Post by secretagentmole on Oct 11, 2016 15:15:51 GMT 1
I have had a few bikes, the happiest was my second NTV, Errol, he was sold out from under me when the wife and my mother bought me a much newer and allegedly nicer Bandit, which I did not really like, seemed like that bike was always trying to kill me.
NTVs!
1) Miss Wip (Short for work in progress) a cheap bike that needed a bit doing to it, quite a bit in fact. I was getting round to completing it when her Majesty the Queen had me off it! Rather the gravel outside her front gates at Sandringham did. I did not drop the bike, the back tyre skipped to the left a touch and by the time I recovered it I had not a chance in hell of getting round the corner so smacked into a kerb at about 20 mph, the wife took off from the pillion like a Polaris missile and landed on her shoulder and cracked three ribs. Her shoulder was saved by the bike jacket we had bought her. The police officer who investigated the accident rode a GSXR 750 and reckoned he would have had to have done the same thing if he kept it upright. No fault accident! Claim on insurance, insurance offer me purchase price for the bike, which was the excess, we demanded to see the engineers report and valuation, got £600 offered, took it.
2) Errol, a green NTV, 33,000 on the clock when we bought him. Thing is it was missing a 1 in front of the 33! The guy used to use it to commute to London on from March in Cambs, daily! Reliable, brilliant bike I loved it. Mother and wife decided it was too old and bought me a Bandit (horrible damned thing), Errol was on permanent loan to a friend who had fallen on hard times and was having to cycle 6 miles to work and 6 miles back, explained he was not the owner, we still owned him, made him sign a contract to that effect, transferred the V5 into his name for insurance purposes and then a few months later he sold the bike to one of his creditors without our permission. I was not best pleased. Recently he has been doing work to my previous bike an ER5, he was supposed to change an engine to fix some problems, he said it was not the engine and rebuilt the bike with the original engine in, forgot to tighten the fuel lines and rear axle and the chain tensioners too. Not working on any of my bikes ever again and shortly to be seen in court for the value of Errol!
3) Snoopy, a red NTV, got caught up in all the problems we had with the wife's parents, her mother got cancer, 3 times, same one in succession (a form of Lymphoma), she died, then her dad basically died of a broken heart 18 months later. We just left all my bikes outside and concentrated on looking after them. Bad move by the time everything was sorted I had 3 lawn ornaments that were swapped for the ER5 (Trident, basket case Bandit and the NTV). That needed work too but not too much, just never got the time.
Now I have Beattie! She is a blue NTV, until today was last Mot'd in 2011, bought by an older guy who did her up, then found she was too heavy to manage, so he sold her. I went down Saturday to have a look and paid him a deposit. Picked her up today at Leigh on Sea and took her to Lesters, who did an MOT whilst I waited and pronounced her good to go with not even so much as an advisory! 121 miles up the A130, A12, M11 and A10 and back onto home soil! So resting for 5 years then 121 miles including motorways and dual carriageways. Nice to be back on an NTV. It was like I never got off one.
Beattie!
NTVs!
1) Miss Wip (Short for work in progress) a cheap bike that needed a bit doing to it, quite a bit in fact. I was getting round to completing it when her Majesty the Queen had me off it! Rather the gravel outside her front gates at Sandringham did. I did not drop the bike, the back tyre skipped to the left a touch and by the time I recovered it I had not a chance in hell of getting round the corner so smacked into a kerb at about 20 mph, the wife took off from the pillion like a Polaris missile and landed on her shoulder and cracked three ribs. Her shoulder was saved by the bike jacket we had bought her. The police officer who investigated the accident rode a GSXR 750 and reckoned he would have had to have done the same thing if he kept it upright. No fault accident! Claim on insurance, insurance offer me purchase price for the bike, which was the excess, we demanded to see the engineers report and valuation, got £600 offered, took it.
2) Errol, a green NTV, 33,000 on the clock when we bought him. Thing is it was missing a 1 in front of the 33! The guy used to use it to commute to London on from March in Cambs, daily! Reliable, brilliant bike I loved it. Mother and wife decided it was too old and bought me a Bandit (horrible damned thing), Errol was on permanent loan to a friend who had fallen on hard times and was having to cycle 6 miles to work and 6 miles back, explained he was not the owner, we still owned him, made him sign a contract to that effect, transferred the V5 into his name for insurance purposes and then a few months later he sold the bike to one of his creditors without our permission. I was not best pleased. Recently he has been doing work to my previous bike an ER5, he was supposed to change an engine to fix some problems, he said it was not the engine and rebuilt the bike with the original engine in, forgot to tighten the fuel lines and rear axle and the chain tensioners too. Not working on any of my bikes ever again and shortly to be seen in court for the value of Errol!
3) Snoopy, a red NTV, got caught up in all the problems we had with the wife's parents, her mother got cancer, 3 times, same one in succession (a form of Lymphoma), she died, then her dad basically died of a broken heart 18 months later. We just left all my bikes outside and concentrated on looking after them. Bad move by the time everything was sorted I had 3 lawn ornaments that were swapped for the ER5 (Trident, basket case Bandit and the NTV). That needed work too but not too much, just never got the time.
Now I have Beattie! She is a blue NTV, until today was last Mot'd in 2011, bought by an older guy who did her up, then found she was too heavy to manage, so he sold her. I went down Saturday to have a look and paid him a deposit. Picked her up today at Leigh on Sea and took her to Lesters, who did an MOT whilst I waited and pronounced her good to go with not even so much as an advisory! 121 miles up the A130, A12, M11 and A10 and back onto home soil! So resting for 5 years then 121 miles including motorways and dual carriageways. Nice to be back on an NTV. It was like I never got off one.
Beattie!
