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$250 and you get plastic???? RIPOFF!!!!! Not in my lifetime, Wait a minute, I am OLD and I might have a very short lifetime. OK, OK, Not in IVAN's lifetime!!! or TRBIG's lifetime, No, No, he rides to fast, wait I got it, Cat Bugs lifetime!!!! Crummy plastic!
Going to bed now!!!
Ole Jack
J.D."Jack" Smith
1980G&S "Halfbreed"
1978E straight job
"We the people are the rightful masters of both congress and the courts, not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the constitution." Abraham Lincoln
Life is like a coin, you can choose to spend it any way you wish, but you can only spend it once. Make your choices wisely.
I actually have one similar. I paid less than $20.00 for it about 15 years ago. It's been in my entertainment center since I bought it.
I was walking through some store SWMBO just had to "check out" and it was on a top self. All I saw was "Yamaha 1100" on the side of the box. I guess it wasn't such a bad store after all.
Rob
82 XJ1100
Stock..With a few cosmetic changes.
Current Project..Dad's 81 1100 Special
Wow! What's wierd is that there are mods done to the model, as though it had been ridden.
Windshield added, rear turn signals moved back to the license plate and painted clutch adjustment cover and airbox. Also has no kick-start post, slotted brake rotors and seat of an '80-'81 Special, but rear fender and exhaust of an earlier model.
1980 XS850SG - Sold
1981 XS1100LH Midnight Special (Sold) - purchased 9/29/08
Fully Vetterized and Dynojet Kit added, Heated Grips, Truck-Lite LED headlight, Accel Coils, Irridium plugs, TKAT Fork Brace, XS850LH Final Drive & Black SS Brake lines from Chacal.
Here's my web page devoted to my bike! XS/XJ User's Manuals there, and the XJ1100 Service Manual and both XS1100 Service manuals (free download!).
Whether you think you can, or you think you cannot - You're right.
-H. Ford
$250 and you get plastic???? RIPOFF!!!!! Not in my lifetime, Wait a minute, I am OLD and I might have a very short lifetime. OK, OK, Not in IVAN's lifetime!!! or TRBIG's lifetime, No, No, he rides to fast, wait I got it, Cat Bugs lifetime!!!! Crummy plastic!
Going to bed now!!!
Ole Jack
Not only do they get actual bikes, but for the same amount of time and supplies required to put the model together, they could get the $250 bike working!
As a model builder in my spare time, Tamiya kits are god-awful expensive as it is. Add to that the fact it's a pretty large model, import fees (from Japan), and the general cost of kits rising anyway, sadly the $250 makes a bit of "sense".
Still, if I had that much to spend, I'd just start looking for the real thing!
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