Typical innit?

[pete roper]

So I've just sold all of my old pre 2000 dross and today I begin stripping the gearbox out of my Hydro Cali. It's having a chair put on it so I thought I'd do the gearbox and shout it a new clutch before the hack was attached because if I didn't it would invariably need one immediately!

While pulling it apart I find some goon has busted off the clutch cable spigot off the gearbox case and replaced it with some sort of horrid, Heath Robinson, home made bracket. Grrrr!

I had half a dozen gearbox cases is my old munt pile. Never mind. The hideous bracket seems to work OK. It just offends my sense of mechanical purity!

Pete

[Mr Revhead]

There's a lesson here. Never sell your "junk" or "worn parts"
 

[pete roper]

I turned mine into $7,000. It's all good. I can get in my shed again!

Pete

[Mr Revhead]

I see your point! 

[Pizza Guzzi]

My grandfather was a real hoarder of tools and all manner of old machinery bits and pieces. He always said " It'll come in handy one day, even if I never use it. "
I hang onto useless bits too. By the time I need something I've either forgotten Ive got one somewhere or I know I've got it but no idea where I put it so I go and buy new stuff anyway.  Oh well

Glenn

[chuck peterson]

Two years ago I received a specific cable pinch bolt, smaller than a penny, for my Moto Demm...

Yesterday, I found it...bizarrely I had cleared a 4" square amongst a huge pile of munt....(I like munt, I start to sweep it into decorative piles)....it was still there. It just took two years to get a round Toit instead of the square Toit.............

[PeteS]

The definition of junk is something you keep for twenty years and toss it two weeks before you need it.

Pete

[John A]

I remember how pleased I was after selling all my loop frame stuff to one guy who appreciated having it.  Now not so much,  I remember how much I enjoyed those old loops and with a parts base, I usually had one or two operable, capable of long trips.  Maybe it was the long trips that make them a good memory.

[Chuck in Indiana]

I remember how pleased I was after selling all my loop frame stuff to one guy who appreciated having it.  Now not so much,  I remember how much I enjoyed those old loops and with a parts base, I usually had one or two operable, capable of long trips.  Maybe it was the long trips that make them a good memory.

Yeah, long trips are where you "bind" with a bike.

[wirespokes]

I would have used the word bond.

Not sure how one binds with a bike...

[Xlratr]

I would have used the word bond.

Not sure how one binds with a bike...

Maybe Chuck has some German roots? :-)
"binden" = to tie or bond.

[Muzz]

The definition of junk is something you keep for twenty years and toss it two weeks before you need it.

Pete

Been there, done that.

[Chuck in Indiana]

Yes, German roots.. but.. bind is the correct term, because when you try to sell it, you quickly find your are tied to it.