favourit Bike of all time!

[Rogue Monkey]

Hmmmm! Just remanicing over me old virago 1100! Went all over france, spain, germany and countless rallies on her! I loved that bike like no other before or since. it felt like part of me. I remember having a nightmare once when i sold it in my dream! I woke up sweating and had to run down stairs to check she was still there! AND THEN! I feckin part ex`d her for a bloody harley! Wot a bloody mistake that was! Anyway, dos anyone else have a special kinship with their prsent or former two weeled friend? :(

[UKRobKLR650]

My old Bandit 12, spent so much on her getting it all fettled to suit me that it ended up to expensive to run. Oh, and my old Triumph Speed Triple, loved that bike tobut the crank kinda died :(

[guyver1]

oh yes, it might only be my 3rd ever bike but i love it to bits, Honda CB700SC Nighthawk S, comfy, well mannered, very fast, easy on the eyes, dont think i could get rid of her :cool:

[BlackPig]

My old 1953 A10,now't special but it's never lost to a sportster at the lights yet !!!!! :D :D

Although I've just got me grubby paws on a bike that I've wanted since they first came out,one of Yam's finest FJ 12's :cool:

T'as been in the garage since Friday,started strippin' this mornin', WHAT the phuk !!!! Gonna need a skip to get rid o' the scrap !!!!!!!!!!! :eek:

[smeghead]

for me it has to be the old fs1e, i mean more fun than you can shake a stick at, bought one for me sone to use last year and may let daughter use it next year

[Rogue Monkey]

My old 1953 A10,now't special but it's never lost to a sportster at the lights yet !!!!! :D :D

Although I've just got me grubby paws on a bike that I've wanted since they first came out,one of Yam's finest FJ 12's :cool:

T'as been in the garage since Friday,started strippin' this mornin', WHAT the phuk !!!! Gonna need a skip to get rid o' the scrap !!!!!!!!!!! :eek:
A10! wot a bike! nearly bought a chopped one once but they couldnt start it in the shopso I went to look at some others. Couldnt get the thing off my mind so I decided to go back and make them an offer! DAMN! It had been sold 20 mins earlier! Ho Hum!

[Nitrowing]

My first RG500 - bought as a wreck, completely rebuilt with USD forks, RF900 headlamp fairing, 916 carbon tailpiece and seat, Nikon GP pipes, RVF400 rear end. It left me stranded a few times (9 mpg on full throttle!), wheelied/wheelspun everywhere (it would wheelie AND wheelspin in 1st, you could spin her up in 4th in the wet!) oiled plugs up when it felt like it, threw away it's kickstart so I had to bump it all the time. What a bike though.

Some £ucker nicked it out of my front garden after I left it outside 2 nights in a row waiting for a rear sprocket to arrive :( :mad:

I soooo miss that bike :(

[Bosun]

i had a cb400n that survived all i could throw at it.. repainted several time...
crashed many a time, sold it in a fit of madness when had larger bikes ..
infact may go off to scan photo of me on it for a new avater...


** goes off scrabbling around in shoebopx****

[Dougie]

Gotta be my '79 GS550.Had her damn' near 20 years and I'm still enjoying the experience! :cool: ;)

[Bosun]

battered and faded .. me and the toad.. on the way to brighton one of the old rockers reunion runs on the early 80's they were fun

[MrFluffy]

I must be a pervert but most fondly remembered is my old xs400 solo seat streetfighter. I liked it because it was nice to ride and torquey after a 125 and everyone used to take the p*ss and it was fun to humiliate them on a twisty lane after...
Once upon a time a xs250us custom, but some nice flat bars, and all the junk stripped off it was much nicer. Then the motor was given attention, a motad (with some baffle tuning *ahem*) some 400cc barrels and carbs and some headwork and twin discs up front etc. Ran it up the strip at the bulldog (and was chuffed as hell with a 16) , rode it everywhere, and it mutated each time I crashed it and was rebuilt.
It then had amal mk2 concentrics on it, with a gsx250 electronic ign grafted on and I started to get proper amounts of torque/power out of it and kill cranks on a regular basis. I went through about 6 bottom ends in 6 months then ran out of spares and it had started to get expensive with new shells and crank rebuilds and I had just finished my gs550 which was faster for less hassle, so I sold it to a mate for his gf thinking she had liked it, and he proceeded to "restore" it and take all the good stuff off! He showed me when he'd finished and I just thought "UGH" but mumbled that it looked tidy in its nice shiney new stock paint on a horrid slab xs400 tank in place of the us custom teardrop...
That was the last modified bike I ever sold that I built myself...
Theres a terrible picture of it here (<a href="http://www.fluffycentral.com/photos/XS250SE-pic1.jpg">) (it didnt seem to matter back then that I didnt have a good one), note the bluing on the silencer for signs of abuse ;)

[devilsquest2000]

well ill have to say my first big bike ,,,it cost me £2500 back in 1988 when i was but 16,and i still see it about on the roads to day???it was a honda vf1000f in burgandy and white :D

[Mitch]

An XS750 Lowrider that I swapped for a shed of a CB650 back in 1994.

Six inch overs, Z-bars, really low seat plus this lovely fatbob mudguard - Oh yeah, and it was black!

OK, it wasn't perfect (time to take off rose tinted specs here :D ) It had a superdream tail light (perfect size for't mudguard tho'). When I got it, it had struts bolted onto the suspension mounts to make it a hardtail (they got ripped straight off I can tell you), also the mudguard that was on there previously had been holding the frame together so when me and a mate (sings with some band up in Kent, who played at the Reject's last year) took it off, the amount of flex we saw was amazing and the forks were so badly slugged for those extra inches (f'nurk Mrs R!) that if the bike had have gone over one of those new-fangled speedbumps, it'd have collapsed!

But otherwise, I totally loved it!

what happened to it after I 'had' to sell it? :mad: Last I heard it was going to be turned into a trike

[Tim750]

My Favorite bike was my Z650 which i bought in 81 a fantastic bike even now after many bikes i still have fond memories of it :)

[Jay]

A bright red Honda Camino.....

Don't laugh, this bike had a horn and Mag wheels as standard.....I pulled a girl on that bike. Well technically she wasn't a girl.

[BlackPig]

A bright red Honda Camino.....

Don't laugh, this bike had a horn and Mag wheels as standard.....I pulled a girl on that bike. Well technically she wasn't a girl.

Have you ever been to Thailand , Jay ? :D :D

[Bosun]

My Favorite bike was my Z650 which i bought in 81 a fantastic bike even now after many bikes i still have fond memories of it :)


oooh z650's now that brings back nice memories

[Friar Tuck]

BMW K100RS 16v. H216 CJU!

Bernadette where are you now? Come home to daddy!

[Tim750]

oooh z650's now that brings back nice memories

went to look at couple recently but they wanted so much money for them i didn't bother one guy wanted £1500 for it or am i just getting tight in my old age

[UKRobKLR650]

Mmmmm! Yep, Yamaha Fizzy way back in 1983, first legal bike on the road, great fun. Got to be honest though, i aint aint had a bike under 100bhp for the last 7 years at a rough guess but i went out and bought a KLR650 kwacker for a change (used to do enduros in me teens). There are all the Huskys, CCM's, Husabergs, KTM's etc but they aint a patch on me KLR cause i actually use me bike to go places (did a 520 mile trip in a day couple of weeks ago). I love this KLR, can do hundreds of miles on motorways etc then go off road, can ride it in rain, sun, snow, high winds etc, all at above the national speed limit. Ah, bless it. Sayin that, one day i'll get me streetfighter done just to get that speed fix again :D
Bloody ell, i was trying to work out how many bikes ive had over the last 21 years ive been on the road. Its horendous :D
Theyve all been fun and long may it continue. :D

[Jay]

Have you ever been to Thailand , Jay ? :D :D

No why, do they still sell Honda Camino's there .......hohoho

[Rogue Monkey]

favourit bike of all time....Erm......Margrete! :D

[krammer]

guzzi california was my favourite bike, bought it in '79 and covered thousands and thousands of miles on it, ok the electrics could be a bit eccentric but i will confess to a lump in the old throat when i traded it in for an xs850. (big mistake)

[Gypsy]

i only started riding in november last year so im still on my first one (dont think crashing old 50cc things into walls when pissed at 16 yrs old counts lol)

[toots&purple]

I bought a 1953 BSA b31 Plunger frame model,did it up & rode it to the local steam fairs,with my son on the back,when he was just old enough to reach the peddles,lil git nicks me boots now! :eek:Bike ouzzed charactor,tickle carb,switch on,set decompresion leaver,adjust advance retard leaver,n a good kick,would get her goin,&thats just the missis ! :rolleyes: miss that old plodder,no brakes not much of a gearbox,nought to sixty with a fortnights notice,but fun,n thats what its all about. :)

[WeaverII]

Mmmm - would have to be the Guzzi V50 Monza I used to have - lovely bike: handled and stopped superbly. Fun memories:

Riding around the outside of a CX500 on the Cat and Fiddle (V50 and CX owners can always start an argument given 30 sec or so........ :) )

Riding alongside other bikes when approaching traffic lights: you wait for the lights to turn red, sit up and fold your arms, wait for the double-take, then stamp hard on the linked brake pedal.......

Other goodies:

All my BMWs (R80ST, R65 and R80RT) for sterling service and p1ss easy maintenance,

My currently-hors-de-combat Aprilia 650 Pegaso, for pretty much all the same reasons Rob gave for his KLR. (Hi Rob!)

[Jonnyfp]

I always think of my first 'big' bike and thats my old gs650gt it was a right barge and handled eventually. guess i just like a challenge thats why i got a t3 speed trip 500lbs of chiselled billet. :D

btw i got a wounded tyre. not impressed. :(

[dracken1]

mine had to be kawasakis evil 750 h2 triple.
it was like living with a psychotic killer. you knew that given the slightest excuse it would try to kill you.
fast straights, bends. were all the same to it, it hated them.
but oh boy was it fun and with a sound only a triple can make.
its the only bike i have ever missed.
but today them things cost a dam fortune

[WeaverII]

mine had to be kawasakis evil 750 h2 triple.
it was like living with a psychotic killer. you knew that given the slightest excuse it would try to kill you.
fast straights, bends. were all the same to it, it hated them.
but oh boy was it fun and with a sound only a triple can make.
its the only bike i have ever missed.
but today them things cost a dam fortune

Quote about those from waaaaay back:

"Goes like a six-leeged cheetah on speed, handles like a three-legged camel on acid." :D

[rommel]

Mine was a honda goldwing gl1000 also my first big bike after the suzuki t250j
went all the way down to switzerland and back without any probs, those were the days.
Still got the same woman though and that was back in 1982 ;)