A thread for motorcycle porn!

[pogofish]

I didn't even know AJS were still functioning. Prices look quite reasonable.

As a brand-name for a Chinese built horror. Big enough for reasonable size adults to ride comfortably but the ones I've seen havelooked to be reallly poor quality construction and absolute rust buckets as well - just not up to our climate.

 

[weltweit]

My memory of UJM chops from the time was indeed that they were nigh-on unrideable and many were absolute bodge-up nightmares mechanically.

Yes. I can remember this friend of mine who used to build choppers. One afternoon I was in his workshop and he had a perfectly serviceable Yamaha XS1100 with the rear stripped down to frame rails. He fired up an angle grinder and hacked off the rear frame rails en masse. Then he welded on a triangle of a hard tail and that was it, a perfectly rideable bike totally wrecked

 

[twentythreedom]

1. The current issue of MCN Sport is full of '80s race bike porn - well worth a look

 

[pogofish]

Yes. I can remember this friend of mine who used to build choppers. One afternoon I was in his workshop and he had a perfectly serviceable Yamaha XS1100 with the rear stripped down to frame rails. He fired up an angle grinder and hacked off the rear frame rails en masse. Then he welded on a triangle of a hard tail and that was it, a perfectly rideable bike totally wrecked

Yup - Saw lots of that back then <shudder>

 

[weltweit]

Posted this somewhere but this is a better place..

Was talking to a chap who sells motorbikes and :

Triton 750 Unit £6,500
Triumph Bonneville 650 Unit £6,500
Vincent Black Shadow 1,000cc £30,000
Brough Superior SS100, £90-100,000

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

Posted this somewhere but this is a better place..

Was talking to a chap who sells motorbikes and :

Triton 750 Unit £6,500
Triumph Bonneville 650 Unit £6,500
Vincent Black Shadow 1,000cc £30,000
Brough Superior SS100, £90-100,000

At the height of the 80s classic car price boom the VBS value was almost £50k. Considering how few were made £30k isn't bad. £6500 for a 650 bonnie aint bad either.

 

[weltweit]

At the height of the 80s classic car price boom the VBS value was almost £50k. Considering how few were made £30k isn't bad. £6500 for a 650 bonnie aint bad either.

I must be getting old, I can remember when 3k would get you a range of smart British bikes.

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

I can remember even less buying you nice Brit iron. My mate bougt a Norton Dommie cafe racer in the early 90s for £800.

 

[weltweit]

I can remember even less buying you nice Brit iron. My mate bougt a Norton Dommie cafe racer in the early 90s for £800.

Well indeed. My Suzuki GS750 cost me a total of about £500. I built it from a crashed wreck.

 

[Sweet FA]

I must be getting old, I can remember when 3k would get you a range of smart British bikes.

Triumph SPEED TRIPLE 1050 (2006, 8k) £3,895

 

[weltweit]

Triumph SPEED TRIPLE 1050 (2006, 8k) £3,895

So, the classics are fetching more than the modern Triumphs.

 

[Sweet FA]

Pretty much; prices on MCN for '69 T120s start at the £6500 you quote above.

 

[DownwardDog]

1965 Honda RC115

21,000rpm redline with about 1,500rpm of usable powerband. 9 speed gearbox and V-Brakes! Superb.

 

[stupid dogbot]

Gaz Johnson's 2011 IOM TT Fireblade is for sale...

A snip at £20k.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-Cbr...rbike-Gary-Johnson-/151206194355?roken=kakIPa

 

[stupid dogbot]

Not that I'm intending to spam the thread with Hondas (not that I just bought one or anything ), but I saw this at the weekend and was quite taken with it...

I think it's the kit reproduction AC15, rather than the 60s original CR110, but still. A 50 cc, air cooled, transverse, single cylinder, DOHC four stroke making 5.6 horsepower.

Beautiful.

 

[DownwardDog]

I think it's the kit reproduction AC15, rather than the 60s original CR110, but still. A 50 cc, air cooled, transverse, single cylinder, DOHC four stroke making 5.6 horsepower.

Beautiful.

Yeah, that's the Japanese market repro from the 90s. It's not as rare as that sign implies!

Skyteam make a compellingly cheap Dream replica called the Ace. They are really cheap and cost about as much as a pair of Daytona boots and a nice AGV. It also arrives in a crate and you have to assemble it yourself. There's loads of tuning parts for them and nutters putting XL250 motors, etc. in them.

I've got one but haven't got around to de-crating it yet.

 

[stupid dogbot]

Also very pretty. I don't have room for another one at the moment, having just bought the VFR and all it's luggage. But I'd love something like that as a little scoot around.

 

[DownwardDog]

1994 Harley-Davidson VR1000. It had injected 60 deg V-twin in a small, almost 250 sized, chassis. HD soon lost interest as it wasn't competitive with the 916s in AMA (mainly because DuHamel was on the HD and B-Boz was on the Ducati) but some elements of the motor ended up in the horrible VRSC V-rod.

It seems ludicrous that I don't have one and yet that's the reality.

 

[DownwardDog]

Shaw Customs XR1200TT.

The cooling may be marginal I suspect but other than that it's tight butthole.

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

Two great mods for the Honda Grom minibike.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

More effective than Ducolax ...

 

[Pingu]

the h1 was a real mans bike... for about the 37 minutes it took to kill you

 

[DownwardDog]

Saroléa SP7. Hand built by Belgian hipsters to compete in TT Zero.

 

[weltweit]

Saroléa SP7. Hand built by Belgian hipsters to compete in TT Zero.

Will look forward to seeing it, if I can remember which day the Zero is on

 

[DownwardDog]

Will look forward to seeing it, if I can remember which day the Zero is on

It was Wednesday and the Saroléa finished 4th. The Honda/Mugen Shinden Ni now has such a crushing technical dominance that it renders the competition largely pointless.

117mph lap vs. 98mph for the best of the rest.

 

[weltweit]

It was Wednesday and the Saroléa finished 4th. The Honda/Mugen Shinden Ni now has such a crushing technical dominance that it renders the competition largely pointless.

117mph lap vs. 98mph for the best of the rest.

Blimey, a 117mph lap is pretty quick ..

 

[renegadechicken]

Still think this looks good....my first bike.

 

[DownwardDog]

Blimey, a 117mph lap is pretty quick ..

It's about as fast as a late 80s/early 90s RC30. Although that was ridden by Foggy at the height of His Satanic Majesty's powers not by a knackered McPint so that's got to be worth 2-3mph.

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

Still think this looks good....my first bike.

My first bike too....if I airbrush out a C70 cub and a Honda Novio 50

GPs are brilliant bikes.

 

[SikhWarrioR]

Ah the dear old Yamaha FS1E as a 16 year old though I couldnt wait until I was 17 and pass bike test then 18/19 to afford something bigger with more go........Wonder who many FS1E's are still around