1938/9? NZ 350 for sale (not mine)

[doug]

Hi all.

Saw this bike for sale. The guys name is Kostadin and i think he is in Bulgaria. He wants 8000 euro. (way beyond my budget) The numbers are 1181267 and 602154 which is not on the database so Nikola you may want to keep track of it anyway. his email is kostadin83@mail.bg and i saw the ad here http://www.vft.org/vftforsale2.html

regards
Douglas

[thomas591]

WOW!
8000 Euros---That bike must be goldplated. I wonder what it looks like.

Thomas

[Nikola D. Dimitrov]

I can imagine. Some ppl fancy thousands just because the junk is more than 60 years old.... I may be wrong, of course.

[doug]

I think your'e right Thomas about the gold plating. This same bike is now being sold for.... look here

Speechless.
Douglas

[Nikola D. Dimitrov]

I may be wrong, of course.

well, i'm not

[thomas591]

OK folks,

after a few seconds of consideration, I have decided to sell my restored (ultrarare, matching numbers, originall SS-bike, riddin by General Rommel personally, never raced or ralleyd, bla, bla bla) for Euro 40.000,00. This prices includes shipping to your front door (Only if you live on the ground floor and surface shipping -of course).

See below for this priceless beauty:






Thomas

P.S. Serious offers only please. No timewaster, knowalls or tirekickers.

[doug]

A give away Thomas!

How do you expect the rest of us to get a decent...er..fair price for our bikes when

we want/have to sell one of these days....er.. say when death is approaching and

nobody in our respective families is deemed worthy enough to continue the dedication

as honorably and passionately as we have done without hesitation...

leading up to that daunting moment when we have to let go of our bikes?

That feeling of surrendering your life's greatest earthly pleasure and most loved

posession is ...indescribable....This looming sense of loss can be quite devastating

if that moment suddenly jumps out of the shadows and catches you off guard one day

while you are quietly sipping your cup of coffee ..minding your own business....

Of coarse the immensity of this daunting feeling will surely diminish either

proportionately or exponentially by the number of NZ's you happen to own.

Um..actually there's a simple formula/ " rule of thumb" you could use to try and more

clearly understand this feeling :

1/a = b

where :

a = the number of NZ's you own at the time of selling (one of them)

b = the RESULTing magnitude of the feeling we are attempting to quantify/describe.

In truth this "formula" is more of a rough guide and should repectfully be applied

with caution since there is no correlation or rather a yardstick or starting point if

you will, that gives us a meaningfull measure of "b" to begin with.

The individual who is brave enough to start experimenting with the formula should

possibly prepare himself as follows:

1. Take a deep breath.

2. Now REMEMBER each of the following and contemplate on each one.

3. The joy when you first laid eyes on your first/ only NZ.

4. The day she first fired up and the sound of that sweet two stroke motor (how she

seemed to radiate luring you with her undeniable magnetism).

5. Your first ride! That floating feeling afterwards and the smile you carried for

weeks (or days) inbetween successive rides.

6. How this joy filtered through to the the rest of your family and others you

engage with in your daily life.

7. The sheer glee when you dicovered this website and the forum.

8. The warm welcome and embracing reception you received from fellow forum members

and their speedy and above all, helpful response to niggling (and at times, seemigly

pathetic) queries you had along the way.

9 The early days of greedily gathering information (downloading pdf's etc.)

10 The trials and tribulations of discovering unoriginal and incomplete aspects of

your bike yet knowing all the while that there was never any reason to despair as

spare parts were just around the corner. (?)


This list goes on...but it's time to take another breath. Inhale slowly and naturally

..and then exhale ... using the rythm of your heart beat to keep it steady.

Now you will start to get a measure of what the value of " negative b" for you and

you alone is. Negative because for everything there is an equal opposite. This is so

to maintain a balanced universe (...very loosely described by the laws of attraction

: I. Newton)... But Newton never owned a DKW so is forgiven for his shortfall.


There's no point in even attempting to rationalise an exponential formula for the

above.
This new formula in mathematical form would have to link the space/ time continuum and

correlate the many lives you have experienced in human form and be recursive in a

sense that it would unfold all that is already known yet forgotten. In another sense

it would reveal an awakening from a dream only to discover that it has been dreaming

itself. As each Dream fades the new Dream seems more real until it too awakens from

itself.

As you can see ... stumbling upon this formula right now would not help anybody. I

would not for one moment want to interfere with all the FUN ALL of you are having!

OH yes .. when can you deliver that bike? Does it have a hooter for that price?

oops look at the time

(nervously clicks on the "submit" button

Regards

Doug
ps: Maybe this can be the "not so serious" thread. A place to relax and talk absolute &*%6 loosely related to NZ 350 ??

[Nikola D. Dimitrov]

poetry in mathematics

[thomas591]

speechless...


and completely unable to add anything serious or non-serious to this eternal wisdom from our beloved brother from SA

Cheers


T.