2 Strokes Down Under

Hi folks, The time has come to sell my 500. In the last 5 years I've probably been on one proper ride on it. Every year it pretty much gets taken to get rego and that's about it, so it's getting harder to justify keeping it. For those who don't know it, you can find the project build here: https://w...

No problem with it, just moved it to the "For Sale" section. Good luck with the sale.

Gumtree.. really, wow. Every time I've had something on there I get swap requests and ridiculous lowball offers.
I guess ebay is an option too considering the Costin frame has worldwide appeal.

Circumstances have changed for me and I think keeping my bikes is probably not viable. I might keep the LC because it's not running at the moment, but the 500 is probably going to go. I'm after some advice from those of you who do a lot of trading. Where's the best place to sell it do you think? I m...

If anyone needs tank work done no matter how bad the tank is, there's a bloke on the mustang forum who helped me a lot with my car. He also does a lot of work on bikes, including repairing bad old tanks. He's also a great bloke as an added bonus. You can see some of his tank work here: https://www.m...

Whoops!

Good to see you're still racing Mark!

Anyone going this year?

Most of my stuff went with the frame a long time ago. Just happened to have a box of bolts and other small bits hanging around.

Yeah they are a nice setup.
I'm not an "original" guy, so chances are I will never use the bolts.

Maybe work out which way you're going to go first.
I'd like to see these go to someone who needs them for a standard setup since they're getting hard to find (like a bunch of other 500 parts).

Are these the ones?

I might have those two long bolts somewhere in my stash. I'm in Canberra for a few days, but I can have a look when I get back. From memory, they actually have a phillips head on the end?

They changed the write-off laws in NSW to stop cars being stolen for parts. So now there's no such thing as a repairable write-off. That actually hurt the parts (including wreckers) industry because SOME people were repairing the cars legitimately. But way too many were buying a repairable write-off...

Yeah as far as I know, there is no way around it.

Yeah the ATO has been working with some big overseas players and they are now collecting GST.
Places like summit racing etc.

Also, I know my freight forwarder (comgateway) are also collecting GST on items before they are forwarded.
How the ATO has convinced them to comply I don't know...

Yeah they can't force overseas sellers to abide by our laws.
They actually only have to comply anyway if their sales are over a certain amount. Can't remember what it is.