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Hi, I just saw this on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/APRILIA-FALCO-SL- ... 286.c0.m14

And an idea came to my mind. Perhaps it would be a good idea for a forum group buy. The frame would be bought with UK forumers money, it would be stored in a certain place like one's garage in case of something happening to someone's bike.

My way of thinking is: once you crack the frame in a spill, the bike is totalled. But if there is a frame readily available for say, 200 quid, well, that means the bike is saved. I saw a Falco engine with a few thousand miles on it going for a hundred quid...

We could even establish some sort of a bank of spare parts for Falcos, some things, like this frame are ultra rare, and definitely unaccessible in the time when you need them.

I have a spare rear subframe that I don't need, I bought it from the other forum member who didn't need it etc. It just keeps on traveling around and Royal Post is making money...You get my point by now.

The main problem is obviously a storage place and organizing the thing.

Unfortunately I probably need to declare myself out straight away as I moving back to Poland as you know, so I just wanted to plant the seed here for you to think about it.

Between all of us, could we use all our collective spare parts to build a complete bike and flog it on e-bay?

I've got a full stock exhaust system, stock swingarm, screen, airbox and wheels and a spare seat.

You/we should do the opposite: buy a complete bike and feed on it.

We got the parts but not the fittings

Should only cost about a grand for all the nuts and bolts nobody has.

Do we have to use ALL of the spare bits and pieces we all have hanging about ?




We present Falcostein :

1 base Cat C write-off Falco ... a club-together ebay purchase

Equipped with our cast-off bits and pieces - comprising:

• 24 Blue-Spring Sachs shocks
  
  12 Standard screens
  
  64 Standard Exhausts
  
  28 Standard Sidestands
  
  20 Standard Clipons
  
  25 Of those funny mouldings that go beneath the fairing around the oil cooler
  
  84 Standard Indicators
  
  40 pairs of MEZ3 tyres
  
  10 pairs of Brembo Wheels
  
  3 Falco oil tanks
  
  15 Standard Swingarms
  
  97 Air-Box restrictor bungs
  
  29 Number Plate holders
  
  and .....
  
  37 standard red tail lights

..... mmmm ..... I'm not as convinced about this project as I was at first .....

paddyz1 wrote:We got the parts but not the fittings

Should only cost about a grand for all the nuts and bolts nobody has.

One of us must work for an engineering comany so it should be easy enough to 'aquire' the relevent parts. Failing that, there's always cable-ties and gaffer tape "Oh yeah, that's a special WSB mod to allow some extra flex into the frame, it's the next big thing you'll be seeing at all the track days, guv."

40 pairs of MEZ3 tyres

What? People still have them? Mine went in the bin.

Off-topic(ish) I know, but I'd be interested in a standard Falco swingarm in good nick, as I'd like to get the swingarm powder-coated black to match the frame on my '05 model, but would prefer to keep the original one as backup/insurance/security blanket.

Anyone interested in offloading one?

I have one as it happens. £40 inc postage sound OK?

Nooj wrote:I have one as it happens. £40 inc postage sound OK?

Give him it you minge

Need the readies to pay for the Bulldog Bash tickets. Besides, this isn't my original one, it's one I bought a while ago, also to powder coat, so I'd like to get some of that cost back if I can.

You can get one off a Mille for close to that - probably with the addition of dent-feature-upgrade

Nooj wrote:Need the readies to pay for the Bulldog Bash tickets. Besides, this isn't my original one, it's one I bought a while ago, also to powder coat, so I'd like to get some of that cost back if I can.

No need to explain ther nooj. I was just extracting the micheal

I know you were taking the wee wee, just thought I'd explain why I'm trying to sell it rather than giving it away. Makes conversation dunnit.

Back on the subject (too far from me plus no garage ):
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/APRILIA-SL1000-FA ... .m14.l1318

I've got the storage space, but no way of collecting it.