What bike have yo had that you would love to own again?

[pyro]

BSA 441 SS (not the victor) I loved it.

[mick2]

my T140 royal wedding US export model.
had to sell when first kid was born as things were tight :(

[Blue]

T140V hardtail chop. Simply because I now know all the things that were wrong with it that I didn't know at the time.

[*TQ*]

I'm only onto my third bike but if anyone offered me an import NSR125 again I'd bite their hand off.

[robbo]

full power canadian import v max
or my z1000 st trike,which i had to sell to buy my house

[John Hopkins]

full power canadian import v max


Pretty hard to let go aren't they, mine is the 49state version.

John

[bobberuk]

lambretta series 1 with a 250 tuned engine, would do 100mph

[Billy Balthorpe]

My RD350N Powervalve, exactly 12 months old with 1500 miles on it when i bought it for £1500 in 1987 and put 25K miles on it in 2 years. My first big bike and a giant killer at the time through the twisties. Sold it for £1200 to Kawasaki Stoke/K2/Fowlers, they sold it for £1600 before they got it out onto the shop floor and the price on it.

[Sir Ewok]

650 Ariel Huntmaster with child adult chair. Spent a few summers on them (had two) going down to Brighton with a few mates. Met up with some scooter boys for recreational games including hunt your teeth.:D

[harry]

1957 350 AJS.

But now I'm old enough to ride it on the road.

Yeah I used it as a field bike. :thumbd: :gone:

[RobK]

1984 Z1300

I wish I'd never sold it :(

[dixie]

i wish i had the lambretta speedo that i let bobber uk have years ago...ha ha the only scooter that i know of that did 100mph or more was the one that was thrown down Yorkshire main pit shaft...where they all should have gone.... :D

[Peirre]

Suzuki GT250a, only had it 6 months, but had to get rid of it due to the 125cc law coming in, & a FS1E - DX lots of fun with my chin on the tank, and feet on the back indicators :D

[mick2]

or
my rd400e
i had some mad mad times on that fucker, till the polis banned me for wheelieing along the high st :D

[Strider]

My Laverda Jota or .................. my T120, the T120 was the first 4 stroke I ever had, pushed it 5 miles home and my dad showed me how a 4 stroke worked and we rebuilt it together, never leaked either

[jabba]

Ahem ready for the jibes:eek:
My bmw k100lt best winter workhorse shopping bike I ever owned.
Sincerely regret it going and would swop my fj1200 for another happily:D

[johnr]

my bmw/gemini sidecar outfit. i built it myself from the ground up, and regretted getting rid within a day of selling it. it came on ebay a month ago, after i hadnt seen it in 5 years, completely unchanged from when i built it, except for having done a lot more miles. i was quite chuffed about that, it must have been just right for it to remain unchanged. but though i wanted it back. i couldnt afford it now!

[Grav]

My 750 Zephyr that I buried into the side of a Punto shortly before hitting a wall head first. I would have another but none would come close to the bond I had with that bike. :(

[hacky]

my 550 ltd..wich decided to self combust...lol
so after a trawl..found another...complete overhaul mind....
labour of love...she aint fast ,but shes mine....lol:thumbsu:

[pagan_flame]

My last - and fastest - aircooled RD - my RD 400E = Terry Beckett full race tune and Ledar 'spannies.

Lifted the front wheel in EVERY gear, turned in sub-10mpg when on the 'band, and shredded a crank in under 1000 miles. :eek:

I could afford to run the thing now... :rolleyes:

[jcb]

my a10 hardtail(approx 30 years ago)mainly cos id be able to fix the special triumph "selfunscrew n falloff" clutch it had nowadays and itd be worth a bit now,as would all of my "old" heaps in fact.
nowdays only bike id have again is an xrv750,110 mph on knobblies,great!.

[Nik]

Quite a few of them - FireStorm s/f, Moto Martin, Tiger Cub (with apes ... :cool: :D), RD400E, TZR250, TDR250 (owned it for years, only got to ride it a handful of times :(), Mastiff ...

But the only I'd really like back was my A10 - such a pretty bike. :)

[madron]

my old chop a triumph gp500 motor bushman box stretched ariel frame with spiral downtube and 36" springers was 12ft long and a handful but still miss it sold it to pay for kids xmas in 1982 and every year at this time i keep sayin im gonna build another just like it but never do

[wurzel]

Suzuki GT200X5 2 stroke howler in canary yellow - got it from my unlce just after i passed my test, he had been sold it as a commuter bike but it was too lairy for him so it had done 2500 miles in it's first 4 years.

Got rid of it in 2 weeks after I got it for twice what I paid him as it was too scary after a cg125 and the money was needed but wish i had it back now although it probably won't have the same performance now i weigh 50% more

[lowrider]

Any of my old two stokes i used to love.
GT250,380,500 or my kettle.
Then loved the RD 250 and 400.:D

[johnr]

Suzuki GT200X5 2 stroke howler in canary yellow - got it from my unlce just after i passed my test, he had been sold it as a commuter bike but it was too lairy for him so it had done 2500 miles in it's first 4 years.

Got rid of it in 2 weeks after I got it for twice what I paid him as it was too scary after a cg125 and the money was needed but wish i had it back now although it probably won't have the same performance now i weigh 50% more

i had one in blue. by far and away the most utterly reliable and bulletproof bike i have ever owned in my entire life. i ran it for 18 months, it lived outside in all weathers. i commuted 2 up to drop the wife at her work, then go to my own job, 50 plus miles each way, so over 100 miles a day, summer and winter. we used it as our sole transport in that time, so it did the weekly shop and took us to rallys at weekends and on our summer holidays, and all i ever did to it was put on 2 back tyres and a chain and sprocket kit. it never broke, nothing fell off, and it always ran faultlessly, starting on the button every time. in many ways it was probably the best bike i ever owned!

[Pugwash]

My GS1000E HMB 51T did lots of miles on it used it as a Courier Bike in London when Petrol was Cheap

well it did have 29mm Smoothbores , 1085 Cosworth Big Bore Kit , Harris Pipe with a Comp Baffle and no Air Box , not to Mention a set of Crosser Bars with the Crossbrace :D

[matthewmosse]

Slightly off topic as I own then both still, but my cb500/4 outfit was for 5 years my only transport and utterly reliable, even got home under her own power when a ropy old shithep of an engine I'd dropped in as a stop gap snapped it's camshaft in half:eek: Sadly after sending it round the clock and some, it needs so mutch work that it's been stood shamefully long waiting for me to find the time. Kh125, cos it was my first bike and handled great, shame it keeps fucking up though:rolleyes:

[wurzel]

i had one in blue. by far and away the most utterly reliable and bulletproof bike i have ever owned in my entire life. i ran it for 18 months, it lived outside in all weathers. i commuted 2 up to drop the wife at her work, then go to my own job, 50 plus miles each way, so over 100 miles a day, summer and winter. we used it as our sole transport in that time, so it did the weekly shop and took us to rallys at weekends and on our summer holidays, and all i ever did to it was put on 2 back tyres and a chain and sprocket kit. it never broke, nothing fell off, and it always ran faultlessly, starting on the button every time. in many ways it was probably the best bike i ever owned!

Did it have a rubber band to stop the "boot" falling off ? In the 2 weeks I had mine I did about 500 miles on it but it drank fuel like nobody's business, a full tank from Horsham to Brighton which is only about 35/40 miles. Guy in the village a Blue one that he had spent hundreds on - allspeeds, clipons, ported etc etc, it was loud unreliable and SLOWER off the line than my v.low milage standard one. Or yellow is faster than blue

[captaincondom]

my z400 twin or the gt750 kettle loved both bikes.i know who has my kettle but the guy is a nob and if i got it back it would be a total rebuild coz i just don't trust the guy

[John Hopkins]

Of course, given the money, most of us wouldn't take back our old bikes because by now they are knackered heaps. My old bikes seemed to run well for me when I owned them and I always sold them cheaper than I bought them. seem to remember I always spent a lot on clutches, shells, bearings, rings,brakes,tyres and carb rubbers. When you remember back you tend to forget the engine stripped on the carpet in front of a coal fire and the rush to get it back together in time for work the next day.

I did enjoy my BSA A!0 Golden Flash when it wasn't off the road.

John

[DavieLights]

Honda 750/4 K2....a 'mate' persuaded me to sell it many years ago .

[chinster]

me race tuned LC, spent all me youthful cash on it..was a joy to ride grin factor 10 !
it left me with something to remind me of her..a blue parkin badge..:D

[matthewmosse]

Of course, given the money, most of us wouldn't take back our old bikes because by now they are knackered heaps. My old bikes seemed to run well for me when I owned them and I always sold them cheaper than I bought them. seem to remember I always spent a lot on clutches, shells, bearings, rings,brakes,tyres and carb rubbers. When you remember back you tend to forget the engine stripped on the carpet in front of a coal fire and the rush to get it back together in time for work the next day.

I did enjoy my BSA A!0 Golden Flash when it wasn't off the road.

John

I still dream of reversing the tired old heap-ishness process with a bit of tlc and a few bits.............

[bird]

I'd have the CB400/4 I bought for the missus from a Velocette freak in Melton mowbray - he'd put it in Classic Mechanics as "Not original, needs work, MOT £200" which seemed reasonable, even for a nail - borrowed a van, drove half the way across the country, and when I got there it was immaculate - Coated in WD40, he had bought it new as his winter bike and it only had 12,000 on the clock, even though it was 20 years old. He had all the MOTs. "I'm sorry about the exhaust" he said, pointing to the Alfa 4-1 "It was all I could get. "

"Are you sure its worth £200? I'll take less"


It was gorgeous ride, but I was frightened of ruining it, so i kept it in the hallway of the house and hardly took it out.

Had it nine months and someone offerd me £800 for it, so of course I sold it, being a pillock and all...

[Biker Buster]

My first ever was one of these *sniff* loved it, we went all over the country together, okay not the biggest, fastest, flashest, but totally reliable. I had three big off's from the CB and each time just picked it up, knocked it back into shape, got it back home/base wherever, and undid a few nuts and bolts here and there and Hey Presto! good as new(ish).

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd6/Busterspictures/CB250G5_1974.jpg

[The Beer Monsters]

Another RD. RD350R, lovely bike.

[Grav]

RD's were loony juice bikes. I rode a mates RD400 and damn near frightened the shit out of myself. I wasn't ready for it hitting the power so almost ended up dangling off the bars with the front end in the air.... :o

[Sir Ewok]

The thing is, some of those old nails that we were glad to get rid of, years ago, are now worth a few bob even in the condition they were in then. An Ariel Huntmaster (basically a badge engineered Gold Flash) is now worth £2-3,000 and I bought both of mine for less than £30. If I had stuffed them in a barn for all this time, they would still be worth a grand or so....
Having said that, I would rather rebuild and ride it if I still had it.....:thumbu:

[dracken1]

my 2 750 h2 triples. really miss them. but as mister ewok states above. back then they were just bikes. not the 10k plus. mine would be worth if i had them now.
used to love the way the bike used to watch you, waiting for you to make the smallest of mistakes, so it could kill you. good times.:D

[John Hopkins]

used to love the way the bike used to watch you, waiting for you to make the smallest of mistakes, so it could kill you. good times.:D

You do know you wrote that down don't you!!

John

[Shep]

None of them!

I was always strapped for cash, so most of them were bags of nails that spent more time in bits than on the road.

It's only in recent years that I've been able to afford anything decent* and the XJR is better than anything I owned in the past.




*Decent.
Will get me there and back again without major repairs on the way.

[dracken1]

seriously john, that is what i thought. they were the kind of bike that if you rode them sedately they would bog down and splutter. so that when you did open them up there would be a huge flat spot as it cleared itself. then it would go mental. doubt i could live with one now though.:D

[Grav]

Spot on, Dracken. :D