Goodbye Scorpio, Hello DRZ 400

Well I said farewell to the Scorpio on Thursday with a tear in my eye.

Tears of happiness that was because now I could 100% focus on getting the replacement.

So after 1.5 days of mad Ebay, Bikepoint, Trading Post searching, I found my new DRZ 400 in the Newcastle Herald. :cheer:

Mind you that was after getting up last Monday morning and driving to Coffs Harbour because I had won one on Ebay. Turns out that the bike wouldn’t go though so it ended up being a nice day for a drive. :angry:

Anyway because I am very impatient I found one at Frasers at Wollongong last night and was ready to pop in the car last night and take the trailer down there for when they opened this morning to buy it. Fortunately I was too tired to do that last night so we got the paper really early this morning and fate stepped in because there was 1 DR in it and it was just what I wanted.

So DanD rings up at 7:15 this morning to tell the guy that we will be there in 20 mins. The guy asks what time it is then says come by at 8:30. He was still in bed! :blink:

So we try to wait but get impatient so we head off early anyway. We turn up and can tell very quickly that we would be buying the bike. It’s a 2006 model with 2,000 odd km’s on it. It had a flat battery so it had to be jumped but started OK and ran really well. The only problem is that it is unregistered. Well that’s what I thought at first but after talking to TB realised that his is actually good thing at the moment because here’s the plan:

We are going to motard it. :woohoo:

I am trying to get some bling bling motard wheels, tyres, discs from Ebay at the moment so that’s the first step.
It’s already got a staintune muffler on it so that’s taken care of.
TB has some other ideas to bling it up but I can’t remember what they were.

I made my first purchase for it today as it needed a new battery. TB and Eagle installed it for me today and they waited for me to come home to let me take the first ride on it. Aren’t they nice? I offered to let them have a go after I came back but they didn’t want to break it on me or something they said.

Here’s some pictures of it that I took tonight

I don’t actually like the headlight assembly but we got the original one with it as well so I can always change it back.

I will probably give it a good wash tomorrow because the guy didn’t even wash it before putting it up for sale.

So as much as it pains me to do this I am going to wait until it’s all converted before registering it. :S