What bikes have you owned?

mups said...

Ready for this?

29 RD400s (C, D, E and F models in every colour made for the UK market)
15 RD250s (air-cooled and LC inc 1 YDS3 and 4 YDS7's)
19 RD350s (air-cooled and LC/YPVS incl 3 YR5's)
3 RD200s
2 RD125s
2 VF750FEs
2 ZZR1100C2s
1 ZZR1100D2 * Still owned
6 C50/70s
1 C90 Cub
3 Z250s
2 XS250s
1 XS400
2 KR-1s
3 KE175s
1 KE125
2 KH250s
3 KE100s
2 YG1F 80s
2 FS1Es
1 Ducati 160 Monza Junior
1 VTR1000F
1 GSX-R750L
1 VFR750FK
1 GSX750EFE
3 CB250RSs * Still owned
1 CM400
1 GT250A
1 GT750L
2 T250 Hustlers
1 T350 Rebel
1 GPZ500S * Still owned

Making a grand total of 114 bikes and I've forgotten a few as well.

These bikes are just the ones I've owned for my own personal pleasure,
not including the others I bought and sold on for profit within a few
days, of which there are probably somewhere in the region of 40 to 50.

 

Steve Bullimore wrote

Ermm.. About a dozen of various shapes and sizes.

They broke enough that I couldn't be arsed to fix them.

Varies from weeks to years.

No.

 

...in no particular order

Yamaha DT100 (x1) - crashed loads of times
Honda CB250N (x1) - not crashed
Suzuki GS550 (x2) - first one crashed once
Suzuki GT185 (x1) - not crashed
Honda CB750 F1 (x1) - blew up twice
BSA C15 (x1) - not crashed, too crap
BSA Bantam (x2) - abandoned at 'speed'.
MZ TS 125/150 (lots 7?) - too slow to crash, they fall over.
MZ ETZ 250/300 (lots 6?) - one, once
MZ TS 250/1 (x4) - one, once
MZ ES 250/2 (x1) - hit pedestrian, hard.
Moto Guzzi T3 (x1) - three crashes, two my fuckwittedness.

 

A black one
A red and white one
A blue one
A green one

 

but you're thinking of buying another one...

 

Sounds like rider error to me...

Honda, innit?

 

"riding like a mong" is the phrase that comes to mind, as the person
immediately behind...

 

Yamaha RS100 - never dropped
Kawasaki GT550 - it looked better after every spill!
Yamaha FJ1200 - dropped at standstill
Honda VFR750FT - crashed at a track-evening at Snetteron.
Suzuki GSX-R750Y - knocked off whilst filtering down the A5
Honda VFR750FS - stolen, not recovered.
Kawasaki ZZR600 - pre-crashed.

 

Only vaguely, and the sportier one, as opposed to the lardy touring version.

The mille is behaving itself at the moment, though, so it might stay a bit
longer and possibly be joined by a supermoto. Or I might just say "**** it"
and get one of last year's R1s cheap. Whatever, I'm not so sure that I want
to keep the mille beyond the end of its warranty period, which expires in
October, which is a shit time to sell a bike, hence the potential early
disposal

 

Suzuki GP100 (Stolen)
Suzuki GSX250
Kawasaki Z400J (Threw a piston)
Yamaha Diversion 600S
<3 year break>
Honda CBX750
Yamaha Diversion 600S
Yamaha TRX850 & Honda CG125 (CG overlapped with the TRX and VFR)
Honda VFR800 & MZ ETZ300 (Still have both)

Of all the above, the one which I wish I still had was the CBX. It
needed a bit of a tidy, but was a cracking bike, IMHO.

 

Suzuki GP125 to learn on in 1983 having driven cages since 1966.
Katana 1100 - which is why learnt. Kept for 18 months then SWMBO
demanded its sale to pay for holiday. <hangs head in shame>
GPZ 900R bought 10 months after sale of Kat. Sold 13 months later to
impress Grays Magistrates to some avail...
No bikes from 1988 to Dec 2003 then;
GSX 750F which means a welcome return to the fold.

No offs so must to be permanently in full wuss mode.

Am up at Ally Pally Thursday coming.

 

Nice euphemism, only prejudiced by the misleading size quoted.

 

Ginge wrote

I've never had a green one. I have had two yellow ones though.

 

But did you shoot up his back?

 

BSA Bushman 175 - sold
Honda ST70 - Sold
CZ 125 - ? can't remember
Matchless G12 650 =ditto=
Honda CB 125 Px Ts 185
Honda SL 125 sold
Suzuki TS 185 sold to my cousin
Ossa MAR 250 sold
Suzuki SP 370 sold
Suzuki DR 400 sold
Yamaha XT 500 ( 2) knicked (1) sold (1)
BSA Bantam D10 can't remember
Honda VT 500 Sold in strange circumstances
Suzuki 600 Bandit Px for 1200
Suzuki 1200 Bandit Still got it
Kawasaki KMX 200 ( my wife's really ) Still got it !

I'm sure there are some more but these are all I can remember , they do span
28 years !

Nick

 

Speedgazebo said...

Was a dodgy looking bloke called Auvache involved?

 

(Steve Bullimore) wrote

250LC
FZR400RR
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1978 TS185c - crashed repeatedly, seized repeatedly, dismembered by
angle grinder late 2003, having not run since 1981.

1980 - KH250 - seized repeatedly, stolen, crashed, recovered, bodged
together, then seized again, before being *given* to the paperboy by
my mother around 1985.

1982 - Z750E1 - Crashed twice in a week[1,2], then stolen before the
insurance paid up. After I'd fitted Paioli shocks, and new tyres.

1983 - Z650C2 - seized in S of France[3], never crashed - px'd for:

1985 - GPZ750R - never crashed[4] - cams gave up the ghost so px'd
for:

1992 - CBR1000FL - crashed 3 or 4 times[5,6], sold to Mat Tab (RIP)
for the wheels and exhaust.

1997 - GL1500SE - only crashed the once, so far.[7]

1999 - CBR1100XXX - not crashed yet, though I did let it fall on me
once.

2000 - TS250C - not crashed - currently SORNed, undergoing
restoration.

2002 - KH500A8 - not run often enough to crash or seize, surprisingly.

[1] T-boned by a GPO van on Blackfriars bridge Rd. Bent frame.
[2] Hit up the arse by a Morris Marina on the way to the '83 TT.
[3] Filled up with oil, and carried on.
[4] It did get reversed over by a French farmer whilst parked.
[5] Once whilst holding the brakes on to dry them after a jet wash,
then went over a wet manhole cover on Acton Lane - the week after
Honda UK had fitted all new body panels FOC.
[6] Once on ice @ <5mph, once tailgated by a Pug 205 at a roundabout
in Bayeux.
[7] Thrown up the road in the wet @ ~35mph. Changed crash bars three
years later. Otherwise unmarked.

 

Lozzo wrote

Actually no and I am surprised to hear of one being sold without my
knowledge.

 

In roughly chronological order as far as I can remember

Peugeot 104
BSA Bantam D7
Honda CB250N
Yamaha XS400SE US Custom
RD250LC
BMW R80ST
Honda CB100N
BMW K100RS
BMW K75/ST2 combination
BMW R80RT
Suzuki GT250
Honda Melody Mini Paper Wing
Suzuki RGV250
BMW F650 Funduro
Harley Davidson XL883/1200

Golly, what an exciting biking life I've had...