Nostalgic Dreams

[Smifffy]

Inspired by the 'Pipe dream' thread, and the 'What could you do on your first bike [etc]' thread, and their responses, I pose the following question.

What was the bike you really wanted when you first started riding and were probably still on your learners, or were otherwise constrained financially?

For me it was the FZR 750. Strangely, I still haven't owned a larger capacity sprots bike.

[Edbear]

Inspired by the 'Pipe dream' thread, and the 'What could you do on your first bike [etc]' thread, and their responses, I pose the following question.

What was the bike you really wanted when you first started riding and were probably still on your learners, or were otherwise constrained financially?

For me it was the FZR 750. Strangely, I still haven't owned a larger capacity sprots bike.

Norton Commando... :niceone:

[Usarka]

ZX6r

Always gave me wood.

[Geeen]

When I was on my learners the bike I wanted was a CBR600, I have since owned one and selling it was one of the hardest things I've had to do.

[Katman]

A wire wheel Katana.

[pete376403]

750 Trident (the original, T150). The BSA Rocket 3 didn't interest me at all.

I was well on the way to the $1900 or thereabouts new price when I was seduced by the dark side and bought a Kawasaki Bighorn trailbike

[mashman]

Aprilia RSV Mille. In ways I wish they'd have kept the original nose.

[James Deuce]

Suzuki GS1000S

[Madness]

Bimota Mantra. Just kidding.

RG500. I still want one today.

[Kickaha]

T140 Bonneville, I've ridden one but yet to own one

[Laava]

CBX1000 would still have one

[Road kill]

1972 Triumph 650 five speed bonneville.
Red with white blase and gold pin stripes.

[caseye]

XS 750 yammy triple, the ol coal burner is as close as I've got in thirty years, still time.

[Edbear]

750 Trident (the original, T150). The BSA Rocket 3 didn't interest me at all.

I was well on the way to the $1900 or thereabouts new price when I was seduced by the dark side and bought a Kawasaki Bighorn trailbike

And the Rocket 3 but that wasn't until the later one without the original mufflers.


XS 750 yammy triple, the ol coal burner is as close as I've got in thirty years, still time.

I had the 1981 750 Special, great bike!

[buggerit]

Wanted a TT500 with a Preston Petty tank or IT465.Still do :niceone::headbang:

[Motu]

It's always been a BSA Goldstar for me....still is. Lusted for a 501 Maico for some time too.

[scissorhands]

We all had 2 stroke triples when aged 15-20yrs old, Susy GT's and Kwaka Z1,2 and 3's
A mates older brother had a Triumph Trident that I coveted for a good while. Then there were the wanting a Yamaha XS6501and2 years, the Honda XR500 years.

Always loved the way the headers stuck out straight on a Triumph

[Edbear]

It's always been a BSA Goldstar for me....still is. Lusted for a 501 Maico for some time too.

The Maico was a bike I think most of our era lusted after!

[Ocean1]

This: 281807

I had a wee taste on a pit paddock once. It fitted me perfectly. Like so:

http://livewire.gen.nz/livewireblog/?page_id=566

And you never know, I'm not too old yet....

[xXGIBBOXx]

Norton Commando... :niceone:

woke up to the sound of one when i was a kid . The guy two doors down 5.50am on the dot . Best alarm ever

[spanner spinner]

GPZ750 turbo, did get to ride a couple as I had a xn85 and other turbo riders where always keen to try out the other turbo bikes, you ride my bike I ride yours.

[Berries]

GSXR 750. In blue with twin headlights. If they didn't look crap these days I'd have one.

[Motu]

The Maico was a bike I think most of our era lusted after!

I turned down a good Maico 400 once - it just wasn't a 501. Mind you, a B31 wasn't a Goldstar either - but it had the same frame, and with Goldstar cams, piston etc I could push the dream as far as cast iron would allow.

[EJK]

Back then in 2007 when I first got my learners, I remember walking into Red Baron and seeing a Candy Plasma Blue 2006 ZX-6R...

Oh, how I so ever wanted that bike ever since...

[martybabe]

I'm firmly stuck in the seventies, when a 500 seemed like a big bike, so the object of my lust (and just about everyone else's) was obviously the Z900. Despite owning 30 ish bikes I never did get one or ride one. I probably wouldn't be as impressed today as I would have been back then though so it will forever stay a dream bike.

[orangeback]

moto guzzi 1973 v7 sport in green
a good year , the year i was born

[Edbear]

I turned down a good Maico 400 once - it just wasn't a 501. Mind you, a B31 wasn't a Goldstar either - but it had the same frame, and with Goldstar cams, piston etc I could push the dream as far as cast iron would allow.

Agreed, nothing came close to the 501! :first:

My first bike was a '51 B31.

[Swoop]

Two bikes.
'86 Honda VFR 750. They were the shizz in RWB. Lusted after.
Oddly, back in '80 a Yamaha XT 250 was flavour of the month...

[MIXONE]

Honda CB750/4.

I've since owned several.

[Banditbandit]

A Harley chopper called "Baby" ... from a movie called The Hard Ride that came out in 1971.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QYMApDAzkK8/UCAd4tfOwyI/AAAAAAAAHFw/w_vG47mwnY8/s1600/HARD+RIDE+2.jpg


Now .. I think it's rubbish and I would not build one like it ... but at the time I thougth it was cool.

[Banditbandit]

My first bike was a '51 B31.

I once had a 1951 B33 (It was not my first bike)

[Edbear]

I once had a 1951 B33 (It was not my first bike)

I wanted the B33, but then got the opportunity to buy a mate's near new T500 Suzuki. Never looked back!

[Murray]

I wanted a GT750 waterbus but ended up with the GT380. Then an XL350 big single banger then a CB550

[Banditbandit]

I wanted the B33, but then got the opportunity to buy a mate's near new T500 Suzuki. Never looked back!

I know what you mean ... I had the B33 as part of a classic collection - with three other BSAs and two Triumphs ... my daily transport was a Honda FT400 by then ..

[Edbear]

I wanted a GT750 waterbus but ended up with the GT380. Then an XL350 big single banger then a CB550

I was very keen on the 380 and the 550 triples, but loved the T500 to much to give it up.


I know what you mean ... I had the B33 as part of a classic collection - with three other BSAs and two Triumphs ... my daily transport was a Honda FT400 by then ..

I'd still like a BSA for classic collection, too, but certainly once you have the power, reliability etc. of a Jappa, they aren't suited to daily use. My neighbour sadly sold his '70 Trophy for a late model Thruxton for this reason.

[BigAl]

I'm firmly stuck in the seventies, when a 500 seemed like a big bike, so the object of my lust (and just about everyone else's) was obviously the Z900.

+1 for the Z900, a little later the GS1000S or RZ500 were the objects of my desire:rolleyes:

[Richard Mc F]

Kawasaki Z1A 900, there were two brothers used to ride past our house when I had my first bike, one was the orange and brown Kwaka, one of them became my third bike, took me every where wore out chains and tyres ( TT100's) like a bastard, probably the reason I am a life time biker

[Motu]

My first bike was a '51 B31.

My 2nd bike was a '51 B31, the bike was older than me at the time. After it got run over I put the ZB engine into a '54 A10 frame. Lots of modifications later it ended up with a '48 M20 engine. Then my riding style changed to what I've loved doing ever since - pushing a slow bike fast...much better than not being able to extract everything from a fast bike.

[nudemetalz]

RZ500....with 4 chambers to go with it !!! Rinnnnnng ning ning ning ning !!!

Damn,..I so remember those old days.

[Big Dave]

http://www.zerkelmotorwerks.com/stuff4/xl.jpg

[Banditbandit]

A Harley Diddleson factory Cafe Racer .. I haven't seen a real one of those for years .. I did like them when they came out ... (But then I liked Harleys before I grew up ... :innocent:)

[Motu]

Sometimes the dreams come true. In the late '60's and early '70's we used to go to all the motocross races in the area - old British singles, nasty sounding Spanish 2 strokes...and Rickmans. I loved watching the Rickmans, the riders on those just seemed so much more flamboyant - on the rear wheel over every jump or bump in the track, huge roostertails and full lock sideways out of corners....they seemed to be a bike full of obvious magic. I used to think '' When I grow up I'm gunna have one of those, I'm gunna ride it on the road and I will look really cool.''

One day leaving an MX at Mangere Mountain there was a red Rickman Metisse in the car park - with lights! So it was really possible, someone was actually riding one of those things on the road. We left in my brothers Morris Minor, I was kicking the firewall to start up the SU fuel pump and dreaming of a Rickman on the road. The newer lightweight 2 strokes made the Rickman obsolete pretty fast, and the last Rickman I saw racing was an olive green one at an MX in Kumeu in about 1972...it was really slow. In 1975 I bought that bike minus engine for $400, and fitted an engine from a wrecked 1973 Triumph Daytona.

Yes, I really did ride a Rickman Metisse on the road.

http://i1009.photobucket.com/albums/af212/bmwr65/scan0021.jpg

http://i1009.photobucket.com/albums/af212/bmwr65/scan0020_zpsee27115e.jpg

This is a nice one with the 500cc unit engine.

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4019/4588974644_52d60c8000_b.jpg

[puddytat]

My first bike was a SL70 but the first bike I ever lusted after was a XR250A. Started an apprenticeship & 6mths later I had one. New.

[spanner spinner]

+1 for the Z900, a little later the GS1000S or RZ500 were the objects of my desire:rolleyes:

Yep RZ500 was on my radar as well to the point that I ended up owning two of them. The first one got written off by a dormant car driver not giving way to me at a roundabout, so I had to buy another. Now wish I had kept it, there is nothing like a big multi cylinder two stroke and no one is allowed to make them anymore.

[Berries]

Gn 250. Ftw!