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Re: Old Red
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 11:10 pm
by MacV2
Kev L wrote:Just needs a nice coat of Blue paint to make it perfect!!!!
Touche for your comment on BSM's thread!!
The only the Blue thing about this bike is all the ''BLUE'' language emitting from yours truly at various stages of the works. You know the score, sized nuts n bolts, forgetting to put bits on then having to undo everything to put them on, various hammer v's thumb incidents, dropping things on the floor & spending half an hour to find them, letting your tea go cold, all the where did I put that moments, ect ect.
Re: Old Red
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 11:45 pm
by agentpineapple
looking good buddy.........
Re: Old Red
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 5:38 pm
by MacV2
Re: Old Red
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 6:15 pm
by tony.mon
Realistically, a new frame, fairing stay, fairing, screen, clocks, and ignition barrel will have it sorted.
Got most of those in stock.....
Re: Old Red
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 6:19 pm
by lloydie
I wouldn't be surprised if the forks weren't bent after a shunt like that !
Re: Old Red
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 6:51 pm
by Wicky
Life and death of ol' red reminds me of a very short existential play by Samuel Beckett (of
Waiting for Godot fame), called Birth astride a grave: Samuel Beckett’s ‘Act without words 1’ expect o'l red had much more fun chugging you around between manufacture and final. RIP o'l red
Does o'l red have a donor card?
http://www.english.fsu.edu/jobs/num01/Num1Gontarski.htm
Re: Old Red
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 6:59 pm
by geodude
That's three red ones I know of that have gone down the road, playerone, Marmite and yours Mac
. If I ever get another storm. It won't be a red one
Re: Old Red
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 7:13 pm
by agentpineapple
deffo check the forks out?
i wouldn't say old red is dead just yet, as tony said, we can rebuild it, you've got to ask yourself, do you want to rebuild it. or is it time for a change. a nice red harley perhaps...
Re: Old Red
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 7:30 pm
by VTRDark
The forks look bent to me in the last pic. Look at the angles between the two especially the right hand stanchion. Get all the parts off you want to keep Mac before the insurance get their hands on it.
Ole Red, wasn't that the title of a Western as well.
(:-})
Re: Old Red
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 9:19 pm
by tony.mon
Better Red than Dead.
Re: Old Red
Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 5:20 pm
by Duffy1964
Mac, why dont you sell it to Marty, then he can start a Third Bike thread
I recon it is repairable, then sell it on if your not 100% with it and get one you know is well sorted
Someone will buy it as a track day bike and have a lot of fun with it if you do sell it on
