Original frontend was swapped to the '93.
I love my wife.
We have a two-car garage and she wants one side to park her new car in—more than equatable because it is a large garage. From the front of the car (while inside) to the back wall is additional 12 feet or so. Filling this area and the other car stall, are wood working tools and a lumber rack, 2 work benches, large rolling mechanics toolbox, and 7 bikes in various states of disrepair.
While looking on craigslist for some minor parts for other bikes, I ran across a deal that just screams 'Don't miss me'. Someone in Houston selling three (3) Concours of various ages, with various damages, and all their additional bits and pieces, for $500!. I tell the wife in the morning, but point out that it is too soon…I have no space to store them, I have no time to really work on them yet, and we are saving all fundage for our upcoming vacation. Oh, and by the way, they are in Houston and I have no trailer or a way to get them home. She says 'ask about them'.
I get some pics back and it is much better than I thought:
Wow! Don't really know what else to say.
When she got home later and I told her what was there, she says—as calm as can be—'let's get them'. Then she lines up people to borrow a truck and trailer from. And when we got them back and piled into the garage—taking her space again—she says 'I guess we should get you a shed or work shop'. !!! How can you not love that?
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One of the bikes has a set of aftermarket rebuildable aluminum mufflers. | |
| 3 more sets of carbs. Yeah, I really need that...not. | |
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| The two 'bad' tanks. Really they are just dinged up, not torn or crushed. And no excessive rust. | |
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Seats and hardbags. They are just dirty. And hardbags in that shape run $200-300 on ebay. | |
| Upper and mid fairings. Oh, and another stock windscreen. | |
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This is the '94 and is pretty destroyed. Every engine mount point is broken at the case. If I had to guess I'd say the bike fell on it's side…from a +20' cliff. Original frontend was swapped to the '93. |
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| All three in a line. '05 in the foreground. Has the '93 motor in it because that was the one running motor he had in all of this. | |
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Freaky is the odometer on the '05 showing 33k…and my '94 just ticking over 33k. | |
| '93 frame with the '98 forks (he had it before the '05). The engine is now in the '05 and the '05 tank is just sitting there…because…I guess. | |
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| The '05 motor. Says it is siezed. Could be anything. | |
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The '05 runs for crap (per the original owner) but these things are notoriously bad about gumming up in the carbs and needing airbox backpressure to run. His description could be either. | |
| And even if it turns out not to run…lots of parts for ebay partout. | |
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Here is what all this looks like in the garage—packed away very tightly. | |
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Warning: this is not how to store these fairings, but when space is limited… | |
These aren't all parts bikes. After taking all the parts I need to fix my '94, I could get another working one out of this mess. Maybe do a custom build…maybe a shaftdrive fighter. Not a lot of those around, heh-heh.