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It's not the first time a keen innovator has built a Lister-powered Rat Bike!

What are you going to do with it?

It doesn't seem that long ago that a V8 was $800, but I think it's up around the thousand now.

That's probably a similar rego cost for a four cylinder here in Qld.. All up somewhere in the 800 range; I pay 600 and something with the pension discount. I'd be lot better off if it was a pay per mileage charge as I often only drive on the road once or twice a week, and not very far at that. A tank usually lasts a couple of weeks or three.

I suppose if you buy a lotto ticket and you don't win, you feel you are entitled to a refund. You don't seem to understand how insurance works.

NSW CTP insurance. You know, that one where you never get any of it back even if you never make a claim.

Picked up this little air cooled 7.75 hp Lister SR1 today for bugger all. Most of it is there except for the fuel tank, air cleaner, fuel filter and some missing fuel lines. It's the clockwise running version. The 7.75 hp is the rating at full revs, 2,500rpm. At 1,000rpm I think they make 4 or 5. Hopefully it won't take too much to make it a runner. There's a place about 100 klm away that sells unaffordable genuine parts and reasonably priced non genuine parts. Everything is still available for them.

My grandfather used to grow red pontiac potatoes and he would bed them down in straw on the floor of the laundry outbuilding to keep them a long time. That was in a cool climate though. I don't know how he kept the rats away from them. I guess I'm an embarrassment to my Irish ancestors, not being a potato eater.

Grumpy, what's a greenslip?