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It's taken me three days to go through all 61 pages - By heck there are some stunning bikes available in this day and age - I envy you all.
Me and Mrs's have now decided if when we come up on Euro we will get new house built with huge lounge - Have three granite plinth's in there and put a new Ducatti - Aprilla and possibly a custom Harley from USA.
I would then get Reliant Robin so I could use my bike license again. -- too old now and arms and legs are weak.
I was a Rocker in 60's -70's and this is my third bike (Second if you don't count scooter) - Triumph T110 - got knocked off it and with £100 compo rebuilt it to this - At the time a lot of my mates worked at BSA so there was a glut of cheap new part's - yes a lot did fit.
I put Bonny head on it and two cheap Amal carbs.
Sold it for 50 quid.
This is or was my fifth bike - It was reg late 1976 and got it in 1978 with 7k on clock - It went in garage in 1984 with 13k on it and stayed there till sold it about 10yrs ago as you see it.
I was a tad to short for it and only got one foot on floor at time as seat height was quite high. - sometimes wish I still had it but probably still wouldn't have ridden it
You guy's take it steady and be safe.
Dave
Me and Mrs's have now decided if when we come up on Euro we will get new house built with huge lounge - Have three granite plinth's in there and put a new Ducatti - Aprilla and possibly a custom Harley from USA.
I would then get Reliant Robin so I could use my bike license again. -- too old now and arms and legs are weak.
I was a Rocker in 60's -70's and this is my third bike (Second if you don't count scooter) - Triumph T110 - got knocked off it and with £100 compo rebuilt it to this - At the time a lot of my mates worked at BSA so there was a glut of cheap new part's - yes a lot did fit.
I put Bonny head on it and two cheap Amal carbs.
Sold it for 50 quid.
This is or was my fifth bike - It was reg late 1976 and got it in 1978 with 7k on clock - It went in garage in 1984 with 13k on it and stayed there till sold it about 10yrs ago as you see it.
I was a tad to short for it and only got one foot on floor at time as seat height was quite high. - sometimes wish I still had it but probably still wouldn't have ridden it
You guy's take it steady and be safe.
Dave
I was a tad to short for it and only got one foot on floor at time as seat height was quite high. - sometimes wish I still had it but probably still wouldn't have ridden it
That looks lovely!
A good friend of mine was really into the old Suzuki two strokes from the day I met him at school. He passed his test on an A100, then had a GT185 for ages (I still have the GT200 X5 I rode at the time) and bought a GT380 a few years back. However, he recently moved to an entirely different level of insanity with a KH500, an original H1 with the drum brake on the front
This is or was my fifth bike - It was reg late 1976 and got it in 1978 with 7k on clock - It went in garage in 1984 with 13k on it and stayed there till sold it about 10yrs ago as you see it.
I was a tad to short for it and only got one foot on floor at time as seat height was quite high. - sometimes wish I still had it but probably still wouldn't have ridden it
You guy's take it steady and be safe.
Dave
Lovely - ah the memories...
I used to get lifts all over the place on the back of a GT550 (in orange/red if I recall) that my brother's mate had - god I loved it. We used to burn up the main road from the north of Liverpool to Southport just because he knew that I loved it so much. It was all great until he wheelied it across one of those old level crossings haha.
Great guy and gifted to as it turned out - he was made a "Fellow of IBM" (I had to look it up too) a while back over in the US and works on some very egg-headed stuff.
Great times
I had a choice of two - both consecutive number plates - owned by two brothers - One red and this black one - They only used them to go to races on and upgraded to 550 fours.
Yes good old day's - we used it to for going to races - Mrs at time worked for off shoot of big bank and she got bike race tickets but her boss kept F1 tickets.
Dave
Yes good old day's - we used it to for going to races - Mrs at time worked for off shoot of big bank and she got bike race tickets but her boss kept F1 tickets.
Dave
New / first bike. Brand new CBF125. Passed CBT a week past Friday and wanted to get involved right away. Its not fast but thats a good thing in this weather and already had a few brainfart moments where a bigger bike via DAS would have probably not been wise.
...so after saying this, guess what I have bought? hehe.
Yep.. a 2012 S1000RR. I had a test ride to see how it fitted me and although the inline4 is not my number one choice in engine design, the bike fitted me great and is so damn easy to ride. It even has heated grips which were a godsend today!
Roll on spring.
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Picked up my FZ-09 on Fri. (MT-09 in UK) Ordered even though never ridden, sat on or best part, never even seeing in person, the actual bike !!!! A leap of faith, you could say. Bike is so new out, anything that came in, was already pre-ordered and already out the door. I could have made a 400mile round trip to a dealer to see one, but chose not too.
Anyway, bike is every bit as good as I wanted it to be. Yamaha's first triple. Pulls like a beast. No working this puppy. Anywhere in the rpm range and the torque is phenomenal. Love the bike so far ! Need to switch the exhaust to an Akrapovic, and figure out a way to loose the lengthy tail and trim down those indicators, and that'll be it really.
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Anyway, bike is every bit as good as I wanted it to be. Yamaha's first triple. Pulls like a beast. No working this puppy. Anywhere in the rpm range and the torque is phenomenal. Love the bike so far ! Need to switch the exhaust to an Akrapovic, and figure out a way to loose the lengthy tail and trim down those indicators, and that'll be it really.
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tags like I've done for you above - Rilot
