Graeme Crosby is now restoring bikes.
This does it for me.

That is nice, I’m stuck between these

Lovely ton up garage Zephyr 750

this XS400

and this SR500

In the absence of a grown-up, I’ve moved it for you.

That SR500 is absolutely stunning. Want. No…. Need.

I have my eye on an SR250 in the village, seems a good starter for a café racer/street tracker build, don’t think I could build it like that SR500 though. Here is another that looks tasty

Ah, the XS400. 😀
The best way to modify one of those would be to throw it off a cliff.
Gutless, vibratory and from what I remember, built out of cheese.
Very, very heavy cheese.

Apart from the XS250, worst Jap bike ever?

They all look nicer than modern bikes, but they’re hardly individual anymore are they?
And if I see another almost identical chopped BMW I will not be responsible for the quicequonces……..

Mind you, that white SR is lovely.

I liked TJ’s ratty old Enfield – that had character.

For me the kwaker in the op is nice apart from the pipe which just looks wrong. the XS400 is nice though. Will my kawasaki gt550 ever become a modern day classic – it’s ok i know it won’t 😆

Is it one of the original maroon and gold ones? 😀
I loved those.

And the khaki 750’s.

I got the Bike Exif calendar for Xmas, 12 months of bikes to drool over that I’ll most likely never get or be able to afford

Nice to look at though

Will my kawasaki gt550 ever become a modern day classic

turn it into one of these, then it will

one of these is also on my list

i want one of these VERY MUCH! 8)

i know it’s not strictly a “classic” bike but sod it it’s fab 😀

would take a miracle to be able to afford one though 🙁

Me too. 😀

But I really, really want to chop a Hesketh:

The engine looks like it was designed by Brunel, not Weslake.
None of your finite element analysis nonsense there, just big lumps of steel.

Lovely.

The OP’s kwak leaves me cold looks nicer as original.

What’s the point of a pair of Ohlins, braking wave disc and six pot calipers on that SR500 ?
Aint got the power to pull the skin off a rice pudding. That lot ain’t going to make it handle with the original frame is it.

What kind of brakes and suspension do you have on your Countryside Bicycle? 😀

Probably just as much overkill there…..

And more importantly, why does there have to be a point?

What’s the point of a pair of Ohlins, braking wave disc and six pot calipers on that SR500 ?
Aint got the power to pull the skin off a rice pudding. That lot ain’t going to make it handle with the original frame is it.

it’s more ‘show’ than ‘go’ with these bikes I think, some of them have quite a bit of dosh splashed out on them.

oh and people then buy them for a lot of cash as well

2 stroke anyone?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lLp9JwSWPhw/UvZpSJf9dPI/AAAAAAABOkI/eTzcgFoFl5s/s1600/kamikaze+rocketgarage-004.bmp

This monstrosity is the new Hesketh.

Speaking of 2 strokes, the local small bike shop has one of these in, great condition, original pipes and all

£2,100!!!!!

Vortex – my RD250DX back in the early ’80’s was identical to that one, don’t remember the bars being quite that high though…. Felt stupidly fast at the time coming from a 125, don’t think I’d want to ride one now, I’m sure it would dissapoint after years of riding modern stuff.

zippykona – Member

This monstrosity is the new Hesketh.

Awful isn’t it? 🙁
An ugly American V Twin in an ugly frock.