Brillianr Neil , Love it!
Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 8:42 am
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Re: Brillianr Neil , Love it!
Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 9:22 am
Too old to get yer chopper out Neil!
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 9:28 am
Shaky ground Sam. Greenhouses , bricks etc 
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 9:42 am
I'm setting my alarm.malc87 wrote: Check out the last sentence!
JUST for all you triple fans!!
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 5:04 pm
Welcome to the "piranha club"..R.B. wrote:.malc87 wrote:The "nicer" 70H1 in the background is fully restored and $17415
Is that Neils "fully restored" or a correctly fully restored
Re: Brillianr Neil , Love it!
Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 7:15 pm
Another one Neil?! There goes our 'only 5 in the UK' cachet...
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 7:41 pm
Kas,At least show the full post or no one will know what you are on about???kas750 wrote:Welcome to the "piranha club"..R.B. wrote:.malc87 wrote:The "nicer" 70H1 in the background is fully restored and $17415
Is that Neils "fully restored" or a correctly fully restored
http://kawi2strokes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=8370
Re: Brillianr Neil , Love it!
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 5:39 pm
Do we ever really know what he`s on about ?
As per Ricks comments ;Hmmm.
We`re moving in very different areas. 99% of my customers ar new to Triples. None are in the club. so they`ve not become afflicted with an obsessive behaviour disorder !!
They just want to put their trust that they`ll get a decent bike mechanically correct and all shiney. I always go through and point out any replica parts, or minor deviations from absolute concours correctness we do. ( For practicality,safety, and/or price & availablility reasons. ) Many return to buy a second and third bike. So I must doing something right !!
It`s the 80/20 rule at my place. 80% of the work takes 20% of the time. As we turn out a bike at a fixed price within a 3 month period, I set the prices as reasonable, considering we need to make a small ( and I stress small ! ) profit.All the hard works been done. Mechanically etc fully redone.
To spend hours every night trawling E Bay and paying the prices in competition with all you guys, to get that last 20% "perfection" is not commercially viable. I`ll leave the TOP end prices to the blokes who do it as a hobby, and can spend more time doing up one bike at a time.
Meanwhile, there are a lot of people who are very happy to get a decent bike at a price well below "properly " restored bikes. By which I guess its that extra £200 worth of nos nuts or bolts, rather than the original parts we rezinc etc.Or the pattern replica parts we use. ( Like the brake master cylinders. It`s more effective to fit a brand new one than try and restore an old one. There again some folk will use really crappy tyres because they`re original !! )
Unusualy perhaps for me, this isn`t a rant. Although it could be read that way ! It`s merely a musing about our business philosophy which I don`t think I`ve ever explained before. Well, now I have !!
As per Ricks comments ;Hmmm.
We`re moving in very different areas. 99% of my customers ar new to Triples. None are in the club. so they`ve not become afflicted with an obsessive behaviour disorder !!
They just want to put their trust that they`ll get a decent bike mechanically correct and all shiney. I always go through and point out any replica parts, or minor deviations from absolute concours correctness we do. ( For practicality,safety, and/or price & availablility reasons. ) Many return to buy a second and third bike. So I must doing something right !!
It`s the 80/20 rule at my place. 80% of the work takes 20% of the time. As we turn out a bike at a fixed price within a 3 month period, I set the prices as reasonable, considering we need to make a small ( and I stress small ! ) profit.All the hard works been done. Mechanically etc fully redone.
To spend hours every night trawling E Bay and paying the prices in competition with all you guys, to get that last 20% "perfection" is not commercially viable. I`ll leave the TOP end prices to the blokes who do it as a hobby, and can spend more time doing up one bike at a time.
Meanwhile, there are a lot of people who are very happy to get a decent bike at a price well below "properly " restored bikes. By which I guess its that extra £200 worth of nos nuts or bolts, rather than the original parts we rezinc etc.Or the pattern replica parts we use. ( Like the brake master cylinders. It`s more effective to fit a brand new one than try and restore an old one. There again some folk will use really crappy tyres because they`re original !! )
Unusualy perhaps for me, this isn`t a rant. Although it could be read that way ! It`s merely a musing about our business philosophy which I don`t think I`ve ever explained before. Well, now I have !!
Re: Brillianr Neil , Love it!
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 6:17 pm
here here Neil
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Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 6:58 pm
well said Neil
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 7:41 am
Good post Neil and totally agree
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 7:59 pm
I am looking forward to my third triples workshop bike, which should be landing any day now.
I like bikes that I can ride.....I guess some like to polish theirs, either way there's room for both and I think both have there merits.
Chop chop Neil.
I like bikes that I can ride.....I guess some like to polish theirs, either way there's room for both and I think both have there merits.
Chop chop Neil.
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 8:20 pm
that's probably the most sensible words you've ever spoken Neil