Selling a Classic

[vanguard138]

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 ?

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.

 

[Badlionsfan]

New Indian Roadmaster has me thinking I should play the lottery more often....

 

[TOMCAT]

I'm thinkin about a side car as my ability for riding the r3 is diminishing quite quickly. The urall are different and I like the look ,but the rocket is paid for so I just need to fork out for a suitable side car.ive seen plenty of photos of the side cars and a bike shop down the coast a bit has triked the same r3 as mine ,it also looks nice but I have started looking for a suitable side car and I've measured up my garage and it would fit
I reckon side car is the go.

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.

 

[cusso ken]

I have been following Fred's output bearing woes and you know I already replaced my shaft and after speaking with Rainman and Wendy it's more than I wish to deal with going forth. Either the dark side puts too much stress on the spline s or they are made in France and would eventually give up anyway. Eight years ago I was a happy torque addict. Love Triumph. Loved the bike. Its different just like me. My life has changed and me with it. The lack of a caliper in the US only served to piss me off.
I hear a chirp on my Storm now which means the belt is tracking to one side, more work. I am adding and a HELL of a lot less mobile. Don't know how long I can keep working at the day job and the government has warned me no to pursue my hobby. Two bikes equals two insurance policies, tags, property tax here in NC every year and Lori and I are together because of motorcycles and two up adventures. She does not enjoy the Storm at all. Its time. The weight of the Rocket on my right leg is becoming more difficult to bear. Tire prices are to danged high. They just don't match my life now financially our physically. Walking downstairs or this mountain hurts like hell. Up is ok, down sucks. Kicking a Bonnie destroyed my right knee asking with a gung ho attitude in working construction. I love the notoriety of the Rocket and my Storm but.............

I hope you never come to this bridge, I am on the bridge now and can't turn around. Sadly. I can grab all three throttle she had to offer and I have already ground the warning nuts of my Storm pegs but that does not include Lori. I said the RIII was to be the last bike I ever bought, then the Storm rolled in. Its fun but.............

Tis one of the hardest things I have had to decide in the last 20 years but I age. We both crawl off the bike after burning a tank full. What price is too much for wind and therapy. I bought the R III and the Storm with no test rides. I will text drive the next Josey Wales mount because as we approach 60 the next ride will probably be it.

If nothing else goes, I may trike it. I hate to give up because if you have ever met me then you know the phrase "give up" does not pass through my lips.

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.

 

[HansO]

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

 

[peter k]

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 .

 

[peter k]

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.

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.

 

[cusso ken]

I'm thinkin about a side car as my ability for riding the r3 is diminishing quite quickly. The urall are different and I like the look ,but the rocket is paid for so I just need to fork out for a suitable side car.ive seen plenty of photos of the side cars and a bike shop down the coast a bit has triked the same r3 as mine ,it also looks nice but I have started looking for a suitable side car and I've measured up my garage and it would fit
I reckon side car is the go.

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

 

[TOMCAT]

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.

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 .

 

[cusso ken]

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,