Two Italians, and four exotic vintage Hondas. Harder to get parts for a Honda 400 than a Ducati, life is strange. Cupid, the Monster is a wonderful bike? I remember mine fondly, never should have traded for a Streetfighter.
Are You A Motorbiker?
- Thread starter Celticman
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I have three bikes, all BMWs. My favorite is a 15-year old R1100RT, which has been across Canada twice, and from here to NFLD four times.
Best memory was living in Vancouver and riding on Christmas Day three years ago, sending a picture of me on the Sea to Sky Highway in normal riding gear back to my friends in Ontario where they had a snowstorm. I froze my ass off (it was about 5C) but they didn't have to know that.
Best memory was living in Vancouver and riding on Christmas Day three years ago, sending a picture of me on the Sea to Sky Highway in normal riding gear back to my friends in Ontario where they had a snowstorm. I froze my ass off (it was about 5C) but they didn't have to know that.
CM it was a great bike. This is not my exact bike but it was this model and colour--KZ1000J
http://www.bikez.com/motorcycles/kawasaki_z_1000_j_1982.php
The next year they came out with the Eddie Lawson replica model which had a steeper rake.
I rode 20,000K on that bike, full out often, and never had as mutch as a twitch from her.
If I rember correctly it had a molly frame.
Nate1, yes that is the Kawi that I was thinking of. Awesome performance at 243k. I took my Hyabusa up to 260, but did not push it all the way to its 300 limit. It starts to be intimidating when speeds start getting up there. I think if I had owned bikes like these when I was a young man I would be dead
took the bike our for a day trip today.....who is going to be the last biker still riding this year????
It's 14 here today, and looks like it will be about the same for at least another week...
Although, I havent driven or been on one in the past few years, I grew up around and on bikes. I love them and plan to eventually own several
Boy's bike.
Girl's bike.
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I would gladly pay YOU for this experience, Celticman. I'm going to make a leap and assume based on the picture that your teens in the UK were a couple decades ago - good thing, had we both been in our twenties in the same decade I predict you would have broken my heart, or at least had me so smitten that business would go out the window!In my teens in the UK, one of the bikes that I owned was a Royal Enfield and I had it hooked up to a Watsonian sidecar just like this. Sidecars require a very different skillset to regular bikes and can be a load of fun. Especially when the sidecar comes up in the air cornering
The hard part of this is to counter the reflex to lean the bike way over in a familiar corner. You have almost retrain the subconcious. Worse in the spring as there is lots of salt, sand and gravel added to the equation.
One of the big thrills in life is to pop a wheely. These days, if a cop sees it, you are facing a charge of stunt driving. 6 points, confiscation of bike etc. I only do it on a few country back roads in Durham.
Carlyn, you are being very kind to me by suggesting two decades. Keep counting
So based on your comments, my new fantasy is to have been 20 when you were twenty That one there is a wheelie machine. But otherwise perfectly balanced. Incredible bike.
