[Closed] greatest motorcycle EVER!

I'm going to have to disagree. Love the Bimota Tesi 1D for being total bonkers:
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but if I had all the money in the world, I'd still only have one bike:
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racefaceec90 - Member
my vote would have to go to this badboy it's just the coolest bike EVER!

That's clearly a scooter

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There simply is no discussion necessary on this topic

ninja...end of

A Buell!, I used to have an XB9 Firebolt but had to get rid as it just about shaked itself to death! Got a Kawasaki ZZR1400 at the moment, surely has to be the best bike ever 8)

Man you're all insane

Its the Ducati 916

Remember the Bloodrunners bikes in BIKE magazine?

Seriously though, RD350LC YPVS ...... !

916 is a good shout though!

Seeing and hearing this rip round Donnington park in 1999 meant I had to have a bike. Sadly not one of these but a CBR600 which was great fun. The 500 era was fantastic, i still miss the smell of two stroke at the races.

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Here are a few of my greatest motorcycles....

[b]ZX7rr[/b]

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/84209070@N03/8753823251/ ]ZX7rr[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/84209070@N03/ ]Ample Brew[/url], on Flickr

[b]RC30[/b]

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/84209070@N03/8753823609/ ]RC30[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/84209070@N03/ ]Ample Brew[/url], on Flickr

[b]R7[/b]

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/84209070@N03/8754947174/ ]R7[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/84209070@N03/ ]Ample Brew[/url], on Flickr

[b]R1 (98 model[/b])

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/84209070@N03/8754947190/ ]R1[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/84209070@N03/ ]Ample Brew[/url], on Flickr

[b]RC211V (2002 model)[/b]

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/84209070@N03/8754982152/ ]RC211V[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/84209070@N03/ ]Ample Brew[/url], on Flickr

[b]M1 (2004 model)[/b]

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/84209070@N03/8753865695/ ]YZR-M1[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/84209070@N03/ ]Ample Brew[/url], on Flickr

[b]NSR500[/b]

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/84209070@N03/8753882451/ ]NSR500[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/84209070@N03/ ]Ample Brew[/url], on Flickr

Best bike I've ever ridden would be an exup powered Bimota....awesome!

Please, gentlemen, don't embarrass yourselves any further:
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One of Mr Godet's stunning Egli Vincents.

Or, on a more practical note:
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That NSR500 does it for me end of discussion

Maico 490

A bike so good HRC allegedly bought 10 of them to try and understand how a tiny family run factory in Germany could build perfection. Truth is it was luck more than anything 😆

Having had a Buell, but not an XB, I loved it. But it certainly wouldn't be the only bike I owned.

Ducati 998s - owned one for 11 years . Loved looking at it but then realise that riding it didn't live up to the legend

But it is the sexiest looking bike on the planet ... even after all these years

Or then there is the Britten ...

The sound of RC30's at dawn at Bol'Dor and Le Mans 24 hour races will live with me forever... oh and CR500's are pretty good too

Brough Superior.

RC30

loving this
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Or any of his previous Yamahas

Rusty spanner has saved me a search although I would also be [b]very[/b] tempted to have one of these if money was no object
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Nr750 ?

Rc30!

RD350LC YPVS

I fractured my spine on one of those. (Actually a car driver did it for me)
Aaaah memories.

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My opinion on this subject varies from day to day, week to week..

It's pretty much always a Yamaha XS650 chopper of some description though

today it's this one..

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or maybe this one..

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RC30 for me. I rode once once and it scared me for ever.

I had a 350 powervalve which was a great laugh but selling it was something that had to be done if I wanted to keep breathing.

Has to be honda nr750

Only honda could have built such a technological marvel and sell it to the general public.

Kawasaki Z1300 or some other 80s kwaka Z

for complete "bat-shit-tedness" it has to be:

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Personally:

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And no-ones mentioned? 😉

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This..

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...but I make do with this which offers most of the power of the above in a package you can actually use on the public road and doesn't break the bank!

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redsox.

My old man used to race a Husky just like that.

It had a huge gap between the seat and the tank with a big bolt sticking up. 😯 .

what the **** were they thinking when the [s]designed[/s] threw that together.

some quality choice here, anything that was in PB in the mid late eighties rang my bells, love the brittens, but my first thought on seeing this thread was either

Kev on the RGV he could drift and wheelie at the same time..

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or
debbie ashby on steve berns spondon 1260 NSFW

CX500 the Plastic Maggot 😆 unbreakable

Moe - Member
Remember the Bloodrunners bikes in BIKE magazine?

Hell yes!
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For cheap smiles, these did it for me:
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The Britten or the one I've just bought - a 2002 Aprilia RSV-R Haga replica, 1 of 300 made.

The sound of this at Olivers Mount, ridden by Giacomo Agostini sent shivers down my spine, & still does when I hear one, which isn't often...

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimmygrainger/8755469450/ ]mv_agusta_500[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/jimmygrainger/ ]jimmyg352[/url], on Flickr

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The Britten, obviously, but I'd make a space in the garage for one of these...
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CR500 anyone.....

esselgruntfuttock has it spot on, the noise of that MV was amazing. The nicest bike I had was the Suzuki GS 750, loved it from the first ride and still miss it after thirty years.

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[i]Seriously though, RD350LC YPVS ...... ![/i]

Nah. I had one after two 350LC's. Though it'd be brill, but it just felt too grown up.

Best bike I ever had was a Kawasaki ZX9R C1 -whether it was flat-out on an Autobahn, Donington Park to Aylesbury in under an hour or commuting in all weathers. It was brill. Put 50k on it.

But best bike ever - it depends.

For my era, it'd be a toss up between Z900, 350LC, first oil-cooled GSXR750, RC30, GPz900r and maybe the 916 as a late entrant.

Ming the Merciless - Member
CR500 anyone.....

Dave Thorpe's HRC CR500

Way up, forgot the 465 Yamaha that scared the 5h1t out of me!

Good shout on Streethawk.

Road legal batshit price =

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Devil's advocate re the NR750:

Oval piston tech failed on the track and was too expensive to mass produce for the road.

Yep, the styling was massively innovative (Tamburini acknowledged it as an influence on the 916) and it featured all the latest tech, but all that stuff would have appeared anyway sooner or later.

Amazonas 1600 - @ 386kgs is surely the greatest motorcycle ever

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raceface - have you ever tried taking a v-max round a corner - **** me i thought i was going to die.
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Mmmmmmm bikkessss....

I am loving the Commando 961

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and also the Monster Diesel:

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This.

For utter road-legal crazy-ape, bonkers mentalness, it surely has to be the RG500

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A mate had one. It was insane. His quote was 'It'll pass anything! Apart from a petrol station!"

Most fun bike I've had was one of these

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FZR400 RR EXUP. Used to redline at something absolutely insane. More chuckable than anything on the road. The grin factor on Welsh B roads was through the roof.

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used to run the 500 class and beat them!!

I'd say either the Brittin or the Desmodici. Both stunning....

You guys just aren't trying hard enough!

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or

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That looks wicked MH and I was so inetrested in how it would ride I've found this on youtube

I want one but not sure you'd get away with riding on the pavement!

RD350LC - small, light, ridiculously fast, pretty (with bikini fairing) and the smell of Castrol R. Ah the 80's
or the bike you enjoyed most and survived...

Britten V1000 for me, as predictable a choice as it might be, although...

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/anjinsan/4628283574/ ]Late Afternoon Ride 08[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/anjinsan/ ]anjin-san[/url], on Flickr

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Are people seriously suggesting horrifically boring, plodding, shaft driven Honda V Twins, that are the 2 wheeled equivalent of a Rover 25 with a tartan blanket on the back shelf.

Have a word with yourself

Best bike I've owned: RGV250
Best bike I've ridden: RGV500 (RG500 engine in an RGV250 frame)...

I remember seeing the Britten race at Wigram in 93.
Had a half lap handicap behind the rest of the field. Was second by the end of the first lap to a big Kawasaki & did a wheel stand the length of every straight.
Such an immense machine to be built in a shed from scratch.
So tragic John Britten died so young.

Binners Hell yes people couriering them could get star ship mileage, 250,000 miles was not uncommon. Handled like a drunk camel and very unexciting but just go for ever. You have to love them.

I used to be a courier. My GSX-R would be sat amongst about 20 of the hideous things, all with those mahoosive, monsterously aftermarket ugly fairings, outside the office

They made more money than me. I had more fun! 😀

Are people seriously suggesting horrifically boring, plodding, shaft driven Honda V Twins, that are the 2 wheeled equivalent of a Rover 25 with a tartan blanket on the back shelf.

Have a word with yourself

Phwoooar

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If you want the bike that's given the most to the world, it'd be the Honda C50/90. Entire 3rd world continents only function at all because of them.

Or it's the '92 Fireblade.

Binners were you on circuit in London? I worked for Vanguard, Hornet and a picture developer on Lots Road, best job I ever had 😆

So many crazy people and stories from those times, 84/85 😆