Addiction & the British Enfield

[Daddybus]

So I bought this 81 Royal Enfield ladies locally for less than a fiver ...(just for the weinmann brakes & a few other spares, bits & bobs etc) -thinking I'll junk the rest... now I feel sorry for the old girl, anyone else find it hard to sell / junk anything that 'might come in useful...' My back yard is turning a bit 'Steptoe'. I've bought 4 bikes since I started this hobby in June this year already -only 1 of them works properly!!

 

[biggs682]

@Daddybus join the club

 

[arch684]

Bought a few bikes from gumtree just for the parts and don't like to throw any away just in case

 

[bancrobba]

I gave 7 ladies frames to scrap man couple of weeks ago. I strip all the components for my "projects" then end up with patio looking like Steptoe's yard!

The kids have to find new things for Olympic hurdle races now!

 

[mikeymustard]

I gave 7 ladies frames to scrap man couple of weeks ago. I strip all the components for my "projects" then end up with patio looking like Steptoe's yard!

The kids have to find new things for Olympic hurdle races now!

 

[bancrobba]

Hey mikeymustard, dry those eyes, still got dozens more that just might come in handy one day!

 

[midlife]

Hey mikeymustard, dry those eyes, still got dozens more that just might come in handy one day!

I have *lots* of things hanging around that might come in handy one day.

Shaun

 

[stevevw]

I've bought 4 bikes since I started this hobby in June this year View attachment 111178

Only 4 you slacker

 

[Daddybus]

Haha...It's a good job I don't have the room for many more ... The next one I'm picking up is going in the house

 

[mikeymustard]

Haha...It's a good job I don't have the room for many more ... The next one I'm picking up is going in the house

better make sure it's a good'un then!

 

[Tony Raynor]

It's a slippery slope bringing the bike inside. I've now got 6 in the spare room. 1 frame and another bike in the living room.

Good job the wife is in Hull so she can't see how many are in the house.

 

[Daddybus]

I wonder if I disassemble it I can hide it in the wardrobe....

 

[mikeymustard]

Just as long as you don't convert it into a paint spraying booth!

 

[bancrobba]

I'd rather leave my best 531 chained with dental floss on my old estate, than bring it in where my kids can get to it!

 

[stevevw]

I wonder if I disassemble it I can hide it in the wardrobe....

Many years ago I was a keen motorcyclist and racer. On the day my now wife moved in to my flat she found her wardrobe and started hanging her cloths up a while later we was going out and she decided to change. She was not best pleased that her clothes stank of two stroke oil and that there was an engine and expansion chambers at the bottom of the wardrobe covered in some stinking oily rags. Good job she did not come the day before I had the exhausts in the bath soaking in caustic soda to decoke them. Anyway her Afghan coat stank more than any engine could.
I have not yet been caught using the dishwasher to clean bike parts but i am sure the day will come.