- Tue Apr 15, 2014 9:16 pm
#3505
Does altitude = dirt repellant?
My Swiss friend has owned an Aprilia red rose 125 since he bought it new in 1992.
Now don't have a go at the poor bike, as it was the designer who made it pig ugly, but it has a neat Rotax 123 (124cc) 2 stroke engine, start and runs easily, but seems nervous about leaning into corners. You really have to force the bugger over!
Anyway, here is the intriguing bit...
It's been under a dust sheet for about ten years, but...
It's coming up to 22 years old,
travelled 12770 Km (them continental things that short change miles)
and... It's clean almost to showroom condition... EVERYWHERE!
Plus, my friend most certainly has not been inside the frame cleaning it!
Of course, he has looked after it, but I mean it is shiny in all those bits that you just can't get to! I managed to push the iPhone into the middle of the bike, take a look at the photos carefully.
Just dust...
The chain is oiled, but the oil is still clean and not got black!
The bike has never been ridden at an altitude under about 1000m, and the swiss do pride themselves on clean everything, even roads, but the condition of this old bike???
It has a good layer of dust, but then it has lived under a sheet for probably the past ten years. Runs well though (after new battery of course!).
There are only three signs of age on the entire bike. Wear/deterioration on the passenger backrest, The rubber between the air filter and carb is looking a little upset, but not leaking air as yet, and there are a few patches of those pin-hole rust spots on the wheel rims. Otherwise, It looks like a dusty, but brand new bike!
He does intend to sell it, but it's in Switzerland, and no idea of price range yet, but...If you missed out on a brand new red rose all those years ago... this is probably the nearest you will find to concourse condition (concourse meaning it looks like it been stored as a static display in a shopping centre for 22 years!).
Has anybody else come across a 22 year old bike in a similar condition (That was not stripped down and re-built?) I am just gob-smacked!
Does altitude = dirt repellant?
My Swiss friend has owned an Aprilia red rose 125 since he bought it new in 1992.
Now don't have a go at the poor bike, as it was the designer who made it pig ugly, but it has a neat Rotax 123 (124cc) 2 stroke engine, start and runs easily, but seems nervous about leaning into corners. You really have to force the bugger over!
Anyway, here is the intriguing bit...
It's been under a dust sheet for about ten years, but...
It's coming up to 22 years old,
travelled 12770 Km (them continental things that short change miles)
and... It's clean almost to showroom condition... EVERYWHERE!
Plus, my friend most certainly has not been inside the frame cleaning it!
Of course, he has looked after it, but I mean it is shiny in all those bits that you just can't get to! I managed to push the iPhone into the middle of the bike, take a look at the photos carefully.
Just dust...
The chain is oiled, but the oil is still clean and not got black!
The bike has never been ridden at an altitude under about 1000m, and the swiss do pride themselves on clean everything, even roads, but the condition of this old bike???
It has a good layer of dust, but then it has lived under a sheet for probably the past ten years. Runs well though (after new battery of course!).
There are only three signs of age on the entire bike. Wear/deterioration on the passenger backrest, The rubber between the air filter and carb is looking a little upset, but not leaking air as yet, and there are a few patches of those pin-hole rust spots on the wheel rims. Otherwise, It looks like a dusty, but brand new bike!
He does intend to sell it, but it's in Switzerland, and no idea of price range yet, but...If you missed out on a brand new red rose all those years ago... this is probably the nearest you will find to concourse condition (concourse meaning it looks like it been stored as a static display in a shopping centre for 22 years!).
Has anybody else come across a 22 year old bike in a similar condition (That was not stripped down and re-built?) I am just gob-smacked!
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