Couldn’t resist.
There was a T500 IIfor sale in Ticino on ricardo… Description sounded good and the price was right too. Trigger-happy Spike. I now need to organize how to get the bike to my place.
Another bike joins the stable
Went on a trip with my mate drew to pick up this sweetie:
Yes, there’s a scuff on that side… who could be daft enough to try and ride this in the middle of winter? Not me, the previous owner… Just 16’000 km on the clocks, quasi mint. These bikes are normally NOT road legal here, but since this one came as part of a diplomats personal belongings, the State HAD to register it… and the registration stays that way even when you sell it when leave the country. 
Yours truly is sitting on the bike. this is the closest I got to buying a brand new bike…
Even the exhausts have been accepted into the bike’s paperwork.
Differences between T250 and T350… the hard way.
Well tom’s pipes turned out to be t250 ones. They’re nigh on impossible to differenciate: the T350 have a specific exhaust nut about 4mm larger in inside diameter (50mm, the T250 are ~46mm). All the rest is the same. Bloody hard to find too.
Other differences include the cylinders (larger bore), carbs and heads. All the rest is the same as a T250.
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New clocks for the T350
Finally found a 2nd hand speedo for the bigger T… another 50$. Mine were smashed.
I’m fiddling with the carbs, wwhich have a dangerous and annoying tendency to stick wide open.
More parts for the T350
Found a pair of headlamp stays… 144$ Ouch. But mine were beyond repair.
Yet another one
In exchange for this spunky paintjob for a XS650,
I received this:
Complete with paperwork. Tom will bring me the exhausts a tad later. Including an original front tire… this will go on eBay.
First Pic of my A1SS
At last,
managed to find one close by. The elderly gent was in charge of all FMS (Fédération Moto Suisse) MX events and as such was able to wring one from the importer. Normally these bikes don’t exist here, were never imported… this is a “special” order/request, probably built using a standard A1 and a new A1SS frame, pipes and bits, directly at the importer’s shop. This would have avoided all the paperwork needed to get the bike legally road legal. Stroke of luck!
NSR 125 R
I always dreamed as a youngster of the NSR 125, specially with the 97 paintwork. It spelled Japanese and Sport at the same time.
So I got me a 2nd hand one, repainted it (gave me some experience)… and sold it. I do need more poke nowadays…
