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If I could I would LOVE to take three or four of those AT LEAST!


Oh man 25 you say?! I'd be in wonderland


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If I could I would LOVE to take three or four of those AT LEAST!


Oh man 25 you say?! I'd be in wonderland


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No not 25.....90 to be auctioned off Australia wide
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You lucky Ba****ds..!

I'd love to be there and snap a couple up!!

I did africa on one and had 3 so far! Good bikes, reliable and easy to strip down. I did the piston rings without removing from the frame in the Congo..! Whoop Whoop!

They'll take a rebore but just do a compression test first, as long as the filters were regularly changed and same with the oil, they'll be fine! My old '03 Xt600e (50,000+ miles!) is still bashing it's way through Southern Africa with it's new owner and he's loving it!

I'm in Iraq and trying my hardest to find out when I can purchase one of the US military DIESEL KLR650's once they hit the market next year! (1000km per tank!!)
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When/where are these bikes being auctioned?
Can they arrange delivery abroad???

I wouldn't mind a few being sent here to the UK...
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90???? OMFG!!!! I gotta moove to Aussie! Lovely women, great bikes.... ouch ;P
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Hi all,

I believe there is a total of 500 of these magnificent beasts being supa seeded, starting from 2009 when I stole mine for $900 AUD. at auction.

Great bikes, legendary, enough said, just do it, you won't regret it.

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90???? OMFG!!!! I gotta moove to Aussie! Lovely women, great bikes.... ouch ;P
You just stay were you are we've only got so many and beautiful women and at the moment just one beach per person is just how we like it..

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A half decent 1991 XT600 over here would be up to £1250.
If I could get 3 or 4 (or more) of them shipping would be fairly good value.
I'm sure I could make a profit from them
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When/where are these bikes being auctioned?
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I wouldn't mind a few being sent here to the UK...
Would it be worth it, at sub $1000 Aus plus freight....are they that expensive in the UK

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I think they are being Auctioned in Sydney and Brisbane ? Is that right ?
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Australia wide......

Car auctions, truck auctions, damaged car auctions, online car auctions / Melbourne Sydney Brisbane Perth Adelaide Hobart
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Forget importing the bikes from Aussie to Blighty - the cost will double the bikes purchase price (or more) and therefore wipe out any profit.

Nice to know the venerable XT6 is being used by the Aussie Army like this. Maybe they are getting rid of this batch of early bikes for a new batch of XT660's with new pattern paint job - Multi-Cam camoflage?

I'd say that the bikes themselves have all probably had a very hard time and that any prospective purchaser needs to be very careful. The plus side is that the bikes will have probably been serviced well and had oil changes at the right intervals.

Proceed with caution my Aussie cousins...
Finally - OUR team has just thrashed the Indian's in Cricket. We look forward to doing the same thing with you're team in the near future... We are now the world's number 1 cricket test side. lol. About time we started to win in the games we Brits invented (football, Cricket, Tennis and Golf).
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I think they are being Auctioned in Sydney and Brisbane ? Is that right ?
And Perth(18) and Darwin(16)

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I should just buy 5 and set them up for Adventure touring in OZ and hire/sell them to the tourists

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