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What is the best bargain you have ever had??

andyBeaker

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mine was paying 50p for what looked like a dead 4" stick in an unlabelled pot from the 'clearance' area at b&q.

Turned out it was a corkscrew hazel tree, grew into a beautiful specimen about 4 meters tall that gave us many years of pleasure at our old house.
 

slim63

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£250 for 2 750cc bikes one of which was running within half an hour of getting it home, mot'd the next day & in constant use for the next 3 years, the other I broke for spares & made over £500 :D
 

sr71caspar

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£30 for a mk2 escort van. Ran it a couple of years then a mate bought it for £100.
I would've given it to him, but he insisted on giving me money for it.:nusenuse:
 

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Bought a pair of genuine Honda Blackbird panniers for 50 quid on ebay whilst I was away in Canada, they have pride off place hanging in my garage roof (prob been on the bike twice) but they were a bargain, prob had some better bargains but that one sticks in me head.
 

Lee337

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Went into Hein Gericke in Northampton a number of years ago, wanted some earplugs as I'd lost one on a Rideout. On the way out I was convinced to part with my email address. I did so & a month later won £1000 of gear. All for a £1.20 pair of earplugs.
 

Jaws

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A 1998 Bird in 2001 for £400
Honda dealer had taken it in a PX deal and no matter what the did could not get to go over 80mph

In fact they solld it and it got returned, sold it again and again it was rejected..They could find nowt wrong with it until the lazy arse tech could be bothered to try it as it would rev to red line in the workshop
After some time they gave up and rang me.. I played dumb and said I would have it for spares
Picked it up, brought it home, fitted the baffle plates in the nose cone and immediately rode it back to the place..
Tech bod took it out and was fuming cos I would not tell him what the fault was..Sold it for£3,75 k the following week
 

Centaur

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My various dog licences. I suppose I should not forget the marriage licences either. :rolleyes:
 

andyBeaker

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My various dog licences. I suppose I should not forget the marriage licences either. :rolleyes:


This is going to drive me nuts all day now - I can hear Rod Stewart singing the following lyric...

"marriage licence should be like a dog licence - renew it when the year runs out"

but can't pin down the song, going through my head now repeatedly....



Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
 

Cougar377

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The Wife (3rd time lucky... :aaaaa:).

A woman who not only likes bikes, but rides her own daily and never wanted kids. Bargain. :abrazo:
 

andyBeaker

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Needless to say it came to me as soon as I posted above - Sailor!! And apparently I got the lyric wrong. But I don't think I did. Sue me.


A gentle tale of a man bottling it on his wedding day....



You ain't gonna get me honey no way
Tearing down the highway in the pouring rain
escaping from my wedding day
I heard the bells ringing in the local church
the ceremony's nearly under way
Telegrams came and the cheap champagne
was driving everybody out of their brains
But I convinced my best friends I lost my nerve
and I pleaded I was being framed

"Sailor show me which way to go"
I screamed out loud
"Sailor show me which way to go"

Such a deadly silence
due to my defiance
the wedding ground to a halt
Said I changed my mind
ain't no use in your trying
so her brother punched me in the throat
her mother got hysterical
the bitch was cynical
father's in the corner drunk
Picking myself off the floor
I ran to the door
damned if I was skippin' on my way

"Sailor show me which way to go"
You should have heard the noise
Said "Sailor show me which way to go"

So keep clean girlie
find a man that's truly
gonna love you from dusk till dawn
Keep your front door key
don't give him up for me
'cause tomorrow I may be gone
You see, your wouldbe keepers
() all night creepin'
nobody gonna change in there
Who thinks a marriage life should be like a dog's life
so let's renew it when the year runs out


Sailor show me which way to go
Sailor show me which way to go

She had a belly full of lust but she had no bust



Read more: Rod Stewart - Sailor Lyrics | MetroLyrics
 

derek kelly

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My first field, £15,000 at auction eight years ago, we have spent about £15,000 on stables/ shelters/fencing & having water laid on, field is now worth over £90,000, be worth even more when we've built a house there.
 

Jaws

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Hmmmm Thinking about is, proly our house £13,050 inc fees.. And that was about 1996/97 before someone says boer war era
 

andyBeaker

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Hmmmm Thinking about is, proly our house £13,050 inc fees.. And that was about 1996/97 before someone says boer war era
You and me too John - paid £112500 for our last place as a repossession in the dark property times of the early 90s.......


:gayfight:
 

slim63

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Todays bargain

An engine & ancillaries for my project bike £0.00 I just have to pick it up :D

I did ask if I could have a tenner as well but he didn't seem impressed :risas3:
 

Jaws

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Todays bargain

An engine & ancillaries for my project bike £0.00 I just have to pick it up :D

I did ask if I could have a tenner as well but he didn't seem impressed :risas3:
What you building?
 

slim63

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What you building?

Just a Suzuki based ratbike to use up all the junk in the shed, so far I have an cut about 1980's Suzuki 750ef frame, tank, cut about seat, tail piece & back light, Yam thunderace wheels, forks, swingarm, slab yokes etc all toghther in a rolling chassis after a few weeks work

I'm, using an oil cooled engine & have just been offered a 600 teapot for nowt so that will do for now, this thing will just develop as & when parts come available & I'm in no rush

PS the frame, tank, seat, tail & back light came for £22 off ebay I count that as a bargain as the light is worth more than that
 
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