What sort of Bike?

[bennylaird]

Same as for the cars;

1. What bike are you riding now?
2. What bike would you buy next?
3. What bike would you buy if money and availability was not an issue?
4. What bike have you owned that you liked best?

5. List your bikes.

[MurrayD99]

Same as for the cars;

1. What bike are you riding now?
2. What bike would you buy next?
3. What bike would you buy if money and availability was not an issue?
4. What bike have you owned that you liked best?

5. List your bikes.

1 Not
2 FJ1200 Yamaha
3 FJR 1300
4 DS6 Yamaha
5 LE Velocette; BSA Bantam.

[bennylaird]

1. A pushbike for the moment, no licence as I lost it for 170 in a 70 zone back in 1980.

2. A Triumph Bonneville, they are cheap at the moment, about the $12,000 mark.

3. A Vincent Black Shadow, drooollllllllllllllll...................

4. My Honda 750 F1


5. Triumph Terrier 150
Yamaha 80
Kawasaki 100
Honda XL250
Honda CB360
Honda SL125
Honda 750F1
Suzuki 50 step thru.

[silentC]

1. I have a Giant Allegre road bike and an Avanti Montari mountain bike
2. Another Giant - they are good value
3. I don't know, probably something that you could pick up and spin on your palm like a basketball would be good.
4. The Allegre is the best bike I've ever owned.

:D

[bennylaird]

Fair Nuff all bikes count. I prefer to out accelerate the 4 wheel beast whose drivers ignore any bikes. Especially the ones who pull out on you when banked over in a roundabout and expect you to brake.

[Greg Q]

1.1990 Cecil Walker road bike
2. A Giant if they came tall enough. Funny name, come to think of it.
3. 1930's Indian or Norton like in photo of Dad, below...
4. Triumph 650, 1971, only bike I ever owned

[Dan]

1. Cagiva Gran Canyon
2. Dunno
3. Buell XB12X Ulysses
4. Same as 1
5. Suzuki DR650 Dakar, CBR250RR

[silentC]

I prefer to out accelerate

no licence as I lost it for 170 in a 70 zone back in 1980

:D

[Grunt]

1. A Rock Machine Flat Bar Road Bike
2. A Giant Hybrid
3. Don't know. I think the whole carbon thing is a bit wankie for most people. I'd be better off losing a few kilos.
4. 1 above

1. The Rock Machine
2. The Free Bike from the Great Vic Bike Ride
3. A Kumo Mountain Bike

Something like this for dealing with a few of the rougher roads around here

http://www.giant-bicycles.com/images/_upload_au/bikes/models/zooms/2006/mod_innova.jpg

[bennylaird]

:D

Well I managed to out accelarate the police car till I reached the closed RAAF base gate and the service police, sighhhhhhhhhhhh.

[Ashore]

1.BMW K100 RT ( ex police )

2. BMW 650 tourer What ever is available around that size just for weekend rides.

3. Proberly a 1300 BMW

4 Honda 90 XT

5 Honda 90 cb ( second Hand)
Honda 90 Xt (new)
Vespa Buought my sisters did it up and sold it
Honda 250 CB
Honda 350
Honda 250 Clasic
Bmw K100 Rt
Postie , Gift from my brother after I fitted out a trailor so he could tow his Goldwing behing the Camper bus and didn't need the Postie anymore

[Ivan in Oz]

1. What bike are you riding now?
MotoGuzzi California III FullDresser aka Air Compressor

2. What bike would you buy next?
I really doubt I will, If so, then a MG Quota

3. What bike would you buy if money and availability was not an issue?
Gus Khan Norton Commando Interstate

4. What bike have you owned that you liked best?
MotoGuzzi T4/Norton Commando Interstate......Hmmmmmmm?????? The Goose aka The Tractor

5. List your bikes.
1970 Suzuki 120
Kawasaki 350 Avenger SS:D :D 1st Bike I did 120MPH on:eek: :o :o
Yamaha 250 DS6
Suzuki 250 Hustler
Yamaha RT-1 360
Norton Comando Interstate:D
Yamahahaha XS 650
Ducati 860
Honda Gold Wing
Suzuki 1100G
MotoGuzzi T4 bought in 1982 and still have:D
MotoGuzzi California III FullDresser:D
Honda 100 2Stroke...........for the Kids around the Paddocks:cool:

[DavidG]

Honda CTX200 ag bike. Goes anywhere - slowly -
Now hide in shame corner.

[goat]

1.suzuki 1200 bandit

2.suzuki gsx 1400

3.mv agusta

4.1200 bandit

5.1200 bandit, suzuki 250 across (for sale), suzuki rm 125

[E. maculata]

1. What bike are you riding now?
2. What bike would you buy next?
3. What bike would you buy if money and availability was not an issue?
4. What bike have you owned that you liked best?

5. List your bikes.

1-'92 gsxr1100 (14th year together with the big girl, was the most powerful production bike at the time) + 2004 Haro Cruiser (24" competition BMX)

2-Suzuki TL1000R if not see above happy as, with both & always lusted after an RM 500E

3-Britten V1000 & brand new KTM enduro

4-most fun RM125E & RZ 350K, shock value & fun RZ500(640) with the lot, 130 mph on the back wheel:D. But the big girl obviously as we've owned her for so long, 295kph, done low 10's, won 1994 street shootout N/coast region with her.

5-
MR-50
Z-50
XR-75
DS 80
yz 50
KX 80
RM 80
IT 175:mad:
XT 200
RM125:)
KLX 250:o
SRX250:rolleyes:
RZ350K;) (220 kph ported big pipes + carbs)
RZ500R:(hand grenade):p
GSRX1100N:cool: (adrenaline +++)
ZXR750L (lightened carbon everything, mild head cams carbs, twisty mountain road bike)

Probably forgot a couple but that'll do.

[bitingmidge]

1. A Rock Machine Flat Bar Road Bike
2. A Giant Hybrid
3. Don't know. I think the whole carbon thing is a bit wankie for most people. I'd be better off losing a few kilos.
4. 1 above

For a big dog person, Grunt has impeccable taste in Bikes! (I like boxers though!:o )
1. What bike are you riding now? Giant Hybrid (2002 Innova)
2. What bike would you buy next? Giant Hybrid, or maybe a Trek Comfort , but I've just spent $500 on new gear clusters, chain and clips... they wear out you see.
3. What bike would you buy if money and availability was not an issue? I agree that carbon is definitely too wanky, and I lost 14 kilos last year so who cares?
A Greenspeed recumbent trike

I am thinking about buiding a recumbent or two anyway, maybe a trike, and maybe a lightweight timber version.... so there!

4. What bike have you owned that you liked best?

My Giant Hybrid, it's soo much slower, and more comfortable than the lightweight road bikes I used to ride, and I can ride over gutters and down gravel roads too! I only got about 4000 k out of the chain ring though which was a bit disappointing.

5. List your bikes.

Malvern Star three speed.
Tom Wallace 5 speed.
Ricardo 10 speed.
Ricardo custom frame racing bike (forgotten all the details)
with motors:
Bridgestone 90
Suzuki 250
Suzuki 500 Titan
Honda SL125
Bultaco Sherpa
Ducati 450 Desmo (Silver Flake)
BMW R75

and if anyone has a Bultaco Metralla surplus to requirements....... just for looking at mind...I'm too old and too big to fit on it....

cheers,

P

[silentC]

I think the whole carbon thing is a bit wankie for most people

I agree that carbon is definitely too wanky
So exactly what are you two trying to say?

Anyway, if money was no object, I'd pay a wanker to ride the bike for me because I would be busy swanning about in a showy and pretentious manner. :p

[Grunt]

So exactly what are you two trying to say?

That one of us can't spell.

[E. maculata]

and if anyone has a Bultaco Metralla surplus to requirements....... just for looking at mind...I'm too old and too big to fit on it....

Peter it'd have to be for looking at cause they never did start easy.
Many years ago Geoff Eldridge of Aust Dirt Bike wrote, something like this from his version of a bultaco owners manual "when performing a cold start, first tickle the carb, then choke, kick then kick again, and again, and again, and again, if this fails to start motor please move to top of very large hill":p
RIP Geoff, (bloody recreational 4wder ventured onto a race track, while a motorcycle race was actually in progress, actually from memory it was a world championship round in U.S :mad: )

[Auld Bassoon]

1: Nothing :mad:
2: Another BMW R100RS
3: BMW R1200ST here! http://www.bmwmotorcycles.com/images/machine/r1200st/bike/base_light_mag_metal_sydney_blue_metal.jpg
4: BMW R100RS
Laverda Jota: Great Engine :D , Italian electrics ... :eek: Again
Kawasaki Z1000. Managed to snap that one in two by clipping a 'mile marker' granite curbstone at (shall we say) at tad in excess of the speed limit, with the left rear footpeg. Erudite farmer, some 150m away, came over and observed, rather wittily he thought - "come off your bike, have you?" as bits of Ex Kawasaki were strewn all around, and I was lying in his field wondering ???

MV Augusta Monza - except for the idiot Italian who designed it with a suede saddle - never rains in Italy, eh? Oh, and Italian electrics.

Ancient A.J.S 350 one-lunger, great bike, except for the minor omissions of suspension or brakes :D

[q9]

Some nice bikes listed in this lot...

I only have 2 bikes...got my licence...err...nearly 2 years ago...

Kawasaki ER-5 - my first bike. Gave it to my Miss instead of an engagement ring...:)

XJ-900 my second bike (obviously).

ER-5 has had a few dollars spent on the suspension - gold valves, new springs etc, new rear Hagons. Runs very nicely and can be ridden really quite quickly.

XJ is a pretty easy bike to ride, once you get used to it's weight and it's top heaviness. Great, easy bike to ride quicker than you think you're going...

No idea what I am getting next. Probably a house, so new bike could be a while off, though there are plenty of interesting bikes in the secondhand market to keep me entertained for years...thinking Bandit, XJ1300, CBR600F5, Z750...Zephyr1100...see, there's heaps!

[Schtoo]

Only treadlies I'm afraid. Grandpa forbade me to ride a motor bike, even though he just sold his recently after riding for nearly 70 years... :(

1 Trek 4900, only the frame and saddle are original now. All the other parts wore out, sometimes two or three times.

2 Nicolai probably, maybe a Storck.

3 Nicolai Nucleon, with all the trimmings. One of the most interesting ways to spend $15,000 that I know of.

4 The Trek I have now. I don't want for anything on it, except maybe some new wheels.

5 Too many.

Scariest? A Turner DH thing meeting a drop off that I thought was 3 feet, closer to 10.

Even scarier was a Yamaha R1 that someone told me to give a hard time to. Kinda cured me of motorbikes that did. Don't even know how fast I went exactly, other than somewhere in 5th. I think...

[Cliff Rogers]

Oooo... Another weird comp... I like weird comps. :D

What was the question?
Arrh... I remember.

1. What do I ride? Nothing. ( I have a Mongoose Conway 350 Hybrib with flat tyres in the store room:cool: )
2. What will I buy next? Nothing. (I'd just pump up the tyres on the one in the store room til I got over it again:rolleyes: )
3. What would I buy if I had the $. Ducati... something dangerous.:cool:
4. What have I riden/owned?
Honda 50 step through.
Honda 90 step through.
Yamaha 125 Ag Bike ( the one with low range)
BSA 340 (about '60 something)
BMW R80 ( about '86 or '87 model)
'75 Kawasaki 175 Trail bike (Tried to kill me)
Mongoose Conway 350 Hybrib without flat tyres

I missed a few but I was aiming for the weirdest ones. :p

[bitingmidge]

Peter it'd have to be for looking at cause they never did start easy.
Many years ago Geoff Eldridge of Aust Dirt Bike wrote, something like this from his version of a bultaco owners manual "when performing a cold start, first tickle the carb, then choke, kick then kick again, and again, and again, and again, if this fails to start motor please move to top of very large hill":p

When I had the Ducati, it was a toss up for the Bully, and ..... well lets just say the Silver Bullet looked and handled just fine, but I never got my Bully love affair out of my system.

The Sherpa was a full on trials bike, registered but of course nowhere to sit, so why would something like not being able to start a bike be a problem??

:D :D :D

[aiwoz]

Same as for the cars;

1. What bike are you riding now?
2. What bike would you buy next?
3. What bike would you buy if money and availability was not an issue?
4. What bike have you owned that you liked best?

5. List your bikes.

1. Suzuki 800 Marauder (metric cruiser):)
2. Triumph Sprint St:cool:
3. Triumph Thruxton 900 & Triumph Rocket III Classic:D :D
4. See No.1:)
5. 2 x Yamaha FJ's, (ex cop bikes), See No.1:)

Keep the shiny side up!!

[silentC]

I bought my Giant Allegre about 13 years ago. At the time, it was the only one they offered and it was their first bike. Damn good value: Cro-moly frame, Vetta gel seat, Wolber rims, Shimano RX100 running gear. Cost me $799. Don't see any need to upgrade (not even to wanky carbon fibre). Rear wheel needs to be respoked but apart from that, it's as good as the day I bought it.

Sorry, just trying to keep the thread on track. People keeping banging on about motorcycles for some reason.

[AlexS]

Same as for the cars;

1. What bike are you riding now?
2. What bike would you buy next?
3. What bike would you buy if money and availability was not an issue?
4. What bike have you owned that you liked best?

5. List your bikes.

1. Gemini World Randonneur - 20 years old this year
2. This one will probably see me out
3. Any one of the nice new racing bikes - and the legs to do it justice
4. Still reckon this one is the most comfortable

Old Malvern Star
Lots built from council clean-ups
Clem Eagle & Peugot racing bikes
Home-built tandem
Gemini WR

DKW
Honda CL 90
Suzuki 185 GT
Honda CD250 U

[journeyman Mick]

Home-built tandem


Got any pictures? A home made tandem is (low down) on my (very long) "to do" list.

Mick

[rick_rine]

1, KDX 200E
2. Ducati
3. Indian
4. FJ 1200 and the Moto Guzzi . The Guzzi stuck to the road like a train on rails , just had to think about taking a corner and it did it . Oh and the AG 100's ( owned 3 ) fantastic fun to throw around and impossible to kill .
5. Lots and lots , too many to list .
6. Hated the BMW shaft drive but loved the XJ900 shaft .

[Iain]

Used to have a MOntessa Cota 247, top speed about 30kph, but bet you bastards couldn't follow me though:D :D :D

[AlexS]

Got any pictures? A home made tandem is (low down) on my (very long) "to do" list.

Mick
Sorry Mick, no pics, built it when I was at school from 2 old frames. The head tube of the rear frame was cut in half & brazed onto the seat tube of the front frame. The rear stays of the front frame were removed, the rear forks bent in and the lugs brazed to the down tube of the rear frame. Unfortunately, it was pretty flexible, but lots of fun, and when you're 16 you know no fear.

I've since ridden a few professionally built tandems, and a good one is far better and easier to ride than my Heath-Robinson job. Christies in Melbourne used to build good ones. Alternatively, you can buy a tandem tubeset with heavier gauge tubes, to build one yourself. It's important that they should be pretty rigid, both laterally and vertically, otherwise steering becomes a series of successive approximations.

[boban]

1. Nothing until Saturday when I pick up the SV1000
2. SV1000
3. When I turn 40 I might consider a BMW, but I doubt it, not loud enough at this age
4. z50, cr80,yz125, gpx600r, gsxr750, zzr600.

You guys have got to hear this thing. Speed is a given but the sound of it......awesome. I'm smiling just thinking about it.:)

[E. maculata]

Boban quick there's something wrong with it, it's nekkid:eek: i demand you put it's full regalia back on, then it'll be complete.
Seriously desirable bike Boban, and utterly rideable i'm led to believe.:)

[Bulwinkle]

1. What bike are you riding now?

CBR600FR2 (Rossi Replica)
http://www.cbrworld.net/upload/images/img1380_1.jpg
2. What bike would you buy next?

VFR800 or R1

3. What bike would you buy if money and availability was not an issue?

Custom Super Sport, Sport Tourer or Tamborino F4

4. What bike have you owned that you liked best?

CBR600FR2 (Rossi Replica) Rebored Oval pistons and heads with few trick titanium and CF bits and Slipperclutch (288KPH with 2000 RPM left to go!!)

5. List your bikes.

KX250
ZZR250
GSX600R
Rebored NX 650 for Finky Dessert Race :)
GSX1300R
CBR1000
Duc 916SP (too much on rear wheel!) :eek:
Tricked R6 :cool:
CBR600FR2 (Rossi Replica) :D

:D :D

[ryanarcher]

nice one boban!

here's mine :D

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/ryanarcher/000_0005.jpg

though I think the ducati monster has got to be the most sexy bike out there.

[bennylaird]

I'm a Luddite, this is the machine I'm after...........

[bennylaird]

for $100,000 i could get one of these though.

[bennylaird]

Used to have a MOntessa Cota 247, top speed about 30kph, but bet you bastards couldn't follow me though:D :D :D

Always wanted one of these, used to love trials riding but had to do it on a Honda SL125

[boban]

Boban quick there's something wrong with it, it's nekkid:eek: i demand you put it's full regalia back on, then it'll be complete.
Seriously desirable bike Boban, and utterly rideable i'm led to believe.:)

The naked has the more upright riding position whereas the S has the fairing but the TL1000 riding position. A bit of a pain for commuting to the city and back which unfortunately is the majority of my riding. I test rode a "s" and was blown away by the combination of the bottom end power and sound.

Nice looking bike Ryan. The Lie Nielsen of bikes are the BMW's. I was considering the Roadster at one stage but the bikes are just so smoooooth. One day I will own one of them as well.

Hope you guys had a good festive season.

[Shedhand]

..no licence as I lost it for 170 in a 70 zone back in 1980.

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: 26 YEARS for speeding??:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: Murderers do less time.