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Offline Terry in Australia

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Re: Lets see a photo of your SHOP!
« Reply #525 on: December 24, 2012, 02:18:08 PM »
Very nice mate, and I love your GPZ900, rare color scheme too! Cheers, Terry. ;D
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So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

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« Reply #526 on: December 24, 2012, 02:52:03 PM »
Thanks! I'd originally bought the GPz as a fixer/flipper but somewhere along the way it turned into a keeper. I slept on the couch for it but what the wife doesn't know is that I would've cheerfully slept in a snow bank. ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Lets see a photo of your SHOP!
« Reply #527 on: December 24, 2012, 03:12:52 PM »
Ha ha, no worries mate, a good GPZ900R is worth freezing your nuts for! I've never owned one, I better get off my arse and find one! Cheers, Terry. ;D
I was feeling sorry for myself because I couldn't afford new bike boots, until I met a man with no legs.

So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

"Crazy is a very misunderstood term, it's a fine line that some of us can lean over and still keep our balance" (thanks RB550Four)

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Re: Lets see a photo of your SHOP!
« Reply #528 on: December 24, 2012, 05:18:25 PM »
My shop's a mess but the workbench looks nice! Cliff.


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« Reply #529 on: December 24, 2012, 08:03:31 PM »
Is the stand under the 750 lump a retail item?
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« Reply #530 on: December 24, 2012, 09:50:00 PM »
I don't know about that one but there's someone on ebay that used to sell an engine stand adapter
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“The right bike, the right day, the right road, I just pretty much feel at one with the universe. When I feel like I don’t fit anywhere or I’m lonely or I’m all screwed up in the head, I get on my bike and go for a ride and it’s like all of the sudden, I’m fixed.” – Indian Larry

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Re: Lets see a photo of your SHOP!
« Reply #532 on: December 25, 2012, 07:34:27 AM »
Its not much mainly a sotrage room and one side of the carport but it works good for now.

Storage Room:






Not the best pic. But you get the idea. Had a friend build me a super strudy metal table and the lift. Just have to leave the wife enough room to park her car lol!

“The right bike, the right day, the right road, I just pretty much feel at one with the universe. When I feel like I don’t fit anywhere or I’m lonely or I’m all screwed up in the head, I get on my bike and go for a ride and it’s like all of the sudden, I’m fixed.” – Indian Larry

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Re: Lets see a photo of your SHOP!
« Reply #533 on: December 25, 2012, 09:12:56 AM »
Looks cozy. Warm too?
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« Reply #534 on: December 25, 2012, 10:41:52 AM »
Yes, a TC brothers stand. It's nicely made. Cheers, Cliff.

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« Reply #535 on: December 25, 2012, 07:43:31 PM »
Looks cozy. Warm too?
Not bad here. Only gets down to the low 20's at night at the worst of winter so I can still work during the day. I really want an inclosed garage but for now this works.
“The right bike, the right day, the right road, I just pretty much feel at one with the universe. When I feel like I don’t fit anywhere or I’m lonely or I’m all screwed up in the head, I get on my bike and go for a ride and it’s like all of the sudden, I’m fixed.” – Indian Larry

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Re: Lets see a photo of your SHOP!
« Reply #536 on: December 26, 2012, 04:10:17 PM »
Said in a post earlier I wanted to invite you in if you don't live around here and sit by the woodburner and have a cocktail. Hoarder Alert. Been in a family antique business since the late 70's.Furniture,boxes of stuff and bones from the Titanic scattered around.Few different "storage" areas around also,this one I think has around 33 bikes of different calibers,and strokes etc. .More later if anybody cares,but you young Bucks will be Happy to find this stash when I.m gone someday ;D
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« Reply #537 on: December 26, 2012, 08:05:11 PM »
What the heck its just a shop. Whoops that last one was when Terry from Australia was here   ;)
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« Reply #538 on: December 26, 2012, 08:09:31 PM »
Vintage bike Heaven at the 'zoo!  Thanks for inviting us in.
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« Reply #539 on: December 26, 2012, 08:16:47 PM »
Anytime Steve.C,mon up with the big truck.Think I got a Boss Maroon here for you  ;)
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« Reply #540 on: December 26, 2012, 09:09:33 PM »
I just might come up, my buddy bought a summer house on Strawberry Lake, about 100 miles from you.
Already have a Boss Maroon, how 'bout that Goldie next to it?!
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« Reply #541 on: December 27, 2012, 12:21:18 AM »
I was there Eric? Bullschmit I was, or that beautiful GT750K would be on my side of the pond by now, ha ha! One day though, I will come and visit, but not in friggin' winter! Cheers, Terry. ;D
I was feeling sorry for myself because I couldn't afford new bike boots, until I met a man with no legs.

So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

"Crazy is a very misunderstood term, it's a fine line that some of us can lean over and still keep our balance" (thanks RB550Four)

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Re: Lets see a photo of your SHOP!
« Reply #542 on: December 27, 2012, 06:01:20 AM »
ek, do you scour the dump for old electronics like I do? ;D
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Re: Lets see a photo of your SHOP!
« Reply #543 on: December 27, 2012, 08:14:15 AM »
That's it...Eric wins...shut the thread down ;D ;D ;D

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« Reply #544 on: December 27, 2012, 08:32:25 AM »
That's it...Eric wins...shut the thread down ;D ;D ;D


Wait a minute....I've been trying my best to cach up to him! 
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« Reply #545 on: December 30, 2012, 10:40:54 PM »
Well...just a couple miles away from Ekpent's, is my chaotic palace of two wheeled motorheadedness...I can't remember if I ever posted in here or not, but this is what it looks like nowadays...
view from the parts storage loft...


view from my bud's loft apartment door...

machine area...eventually hope to use that mill thing for something other than a spring compressor

here is all my junk(except for what is scattered about my residence)  The guys I share space with are constantly on my case about having too many bikes...bottom line is mine come and go much more rapidly than theirs...

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« Reply #546 on: December 30, 2012, 11:00:39 PM »
here are some of my bud's schidt...brit bikes that haven't seen daylight in two years....seems normal, right?

This is an '09 Nightster.  Just got chain drive conversion and longer rear shocks, about to get lower bars...transforming from poser chopper to muscle bike road burner

We call him C.H.U.D.  He's a certified HD mechanic and is the laziest of any...but he sure does speak up quick when you are doing it wrong.  Here's his Ironhead and his FXR...

Here is why Michigan's depressed economy rules...rent for this space is $250 a month...split between 5 good friends.
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« Reply #547 on: December 30, 2012, 11:17:09 PM »
FARK! Does it sound gay when I say that I'm in love with your shop mate? Fcuking Superb! When I come over to murder Eric and his family and steal all his bikes, I'm gonna have to drop around to your place for a beer! Cheers, Terry. ;D
I was feeling sorry for myself because I couldn't afford new bike boots, until I met a man with no legs.

So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

"Crazy is a very misunderstood term, it's a fine line that some of us can lean over and still keep our balance" (thanks RB550Four)

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« Reply #548 on: December 30, 2012, 11:20:19 PM »
That will be very convenient... as I said...Eric's shop is less than a 5 minute ride away.
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« Reply #549 on: December 31, 2012, 01:25:17 AM »
Excellent! I love a nice cold beer after a good murdering! Don't tell Eric though, it'll spoil the surprise........... ;D
I was feeling sorry for myself because I couldn't afford new bike boots, until I met a man with no legs.

So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

"Crazy is a very misunderstood term, it's a fine line that some of us can lean over and still keep our balance" (thanks RB550Four)