What was the first bike you *really* wanted?

Macie wibbled incoherently

RD400

I've had 29 of them since.

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www.motomartin.com/images/pressbook/motorevue01.jpg
incomparable

 

Harley Davidson XLCR (sad I know), or an MV Agusta.

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Guig
GSF600SY Bandit - It's blue you know.
CBFA #1

Oh for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen.

 

I have a look for these every so often on eBay. Having said that there was a
750 Sei being ridden by a bloke in Newton Mearns when I was commuting to
Glasgow, was sorely tempted to follow him and ask him how much he wanted for
it.
--
Guig
GSF600SY Bandit - It's blue you know.
CBFA #1

Oh for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen.

 

Macie wrote

A Goldie.

 

Oh, please... the police knew to count the number of fins on the head
(it was the head wasn't it? 7 instead of 5 or something).

 

GSX250???? Horrible things. I'd much rather have the X5

 

Well you learn something every day.

Plod round your way must have been pretty clued up if they knew to
count the fins on the head.

The only time I got pulled with the 250 panels on I mumbled some kind
of excuse and made sure it was 350cc on the producer as all my
documents said 350cc. I think after that I didn't bother with the
numbers on the sidepanals (been resprayed, not original).

 

wibbled incoherently

It was the barrel, and you couldn't tell the difference in the number of
fins because the stroke was the same. The only distinguishing feature
was where it said either 247cc or 347cc at the base of the barrel
casting. The heads were identical castings that were machined to have a
larger diameter combustion chamber on the 350 and 400

You could only tell a 250 from a 400 because the 400 had 9 fins on the
barrel, the 250 had 8. Also, a 400s exhausts are slightly different
where the downpipe meets the silencer, there's a seperate black nitrile
(rubber) joining piece. Crafty folk like me would paint these silver so
they looked like 250 ones.

HTH

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ANORAK#9, DIAABTCOD#14, UKRMT5BB, IBW#013, MIRTTH#15a/16,
BotToS#8, GP#2, SBS#10, SH#3, DFV#14, KoBV#3.
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None of which was easy to spot by Victim when chasing something much
bigger and Victim is wondering what the fcuk's behind him.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Macie said:

AOL to the NS400

 

Big Tim wibbled incoherently

A more impressive mod I tried was to use a 250 clutch basket and primary
drive gear in a 400 along with the 250 exhausts. 250E exhausts have
identical internals, but when used on the rubber mounted 400 engine have
a tendency to crack at the join after a while. Much lower primary
gearing meant stupid wheelie capability in the first 3 gears, on what
looked like standard gearing from the outside. It was only good for a
top speed of about 105mph at the red line, but immense fun getting
there. Add in the Beckett proddy tune that I had done and the bike in
question was the biggest barrel of laughs I ever owned.

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Lozzo
ZZR1100D, GPZ500S, CBCBCB750RSRSRS
BOTAFOT#57/70a, BOTAFOF#57, two#49, MIB#22, TCP#7, BONY#9,
ANORAK#9, DIAABTCOD#14, UKRMT5BB, IBW#013, MIRTTH#15a/16,
BotToS#8, GP#2, SBS#10, SH#3, DFV#14, KoBV#3.
Url for ukrm newbies : http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html
www.mjkleathers.com

 

Suzuki GT185. Hydraulic disc brake *and* an electric starter.

Then the first BMW R100RS, early 1977. I couldn't believe that a bike
could look so good.

Never got the 185 - I sort of graduated to lusting after 250s, 400s and
the like. Got the R100RS a few years ago, though, and it lived up to all
my expectations, oddly enough. A remarkable machine.

 

ISTR quite a few people registering RD200s as 125s.

 

I rode an immaculate as-new restoration a while back, and the riding
experience left me rather underwhelmed. But the engineering is something
else. Worth having for that alone.

 

Not one of Honda's most reliable bikes. Nor the most economical. The
test bike I had did 24mpg and lunched its gearbox.

 

--
Clive

 

In August 1983 I saw a Katana 1100 parked on a concourse in central
London and vowed to get into bikes.

I went home and immediately bought a GP125 stroker and set about
learning to ride. In January 1985 I bought the said Kat from Wheels
International in Dunstable and had to ask the bloke to move it off its
centre stand on to its sidestand as it was too heavy for me. He asked
what I was used to riding and declared he wouldn't have sold me the Kat
if he had known I had only passed my test the week before.

That was one very impressive machine - and always drew the inevitable
questions when in company.
I took a break from bikes in 1987 and then bought a GPZ900R - again a
lovely bike and very quick for its time. Too quick in fact ....

Anyway, having been off two wheels for so long I have now started to
look for something to get back on again - but at my age I think it will
have to be a 600 Hornet or Bandit.

Will let you all know as and when.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, The Older Gentleman said:

That's a relief then

I wanted one because my mate's RD125 beat my DT and then when said mate
got an RD350 I thought how bloody fast the NS must have gone. The RD
really quite scared me at the time and I remember that if an RD350 road
bike was that fast, then a bike like the NS400 which I saw as a race
bike must have been bloody awesome

 

The original Triumph Trident. As it turned out, it wasn't all that good,
but it looked just so right.

Same applied to the XLCR Hardly.

Lucky escape really - I owned neither of those bikes.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
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FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19