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- From: bclarke@galaxy.gov.bc.ca
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: Kiwi Cruising
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.081706.1605@galaxy.gov.bc.ca>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 08:17:06 -0800
- References: <1993Jan21.082836.1@mrluv2.dsto.oz.au>,<1993Jan21.085041.1@mrluv2.dsto.oz.au> <1jqmdkINNjg0@zephyr.grace.cri.nz>
- Organization: BC Systems Corporation
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- >
- > What did I get? A beautiful 1986 Honda VF 500 F with 37000 km on it, new tires,
- > new brake pads, thorough tune-up, from Honda City in Lower Hutt for NZ$38000!
- ^^^^^^^
- I sure as hope that you meant $3800 NZ, not $38000 NZ !
-
- > (The NZ dollar is worth about 0.55 of the US dollar, at the moment) It's
- > perfect... the best bike I've ever owned, but then, I'm nowhere near being a
- > rec.motorcycle.god. The store had a lot of other used bikes, a lot of them were
- > in even better condition than mine, looked 'way sporty and cost
- > NZ$4000-NZ$6000... I wasn't paying a lot of attention to model names: they're
- > pretty different here. I'm certain that mine is essentially an Interceptor, but
- > maybe with a slightly bigger frame (I'm 6').
- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > John R. Manuel srgpjrm@grv.grace.cri.nz
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- Bruce Clarke B.C. Environment
- e-mail: bclarke@galaxy.gov.bc.ca
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