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Bubbs
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PostPosted: 21:45 - 15 Dec 2016    Post subject: Bubbs £1 to Motorbike Challenge Reply with quote
Putting on my old ski jacket on Saturday and I found £1.00, bought a scratch card on Saturday night and won £10. So I have come up with a small challenge for myself. I'm going to turn this £1 into a motorcycle by buying, selling, swapping items until it builds to a working motorcycle.



Step 1

£1 = Purchased scratch card
Return = £10


Step 2
£10 = Bought some ski boots with bag
Return = £20.20
https://i.imgur.com/eHAeUZT.jpg

Step 3
£20.16 = Bought Maplin 48W Solder Station
https://i1.adis.ws/i/maplin/N34FB_1?locale=en-gb&w=750&h=501

Clicky for online price

Return = not yet sold



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PostPosted: 21:51 - 15 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
I've got two bikes you can have for free.
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PostPosted: 21:56 - 15 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
M.C wrote:
I've got two bikes you can have for free.


Interested..
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PostPosted: 22:10 - 15 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bubbs wrote:
M.C wrote:
I've got two bikes you can have for free.


Interested..


And me!
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PostPosted: 22:11 - 15 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
M.C wrote:
I've got two bikes you can have for free.


Kek

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PostPosted: 22:30 - 15 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Challenge will continue regardless. Want to see how far I can get
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PostPosted: 22:38 - 15 Dec 2016    Post subject: Re: Bubbs £1 to Motorbike Challenge Reply with quote
Bubbs wrote:
Putting on my old ski jacket on Saturday and I found £1.00, bought a scratch card on Saturday night and won £10. So I have come up with a small challenge for myself. I'm going to turn this £1 into a motorcycle by buying, selling, swapping items until it builds to a working motorcycle.

Stage 1 = £1 coin
Stage 2 = £10 scratch card win
Stage 3 = Bought some ski boots with bag

https://i.imgur.com/eHAeUZT.jpg

Step 4 = Sell boots ***in progress***



There was a bike mag (PB possibly) that went from £1 to a fireblade.
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PostPosted: 22:41 - 15 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
There's a book about a bloke who swapped one red paperclip all the way up to a house if I remember correctly.
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PostPosted: 22:48 - 15 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Maybe I should dream big... Jumbo jet
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PostPosted: 22:58 - 15 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bubbs wrote:
Maybe I should dream big... Jumbo jet


Be a bastard parking in Tesco's though, aim for one of those RainCaracyclePals™ safer in inclement weather, and traffic, The Way Ahead is…I'd suggest a model called the Vauxhall Insignia.
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PostPosted: 23:05 - 15 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Analogkid wrote:
Bubbs wrote:
Maybe I should dream big... Jumbo jet


Be a bastard parking in Tesco's though, aim for one of those RainCaracyclePals™ safer in inclement weather, and traffic, The Way Ahead is…I'd suggest a model called the Vauxhall Insignia.


I'll have you know that I'm a very considerate parker.
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PostPosted: 23:15 - 15 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
dydey90 wrote:
Bubbs wrote:

Interested..


And me!

Another BCF'er dumped them on me basically. I was meant to be storing them for him for a few months but he's vanished.

Rusty Suzuki Freewind missing the plastics and a rusty TTR250 Raid if anyone's interested Laughing In the new year I'll be moving them to a local block of flats where the council will probably remove them.
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PostPosted: 00:21 - 16 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
M.C wrote:

Another BCF'er dumped them on me basically. I was meant to be storing them for him for a few months but he's vanished.

Rusty Suzuki Freewind missing the plastics and a rusty TTR250 Raid if anyone's interested Laughing In the new year I'll be moving them to a local block of flats where the council will probably remove them.


location?
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North London.
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PostPosted: 01:20 - 16 Dec 2016    Post subject: Re: Bubbs £1 to Motorbike Challenge Reply with quote
Bubbs wrote:

Stage 1 = £1 coin
Stage 2 = £10 scratch card win
Stage 3 = Bought some ski boots with bag

https://i.imgur.com/eHAeUZT.jpg

Step 4 = Sell boots ***in progress***





You've got a long way to go...

https://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/one-red-paperclip.html
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PostPosted: 02:09 - 16 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bubbs wrote:
Maybe I should dream big... Jumbo jet


Be a bastard parking in Tesco's though, aim for one of those RainCaracyclePals™ safer in inclement weather, and traffic, The Way Ahead is…I'd suggest a model called the Vauxhall Insignia.
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PostPosted: 04:10 - 16 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
007 wrote:


location?

You're going to be catching the bus come January.[/quote]

for what reason?
its been over 14 days (Y)
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PostPosted: 10:15 - 16 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
M.C wrote:
dydey90 wrote:


And me!

Another BCF'er dumped them on me basically. I was meant to be storing them for him for a few months but he's vanished.

Rusty Suzuki Freewind missing the plastics and a rusty TTR250 Raid if anyone's interested Laughing In the new year I'll be moving them to a local block of flats where the council will probably remove them.


I'd be over the moon with any one of them.

Do they run?
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PostPosted: 11:24 - 16 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
If they don't run then you could swap your ski boots for some parts?

Had to look up what a Freewind is.
650cc single Shocked
Might be worth scraping the rust off...
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PostPosted: 11:45 - 16 Dec 2016    Post subject: Re: Bubbs £1 to Motorbike Challenge Reply with quote
Bubbs wrote:
Step 4 = Sell boots ***in progress***

Postage will be close to a tenner. I predict you'll be spending a lot of time hanging around the back of pubs.
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PostPosted: 12:50 - 16 Dec 2016    Post subject: Re: Bubbs £1 to Motorbike Challenge Reply with quote
Rogerborg wrote:
Bubbs wrote:
Step 4 = Sell boots ***in progress***

Postage will be close to a tenner. I predict you'll be spending a lot of time hanging around the back of pubs.



You haven't taken into consideration peoples stupidity. People will buy almost anything if there's a story behind it. I once sold a completely trashed set of junior golf clubs which were £40 new for £45 because I said that I used them to get my handicap down to 4 while using them.

The clubs were in a dire state, I even took pictures and explained how bad a condition the were in. They just fall in love with a story... bonkers.
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PostPosted: 12:57 - 16 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Suggest in description Madonna wore some exactly like them, in fact they might even be hers.
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Buyer pays postage so as long as you don't undercharge for that then you're golden. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 13:17 - 16 Dec 2016    Post subject: Re: Bubbs £1 to Motorbike Challenge Reply with quote
Bubbs wrote:
People will buy almost anything if there's a story behind it.

Thus the red paperclip, which was more about becoming part of the story than the actual trades.

That's been done, but I guess people are still sending links to eBay / Gumtree adverts.

Best of luck.
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