What sort of Bike?

[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! )
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.

[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"
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!
4: BMW R100RS
Laverda Jota: Great Engine , 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

[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.

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 )
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 )
3. What would I buy if I had the $. Ducati... something dangerous.
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.

[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"

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??

[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
3. Triumph Thruxton 900 & Triumph Rocket III Classic
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