No worries, I am alright here- just that I have been a tad busy plus the fact that I have yet to receive the bike that my friend was to sell to me, so there was really nothing much to update.
The story goes that my friend wanted to trade-in his Kawasaki Z750 CBU bike for a higher-capacity bike, and the bike shop would only offer him a pretty low trade-in sum with the reasoning that most bikers would prefer the Z800 CKD so there was very limited demand for the Z750 in the market.
Hearing the lowly trade-in price, I informed my friend that I would be willing to top-up an additional RM2k on top of the shop's offer, to take-over his bike. It would have been a steal of a price if I had been able to secure the purchase of the bike at less than RM30k. He had initially agreed to sell to me instead since I am able to offer him a higher price than the shop; but it has been weeks and he was said to be having second thoughts about upgrading for another bike since he stood to lose so much monies in depreciation. So here I am waiting for him to make a "jawapan muktamad".
In the meantime, perhaps I could write about Malaysia bikers' favourite scooter instead ie Sym VTS 200. You see these scooters everywhere, and there are really a huge following for this bike. In fact, there has been quite a no. of e-mails from fellow readers that requested that I get my hands on the VTS 200 and begin on modification works. I do have one, but I have hardly ridden it so perhaps I would hereafter utilize it to fill in the spaces now.
So it could just be scooter-mania in the following entries. Ride safe, mates.
