Caput!

[Suntan Sid]

It’s back to a “bike only” existence for me; my car, Mazda Demio, suffered a serious, probably terminal, malfunction on the way home last night. Sounded like it dropped a valve, which was swiftly followed by it spewing out all of its oil. From the noises it was making when I killed the ignition I would hazard a guess that it is now deceased!

On the positive side, I had it booked in for a new timing belt, water pump, tyres and an MOT next Thursday, so saved a few hundred Euros there.

I can’t complain really, I’ve hammered it for over 130k miles, it had 25k miles on it when I bought it 4 years ago, (155k miles is not bad for a 1300 petrol engine). Other than the usual consumables, oil, tyres, brakes etc I never had to spend anything on it.

Hopefully I’ll be buying an NSR 250, at the weekend, the CBR will be demoted to commuting duties and the NSR will join my DRZ as weekend play things.

So, all in all, probably a blessing in disguise, I’ll be skint whether I buy another car or another bike, but I’d rather be skint and have another bike than skint with an old car, happy days!

PS.
All it would take to make my weekend complete is to receive a “Cool Story Bro” response, never had one before, so maybe someone could oblige.

[P.]

unlucky mate, my 1400 petrol got 200,000 then dropped the valves, on cylinder 1 and 4.. cost £120 to fix and is still marching on at 235,000.

Again, unlucky, but NSR 250 = Win!

[Suntan Sid]

[Livefast123]

My 1.4 is on 104,000 so not long to go now

NSR 250 is a win win machine, i'll be green with envy
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Current ride - Yamaha MT-07

[P.]

Cant blame you to be honest!
What are parts like on the NSR? Readily available or quite hard to find?

[mooserx]

Just for you Suntan

https://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/nasedase/Coolstorybro.jpg
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TL1000r-handful.

[blurredman]

My 1.1L '91 engine is on 112k.

But it's not been ragged

I only ever drive about 1-2k a year
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CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
Past: 1991 Honda CG125BR-J, 1992 (1980) Honda XL125S, 1996 Kawasaki GPZ500S, 1979 MZ TS150.
Current: 1973 MZ ES250/2 - 18k, 1979 Suzuki TS185ER - 10k, 1981 Honda CX500B - 91k, 1987 MZ ETZ250 (295cc) - 40k, 1989 MZ ETZ251 - 51k.

[Bendy]

[FURBAR]

3 Bikes !!! ... didums .. poor you !!!
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Fuk um !!

[Suntan Sid]

[Suntan Sid]

[FURBAR]

One 125 in dealers ....
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Fuk um !!

[chris-red]

In one of the Gran Turismos it was the car I always started with can't remember which though maybe 1?

Wasn't the Mazda 121 a re-badged fiesta for a while?
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Well, you know what they say. If you want to save the world, you have to push a few old ladies down the stairs.
Skudd:- Perhaps she just thinks you are a window licker and is being nice just in case she becomes another Jill Dando.
WANTED:- Fujinon (Fuji) M42 (Screw on) lenses, let me know if you have anything.

[blurredman]

[ollieholt]

i had a car free existence from july till October, the insurance had gone up about 50% and that was a hell of a lot on my policy with my age (22) so i did without. got it back on the road now though. its an Audi A6 1995 2.0, was a proper buy, only has 23k on it when i bought it 2 years ago! full service history lol it looked like a bikes service history ever 2k or so it had an Audi service, some old gipper had it before me then traded it in against a Suzuki alto! mad man. only has 31.5k on it now should last me the rest of my life!
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< This? Well this is just a day brightner.

[Suntan Sid]

[Suntan Sid]

It looked like this, same colour, but wheel trims had fallen off, 4 years worth of accumulated crud protecting the paintwork, two racing slicks on the front, , and assorted scrapes that where kindly left for me, over the years, in various carparks.
I've never washed it once in the four years I've had it, is that a record?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Mazda_Demio_1996.jpg

This isn't my car, just a random jpg from Google!

[Yarri]

When i bought my first car it was MG ZR 1.4, after i only had it for 3 weeks my engine blew up with 38k miles on it. Maybe i shouldn't have tried to rev it to 14.5k in every gear when accelerating
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Theory Passed: 23/10/2008 49/74 Bike Test Passed: 05/01/2009 1 minor
Theory Car Passed: 22/07/2009 48/74 Car Test Passed: 22/10/2009 2 minor
Few minutes of life of the biker could be more interesting then the whole lifes of many people

[TQ]

My 1.3 Fiesta clicked over to 180k yesterday.

Considering it hasn't been serviced for 4 years and I do rag it it's doing pretty well. I was told at the last MOT that I'll be lucky if it passes next year (emissions) so will probably run it till then and scrap it.
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First Bike :Gilera DNA 50 | Second: Imported 1989 NSR125
Third: 1998 Yamaha XJ600N | Currently: 1999 Yamaha FZS600

[blurredman]