If you had millions of mulahh ££££ [Archive] - SV650.org

John 675

05-10-07, 09:39 AM

I was thinking last night on the way home... if i had millions.. say if i won the euro millions

One thing that i would do is pay for all of us on here (that wanted to),
to go on a trip of a life time sort of thing, like... ride to and through the alps.. everything paid for and the like...

but what could you spend millions of pounds on???

of course id have all the bikes id ever want.. the biggest house and whatever
but i guess the hapiness factor would probably get boring after a while,

on the other hand i could just live like i do now but with lots of money?
the good thing is that if i did come by millions of pounds then at least i was with my mrs well before it happend as apposed to the amount of people who would then want to be your friend when they found out..

i tell you there are some strange things kicking about in my lid on the way home lol,

:smt033

hovis

05-10-07, 09:42 AM

wooo-hooooooo

another "what would you do if you won the lottery thread"

only joking:smt044

im happy now........ dunno what i would do with millions? a few more bikes? new cenrtal heating?

neio79

05-10-07, 09:43 AM

buy the obligitory big house wit hland have the nice cars and bikes,

build a personal race track on my land.

oh and get a job on an airport check in desk so i can tell the Fing idiots who seem to think that they are important and because they are late for no good reason the plane mut be held to F off!!

get the sack and then move on to the next low paid sh*t job where i can be sarcastic and rude t orealy dumb members of the public!!

stewie

05-10-07, 09:44 AM

Wow I was thinking exactly the same thing the other on the M6 at about 2 in the morning, first thing make sure the family, all taken care, then I was going to invite a few hundred close friends off here to accompany me on a privately chartered flight to new york for week of fun...then spray the bike and get a new shed

05-10-07, 09:44 AM

I would attempt to live like Michael Schumacher.

He is supposed to have an extensive car collection on his 'estate' which also has 3 petrol stations a mountain pass and 20km of winding private roads.

stewie

05-10-07, 09:46 AM

Id also pay someone to keep taking me away from this pc and out into the outside world

Daimo

05-10-07, 09:52 AM

A nice house in this country, literally in the countryside. A garage as big as the house also.... :D Filled with cars and bikes of my choice.

I'd have houses in a few other countries as well.

I'd then spend my time, and the money on travelling the world. Going to see the things normal people don't see, all the old historic temples in the jungles, india, indonesia and all the villages in the mountines. I'd explore life and the ways and cultures of other nations.

Build a big mofo model railways :lol:

If i won that 88million jobbie, i'd also build a motor racing facility. A drag strip, race track, the full works. Then i'd open it for cheap track days to help people enjoy tracking more cheaply. Then i'd fight Donnington for the MotoGP races :lol:

I wouldn't care about excotic clothes and the bling bling though. I'd enjoy my money for me, not to look cool to other people.

But mostly, i'd spend my life travelling the world, as there really is a lifetimes travelling out there if you look hard enough ;)

jambo

05-10-07, 09:58 AM

I would continue to wear scruffy jeans and T-shirts and wander into stores like the Snap-on shop, as well as places that would sell me some really nice classic cars. I would then find the person having the worst day and check they got comission:D First person to be rude or treat me like I'm not serious gets to see me wander by later on in something expensive from the next shop along (I know someone who did this:cool:)

Grinch

05-10-07, 10:10 AM

I wouldn't be on this forum with you poor scum.

Biker Biggles

05-10-07, 10:13 AM

It would have to be a nice island in the Caribbean:smt033

tigersaw

05-10-07, 10:35 AM

Buy myself out of my contract, then laze around for a year to catch up on all the time I have missed.

thor

05-10-07, 10:36 AM

Pedro68

05-10-07, 10:57 AM

I'd pick randowm places to travel to, and then attempt to get there without any planning. Should be fun to get lost on the world for a few years.

In fact, I could do that now if I didn't want to keep my job for the feckin' mortgage!
Hmmm ... if ya travelling around the world, why do you need a feckin house? (and therefore a feckin' mortgage) ;-) LOL

Stewie don't ya like ya family or summit? "Make sure the family are taken care of"? :smt104 LOL Mafia styleeee? (Just kiddin m8 OBVIOUSLY!)

Personally, I would purchase a house that was big enough to be comfortable, but not so big that the bills to run it were ridiculous ... a couple of cars (for me, the missus, and for when the kids passed their tests), a few bikes, a few nice holidays ... everything else would be donated to charity ... I don't want so much money that I don't know what to do with it ... and I don't want so much money that I completely lose touch with the real value of things ...

Of course I could be talking b0||0cks and I might just give up work entirely :)

I like neio's idea tho ... doing jobs you would NEVER otherwise do just to tell ignorant/dumb people to "get lost" :) Reminds me ... in a very weird round-about-kinda-way of the time we bought one of those scrolling LED signs (like the ones you see in the rear of Police vehicles) and put all sorts of slogans on it ... like "Road Hog" for the middle laners ... "Honk if you're horny", "You think THAT'S fast - watch this!". "We're faster than you ner ner ner ner ner" and "The car in front is NOT a Toyota - it's a Ford". What a trip that was ... so funny (not just for us, but I think it lightened the feeling amongst all those other motorists, as well as peeing a few off too). Could have done SO much more with that sign, but (1) the kids were operating it and (2) we didn't fancy being pulled by the police :)

Anyway, I digress :)

Pedrosa

05-10-07, 10:58 AM

I would simply carry on regardless, with my work assisting in the soup kitchen for the homeless.

Razor

05-10-07, 11:02 AM

I'd have a flat in the city and a house in the sticks.

kitkat

05-10-07, 11:04 AM

be able to do my shopping without having to add it up as I go round. buy a nice house. buy my daughter a horse. pay off my families mortgages (with 16 cousins that would probably be a fair chunk). buy my son an xbox 360 and my bf a few motorbikes - he cant decide what he wants. pay off my debts. stop working but insist my kids get jobs when they are old enough.

visit lots and lots of countries and fly first class.

oh and maybe buy some new clothes. have a chef to cook me lovely meals and he can employ someone to do the shopping. cleaner.

dont think a lottery win would last long. but nice idea. maybe start buying tickets.

stewie

05-10-07, 11:05 AM

Id buy a nice big house and open it as a nursery and charge next to nothing to allow mums to get back to work without a huge financial burden hanging over them, like we did.

stewie

05-10-07, 11:07 AM

Also would set meself up as a photographer, and would help others to set up for themselves as well, im bloody great me you know. :D

Pedrosa

05-10-07, 11:10 AM

Isn't it odd how one has to have a massive wedge in order to be a socialist?:p

neio79

05-10-07, 11:12 AM

start my own political party, or at least start bribing this government on a few issues.

carry on working but be an ar*e to people who annoyed me, and usea DB9 for my daily commute knowing i was only getting about 5MPG out if it.

Razor

05-10-07, 11:18 AM

I'd start a solar/wind/cow dung powered self sustainable organic farming community.

John 675

05-10-07, 11:18 AM

Id turn the Org in to a Company providing everything people need when they start with an SV to when they sell it, id have Garages set up for bikes to be bought in and fixed with mechanics on site, and a small fleet of collection vans. and charge very reasonable prices,
i would organise specific SV club racing and other bike events sponsored by the ORG, and if it got that big id make a corporate move in to SV specific insurance..
following that id get the org specificly recognised and possibly partnered with suzuki, and have support from the company themselves.. and see if we could bring the SV forward to prevent it being discontinued by constant development,

Then i wake up and realise i dont actually own the org or a big heap of cash and that as it stands at the moment the org is pretty amazing how it is... :D

Pedro68

05-10-07, 11:58 AM

... and if it got that big id make a corporate move in to SV specific insurance...
You might wanna check out the "falling off" threads ... all the data you will ever need to calculate your insurance premiums ;-)

John 675

05-10-07, 12:15 PM

You might wanna check out the "falling off" threads ... all the data you will ever need to calculate your insurance premiums ;-)

lol, good call :D

Dan

05-10-07, 12:30 PM

With EuroMillions jackpot:

I'd get a copy of the Snap-On catalogue... and buy everything in it. Everything!

I'd also buy a flat in Monaco, and a large yacht no smaller than 100ft to park in the harbour for GP weekend, and for holidaying on.

I'd have an estate in Scotland for most of the year, with an assortment of old Land Rovers and Range Rovers for pottering around in.

I'd have a 'trackday month' every year, with a different trackday each day using one of the assortment of bikes I'd buy, which would probably be one of everything over 600cc in each manufacturer's sports and sports-touring ranges - excluding Harley Davidson, BMW and anything Korean or Chinese.

I'd have lots and lots of Arai helmets and lots of sets of leathers.

I'd do my PPL for both fixed and rotary wing, and buy a plane kit and a helicopter kit to keep me busy during the winter.

I'd do an accelerated freefall course.

I'd buy an Audi S8 as an everyday luxobarge, and something a bit special for weekends... perhaps a concours Series 1 E-Type 4.2 roadster.

I would also buy some other stuff, probably.

melody

05-10-07, 12:34 PM

I'm simple me.

I'd pay someone to keep my bike in tip top condition ALL the time.

Bear

06-10-07, 08:15 AM

I'd do an accelerated freefall course.

Is that where you light a fart as you jump out of the plane?

Bear

06-10-07, 08:16 AM

If i won the lottery I'd make a nice apple crumble.

I have small dreams.

SV Muppet

06-10-07, 08:21 AM

I tell ya, being a millionaire aint all it's cracked up to be.
That's why I always choose the losing numbers, I'm happy that way!

:smt045

kwak zzr

06-10-07, 08:34 AM

Bear

06-10-07, 08:37 AM

Zonda
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k120/kwak-zzr/2006-Pagani-Zonda-Roadster-F-SA-128.jpg
or koenigsegg-ccr
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k120/kwak-zzr/Koenigsegg-CCR-003.jpg
me thinks at a tad over 410k it would be the 800bhp koenigsegg.

I'm confused Kwak: Surely with that much money you could buy enough Autosol and Philipino slaves to make the ENTIRE WORLD shiny and new?

hovis

06-10-07, 08:41 AM

guess i would buy a new blade ,gixxer thou, chopper, beta rev 3, cr250, yellow curvy.DRZ400, KR1S +more?

THAT CAR OFF TOP GEAR (WITH THE LONG NAME?) 911 turbo soft top (yellow) corsa vxr (red) old VW bettle, triumph dolimite sprint + more?

plus i woud buy the 1st 10,20,50 ? peeps that PMed me a bike of there choice

buy mother a bungerlow;)

bigger house with bigger garage

yes im bored in work

kwak zzr

06-10-07, 08:43 AM

my autosol is redundant at the moment but if i had the £££ the koenigsegg would be the one:) (and a garage full of shiney bikes)

markmoto

06-10-07, 08:44 AM

mel your a simple lady i like that, my concern is that i would touch with reality and start buying a load of **** i dont need! but id be able to buy myself a nice house in the country with a nice garage, a few bikes, and a nice car or two no silly over prices exotica. And basicaly travel etc and enjoy life but not to excess cos im not that kind of guy. :-)

orose

06-10-07, 11:32 AM

me thinks at a tad over 410k it would be the 800bhp koenigsegg.

Go with the CCX - apparantly, if you run it on biofuels instead of dead animal petrol, you can get 900hp out of it ;)

I must admit, I'd go with most of the people here though - helicopter, yacht, estate in scotland and enough shiny rubbery things to keep yourself amused until the day you die.

kwak zzr

06-10-07, 11:45 AM

Go with the CCX - apparantly, if you run it on biofuels instead of dead animal petrol, you can get 900hp out of it ;).

yea seen that on top gear :) even the stig crashed it.

John 675

06-10-07, 12:11 PM

yea seen that on top gear :) even the stig crashed it.

untill they put a spoiler on it! ;)

kwak zzr

06-10-07, 12:19 PM

yea that should be good when they get it back:)

fizzwheel

06-10-07, 12:52 PM

I do lots of stuff, but I'd make sure I didnt try and do it all at the same time or in a short period of time I'd be worried I'd get bored. I'd damn well keep quiet about it to, and I'd only tell people I trusted about what had happened.

I'd pay off my debts, mortagages of all my family and then go and talk to somebody about investing some of what I'd won so it worked for me so I wouldnt have to worry about ever having to work again and neither would Liz need to. Once I'd got all that sorted then I'd go on my spending spree.

Plot of land, house built to my own design so its just how I want it. Build myself a base. I've always wanted a 911 Turbo so that would be purchased, probably a debadged BMW M5 as well. I'd have a whole fleet of bikes and I'd get somebody to teach me to maintain and rebuild them so I knew what I was doing. Get some classic cars and bikes and learn how to look after restore those as well. So I've got something to do with my time. A fleet of pedal bikes, some modern, some old.

Holidays etc etc all done when and where I want to go all custom and bespoke so that I do exactly what I want.

I'd be interested in starting my own charity, something useful and that meant something to me, probably something to do with helping premature babies and researching stuff to do with that as that means alot to my family after my neice passed away this year.

I'd made sure we had plenty of land and have a private circuit both for road and off road, I like Michael Schumachers idea of private mountain type roads.

As long as I was healthy and I never got bored I'd be happy and if I could do something to help other people and share a bit of my good luck I think that'd be good to.

I'd hope that I wouldnt change as a person and that I'd still keep my old friends, in some ways I'd wander if a huge win would be a curse hence why I'd want it kept quiet and I wouldnt want to shout about it.

orose

06-10-07, 01:06 PM

I think I've found the country estate, anyway - a snip at £2.5m. (http://www.privateislandsonline.com/little-cumbrae-island.htm)

SV Muppet

06-10-07, 01:08 PM

I'd help out all the curvey owners on here by paying to upgrade their bikes performance so that they can keep up with the pointy owners! ho ho ho, (only joking)

:laughat::smt043

Razor

06-10-07, 01:34 PM

Most of us would end up like this poor woman (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=485975&in_page_id=1879), £35 million and not a clue...

fizzwheel

06-10-07, 01:39 PM

Most of us would end up like this poor woman (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=485975&in_page_id=1879), £35 million and not a clue...

I was reading about her in the paper today, thats exactly what I'd be worried about becoming like.

kwak zzr

06-10-07, 01:42 PM

ooopps! i'd still like to try it:)

Alpinestarhero

06-10-07, 01:51 PM

I dont know what I would do with alot of money. I think I would buy one of the labs at kingston university, and kit it out with good equipment. Then I can work there for life, researching and teaching chemistry.

I would take my SV forks to ohlins, get them to fit fill ohlins internals and all the other adjustment gubbins, and in my lab i would coat the inner stanchions with Diamond Like Coating, much like what is on the GSXR's. And I would get an ohlins rear shock put on the SV. I love my SV, i dont want to get rid of it, not for all the money in the world! Then I'd buy a honda 500cc v-twin GP bike from padgnets, if they have one, and use that as a track bike.

I'd buy a nice house for me and maria, a nice car, I'd give my parents a wodge of moneyt, give my brothers and sisters money, give maria;s parents money. I'd buy maria the best set of hearing aids avaliable and learn how to set them up so I could make adjustments for her whenever she needed them. I'd have the equipment in my lab to make her new ear moulds aswell

Then, with the money left over, I'd save it and if any of you guys get into a spot of bother, I'd help you out

Matt

hovis

06-10-07, 01:56 PM

STUFF
no new topbox?;)

Alpinestarhero

06-10-07, 02:02 PM

no new topbox?;)

Why buy what I already have?

Ooo, i forgot to add: Xbox 360 :D new guitar and amp :D drumm kit :D

Matt

orose

06-10-07, 02:11 PM

Could always fit it to the GP bike :p

Pedrosa

06-10-07, 04:07 PM

Sorry folks, what a sad small minded woman! No imagination and totally inept at grasping the opportunity to enjoy life a little. That's what you get for not ticking the "no publicity" box. Stupid cow! Eating budget lunches blah blah. I am so rich now that life is a bitch Pleeeease!

Take it all back off her I say and give it to someone who would live a life of unbridled extravagance and debauchery!

John 675

06-10-07, 04:23 PM

I was reading about her in the paper today, thats exactly what I'd be worried about becoming like.

ooopps! i'd still like to try it:)

Most of us would end up like this poor woman (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=485975&in_page_id=1879), £35 million and not a clue...

reading this really makes it scary.. i would never really go public after reading this.. begging letters must be so tiring as your house would be inundated with them, maybe if i got the 88 mil thats up for grabs ( or was ) imagine how different life would be...
i would however sort all of my family and my buddies out.. but other than that.. Id be frightened to let that info out... especially for abductions and the like... Some serious scary S**T

John 675

06-10-07, 04:27 PM

could you run a GP team on 88 million? how would you get it back? through sponsors and the like?

Lozzo

06-10-07, 04:49 PM

I'd buy an Audi S8 as an everyday luxobarge, and something a bit special for weekends... perhaps a concours Series 1 E-Type 4.2 roadster.

Agree with an Audi as personal transport, but my choice would be an S6 - I'm not into huge huge cars. My E-Type would be a Series 1 4.2 FHC in metallic light blue or silver, probably built up from scratch on a brand new shell and running gear, but using the identity plates from an original 1964 onwards car (my E-Type knowledge is pretty good as I used to work exclusively on them).

Road bikes would come and go as my mood took me, but there would always be at least 3 or 4 fairly newish trackbikes on the fleet, so me and a handful of my closest mates could load them into my truck and send my driver off to whatever european circuit we planned to attack. We of course would either fly or be chauffered to our 5 star hotel close to the circuit for the duration.

Naturally, I'd build a luxury house with indoor pool in the middle of nowhere, with a connecting door to the largest underground climate controlled garage and workshop I could get away with. The clinically clean workshop would house the contents of the Snap-On catalogue as well as a 4 poster car lift, CNC lathes and mills and all that other stuff us 'hands on' people dream of owning.

The rest of my money I'd waste on eastern european ******.

Lozzo

06-10-07, 04:58 PM

Ooo, i forgot to add: new guitar and amp :D drumm kit :D

Something makes me certain that your lovely girlfriend might be secretly glad she has hearing difficulties at times.

;)

Pedrosa

06-10-07, 05:06 PM

From Razor's link:

Instead of living it up, she is driving a borrowed second-hand car, living like a hermit in a backstreet flat in an area plagued by joyriders, shopping in half-price sales at a retail park, going to drive-through fast-food chains, and living on supermarket ready meals.

She dresses like a Mrs.Dowdy, she doesn't bother doing her hair or applying make up. She eats crap that has seen her weight soar. This woman has serious issues I tell you.
You tell me she can't at least get out of a flat in a questionable area? She can't at least buy her own car? FFS? Shopping in sales??????????

phil24_7

06-10-07, 08:22 PM

i woud buy the 1st 10,20,50 ? peeps that PMed me a bike of there choice

Can I be the first to put my name down just in case? (07 CBR600RR please!)

I tell ya, being a millionaire aint all it's cracked up to be.
That's why I always choose the losing numbers, I'm happy that way!

:smt045

That's been my policy so far!

I do lots of stuff, but I'd make sure I didnt try and do it all at the same time or in a short period of time I'd be worried I'd get bored. I'd damn well keep quiet about it to, and I'd only tell people I trusted about what had happened.

I've always wanted a 911 Turbo so that would be purchased. I'd have a whole fleet of bikes
+1

hovis

06-10-07, 08:27 PM

Can I be the first to put my name down just in case? 07 CBR600RR please

sorry..... too late

thebluelion

06-10-07, 08:30 PM

thebluelion

06-10-07, 08:34 PM

Well i would clear the mortage buy the mandatory big house with plenty of land to rack about on, give family members a few quid, go on a family holiday of a lifetime, but most important thing would be to have the biggest pi-- up ever and everybody would be invited :cheers:

Oh and a new bike lol

Brian

06-10-07, 08:39 PM

I'd buy a Tiger tank, loads of petrol to run it on, a big bag of Haribo and some chocolate milkshakes with the change, Mmmmm.

phil24_7

06-10-07, 10:46 PM

sorry..... too late

What, even after the night we spent together?

I'll accept a used 07 rr!

Kate Moss

06-10-07, 10:52 PM

What, even after the night we spent together?

I'll accept a used 07 rr!

ok, you two, seriously starting to get worried about you. No more camping for you...

yorkie_chris

06-10-07, 11:30 PM

The rest of my money I'd waste on eastern european ******.

Waste? :confused:

Lozzo

07-10-07, 12:12 AM

Waste? :confused:

Given my subject matter I tried to refrain from using the word "blow" on a U rated forum, but there...I've done it

yorkie_chris

07-10-07, 12:14 PM

Pun intended?

HopefullySoon

07-10-07, 12:38 PM

DanAbnormal

07-10-07, 01:10 PM

I would spend it on a big house, lots of land my own private bodybuilding gym which all my mates could use. Build a nice little test track for me to stonk about on. I would also help as many homeless people back on their feet as I could, although they would have to want to help themselves too. I would also build a huge dojo on my estate for my Kendo and Jui Jitsu. I would buy an authentic Samaurai suit of armour and run around scaring the bejeebers out of the local wildlife. And then I would feed some ducks.

tigersaw

07-10-07, 01:18 PM

I'd buy a Tiger tank, loads of petrol to run it on, a big bag of Haribo and some chocolate milkshakes with the change, Mmmmm.

heyyy fab idea. can I ride shotgun?

yorkie_chris

07-10-07, 01:19 PM

Muahahaha. apparently the long 88 was the best tank gun of its day, I reckon it'll still take out a gatso or 2 :D

Brian

07-10-07, 03:10 PM

heyyy fab idea. can I ride shotgun?

Ja, you can go commander, your navigation skills must be good what with your job!
Think we'll put Yorkie Chris on the main gun and i'll be on the coax MG in charge of the Haribo and milkshakes.
Only need another two crew and then we're sorted!

Pedrosa

07-10-07, 03:41 PM

Based on the theory that vengeance is a dish best served cold.

I would carefully plan how retribution would be wrought on anyone that ever crossed me, dissapointed me or let me down in my life. You can keep your trinkets and possesions.

(Would prob need a rather large win to get right through the list though.)

You may PM me to find out if you are on the list.:p

yorkie_chris

07-10-07, 04:30 PM

Ja, you can go commander, your navigation skills must be good what with your job!
Think we'll put Yorkie Chris on the main gun and i'll be on the coax MG in charge of the Haribo and milkshakes.
Only need another two crew and then we're sorted!

Wahey lets invade russia!

07-10-07, 04:35 PM

I'd emigrate to a tax haven so the government couldn't get their sticky paws on any of it. In fact I'd write letters to GB telling him he can Foxtrot Oscar if he wanted a bean more of my money.

Kate Moss

07-10-07, 04:42 PM

if i hads lots of £££££, id buy a big house with a pool, gym and a massive garage for by DB9, Spider, (the car, not bug!)and a lambo, and all the motorbikes phil could buy. my extra special purchase though would be a grand piano and id play to my hearts content.

redbouy

07-10-07, 06:18 PM

Some riding leasons, so i feel more confdent on the bike. and lots to support cheatahs in africa. maybe a house in the Uk.

Kate Moss

07-10-07, 06:21 PM

Has someone on here actualy made lots of ££££ and are just steeling our ideas???

Brian

07-10-07, 06:42 PM

Wahey lets invade russia!

You go first :thumbsup:

laMon

07-10-07, 06:50 PM

what would i do with loads of ££££?

after doing all the usual stuff like giving all the family what they needed (equal share)

i would buy a fab yacht and pay Ellen McCarthy to teach me to sail and navigate.
then would sail around the world visiting all the ports and places I've read about. I would have all the scuba diving gear on board too to explore the deep.

then would do the Dakar race, with a team of people hand picked:p.

Learn to fly, and then fly a spitfire:-D or have my own.

do some good and work for nothing for charities.

things like loads of bikes, cars, and houses come second, 'cause if you have no real people to share it with it gets boring really quickly.
I would have beautiful horses and dogs too for when i get home after exploring the world:cool:

oh and another thing would be to have a like minded man to share that kind of life! that might be more difficult then wining the lottery:rolleyes: