Pinned So what have you done to your bike today?

Picked up a 1993 cbr250rr , has been in a bingle so the plastics , h bar and gauges are shot , he also lost the key.

I plugged in a spare key barrel and she fired up

Score

 

Try www.e-go.com.au for cheap freight

 

bit of a long story, bare with me. I took Friday off as annual leave so I could have a 4 day weekend, kids were ta school so my wife says Lunch up the sporting club, Im like ....okay. I have recently offloaded a few bikes and have a wee slush fund so I grabbed 4 pineapples ($200) and we headed off, we had a few drinks and an awesome steak lunch. After a couple of beers off the tap and we decided to have a punt on the pokies. I am not a gambler, I have been the casino once in 10 years and pokies drive me nuts, but after a few drinks I thought screw it, lets have a crack. I found some machine that was playing old time rock so I fed in a pineapple, it was a mighty 1c machine and I was betting 50c a go, I won some free spins and before I knew it, I was up to about $70, I upped my bet to $1.25 per spin and promptly dropped down to $20, I was about to cash in when I got some weird thing, after hitting the take win, I was up to $140, super stoked. I increased my bet to $2.50 a spin thinking bet big \ win big and again dropped down in the low $40's before hitting a big one, I was up to $225 and was on fire, by this time I was on my 6th schooner with a decent glow and upped the ante to $5 per spin , next thing I know I'm heading towards $400 , I played a few more times and cashed in at $350.

Im at the bar waiting for my wife when my phone beeped, I have an e-mail alert setup for CBR's and there was a crashed one about 10kms from home, the ad had no phone number given so I messaged him and said I would take it. About 10 mins later the ad was taken down, I thought ****, how quick do you have to be ?

Anyway, I received a call this morning from some guy with an accent, he asked if I buy his CBR, the penny dropped it was the one from Friday, I headed over, paid $200 for it and went home, it has been binned , the gauges are buggered, every panel is shot, needs tyres etc.. not sure what I am going to do, I'm thinking another track bike... dunno I hooked up some jumper leads and she fired right up and it had been sitting for a year. The CBR gods have smiled upon me.

But after my Pokie win, this CBR costs me $50 and I got beers and a free lunch

 

I think its the quick and the dead when it comes to buying bargains on ebay, facebook and gumtree, I am always looking. I have e-mail alerts set up so its not quite luck that gets them, its more a system that has evolved over time. Also being involved in this community has its advantages, I often get calls from people who know people who ask, are you that Kiffsta guy from 2fifftycc.com, my mate says you buy bikes and I have this bike I want to sell, so I get some that way as well.

Almost always I have to make an offer before looking at it, this is the nature of the game, you have be prepared to put up or you miss out. I often jump in the van at 9pm to get a bike so I don't miss out. In saying that, when I do make a blind offer, I do try and buy smart such as buying bikes that I know people want parts for or its something I want to play with. Sometimes you get lemons, so I pull them down for parts.