- Fri Mar 15, 2019 1:51 pm
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The thing is there are fixes (or pre-emptive toughening-up precautions) you can apply to the Electra-X. This with the benefit of hindsight, and of course it means an engine strip and - gulp - spending money. Find an Electra which has been taken off the road after all the big failures, buy it cheap and rebuild it with all the good bits so that you end up with the bike it was **supposed** to have been.
Not everyone has the stomach for this, or else they have been embittered by the whole thing if they bought one that went bang (I'm not sure that the word embittered is quite adequate to describe Norm's feelings on the matter) and will warn people off. Understandable. As I posted elsehwere I recently saw an Electra-X parked up at the Bristol classic Bike Show with over 44,000 on the clock, so some good ones DID make it onto the dealers' floors. It's up to you, do the risk assessment!
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Not everyone has the stomach for this, or else they have been embittered by the whole thing if they bought one that went bang (I'm not sure that the word embittered is quite adequate to describe Norm's feelings on the matter) and will warn people off. Understandable. As I posted elsehwere I recently saw an Electra-X parked up at the Bristol classic Bike Show with over 44,000 on the clock, so some good ones DID make it onto the dealers' floors. It's up to you, do the risk assessment!
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