Post by colinjay on Jul 30, 2008 3:20:42 GMT -5
Eat your heart out Earl!
The good dead;
I dropped into my local farm machinery/Honda/Yamaha dealer on the way home this afternoon to make a contribution to a fund for one of the young guys from my local bike club who crashed his Yamaha YZ-whatever practicing for the 24Hr trial a few weeks ago. Russel broke his leg in 9 places and also both his wrists. Since the ambos cut his riding gear off of him, Patto, the mechanic at the shop (who also is fixing Russel's bike for free) descided to do a whip around to buy some new riding gear for him.
The reward;
The bike sales guy was doing a bit of a clean up of one of the sheds and said I could have this old Suzuki TC100 (1972 model he said) for free, because he was going to throw it on the scrap metal pile at the tip otherwise (he doesn't know that I have a deal with the tip attendant and would have gotten it anyway). While talking about it, Patto showed me a very complete early 70's Yamaha AG175 (the best/most original AG175 I have seen in at least 25 years) that would probably be heading in the same direction in the next day or so because of a broke countershaft, and said it was also mine if the owner didn't want it back! So, one new old bike and possibly another just for being a good person!
I know they don't sound like much, but I like 1970's trail bikes because thats what I grew up with when I was a kid.
CJ
The good dead;
I dropped into my local farm machinery/Honda/Yamaha dealer on the way home this afternoon to make a contribution to a fund for one of the young guys from my local bike club who crashed his Yamaha YZ-whatever practicing for the 24Hr trial a few weeks ago. Russel broke his leg in 9 places and also both his wrists. Since the ambos cut his riding gear off of him, Patto, the mechanic at the shop (who also is fixing Russel's bike for free) descided to do a whip around to buy some new riding gear for him.
The reward;
The bike sales guy was doing a bit of a clean up of one of the sheds and said I could have this old Suzuki TC100 (1972 model he said) for free, because he was going to throw it on the scrap metal pile at the tip otherwise (he doesn't know that I have a deal with the tip attendant and would have gotten it anyway). While talking about it, Patto showed me a very complete early 70's Yamaha AG175 (the best/most original AG175 I have seen in at least 25 years) that would probably be heading in the same direction in the next day or so because of a broke countershaft, and said it was also mine if the owner didn't want it back! So, one new old bike and possibly another just for being a good person!
I know they don't sound like much, but I like 1970's trail bikes because thats what I grew up with when I was a kid.
CJ
