Atlantic Firearms is offering well used Colt Commando parts kits for $1,299. Why would someone pay that kind of money for a well-used demilled Colt Commando? I understand collecting since I am a collector, but it’s very similar to the current model. Plus, with collecting it’s all about condition. You can literally buy a brand new Colt Commando for $100 less (excluding the NFA stamp). What am I missing here? Is this one special somehow?
There’s probably people who will buy this pile. People are dumb. There’s a whole thing in the guitar world where many people will buy a fake beat up guitar… take a brand new guitar and fake age it. So farking retarded.
Back when I was racing motorcycles we would sell our worn out race tires to the street squids. The tires were worn all the way over to the edge which gave them street cred because their buddies would think they could “corner low, bro.” Sold them for 150 a set when they cost 225 a set brand new back then. Same thing. Oh and the irony was given the operating temp of race rubber the chances of them ever riding them hard enough on the street to get them to the proper operating temp was slim to none.
When I drag raced Supersport 600s, we’d get tires from the roadracers, particularly the fronts, because they’d be worn into a triangle. Same concept as pizzacutters, but legal for the class. My sponsor put the fronts on all the dragbikes. We’d use the rears, too, sometimes on the 6s, but I preferred the Shinkos, and we had to hang lead on my bike to make weight anyway. The bigger dudes were pretty happy with the roadracing handmedown rears.
Yeah on the 600’s I would go through two rears to one front. I’m not that far from Maple Grove, Cecil County and a few others and had some buddy’s who did the quarter mile hustle. I would just give them my take offs. Now the rears off the liter bikes usually were pretty much roasted, lol. We also used to go to Maple Grove on test and tune nights to practice our starts. Roadrace starts are essentially a drag race to turn one combined with a game of chicken to see who would brake first. I do miss those days.
Yeah, on the 1ks, I was always surprised how fast I’d roach a rear, while being more cautious than I was on a 600. I always rode them a little looser, but rarely felt I was pushing the limit. That midrange just hits different.
Just totally different beasts on the racetrack. With the 600s it was all about carrying the speed deeper into the corners and keeping that corner speed up. With the big bikes you’d just square off the corner and steer with the help of the throttle. All about getting from turn to turn faster. For me, personally, it was hard flipping that switch in my head going back and forth between the two bikes on any given weekend. My lack of talent certainly had something to do with that lol.
Yeah, it was hard switching between the 6s and the 1ks. I always figured it out just fine, but it was a thing.
Edit: on flipping the switch, I know you meant mentally, but the right hand has a version. I could roll on the throttle on the 600 fairly harshly on an exit, and I know it won’t hit until the revs get there, but on the 1k, it really is a switch between marginal and too much. There was definitely a divider in throttle discipline.
Sold out so someone wanted them. Looks pretty terrible in that picture.
It wouldn’t surprise me if we end up seeing those parts listed in the EE for 5x the cost.
The thing with the 600s is you can never NOT be on the throttle if you want to turn decent times. Lolly gag on the throttle and you get left for dead. Pre electronic rider aids, if you rode the 1000 like that you would end up on your butt. Throttle was never really my issue. It was cornering technique. On a 600 you take a classic outside, clip the apex, let it run wide on the exit approach. On the big bike you’d have to run it in deep, square off the turn and get it back up off the side of the tire and on the gas ASAP.
When I was instructing I built a motard to use as an instructor bike on the shorter tracks. Loved getting beginner riders out on big bikes who would ask how I was going to keep up with them. I would wait on the front straight for them to catch up lol. Teaches an important lesson that on the race track, corner speed is king.
I’ve never been able to figure out the relic nonsense, put some honest wear on the thing, that’s cool. I try to keep my guitars in good shape, not bang em around like sledgehammers.
BUT WHO WOULD SELL COLT PARTS AT 4x THE CURRENT MARKET VALUE?
Oh, I can think of at least ONE person on here who would do that and does regularly.
LOL, funny how some guys earn their reputation.
I’ve even seen professional musicians on “rig rundown” videos on youtube who have instruments relic treated. It’s not just complete posers. Murphy Labs likens it to worn in jeans, which I kinda get, but fake aging is absurd to me. Would they do that to a brand new car???
They’ll look so cool in their next classes!! :rolleyes:
Yeah, I have never understood the idiotic “relic” craze. How about you play it a while…
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Until they start pulling the trigger and everyone sees how bad they are…
Reminds me of a local class I took a few years back. Lots of guys with gucci builds, plate carriers, helmets etc etc. The best shooter in the class was a dude with a beat to shit Aero wearing a t shirt and jeans. What’s that saying? It’s not the arrow, it’s the Indian?