With apologies to Willie Nelson….
My first day for over 7 months without a bike. And it’s looking like it could be quite a few weeks till I am back in the saddle, depending on the availability of parts. It amazes me that a bike that is now effectively 14 years old (the Testarossa ran from 1994 to the end of 1997 unchanged) can have retained so much of its value.
I have been assured that mine won’t be a write-off, but, all the same, I had a look on bikesales this morning just to check on prices and availability and I was stunned to see that relatively high-mileage examples (80k and more) are still being offered for sale (and, presumably, bought) for figures up near the 7 grand still.
New, they were close to 15 grand, a very high price in their day, but there are still plenty of them around and parts are getting harder to get, especially body parts (no, I don’t mean kidneys). I’ve looked on fleabay and there are plenty of mechanical parts but no panels at all.
Could be a long wait.
The local newspaper sent its photographers out on Thursday to capture some images of the hail storm. At the 1:49 mark there are some pictures of Mount Ousley very close to where I crashed. Very scary. You do start to get a bit worried when you see fully-laden semis and coal trucks with their brakes locked on, skidding down the mountain on the ice.
