What bikes have you owned?

I see a pattern...

 

<Starting at age 6>

Honda TL125 (trials bike)
Gilera 50 Enduro
Yam RD250DX
BMW R65 (the only bike I've crashed on the road)
Yam XT250
Honda XL250
Fantic 250 Enduro (ex works)
Ducati 900 Hailwood Replica (kickstart model)
BMW R80/GS
Triumph Tiger 900
Honda XR400R
MV F4 Senna

 

Oddly enough, a couple of ukrm-ers have expressed an interest in
buying my R65LS when I get the clutch fixed.

 

Premature old age.

 

FOYRNB

 

we've met, remember...

 

On way of putting it. Things have got till the end of the month to
sort themselves out or it's got to go.

I declined it in the end. Wasn't happy going to work for a company of
only 4 people. I've got a couple more interviews lined up and things
are looking positive here as well so hopefully I'll be keeping it.

If it goes, I'll spend half the money on a 98 SRAD GSX-R750 and keep
the rest to live off for another few months.

 

True, but I didn't kiss you.

 

SL125 - crashed loads of time, including a couple on road.
XT500 ----- " ------ . Last prang knackered both forks, so the front
end was swapped for a kwack hybrid (z900 forks, kh250 wheel and
brakes) one and it was run like that for a while before the engine
seized due to having been left half-dismantled too long and the little
end seizing solid. Eventually sold for fifty quid when I moved house,
as I couldn't afford to get it re-built.
CB900 - my brother's really, but I used it for a year or so while the
XT was being rebuilt. Nice bike at the time. Sounded better once the
cans had rotted through and been hacksawed off.
GPz550 - some years later - used for a MK-Swindon commute until its
age and mileage started to show, so chopped in for a...
GPX600 - first 'modern' sports bike I'd owned - very quick, it was,
and it did ths 140 miles/day for a few months until I got a better
contract.
Sprint ST - Bought after a long ban expired - ran into the ground for
three years then sold to Timo, where his curse applied. Mine dew, I
think he made a profit on it...
CB400F2 (1976 model) - bought for t'other half before we moved over
here, but she's never really got on with it. Nice, it is, and great
fun to ride.
GSXR1000K3 - words cannot describe it. Pushed over by a Parisian twat
when sitting in a car park last year - a few scratches still not
repaired until his insurance gets their arse in gear.

 

Tricky from behind.

 

What I can't work out is how a couple of drops rendered every fucking
bearing other then the headset utterly useless. )

 

OK, I didn't dribble on his neck, either.

 

heh. "2 minor drops of oil used" maybe what he meant...

 

Bandwidth does not permit.

About 300-odd in getting on for 30 years....

(Bikes, not crashes)

 

heh.

The drops only account for the light cosmetic damage. The rest, you
can put down to a combination of user fuckwittedness and abuse of a
big single.

 

here we go then.

Before I was 16 I competed in Schoolboy MX on a Suzuki RM125.
Chrashed about 1 in 3 races.

After 16:

FS1/E 3 proper crashes loads of scrapes, one grazed knee.
MZ 250 Supa 5 not crashed.
MZ ETZ 250 not crahed.
BMW R100 RT not crashed.
Hired various bikes for DR work and crashed just about all of them.
Moto Guzzi California II not crashed.
Ducati ST2 not crashed.
Suzuki Bandit, hit one pedestrian.
BMW F650 a few near misses with wildlfe.

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(Steve Bullimore) somehow managed to post:

Age 10: Suzuki K80 - Knobbled, hack-sawed & painted in Magnolia - it
simply got worn out through over-use - uncountable offs.
Age 17: Yamaha DT100 - Knicked
Age 18: Honda XL185 - Died - Aluminium Cam Peg broke & it munched the
top end. Swapped it for ...
Age 18: Kawasaki KH250 - never did get the middle cylinder to work
properly - Sold it to get ...
Age 19: Honda XT550 - What's first gear? Sold it.
Age 33: <cough> Pass test </cough> & get GSX750F - two low speed offs
- second one wrote off bike @ 20mph?
Age 35: Another GSX750F - I wanted a VFR but couldn't justify the
insurance hike. Maybe next year. ...

 

Fazer 600

.... but wanted a sportsbike, so when I got a payrise, sold it for a ...

CBR600F-Y

.... which was great for 2 years, but kept stopping during tricky bends at
track days, and was a bit bland, so I sold that for a ...

GSXR600-K1

.... which was cool, but then I got a garage, so could insure an ...

RSV1000

 

That was my guess.

I still think it's been the best lesson in motorcycle maintenance I
could ever have had.

 

FS!E Crashed head on - into a bus. Forks bashed straight and sold it to
a copper.

Suzuki A100.
Honda H100s2
DT125.
CD200 Partial crashes due to over enthusiastic commuting.
CX 500
Laverda Alpino 500 - Semi crashed in a ditch. Engine self destructed on
way to 1998 WSB at Brands.
CX500
CBR400rr.
VF70fd Crashed and written off with help from a car.
CX Eurosport, road surfed twice. Still going.