Selling a Classic

JoseyR3Wales said:
Strike the trike comment. Ain't riding a tricycle. The Indian does interest me, some. The new Slingshot it's just too weird. A Ural with a sidecar ? Suggestions ?
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Take a look at Motortrike out of Texas. THAT is a nice setup. I have a friend who has his own shop and just went through training and signing up with them. He is chomping at the bit to do my Touring. When I decide two wheels is not safe anymore I have no issue triking it.
 

Pete there was a Member that joined here year or so ago .. South Australian fella that has a really sweet trike. Noticed he had it for sale a while back .. bet you Lofty Bob would know who he was. Bloke may have even been another Longrider CMC Member if memory serves me correctly. Triking be a better than a sidecar on a Rocket I'd reckon... just with the lack of frame to connect to, I could be wrong. Pretty sure I read somewhere that Triumph advises not to fit sidecars to Rockets.
 

Gee hate to hear "too old stories" I turn 66 in September and hope my "too old time" is a long way off maybe it was my" soft life" that has saved my body , 5 years loading driving and unloading on site a 10tonne brick truck by hand straight out of the hot kiln before the invention of the Pallet and forklift system 10 years hand loading bags of wheat (they used to call it humping wheat) before the other use of this word became popular ,I played Rugby league "when I was home" till I was 35 as prop forward, 20 odd years driving a Semi and tri axel trailer over a lot of this country hauling cattle ,wheat, iron ore, general freight, and earth moving and mining equipment , spending countless nights in a sleeper cab far from home and family,
I have no intention of getting too old just yet , the princess and I are grey Nomads with some other old farts we do around 10,000k per year just touring around the country with our Land Cruiser and caravan in between that I ride my Rocket 3T about 8000 k per year going on runs with Mates young enough to be my Sons and Grand Sons,I recently rode home from Bourke 830 k in one day and went fishing all the next day with my brother in laws . Father Time can F**** off around my place.
 
it was my plan that Rocket would probably be my last bike and if Ol' mate Osteoarthritis keeps going as it has, I'll be triking my baby, but hopefully not in the to soon future
 
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The rocket will be my last bike .I intend to just keep doing what's needs doing to it to enable me to enjoy the beast .just put the old mans seat and support on .sure is a firm fit.sits a bit lower and pushes me forward a bit .
 
Tc I'm not really into trikes .I like the side car .it just appeals to me .I know the side car has three wheels ,but they are a bit old school a bit like the bopper if ya know what I mean.
 

I thought the Urals would have been sorted out by now , they appeared in Aus in the late 60s from memory and were called Vostocks they made a 2stroke twin called the jupitor and another funny thing they called the sputnik all very Russian Boris, they copied the BMW flat twin design but not the reliability , they were cheap and nasty things but so were a lot of other bikes before the Japanese took the motorcycle industry to task and most bikes improved or the company went belly up! from what I have heard from owners not anti Ural bikers they have improved some things Bigger 750cc motor Alternators brakes ect but the build quality is still abysmal ,
for a good read Google " why not to buy a Ural" written by Ural owners the side cars are OK but weigh 200Kg resulting in a top speed (down a mine shaft) of 85Kph
 

You're doing well for a bloke that's been down a rough track .. and ran most of the way got a phone call from a guy I grew up with. He rang to tell me some benevolent society had sprung $8,000 for a mobility scooter for him ..a ***cin mobility scooter .. he's 58 years old. He was telling me how great the ***cin thing is .. even tells him the outside temperature .. he's got no drive , no ambition , his get up and go has got up and went .. really sad .
 

Yes TC it is sad some of us are lucky in life and others draw the short straw, there is a bit of a trend though, of the blokes I went to School with that I still have some contact with or hear about, the ones who had the cushy shiny backside sedentary jobs, are the ones who fall apart at an early age ,My Dad was WW2 Veteran and then a heavy plant mechanic the rest of his working life as well as working our small Farm, he was very active into his eighties, they had a lot of hard bark on them those old guys,
 
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