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Will consider selling: the famous WISIL Missile full-fair HPV
Hi all... I just wanted to put this out there, in case there are any
riders looking for a seriously good ride along with an likely intensive project. I bought the WISIL Missile a few years ago from the club. It had been a race-winner for years. I've raced it myself several times and have greatly enjoyed commuting and riding it in all its many configurations. It's a dual-suspension lowracer, built in the early 1990's. It has a full fiberglass fairing body with complete canopy. It also has a "head out" canopy that can easily be used instead of the completely enclosed fairing. It takes about 5 minutes to switch between them. It can also easily be ridden "naked" with no fairing. It's a great bike. It is very stable in crosswinds. It's quite compact for a streamliner. I can readily cruise at 25 unfaired, 28 head-out, 32 full-canopy---with 40mph easy to do for stretches on the flats. (It includes various accessories such as a quality remote-steering handlebar set-up option for the head-out canopy.) The big snag is that it is overall quite ratty and beat up. It's scratched on the body and windows (but I can still see out fine) and the various window tapings are wrinkled, causing drag. The seat has some cobbling on it, but works fine. The only major glitch is that the nosepiece fits fine but not in the correct matching position. I haven't spent much time figuring out what is making it misalign. It wasn't crashed and isn't bent. It should be a reasonable fix. Altogether the rattiness factor has to be giving probably a good 3mph hurt on average speed. (A tidy, tight bike goes MUCH better as a streamliner.)Still, it works good and is VERY fast. I'd be looking at $1K for a price. I thought I'd put the word out, in case there was someone really hankering after a great base for a fixer-upper project. Really, it mostly "only" needs tidying, new paint, retaping. Probably a new seat is a great idea. I don't want to sell it, but if someone really wanted it, I'd consider it. I just don't have the fast, small-cargo riding mission very often---and I don't race much anymore either. I just don't have the time these days, it seems. So if someone could put it to better use than me, I'd consider selling. I'm in mid-Michigan. I recently cut the rearward tape on the side-windows and added internal velcro---to make them openable for signaling when riding on the open road. The new feature works great---you push your hand thru a side-window to signal (the velcro gives way readily) and it reseals automatically when you pull your arm back in. It also has a neat trunk space for a bag of groceries. But I also hate to say goodbye to it and want to try start using it again, for awhile anyway. It is a great, rare, full-featured, highly-versatile HPV. But I thought I'd put the word out anyway... --Jeff Potter email me at "jeff at outyourbackdoor dot com" |
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