Had a Trident Sprint until I bought the beemer. No, I tell a lie. I've been a biker since the very early 60s as had a dear friend of ours, but in his case life kind of got in the way and his Trident / Sprint with 31,000 miles on the clock, bought new in 1993, was stuck under a cover in the back garden. Over the last 10 years I've variously offered to service, sell, buy, overhaul and eventually restore the bike which was rapidly becoming part of the rear hedge. Just before my 70th birthday last july, he asked Sue, my wife, if she thought I would like it---------------------------So after chopping away the brambles and various saplings, and with brakes siezed and flat tyres, we got it onto a borrowed trailor and home. with minimum fettling it was running and I got it mot'd and ran it for a couple of months. Although extremely top heavy, it was a great bike. Then after a few weeks of standing in my back garden I started it up and it went crazy, oil blew out, the engine raced so I shut it off rapidly. Oh Poo !! Not being in the best of health I decided to get shut. Stuck it on Fleabay and off it went..............end of story................But 2 weeks after selling it I got a 'phone call from the buyer !!!!!!He'd found a birds nest in the airbox and various bits of flesh in among the carb / intake area. Bugger, he's chuffed, but I've got a r1150rs and smile a yard wide
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