not to remove helmets when fuelling:


Ridaz:                             ''129p! It's only 122 at my local Tesco''


Rusty Nuts                    lol Hats off to Tescos!  [geddit]


Wurzel                            lol  lol maybe we need a price-cap...


MartinW                       It's 129p if you keep your helmet on and 122p if you take it off.


Rusty Nuts                    In that case I'll have 10 litres of unlidded



quality! lol

https://www.v-strom.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=35124.20
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Re: The Quotes Museum
« Reply #263 on: September 10, 2018, 14:36:10 »
Well curated, that man.  :ty:

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Re: The Quotes Museum
« Reply #264 on: November 28, 2018, 21:44:39 »
Pug27 starts a thread : Keis Battery Aftermarket Connector?
« on: November 26, 2018  in pusuit of cheaper options to power his new keis vest. Soon follows an assortment of madcap solutions - batteries cobbled together with dodgy-looking wiring etc - and after one Mad Max photo, Rusty Nuts says

"If you think that battery pack looks dodgy you should see TLPower's Baader-Meinhof vest!"

tallpaul:   "... I believe it worked quite well and TLP is still very much alive."

Bigpie :  "Maybe he's rewired the vest as a defibrillator for every time the asbo hooligan lifts a wheel?"

[see pic at bottom]
           
Pug27 :  "...I'm certainly not messing around with Lithium batteries....again.
This was the effect of only one battery letting go on my e-cig!"

tallpaul : looks like smoking is safer, after all..."

TLPower:    Hot pants or flares?

kwackboy :    Are the shorts made by 'firetrap'?

Gassoon :  That's as bad a bush fire as I've ever seen!

TLPower :  Coupled with a blazer would be quite dapper. On second thoughts, perhaps a
                 smoking jacket :)
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Re: The Quotes Museum
« Reply #265 on: February 26, 2019, 19:56:12 »
john storrie 69 today:

"Should have told me earlier, id sent Mole, Badger, and Toad across they'd have sorted him, I thought rats were supposed to be intelligent."
So how's it going so far then?

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Re: The Quotes Museum
« Reply #266 on: May 28, 2019, 21:29:10 »
Barbel Mick came up with this gem as part of repairing kissofdeath's wheel bearings at a Yorkshire rideout

I only supplied the Vaseline!  :thumb: A very useful item that's always in the back box!  :whistle:

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Re: The Quotes Museum
« Reply #267 on: May 29, 2019, 08:39:50 »
How do I get more likes for quoting Mr Barbel in the museum than Mr Barbel gets for saying it in the first place?

Off to the Moaning thread for you Mick lol
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Re: The Quotes Museum
« Reply #268 on: May 29, 2019, 09:04:17 »
Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me!  :grin: 
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Re: The Quotes Museum
« Reply #269 on: May 29, 2019, 09:43:27 »
Is that what the vaseline is for Mick ? :shock:
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Re: The Quotes Museum
« Reply #270 on: June 24, 2019, 21:02:22 »
JHGlee said: "This poor bike was left out in the snow over the weekend....Brrr!"



Ptarmigan suggested: "If it's one those Chinese Jing-a-ling 125s when the snow melts there may not be that much of it left.  <!-- s:lol: -->lol<!-- s:lol: --> "

Was just bimbling through these posts from yesteryear and came across this...

How very dare you! - that's a bleedin Suzuki you're maligning there!  a GZ125  - (the wee Marauder)* to be precise - I know cos it was my first ride (fnarr :)

...though to be fair you did say 'If...' (and they still rust on contact...with air)

* I was going to say 'the baby Marauder' but with all those entendres flying around the title suddenly reads as far less innocent sounding than it actually is.
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Re: The Quotes Museum
« Reply #271 on: June 24, 2019, 22:42:03 »
 :shy: It's not a GZ125.

The Suzuki GZ125 all had spoked wheels, that has cast alu.
GZ125 didn't have shiny chrome engine case cover on the sides, only trim piece covering the top of the head.
The tail end is wrong for a GZ125.
The GZ125 didn't have shrowed forks.
The GZ125 didn't have twin end cans.

I'm not sure what specific bike is under the snow, but it ain't a Suzuki.

Baby marauder is also sort of correct. In the early 90's you could get an 800 Marauder and 800 Intruder. The marauder having chain drive and twin shocks, the Intruder had shaft drive and hidden monoshock.

GZ125:



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Re: The Quotes Museum
« Reply #272 on: June 25, 2019, 05:58:20 »
Lexmoto Pioneer?

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Re: The Quotes Museum
« Reply #273 on: June 25, 2019, 07:35:05 »
I did try looking, but gave up trawling through pictures of terrible bikes.  :-x

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Re: The Quotes Museum
« Reply #274 on: October 01, 2019, 22:37:53 »
Diver,

You are absolutely right - I stand corrected :bow-blue: (and more than a little embarrassed  :haha:)

I should have noticed by the twin end-cans if nothing else! :crazy:- the GZ125 is a single pot machine... 

Gassoon/Ptarmigan - My apologies for so cruelly maligning your reputations - I have no excuses,  :whistle: except for maybe needing new glasses... 
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Re: The Quotes Museum
« Reply #275 on: October 12, 2019, 13:04:05 »
 lol  In a museum first, Mr Diver now - ironically - gets quoted in this museum for a long comment he made IN this museum..!...
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:shy: It's not a GZ125.

The Suzuki GZ125 all had spoked wheels, that has cast alu.
GZ125 didn't have shiny chrome engine case cover on the sides, only trim piece covering the top of the head.
The tail end is wrong for a GZ125.
The GZ125 didn't have shrowed forks.
The GZ125 didn't have twin end cans.

I'm not sure what specific bike is under the snow, but it ain't a Suzuki.

Baby marauder is also sort of correct. In the early 90's you could get an 800 Marauder and 800 Intruder. The marauder having chain drive and twin shocks, the Intruder had shaft drive and hidden monoshock
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And wins a medal for 'OCD Bike Model Researcher of the Year' lol :grin:

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Re: The Quotes Museum
« Reply #276 on: October 12, 2019, 16:49:58 »
Something unsettling about this.
Does it mean the Quotes Museum will soon become self-aware?
Curators could soon be out of a job...

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Re: The Quotes Museum
« Reply #277 on: October 12, 2019, 21:29:05 »
Can I just point out I worked in a Honda and Suzuki dealership on the parts desk.
I needed to identify a bike at 100 paces.



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Re: The Quotes Museum
« Reply #278 on: January 07, 2021, 21:53:30 »
Skipping the year 2020 entirely (as it fully deserves), in a discussion about the metallurgy of bar-risers, Rusty nuts comments:
"The Chinese ones come in various colours:
Silver, gold and even green if made from semi-skimmed tops."
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Re: The Quotes Museum
« Reply #279 on: February 06, 2021, 14:07:25 »
Mr Diver confesses to maybe having a problem, an addiction really - to collecting tents (quite a common addiction on the forum :shy:)

Rusty comments:
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Take two paracetamol and call me in the awning.

Tallpaul adds: ''Loitering within tent. That's a criminal offence...''

Brockett:
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It was the day after new year and Shakespeare was so bored he thumbed through the new season, 1595 copy of  the "Go Outdoors" catalogue. Page two read "and now is the winter of our discount tents ......."
And look how that turned out.
:shock:  :grin:
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