What would you do?

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MyLittleStudPony wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 8:24 pm You're asking should you buy a bike, but you're not telling us what the bike is?
He doesn't need too, the answer is always YES!
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Never go back - it is never as good as you remember.

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Buy it, ride it. If you like it then work out what to do next. :D

(I'm guessing you probably wouldn't lose money if you turned it around quickly. It's just the faff of selling - and I bet one of those chaps you meet up with would be tempted anyway).
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Buy it, plenty of room in the lounge to have another bike
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MyLittleStudPony wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 8:24 pm You're asking should you buy a bike, but you're not telling us what the bike is?
Yep. I'm just full of mystery and intrigue. :thumbup:
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1974? Nah, I'll pass, unless it's something with a specific use case your other bikes don't fulfill that you will get regular use from. It's a pian in the arse taxing and insuring 2 bikes and if I SORN 1 it just gets pushed further back into the shed where it will start rotting and need a massive amount of work to get it roadworthy when in 2 years time I decide to get it out again.

I did the N+1 thing with bicycles, now I'm left with half a dozen unsellable, unfashionable space thieves.
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Skub wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 9:09 am
MyLittleStudPony wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 8:24 pm You're asking should you buy a bike, but you're not telling us what the bike is?
Yep. I'm just full of mystery and intrigue. :thumbup:
I've never heard that euphemism for it. Most people call it shit. :D
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Skub wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 9:09 am
MyLittleStudPony wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 8:24 pm You're asking should you buy a bike, but you're not telling us what the bike is?
Yep. I'm just full of mystery and intrigue. :thumbup:
I think you should buy it! :P
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Borrow it for a day then decide.
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3 bikes is the sweet spot. 👍
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If you'd regret not buying it, buy it. You can always sell it again.
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No question in my mind- buy it man! (and ideally another shed if you can find somewhere to put that :D )
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Buy it and build another shed/lean to/ garage for it to live in :) :) :) :)
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Freedom isn't free, there's a hefty f***ing fee.
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I bought a second Laverda ater having regretted flogging the first one, the second wasnt quite as good so I spent a pretty penny at laverda scotzia trying to make it better it did the trick, engine wise, the down side was I didnt ride it as much as the ZZR AND it was a RH gearchange, in the interveening decades I had lost the total ability to be swapping gear change sides without a thought. This annoyed me and I have sold it and bought a posh E MTB which I use all the time. bit of the, never meet your hereos again?, or buy one! It did look the bollocks though.
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Have you bought it yet @Skub ?
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Rockburner wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 8:00 pm Have you bought it yet @Skub ?
La,la,la,la.......

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Cousin Jack wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 9:12 pm Never go back - it is never as good as you remember.

Bikes, places, jobs, women,................

Try them once and see if they are as good as you remember. If not get shot.

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