[Closed] Best looking race motorbike

Agreed, but a competition bike, not a race bike if you're being pedantic about it

I'm a pedant, but I don't know the difference with respect to the Britten- enlighten me. 🙂

Trials isn't a race.
😀

But it's a beautiful bike all the same.

(I assume he's referring to the Fantic!)

ah, I thought he was referring to the Britten.

I'm not a Harley fan at all, but I've always liked the XR. So much so that I think it's worth looking at the other side
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1980s YZs blew me away as kid (still make me salivate today)

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We have a winner.

This needs a mention though...
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1980s YZs blew me away as kid

Drum brakes...how did we ever survive ? 🙂

The yellow and black (American) YZ's always looked so trick, when you saw one over here you almost had to speak in hushed whispers 🙂

2 Ducatis and the Cagiva, I'm off to clean up.

Even though not strictly a racing bike, can we include a Kenny Roberts 350LC? Just because.....

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Is there anything more fun than a tuned Elsie? 😀

Even though not strictly a racing bike, can we include a Kenny Roberts 350LC? Just because.....

This is THE YZR500 paint job.
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Hmmmmm I had an RD250LC - "B284 BOK" where are you now?

I checked now and it was last Taxed in 1997 and hasn't been scrapped. That must mean it's stored somewhere just waiting for me to find it again 🙂

Moto Guzzi MGS-01

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How can we have got this far without the most successful and influential (to Britain at least) race bike of recent times? How..?

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That's a bloody awful picture.
Try again

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Bit better...?

Here's one that bloke from the jungle had something to do with

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Lovely PP, I've owned 3 Ducati 916's, along with 2 748's and a 749 🙂

Pic below is my old race bike. Blueprinted and gasflowed engine, STM slipper clutch, 50mm exhaust, Marchesinis, etc etc

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What the terminator shoulda been riding!

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Rusty Time and Observation trial could be considered a race 😛 na na neh na na 😉

For me

500cc MV Agusta - I think this is the triple - with the legendary Ago on board.
I hear that bike in my dreams 🙂 - nothing ever [or since] sounds that good.

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@rustyspanner
my dad made that!

made this too;

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RM125..

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Here's one that bloke from the jungle had something to do with

500cc MV Agusta - I think this is the triple - with the legendary Ago on board.
I hear that bike in my dreams - nothing
ever [or since] sounds that good.

Saw & heard the MV at Olivers Mount way back. I've never heard anything like it to this day.

I never saw Ago at Scarborough but I remember seeing Phil Read on the works MV there and - of course - the incredible noise as hammered it's way though the trees

Happy days 🙂

I was lucky & saw them both! Ago didn't do too well, got beat by Jarno Saarinen (?)

The classic bikes around Oliver's Mount, winding it on out of the hairpin and up the hill made a spine tingling noise... I feel a Google for the date coming on, it's Gold Cup weekend not Cock o' the North isn't it?

I did however see Ago win both the junior and senior TT in 1970
For the senior we were at Quarterbridge and again, the sound of that MV heading out of town was amazing

Not sure, never been for about 25 years!

Yeah, I think it's the Gold Cup meeting in September that has the classic races

my Hayabusa....9.3 second quarter
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watch that exhaust scrape..............

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The yellow and black (American) YZ's always looked so trick, when you saw one over here you almost had to speak in hushed whispers

A lad in our schoolboy MX club had a yellow Yamaha 80 with a full DG convesion kit.
Almost as trick as Jason Bonhams watercooled Mugen Honda.
Looked just like Johnny O's bike.

Seems money could buy you a works bike.
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3 pages & no RC30?!

No RC30's? I prefer Yamaha's myself but here you go..
Freddie Spencers two brothers racing RC30 @ Stafford the other month.
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I'm surprised no-one has mentioned this already, but this years IOM TT Norton. If anyone didn't see the documentary on the making of it before this years TT you missed a great spot of viewing!

UK made and my [b]god[/b] it sounds glorious too.

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One wheel good and vineyh beat me to the xr 75 harley, like you onewheel I'm not a harley fan, but when my lottery numbers come up I'm going to have a xr lookey likey built!
Nice to see jarno the flying Finn' Saarinen getting a mention too, cracking thread, I could be hear all night!!

What engines in the Norton benn?

Apprilla rsv with a custom crank I belive[s

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned this already, but this years IOM TT Norton.

Their own engine now I believe. For custom sounds courtesy of Norton themselves visit;

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Always been a two stroke lover so the previous pics of the Jap import Honda NSR250, Yam TZ250, Suzuki RGV250 (The road version which I owned, immense B road blaster) and culminating in the ultimate 2stokes, the 500 class will always be close to my heart.
Of the superbike class the RC30 and RC45 were great looking bikes (the 30 pipping the 45 in looks department I think) but the best looking bike that Honda did of this class was the RVF750, ridden by Foggy and Hislop at the IOM
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Speaking of Foggy he'll always be remembered with the Ducati 916 range, beautiful bikes but I've always preferred it's predecessor, the 888:
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