Sweepstake.

If I listed every bike I've owned, it'd trip most people's binary
filters, but the favourites....

Yamaha Why Bother 100
Honda CB175
MZs (various)
Yamaha XS650 (various)
RD350F2
BMW R100RS
Moto Guzzi Spada (x2)
Moto Guzzi V50 (x2)
Suzuki GS400
Ducati 750SS
Yamaha XT600E x2
Yamaha 660 Tenere
Honda SL125
Kawasaki H1
Kawasaki KH400
Kawasaki KH250
Kawasaki KE175
Suzuki TS185
Suzuki TS250
BMW R65
BMW K1100LT
Honda 400 Four (various)
Honda CB125 (various)
Honda CG125 (Makes Sign of Holy Pushrods)
Kawasaki GT750 (now with Sweller after being pased around half of ukrm)
Honda CD200
Honda CD250
Honda CD175 (various)
Kawasaki Z650
Honda ST70 Dax
Honda CB550 (various)
Kawasaki Z400

 

What's life back there in 1990, anyway?

 

your bikes/years ratio is lower than mine. I'm having a big think at
the moment about buying something to do distance work on - I want to
keep the KTM but fancy something for the occasional weekend mini-tour.

Something inexpensive (say 2-3k), reliable, good tank range,
relatively comfortable, a bit but not too sporty. Dodger's 'bird would
have been ideal. The clumsy ****.

Of course, this is all predicated on my actually getting a bonus this
year, which is by no means certain.

 

Cheaper....

 

My list is even shorter

Yamaha FZR400RSP
Suzuki SV650SY
Suzuki GSX-R750WW
Suzuki GSX-R1000K1
Kawasaki ZX-10RD7
Suzuki GSX-R1000K8

 

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Yay! I haven't got the shortest list:

Kawasaki GPz550
Honda VFR800
Aprilia SL1000
Kawasaki GT750
Suzuki Bandit 1200
Kawasaki ZX-9R
Cagiva Elefant 900

I also appear to have very little brand loyalty, but I really need to
pull my finger out so I can.

 

what's fake about it?

 

Have you not thought about the new Stradivarius GSX-1400 with cat-gut and
carbon fibre bow?

 

ffs,

I forgot:

ZX-7R (sold to Lozzo)
RGV250 (sold to Ant's mate)

 

In communiqué

Faux, or more accurately réplique, would be a better description.

Basically a YZ250 with lights, half efficient silencer, and a side
stand. Shown accurately as a YZ250 on the French Registration document.

Looks the part, though the engine number prefix, lack of snail cam chain
adjustment and other details betray its origins.

Having not ridden a genuine one, I could be convinced that it has had
the heavier WR flywheel crank put in (assuming that is possible).
Amazingly tractable for a two-stoke crosser. But then it is geared low
enough to climb the local to the 'chateau' infamous 'Corbeau Mort'
track, or it would be if I had the skill, stamina and bottle.

I bimble it round the easier forest roads occasionally and visitors have
been known to be let loose on it within the confines of our land. It may
well be brought back to blighty and turned in to a nice light speed hill
climber for my dotage and the lad's progression.


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If we're including pushbikes, the list gets considerably longer...

 

Hey, I was going to have that off him for the next TOGTour!

But really, any Blackbird or ZZR11 would fit your description, and
there's just loads of them around.

Or even having a job We're all in the same boat, I think.

 

yeah, I know, I've had a look. Plenty in the 2.5-3K bracket.

well yes. I've just made someone redundant today. He's relatively
happy, walking away with the equivalent of 18 months of take-home
salary.

I reckon I'm safe until Q3, as I have a lot of projects under way
until then. After that, all bets are off.

 

£2825

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Beav

****'s sake, do none of you people ever actually *read* the threads?

He posted the real answer hours ago!

 

heheh, I'm not going to get started on that list.

 

Assessor mentioned £3k. We'll see what ERS say.

A damned sight quicker than the one I'm due from the MIB, at a guess.

MIB doesn't pay out for protective clothing, apparently. I'm going to
put everything in the claim, mind.

Then there's the solicitors' 33% to take off.

 

Apart from all the other stuff...£18.92 for fork oil??? Even the Honda
suspension fluid SS-8 stuff is only about £6 a half-litre, which ought to be
enough for one fork leg.

 

I saw a rather nice naked blackbird today (easy there Cane)

 

You think? Different brand of course, but still: brakelever for the Tuono:
80 euros TYVM