916 vs Black lightning

Morbidelli V8
BMW K1
Buell RR1000
Kawasaki Versys
KTM RC8
Pretty much any other BMW.
Pretty much anything pre-1987.
The pink bits from the Britten V1000

 

Yeah, I'd say that's pretty gorgeous in the same sense that the
Morbidelli is pretty gorgeous.

The Buell RR1000 takes some beating though. Darsy'd probably love it.

 

Loon

 

Far too many to list, but one or two of the previously mentioned
bikes, including the katana, would better belong there.

All of those too.

One that does stick in my memory is the Z1R - perhaps it was just the
contrast with the Z1/Z900/Z1000 series, which started out utterly
gorgeous, slowly losing their edge over time, but then the Z1R came
out and... yuck, just utterly, completely minging.

http://motokw.bellefond.info/article/5116/1977_Kawasaki_Z1r

 

I've always liked the R90S but finding a genuine one amongst the shite
copies is getting harder by the year.

Truly horrible bikes. I'd burn the lot of them and the World would be a
better place.

You're showing your age again.

 

I rather liked it......

 

The R90S is a lovely bike but the R100S looks almost the same and is a
better bike, particularly the late Brembo edition. But another timeless
classic is the 850 Le Mans. MKI and MKII
www.motorbase.com/pictures/auctionlots/1520958447/676052495/fs_7659933-125-1.jpg

 

So did I. It handled so badly though and TBF is does look like some students
in a Tech college knocked up the bodywork

 

Isn't taste a strange thing? I wouldn't give that a second glance,
personally.

 

Oh, yes.

I know very little about either, technically: I did read an article a few
months ago about the BSA though.

 

I had a beige CZ250 Sport - no fairing. Not pretty but MZs were way
uglier.

 

I'd forgotten about them. Good call.

 

Guessing it had to be the Ariel, I Googled it.

Holy shit.

 

Rumbled.

 

I don't know what is the matter with you lot[1]. All you ever seem to be
able to do is comment on how bikes look when without a rider and parked.
What is so wrong with judging the view as it is seen from the proper
perspective, like behind the clocks?

It is not the bike but long distance and the swift passage of time what
adds aesthetics to bikes.


[1] Well I do but I don't want to offend your delicate fucking
sensibilities by mentioning it.

 

I very nearly died on a Z1R back in 1982. Fucking thing was the worst
handling pile of shit I'd ridden up until then, and at the time I owned
a GT750 Kettle

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike
in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

 

Ooh yes. Forgot about that

 

I like these very much also.
Especially this colour:

http://www.utahmotorcycleriders.com/Pictures/MvAgusta.jpg

 

Nah, that is a right shonky exhaust. The cafe racer looks I'd forgotten
about, but deffo. Well, if I wasn't a fat lardy **** that'd look stupid
on one :-(

 

Some of those are quite pretty compared with:

Aprilia Moto 6.5
http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/photogallerys/Moto_Aprilia_by_Starck.jpg

Beta Jonathan
http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/Beta/beta_jonathan_cruiser_350.htm

Ducati Indiana
http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/ducati/ducati_750_indiana 87.htm

Francis Barnett Fulmar
http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/pictures/1963-francis-barnett-fulmar-sports

....and my all-time favourite, the Bohmerland 3-seater
http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/pictures/bohmerland-1927/

The v-strom probably deserves a mention as well.