Expensive Stunt Bike

[Big Dave]

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kiwirider/4705635382/" title="Britten Stoppie by KIWIRIDER, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4070/4705635382_e05cfc03f4.jpg" width="500" height="363" alt="Britten Stoppie" /></a>

[EJK]

Unique</10char>

[boman]

Great picture. And a bloody expensive stunt bike.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Lucky he didn't snap the front end out of it. Again. Wish the late great JB got around to putting forks in the front of that thing!

[slowpoke]

Interesting conundrum: you've got a choice between ridng like a numpty as you do now and having a Britten parked in the shed.....or you can not have the Britten but you can ride like Stroudy.......which do you choose.......?

[Big Dave]

Wear the Fox hat.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kiwirider/4705501157/" title="Grant Tregoning at Teretonga by KIWIRIDER, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4033/4705501157_5dc5478d13.jpg" width="500" height="329" alt="Grant Tregoning at Teretonga" /></a>

[Big Dave]

The Duct Sox

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kiwirider/4705500829/" title="Classic Racer at Pukekohe by KIWIRIDER, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4056/4705500829_2908c5e2d1.jpg" width="500" height="328" alt="Classic Racer at Pukekohe" /></a>

[Big Dave]

Circus Maximus

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kiwirider/4705429378/" title="agusta park by KIWIRIDER, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/4705429378_1f1cf8aa6d.jpg" width="500" height="340" alt="agusta park" /></a>

[boman]

Circus Maximus

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kiwirider/4705429378/" title="agusta park by KIWIRIDER, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/4705429378_1f1cf8aa6d.jpg" width="500" height="340" alt="agusta park" /></a>

:drool:Very very nice:drool:

[breakaway]

Looks like an overpriced GSXR. Look, even the headlight designs are pretty much identical!

[Big Dave]

or a GSXR looks like a cheap copy of an F4.

[EJK]

I was gonna say GSXRs are in millions whilist these things don't grow on trees. But BD got it well summed up.

[Crasherfromwayback]

or a GSXR looks like a cheap copy of an F4.

Except the GSXR arrived first

[Big Dave]

Except the GSXR arrived first

The didn't look much like a MV at first though. All the sprotsbikes got better looking with age till the R1 reversed the trend.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Agree with you there! Then the CBR Thou joined the R1!

[Big Dave]

Agree with you there! Then the CBR Thou joined the R1!

I think the latest Blade in white is tres hornbag.

[Crasherfromwayback]

I still think they look like they've run into the back of a bus!

[Big Dave]

What model suzuki salesman glasses are you sporting? :-P

[imdying]

I thought the latest CBR was ugly till I rode it.... now they could paint it pink and it'd still be the one.

[Crasherfromwayback]

What model suzuki salesman glasses are you sporting? :-P

The ones with rose tinted lenses mate!

[boman]

They didn't look much like a MV at first though. All the sprotsbikes got better looking with age till the R1 reversed the trend.

Thats for sure. The new R1 got hit with an ugly stick, alright.

[R6_kid]

Looks like an overpriced GSXR. Look, even the headlight designs are pretty much identical!

Uhhhh..... which GSXR would you be talking about? Last time I checked a GSXR didn't have undertail exhuast and single sided swingarm. The MV looked like this a long time before the GSXR started getting skinny and light.

This is what GSXR's looked like when the MV F4 was released.
http://www.gsxr.com.au/history/1998_GSX-R750_wb_470.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:91GSXR1100A.jpg

[Big Dave]

Uhhhh.....

Why do you suddenly resemble D Vettori on a Triumph?

[Banditbandit]

Circus Maximus

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kiwirider/4705429378/" title="agusta park by KIWIRIDER, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/4705429378_1f1cf8aa6d.jpg" width="500" height="340" alt="agusta park" /></a>

Very very pretty .. but last time I looked under the plastic there were oil lines, other lines, cables and stuff in all directions .. they used to call the Vincent engine the "Plumbers Nightmare" But the Augusta I saw was much worse ...

[onearmedbandit]

Uhhhh..... which GSXR would you be talking about? Last time I checked a GSXR didn't have undertail exhuast and single sided swingarm. The MV looked like this a long time before the GSXR started getting skinny and light.

This is what GSXR's looked like when the MV F4 was released.
<img src="http://www.gsxr.com.au/history/1998_GSX-R750_wb_470.jpg"/>
<img src="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:91GSXR1100A.jpg"/>

Uhhhh I think you'll find he's taking the piss there just a little.

[Reckless]

Is he?? I don't know my history as well as you guys but out of interest I googled 1998 MV Agusta and got this
http://www.autoevolution.com/moto/mv-agusta-f4-750-serie-oro-1997.html

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Looks to me like their design has been similar through time if that web site is correct??

Oh and to bring the thread back on topic, wouldn't it be nice to do just one lap on a famous bike like that. Just so you could see how it felt and say you've ridden it!!!

[onearmedbandit]

And does the GSXR from 1998 look anything like that?

[onearmedbandit]

Double Post.