Who says im cheap ???? .........

L18M · July 16, 2009, 01:28:03 PM

what bike is it..? i might take it off ur hands :p

grinder · July 16, 2009, 02:13:41 PM

its just a little 600 (GSX-600F)

last taxed something like March 2002 - so its not been run in a while !!

Nik da Greek · July 16, 2009, 02:25:33 PM

Colloquially known as the "Teapot" due to its profile strongly resembling said item of crockery :rollin

grinder · July 16, 2009, 02:26:59 PM

LOL

actually i use it as a shelf - just dump stuff on it !!

Adriansturgess · July 16, 2009, 03:00:17 PM

OK how about this: Sell bike and use money to buy new roof for car and hire skip. Clear out garage into skip. Park car in garage - Put up shelf in garage for odd miscellaneous items - Sorted :Thumbs-up

Nik da Greek · July 16, 2009, 03:03:06 PM

Quote from: grinder;627017LOL

actually i use it as a shelf - just dump stuff on it !!

Probably the best use for it, unfortunately. Especially if it\'s one of the early 90\'s models that were painted like one of Gazza\'s shell suits :Tongue1

Quote from: Adriansturgess;627033OK how about this: Sell bike and use money to buy new roof for car and hire skip. Clear out garage into skip. Park car in garage - Put up shelf in garage for odd miscellaneous items - Sorted :Thumbs-up

Please see above :Giggle Sadly, an old Teapot probably wouldn\'t cover the price of the B&Q shelving brackets, let alone stretch to a new cab roof

grinder · July 16, 2009, 03:25:56 PM

what a thread !!

errr its a 1993/4 i think ( and in a normal red colour ! )

the plan is - build a big shed for all the stuff in the garage and shed - and then put the car in the garage

or ... when the car dies - scrap that and get the bike back on the road and all my probs are solved

simple really - it just might take me 3-4 years to actually do it

will have to take a piccy of the contents of garage - just to that you can all see how untidy it actually is

Prof · July 16, 2009, 03:36:01 PM

Quote from: grinder;627047will have to take a piccy of the contents of garage - just to that you can all see how untidy it actually is

umm - that reminds me to sort mine out - I\'ve resorted to dumping stuff at the entrance now, as I can\'t get to the back of it without climbing over stuff :rollin

grinder · July 16, 2009, 04:33:38 PM

sounds exactly like mine

we had a party at our house on sunday - so everything ended up in the garage - so its a right mess at the mo

Brett · December 14, 2009, 10:21:43 AM

Any updates on the epic cover? Am I right i saying your on cover number 2 now? :Giggle

grinder · December 15, 2009, 10:13:13 AM

alas no - im about to break out cover number 3

with the high winds of late it manage to rip a corner off the cover - so its now tied on ( literatly ! )

have a new cover waiting to go on - so will prob swap it over at the weekend

but 2 covers in a year - im more than impressed to be honest - and this one would have lasted longer - but its like a wind tunnel down the drive

grinder · December 15, 2009, 10:15:28 AM

and here is a pic of the garage - as you can see - car wont fit in this state ( although this pic is after a tidy up months ago )

Brett · December 15, 2009, 10:41:07 AM

Sell the bike and it might fit... :p

L18M · December 15, 2009, 12:34:05 PM

hows about reinforcing the corners of the curtain so wont rip as easy?
duck tape?
cheap tarpaulin(sp) from ebay?

grinder · December 15, 2009, 12:50:59 PM

the problem with tarps is that they WILL damage the paint

already looked into that

and brett - the garage is only 9\'6 at the widest part - so ideally it would need to be completly empty for the car to fit - and i dont think you could walk around it once its in

just a shame they didnt build the garage about 15 foot further back and make it 23*12 - wouldnt have looked out of place and the car would have fit dead easy - and with a nice concrete pad at the front for working on the car if the weather was nice

might be a project for years to come to knock it down and rebuild ( once the house is complete of course )