Thanks Jan
hopefully she finds a good home
A none matching 750/850 went last night for £6235 as bids so only 765 diff to mine so least I know where stuffs sitting price wise as there was a lot chasing that, think a lot is location in the country an unwillingness of some to travel.
It’s great to see more commandos other than mine though hopefully going to new homes an getting ridden means continued parts availability for all of us on the future
As that had none of the £5,850 quid expenditure mines had only 750 of that’s engineering by the best Norman White on the frame an Seager on the head and the rest is brand new parts Andover Amal an Trispark at the £7,000 I’ve got her on at inc her being one of the first 65 an triple matching nos’ sure most have seen her on the bay hence mentioning it in the thread, I actually paid 8500 for her before doing the work,
I think what’s not helped is there’s not a massive scene up my neck of the woods our local vmcc section shut, an the nearest is ages away, when i had to let the 350lc go earlier in the year that went down to Cornwall and all the enquiries were that neck of the woods, an my 1150 went further up north by quite a few hours.
Paint job an a few lil year correct Matt chrome bits n it’d be a cool show bike to although I never built it as that just wanted her to ride an enjoy,
I could have actually sold her 4 times over the past month if I’d used a courier but I got scammed when I was younger so won’t do it unless someone’s here in person, especially with my old man relying on me, I’d sooner wait and the right person who decides to travel to view,
I’ve got two open ended buyers if I deliver but with dads surgery I just don’t wanna do that at the moment, but that’s good to fall back on, once we are through the other side, of dads surgery if she’s not gone by then, got a few more enquiries again from down south again this week, so be interesting to see what happens.
I’m trying to keep the mileage sensible haha, could quite easily go out for a bunch of 60-100 mile days , I was in 2 minds today whether just to park her now she’s got 340 miles on an is well proven, until I finally get a viewing / someone definitely coming for her I think I’m gonna keep enjoying her while I’ve got her, on these short rides while I’m able, if I can grab a spare 30 mins in between everything,
Time will probably slow the riding down a bit now as dads got his next set of results on his stage 3b/4 prostate cancer tomorrow I’ve gotta finish the house selling stuff and complete the move and then next week dads got his jaw operation consultation which I must admit has got me incredibly distracted now as there’s a lot of risk to it, due to the meds, all fingers crossed,
Also wanna get the 650ss ready to rock again as I’ll be using her as my only transport, once the commando is sold an the WD16H is nearly done to that should be so much fun to take Normandy next year,
I’m just in the process of selling our Honda nx500 to a dealer an some other stuff so that’s took the pressure off, an a rs125 that I’ve stored since 2k miles in my bedroom looking forward to getting that back down the stairs!
What’s hard is I know I’ll want another commando in the future been having a terrific amount of fun an I’ll wanna spend the same money again to do what I did on the engine, electronics and fueling side of stuff, so I’ll be back to spending way more than I’m letting mine go at again,
Only thing we can do in life is keep moving forward one day at a time, I love my motorcycles and the commando was in my never ever sell prise it out of my hands category but sometimes in life other things have to take priority,
Just glad my shoulder improved enough for me to be able to kickstart bikes again would have always regretted it if I hadn’t been able to, so glad I got to experience her after all the work,
Memories to treasure for sure n even with dad riding in the car with his jaw issue following still out making memories together which is fun!
had wanted to go out for run in day 14 today but unfortunately my food intolerance has flared up so it’s a day of watching the xfiles and uploading these clips from last night,
