Bruce, I was going to make an educated guess that the V-Strom 650 XT is a 2017, because I bought a brand new 2017 V-Strom 650 XT, exact same color, so it looked familiar.
Exactly how many kilometers on that V-Strom ?????????
An HRD sidecar...really ???
Forget about that BMW ....and look for a Honda Helix, or the designation is CN-250.
The Honda Helix is the upgraded replacement for your 40 years old Honda scooter, but is a 250cc, and will easily last for 100,000 kilometers more than the BMW will.
And....whilst the Honda Helix has a tendency to steer towards Ice Cream shops...that BMW is well known for "parking " in front of Starbucks, or any coffee shop it can sniff out.
The Honda Helix 250 can be ridden at 100+ kph all day long.
Honda made the last ones in 2007, but from 1986 to 2007 they are practically all the same.
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Update Miles.
2018 model sorry was wr9ng.
HrD is an Aussie built chair.
Highway sidecars.
It is on the Facebook.
Australian sidecar enthusiasts
The Beemer is probably an ok deal but not for me.
Maybe a bigger scoot or better still an older Guzzi.
Bruce, so the HrD sidecars in Australia have no connection to the olde HRD motorcycles from the UK ?????
To be technical....I still think that V-Strom 650 XT is a 2017 model year bike. If Australia does like some countries in Europe do, i.e., Germany, they give the car the registration as to the first month and year it was SOLD. As an example, my 2019 Subaru XV Hybrid Platinum was built in July 2019, but first SOLD in July 2020, and that is what the registration shows...07/20.
Did they ever sell the Honda Helix 250....CN-250...in Australia?
That is thee scooter you should get.
If not, then I can arrange it so that the entire continent/country of Australia never receives any more shipments of STROOPWAFFLES.
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There is 2002 I think 250 Honda scooter on Facebook now.
So yes whatever they called them here..? ..Forza?
Probably won't though.
Stroopless.
The Honda Forza is a different scooter. I had a 2014 Honda Forza 300....fuel injected...serious road scooter.
It's okay, but an antique guy like you should find a 1997 to 2007 Honda Helix CN-250.
Edit: turns out Australia was deemed not worthy of the Honda Helix 250, so....sadly you will have to suffer the slings and arrows of buying a Honda Forza.
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Oh the humanity!
Illegitemi non carborundum est!
One of the random wheels I looked at recently was 400cc MP3.. yep a 3 wheeled scooter.
Fortunately someone bought it before I could figure out how to mount a sidecar to it.
It would've been a leaner I think....
Location means a smaller availability of common machines elsewhere.
But still there are surprises around.
Was offered a 1970 650 bonnie last week.
No mention of price.
A lass that we see on the beach has owned since she was 21.
Of course that means no asking what year that was.
Or decade.......
Bruce, I briefly owned one of the 500cc Piaggio MP3s....owned it for all of 2 weeks....couldn't get rid of it fast enough 😀
They are okay...but a different animal.
See them all over Europe.
Two Million Mile Rider
Exploring the World in Comfort
A fond memory of Paris is a pic I took of a car parked partly on a big scooter.
The driver backed into it till it was pushed over on the sidestand 45 deg and wedged there.
Good luck to the scooter owner if he needed to leave before the car owner got back.
And it was where I saw my 1st 3 wheelers.
I wonder what they would be like on dirt roads?
I bought this in England, it's been stuck in Montreal for a month. I'm pissed.
Is it there yet?
It is now
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Just looked at that picture again and realised it has USD forks.
I know it was relatively common in the early days of telle forks.
But cool just the same.
Just looked at that picture again and realised it has USD forks.
I know it was relatively common in the early days of telle forks.
But cool just the same.
Cooler ! 
OK committed to another bike.
A 2015 Suzuki s40.
Simple and basic.
We should get on fine.
Taking the bus to Albany on Thursday to pick it up.
Wonder if the spare set of fournales air shocks can be made to fit.
And the Russell day long saddle I bought by mistake???
Bruce, what on earth are you referring to when you say, " And the Russell Day Long saddle I bought by mistake???"
One doesn't make a mistake when buying a Russell Day Long saddle.
Two Million Mile Rider
Exploring the World in Comfort
The mistake is when doesn't fit anything you own and it was not viable to send back.
