[Closed] Awesome Motorbikes

Oooohhh, I like this game

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mine 🙂

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The most beautiful:

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also mine...

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I may be a little biased.

Obvious Panther is obvious.....

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my old race bike for PJay.

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This was so far out there at the time.
Twin cylinder two stoke 125. 😯

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And this thing was also way ahead of the competition.
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Years ago, I had the opportunity to buy one of these. I’m still kicking myself for not doing so because now they’re like hen’s teeth.

Scheck BMW - incredibly about 130kgs.

Lusted after one of these when I was 17

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I was riding one of these at the time
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I have a soft spot for 2-strokes 🙂

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In the eye of the beholder an all that,but I always wanted a Miller 150.

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Or a Lawrie Trident .

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I've just spent a day with the Ady Smith Off-Road Experience in North Wales. I spent the whole day riding one of these...

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It was bloody awesome 8)

I'm very tempted to buy a C90 and turn it into something like this for bombing round the city

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Alas I only have the ugly sister of this
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Z1
900cc of pure rad.

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Had to let mine go many years ago 😥

I'm not really into motorcycles, I'd probably kill myself very quickly.

But If I had to, it would be something like this:

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Perchy needs one of these

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my first proper bike (not my pic):
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My uncle used to have a Z900
My old man had a gt750. Be worth a few quid those two now!!

Like this
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I've got one like this that my uncle owned then my old man.

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Mines shinier though!

Dickyboy - Member
Perchy needs one of these

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Just cos I've got a mint low mileage one sitting in my shed 😉

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Got to love a two stroke. Especially a mental 500cc one. One of the lads had one of these with the nackers tuned out of it. As he said 'It'll pass anything.... except a ****ing petrol station!" 😀

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And of course the definitive hooligans bike...

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gearfreak - if you lusted after a V-Max you'd obviously never ridden one. There are supertankers with more nimble handling

I think this is fabulous.
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I've just spent a day with the Ady Smith Off-Road Experience in North Wales.

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A bit of a "you had to be there" thing. The Katana appeared as a concept bike at a motorcycle show. No one really expected Suzuki to make a production version, or at least one with such striking looks. I used to park mine outside the office in London and it would attract crowds of passers-by, with folk taking photos of themselves beside it.

It doesn't look so avant garde now 🙂

Possibly the most fun bike I ever had.

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Faster bikes would pass me on the straights but I'd overtaking them by cornering outside them. The looks on folks faces was always worth it 🙂

This one, last of the fag packet racers:

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Also, because it's mine. Came in boxes and has been totally rebuilt.

When it works it's wonderful, when it doesn't it's Italian.

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My brother's Rob North Trident 750, a race winning bike 🙂

Taira TRX850-

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I think the most fun I've ever had on bike. FRZ400RR Exup. Redlined at something totally absurd, you could chuck it around like a 2 stroke. It'd eat bigger bigger bikes on a twisty road. Grin-inducingly bonkers

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1938 Scott 1000cc three cylinder two stroke

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1936 BMW R12

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Looking back at all the bikess in this thread I think Vongassit has it. The original 851 really is a thing of beauty. It’s a work of art!

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@scotroutes, I had one of those. I sold it for what I paid for it, but it's still the only bike I regret selling.
By modern standards it's a terrible bike - stupidly heavy, flexy frame, only 110hp, seriously uncomfortable (no suspension ttravel to speak of). But in its time it was truly awesome.

I think this is beautiful.
Plenty more on Racer tv too.

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fasthaggis - Member
In the eye of the beholder an all that,but I always wanted a Miller 150.

A long time ago I built a TL230 with the Miller HiBoy frame -TL125 engine, re-sleeved to 180cc and then stroked to just under 230cc, which involved a spacer under the barrel, longer cam chain, re-routed oilways and all that stuff. Increased external flywheel weighting, XL125 carb, external oil cooler, - XL leading axle forks (and yokes) with air conversion.
I was a toolmaker, working for a small injection moulding company, and my boss was very into motorcycle trials and so basically anything that could be done was done. I had everything at my disposal. It was almost the next best thing to a works machine and I often wonder if it still exists now.

I had a Cheney John Banks replica Mk5 MXer, put on the road, when you could sort of legally do stuff like that and, later, a Suzuki DR 400 engine in an RM250 rolling chassis, bored to 460cc and with an EI flat slide carb.

In this digital age I’d have photos of all this, step by step probably, but back then we were too busy riding - social media didn’t exist.....

Strange, for a mtb forum most bikes here are road sort of stuff. Never did it for me though.

Happy days!

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When the lottery numbers come good, there'll be many bikes in the garage - can't work out how to post pics, but the list (in order of importance) will be something like...
Vincent Black Shadow (as me dad had one), or Black Knight if I could find one
RS250
RCV213 (be rude not to have the full-power version)
Street Triple, for everyday loveliness
Mugen CR125 - a Swiss chap called Nino races an aluminium CRF-framed, Mugen-powered CR125. Want one just the same.
TRZ750, Roberts replica'd, of course
There's an Aussie company that builds Vincents to race spec - I'd buy a motor off them and have some kind of cafe racer built.
I would also have a 600cc V4 2 stroke built, using KTM tech.

There will be more...

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I saw this race at Wigram in 1993.
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My god it was mental.

This has to be here:

Yamaha RD350LC

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That is a really nice RDLC Malvern.
Every time I see a Yamaha block paint job,I think of Kenny's flat tracker..
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@ Andy R
I have my brothers old TL125 in the shed just now,possible winter project. 🙂

Met John Banks a few times when he rode for CCM.
We got to have a play on some of the team bikes.

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Super busy at work, but sod it, it's my last week so I've just spent a good half hour perusing this thread and reigniting my desire to have a midlife crisis and get a motorcycle. Probably not one of these but I loved 'em as a lad, the hub steering was pretty mad at the time.

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Baby blade - had one in black and it was a great little bike.

Fancied one of these though:
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Got one of these instead:
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Still got this though FTW:
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This lot'll do for now.
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