A thread for motorcycle porn!
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pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
I remember the launch night for that bike - Someone managed to blow the engine on one of the only two test bikes north of Edinburgh!
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Yup.
Insurers are still being cunts, although I have had an interim payment of about half its value out of them.
not-bono-ever
meh
not seriousthis however is serious
moose
like some cat from Japan
This Triumph Bonneville T140 is virtually identical to one I owned in the 80s, and I'd love it back.
Sweet FA
✪ Three rounds Lord, in my .44 ✪
My 1st 'proper' bike. Not this exact one but pretty similar. It was a bit of a dog if the truth be told but I did love it. The fairing was cut down from something else but was the wrong size so you had to kick the brake forward rather than push down. The tank was way too high for the seat so under heavy braking (no other type was possible with the erm..customised braking arrangement) there was an inevitable slide forward and a painful bollock/tank meeting. The fairing was only attached in a few places so it flapped around until you reached 40 odd, the clip ons were too low so chronic back pain was inevitable after about 15 minutes riding and the back tyre was balding so it slid about under even moderate acceleration. The micron was fitted badly so it sounded like several thousand really angry wasps in a biscuit tin, it burned oil from several unidentified leaks so there was always a mushroom cloud of blue smoke every time I (eventually) started the fucker and for a couple of miles thereafter, it wouldn't go in the rain or any kind of weather actually (probably a godsend as it was a deathtrap on dry, smooth roads).
Actually, what am I talking about? It was awful. It looked kind of OK standing still (as it was most of the time, usually by the side of the road) but that's it. I eventually missed the 2nd corner on an S bend and ended up wedged into a hedge, trapped by the mismatched fairing. When I was eventually extricated by the driver of the car I'd narrowly missed, (and retrieved my plums from my lower intestine whence they'd been smacked by the tank) I decided it was time for me and the LC to part company.
I swapped it for a GT380 hardtail chop
Actually, what am I talking about? It was awful. It looked kind of OK standing still (as it was most of the time, usually by the side of the road) but that's it. I eventually missed the 2nd corner on an S bend and ended up wedged into a hedge, trapped by the mismatched fairing. When I was eventually extricated by the driver of the car I'd narrowly missed, (and retrieved my plums from my lower intestine whence they'd been smacked by the tank) I decided it was time for me and the LC to part company.
I swapped it for a GT380 hardtail chop
stupid dogbot
Haughty and Superior
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
A mid-1970s BMW R60
Preferably in olive green, rather than black. I am a person of simple tastes.
Preferably in olive green, rather than black. I am a person of simple tastes.
stupid dogbot
Haughty and Superior
Nothing like as nice looking in the flesh, imo. And not very comfy to sit on, either.
Sigmund Fraud
893 all the way.
Kevin Schwantz
Schwantz, Rainey, Gardner, Lawson...the golden years.
Schwantz, Rainey, Gardner, Lawson...the golden years.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
Yes and Fred Merkyl (sp).
I can also remember back to Kenny Roberts, and then before him, to lucky no 7 Barry Sheene!
Incidentally I saw Barry Sheene race a Manx Norton at the Goodwood 50s revival meeting a year or so before he died. Apparently the bike's mechanic was none too pleased with him because he kept popping wheelies and burnt the clutch out
Pingu
Credo
eta @ the Aprillia RSV4 ..
I don't rate the pillion arrangements
i do.
pillions upset the balance and make you go all slow and wobbly
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
Pingu
Credo
Almost perfect for a ride across America.
indeed. not so great where any corners or braking is concerned mind you
weltweit
Well-Known Member
Indeed, and no where to hang any panniers or a tank bag either!
But it does LOOK beautiful!
It might be in your cache but I can't see a thing!
Sigmund Fraud
893 all the way.
The original mega-trailie. I like the Ewan McGregor era GS but this is smarter, cuter and better off road. I will always regret selling mine
stupid dogbot
Haughty and Superior
Blimey, where do I start? There must be at least 100 bikes that I covet very seriously. If I was a bazillionaire I'd keep them all at the Nurburgring and hire a suspension genius to build custom shocks and set them up for me.
This one must have the best looking motor ever:
Mmmm.
Post the rest!
Meltingpot
Living in our pools we soon forget about the sea
Yes, very exotic. I remember seeing them on the road when they came out.
Then of course there were the two Japanese sixes, the Honda CBX1000 which was wide wide wide and then the Kawasaki Z1300 with water cooling.
There was a guy up at a bike meeting point with a CBX1000 modified to be a low rider. When he stopped he just leant the bike over on its engine
Yeah, I remember getting a copy of Bike when they tested the Honda CBX1000 and (bearing in mind this was the 1970s) the reviewer said it was outside the norm for everyday biking and no one ever needed one for normal biking or touring needs.
There was also a test around the same time where the bike racer Phil Read put a CBX1000 through a set of speed tests (0-60, negotiating cones etc.) on a track against an Aston Martin Vantage to see which was faster, and the results were written up in both a bike and a car magazine (I forget which). The Honda was the faster machine on every test except lapping the track, where the Aston's higher top speed eventually won through. Even the car mag called the Honda a "fantastic machine", though it went on to point out (in order to defend the Aston) that a Lotus F1 racing car would have beaten both of them but would still make a lousy choice for everyday transport.
Basically, they were saying some people would still choose the Aston if they could afford it because it was a car (and a luxurious one) rather than a bike.
And remember the CBX had "only" 105 bhp. There are bikes around with north of 150 bhp, like the Suzuki Hayabusa (my cousin had one until he crashed it
).I can only remember seeing one Kawasaki Z1300 (in 1980) but I remember it was really big. There was an accident a while back in which one of those hit a car in a head-on collision and both the car driver and the bike rider were killed (as opposed to normally where the car driver survives a collision with a bike even if the bike rider gets killed).
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
This one must have the best looking motor ever:
Hubby says he's ridden loadsa bikes in the last 30 yrs and that is the only one he said he would NEVER get on again. It's scary apparently.
Aberdeen had a LOT of Z1300s at the time, you shoulda gone there
Pingu, pillions do NOT adversely affect the handling
