A thread for motorcycle porn!

[mrs quoad]

I googled 'bicycle porn.'

First hit is blazingly NSFW.

http://theworldisinsane.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/b88b2_bicycle_sex.jpg

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I googled 'bicycle porn.'

First hit is blazingly NSFW.

http://theworldisinsane.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/b88b2_bicycle_sex.jpg

Awesome

 

[Meltingpot]

Oh that is just a pic from the interweb.

Don't know what it is for sure. I think it is an 850 Le Mans, but it could be a 1,000cc. It is custom because it has spoked wheels and larger brake disks.

Thanks, I knew it was one I didn't recognise (not that I'm any kind of expert).

 

[weltweit]

Thanks, I knew it was one I didn't recognise (not that I'm any kind of expert).

But it is a pretty handsome machine no?

I have a friend who used to race them, his race bike was a beauty.

 

[DownwardDog]

Couple techno-retro tribute bikes from RetroSBK in CA.

Wayne Rainey

Wes Cooley

 

[weltweit]

The Bikini fairing on the blue/white one looks like a Suzuki GS1000GS fairing.

They both look very nice bikes indeed!

Sort of streetfighter style

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

If Darth Vader was a motorbike...

 

[weltweit]

Is that a Suzuki ?

I don't really like black bikes, there was craze for doing it (spraying everything black) when I was a lad, one jerk even sprayed over the speedo and revcounter glass so he could not see how fast he was going. Idiot!!

 

[DownwardDog]

Is that a Suzuki ?

It's a Suzuki GS1200SS from 2002-4. It was a factory retro based on a 1200 Bandit. It was never imported into the UK being a Japan and, for some unfathomable reason, New Zealand only model.

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

Yeah its a Japan only model - GS1200ss - based on the bandit 1200 but made to look like a mid 80s endurance racer.

Everybody was spraying everything black in the 80s. Our local bike shop used to do a roaring trade in PJ1 (don't know if you can still buy it, urban legend says it was made by the same folk that made the paint for stealth bombers)

 

[Meltingpot]

But it is a pretty handsome machine no?

Yes it is.

I have a friend who used to race them, his race bike was a beauty.

I'll bet. I assume he was racing for a hobby rather than professionally?

 

[nick h.]

Suzuki did a Wes Cooley replica GSX1400, but only for the Japanese market.

I think I'd probably have that in my garage, but it would have to be properly race prepped with lush bits:

Here's Wes on the real thing:

 

[weltweit]

Suzuki TL1000S

I used to like these a lot, a cheaper ducati perhaps but the first iteration with just the bikini fairing I really liked the look of. Once it was fully faired I didn't like it at all. (I felt the same way about the Yamaha FZ750, loved the bikini faired but loathed the full faired) I rode about with one for a ride and they sure can move.

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

Suzuki TL1000S

AKA 'The Widowmaker'. The Ducati importer promised to eat his hat if this suzuki made over 120bhp at the dyno...needless to say it did.

They sound fantastic on carbon cans.

 

[weltweit]

AKA 'The Widowmaker'. The Ducati importer promised to eat his hat if this suzuki made over 120bhp at the dyno...needless to say it did.

They sound fantastic on carbon cans.

Yes, the one I rode with had loud pipes, it sounded great.

The first ones needed steering dampers apparently, would otherwise flick their riders off at inopportune moments.



eta: so, did the Ducati importer then do what he promised and Eat his Hat!! I hope so.

 

[Meltingpot]

The Honda Valkyrie Rune

Another totally OTT bike, a cruiser for the American market;

http://image.motorcyclecruiser.com/f/9428355/xl+2004_honda_valkyrie_rune+ride_left_view.jpg

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

eta: so, did the Ducati importer then do what he promised and Eat his Hat!! I hope so.

He did some forefit for MCN, can't remember. He took it on the chin. It wasn't a special tester bike either that'd been tuned (like naughty kawasaki do), it was off a dealers floor.

 

[weltweit]

Another totally OTT bike, a cruiser for the American market;

http://image.motorcyclecruiser.com/f/9428355/xl+2004_honda_valkyrie_rune+ride_left_view.jpg

A totally ridiculous machine!!!

 

[Meltingpot]

Isn't it just?

 

[weltweit]

I suppose it was inevitable since the creation of the Goldwing:

 

[Meltingpot]

Yeah, and after that you had the Aspencade which added a few more trimmings and some more kit. The wiki traces the bike's evolution between the earliest Gold Wings and the Valkyrie;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Gold_Wing

and some more about the Valkyrie;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Valkyrie

 

[Meltingpot]

MV Agusta 850 Magni

A classic (and expensive) bike from 1978;

http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/Gallery C/Mv Agusta 850 Magni.jpg

 

[Meltingpot]

Moto Guzzi V7 Classic

I saw one of these recently, and I like it a lot;

http://www.realclassic.co.uk/motoguzziv7classic.html

Who really needs 150 bhp on a motorbike?

 

[weltweit]

Moto Guzzi V7 Classic

I saw one of these recently, and I like it a lot;

http://www.realclassic.co.uk/motoguzziv7classic.html

Who really needs 150 bhp on a motorbike?

Never ridden a Moto Guzzi, but 49bhp does not sound a lot, my last bike only had 62bhp and sometimes I felt I needed a good bit more than that to keep up ..

 

[stupid dogbot]

Who really needs 150 bhp on a motorbike?

Well, not me, honestly. But it sure is a whole lot of fun...

 

[Meltingpot]

Never ridden a Moto Guzzi, but 49bhp does not sound a lot, my last bike only had 62bhp and sometimes I felt I needed a good bit more than that to keep up ..

Yeah I know what you mean. I remember the late seventies when 100 bhp was a big deal for a motorbike (when the first Jap 1000 cc superbikes such as the Honda CBX, Suzuki GS1000 and Yamaha XS1100 came out). Now it's almost standard for a big bike to have that and more.

 

[Meltingpot]

Well, not me, honestly. But it sure is a whole lot of fun...

I'll take your word for that. I have a cousin who used to have a Hayabusa a while back; some powerful bike that was.

 

[weltweit]

superbikes sich as the Honda CBX, Suzuki GS1000 and Yamaha XS1100

Real motorbikes I used to love the idea of an XS1100 .. but I was riding an SR500 at the time.

 

[RubyToogood]

I no longer need porn as I am entirely happy in my current relationship.

 

[Stanley Edwards]

I saw something called a 690 DukeR yesterday. Saw it real - in the flesh. I so fucking well want. Suspect it was a Kawasaki, but didn't get that close.

Next time maybe