griz901
Posts : 931 Join date : 2009-02-20 Age : 59 Bike : Honda XR650R
| Subject: Funniest for sale add in a while 3/16/2010, 11:46 am | |
| For your amusement: WTS 2001 640 Adventure First off, I'm in Musselman Lake Ontario, Canada. The GTA. If you don't know what GTA means, it's too far for you to drive to bother. I can’t put it off any longer. Time to get more serious. Word has come down from on High, (and now the gawdam taxman...) and the deal I struck to buy a fine old BMW has been called in. It has been mandated that my 01 640 Adventure must go to a home with more room. Apparently, the living room in my house counts not as “room” in this particular case… some women just have no sense of humour. Anyway, many of you GTA fellas have seen it, so you know what you’re up against. For those who haven’t, here’s the poo. If you’re looking for a pseudo dual sport for cruising with a brand new goretex outfit to go and talk about how cool the Long Way Around/Down/Up Yer Own Ass was in front of the local Tim Hortons, move along, nothing to see here, and may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits. On the other hand, if you’re after a proper mud boggin’, backin’ in, motorboatin’ sonofabitch dual sport for terrifying the local pirates into screwing up their YMCA routine midstream out front of aforementioned Tim Hortons, this might just be your Huckleberry. (if you can scare them off during the “Y” phase, it looks like they’re running around waving their arms in the air in panic like little girls. Timing is the key…) She’s got about 38k kilometers on it, (about 22k miles) when I bought it the speedo was packed in, so it has a Trailtech Vapor on it. More better, with engine temp reading and tach plus other features I never use, as well as a surprisingly inaccurate outside temp thermometer. Heated grips, and an auxillary plug fer your heated vest or thong, I’m not here to judge. Kinda needs a new front tire, but I would gladly procrasinatify that until late spring I recon. The rear is a sub 1000km old Karoo, only problem is an “incident” had the pipe rubbing on it for a bit and gooed off the knobs on the edge of the left side. I rode it most of its so far life like that, an am not climbing the walls in anxiety. It’s got a Pelican 1500 mounted on the top, and it’s strongly recommended not to get too committed to offroad shenanigans with it full of tallboy cans unless they’re packed in tight. Really tight. Trust me. I got fed up with the scuffed to hell orange paint, so went with sweet, sweet conscience free bedliner. It doesn’t matter if you lose the bike in a tree, the paint’ll take it. And if it don’t, touch up is a spraycan away. Just for kicks, I make up some tank decals in 3m black, so it looks like black on black decals, but shine a light on them and they spring forth a heavenly glow. Oh, and I'm pretty sure the paint makes it radar proof. Maybe. Runs great, no major issues with it except some leaky front fork seals that I haven’t hadda chance to replace, though I have the new seals. Any mention of me retiring to the garage results in me getting the “Look”. All married fellas with toddlers marauding through the house know this look and can understand why I haven’t replaced them. Anyway, I’d be delighted if somebody came with a coffee can and /or filthy sack full of say, $3600 or so to take her home. I'm willing to deliver up to 38 meters from my house. Act now, and you can have not one, but BOTH of the filthy worn out tires seen in the pic, you just pay the shipping and handling. So there you go. It’s a bike that’s been ridden the way it was designed to be, no hiding that. But if you’re ok with an honest, fast , and capable Dual, the let me know. More pics to follow. Maybe. I dunno. Probably not.
I just thought this for sale ad struck me humorous (it made the dipshit laugh). I like the "in your face" description! Kind of the same feelings going on here: | |
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big jer
Posts : 539 Join date : 2009-08-13 Age : 55 Bike : XR650L , 990KTM
| Subject: Re: Funniest for sale add in a while 3/16/2010, 8:59 pm | |
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