The ultimate in bike porn

[Blackbird]

It's wonderful just how many old bikes are still in existence and have been restored to original condition. An old friend in the UK has just sent me a link to some classic auctions in the UK which is well worth sharing, not only for the photos and prices, but the technical info which goes with each bike. This is the link with 7 pages of them: http://www.coys.co.uk/the-carole-nash-mcn-london-motorcycle-show#auction-lots .

The emotional connection with bikes is a highly personal one but for me Lot 195, the Ducati Hailwood 900 Evolutzione is the loveliest bike ever built. The Guzzi V8 replica is pretty special too. Wasn't that long ago when Sammy miller had his replica at Pukekohe.

Enjoy!!!

[Banditbandit]

Oh yes ...

If I had the money .. (like won lotto)

The Duke 916 limited edition
The V8 Guzzi

Maybe one or two of the other Dukes ...

[husaberg]

Two stroke Porn
Roland Sands TZ (V Twin)framed RD400
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The ultimate in Bike porn for me is the RC174 Replica Beale did
Oil ways as thin as a human hair.http://www.motorcyclistonline.com/honda-rc174-rc-reborn
http://www.visordown.com/uploads/images/Large/10858.jpg


For the modernish stuff it has to be a er...20 year old Ducati Supermono
http://www.scigacz.pl/cache/imgs/_w306/gallery/publikacje/2012/Pierre_Terblanche_projektuje_dla_ludzi_a_nie_dla_f irm/_Ducati_Supermono.jpg

[Kickaha]

the Ducati Hailwood 900 Evolutzione is the loveliest bike ever built.

I feel like stabbing you for that comment, it is an ugly pile of muntage compared to the original, actually it's an ugly pile of muntage compare to everything except for maybe a Bimota Mantra

[Blackbird]

I feel like stabbing you for that comment, it is an ugly pile of muntage compared to the original, actually it's an ugly pile of muntage compare to everything except for maybe a Bimota Mantra

Warwick, what would Mainlanders know about taste, apart from whitebait and Speights?:innocent:

[Crasherfromwayback]

I feel like stabbing you for that comment, it is an ugly pile of muntage compared to the original, actually it's an ugly pile of muntage compare to everything except for maybe a Bimota Mantra

Have to agree with you there.

[Kickaha]

Warwick, what would Mainlanders know about taste, apart from whitebait and Speights?:innocent:

I dont like either of those

[Voltaire]

I'll play, didn't even bother looking once I saw this.
I met a Father and 'Son' touring around Greece in 1989 on one of these....uber cool, in fact uber alles.
Ok I did take a peek at the rest, 900ss, Laverda SF750 and Guzzi 750 Sport.
Oh and agree with Kick on the MHR replica replica....yuk.
http://www.coys.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/cars/auto-draft/Ref-28-BMW-R75-Africa-Corps-4-750x563.jpg

[jellywrestler]

Wasn't that long ago when Sammy miller had his replica at Pukekohe.

Enjoy!!!

no, it was the real thing, they also had the velo roare and the supercharged beemer, first time since before ww2 that the bikes had appeared together too

[jim.cox]

Warwick, what would Mainlanders know about taste, apart from whitebait and Speights?:innocent:

Oysters and Emerson's - that's what :)

[Blackbird]

Oysters and Emerson's - that's what :)

Now you're talking. :Punk:

[eelracing]

Overpriced cosseted shite the lot of it.Will be brought to sit in collections and never ridden as there makers intended...sad


I'll have the Rudge Ulster thanx.

[Dadpole]

I must be out of my mind - I really like the 1957 MV Agusta 250 Raid ‘Disco Volante' :shit:

(But only in red. I am hoping the pink is just in the photo)

[merv]

I feel like stabbing you for that comment, it is an ugly pile of muntage compared to the original, actually it's an ugly pile of muntage compare to everything except for maybe a Bimota Mantra

I agree entirely that Ducati looks ugly and as for the Mantra I always called it the Looney Tunes bike because it looked so like it would fit in the cartoon.

[WristTwister]

I know everyone has their own tastes, but I think this is #sexontwowheels

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FEcDk8bctos/VE6zoEEs3OI/AAAAAAAByM0/1DN0_YSZyBk/s1600/BMWEurobike1.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/00/a4/65/00a4650a22bd428efc1878844c529941.jpg

[TheDemonLord]

I'll play, didn't even bother looking once I saw this.
I met a Father and 'Son' touring around Greece in 1989 on one of these....uber cool, in fact uber alles.
Ok I did take a peek at the rest, 900ss, Laverda SF750 and Guzzi 750 Sport.
Oh and agree with Kick on the MHR replica replica....yuk.

If I had silly amounts of spare cash - I'd have one of those in my Garage.... With an MG42....

[Erelyes]

'43 R75 Afrika Korps (http://www.coys.co.uk/cars/1943-bmw-r75-afrika-korps-military-sidecar)
'96 916 SP3 (http://www.coys.co.uk/cars/1996-ducati-916-sp3-limited-edition-number-178-of-497)
'73 Laverda triple thou (http://www.coys.co.uk/cars/1973-laverda-3c-1000)
These are a few of my favourite things

Fails:
'78 CB550 by Bomber. (http://www.coys.co.uk/cars/1978-honda-cb550-by-bomber) WTF is with the fake carbon indicators????

[Banditbandit]

I feel like stabbing you for that comment, it is an ugly pile of muntage compared to the original, actually it's an ugly pile of muntage compare to everything except for maybe a Bimota Mantra


Have to agree with you there.

Wot he said ... piece of ugly shit ..


I know everyone has their own tastes, but I think this is #sexontwowheels




Oh yes .. I'd lengthen the back end over the back wheel .. but otherwise that is awesome .

[F5 Dave]

I'll play, didn't even bother looking once I saw this.
I met a Father and 'Son' touring around Greece in 1989 on one of these....uber cool, in fact uber alles.
Ok I did take a peek at the rest, 900ss, Laverda SF750 and Guzzi 750 Sport.
Oh and agree with Kick on the MHR replica replica....yuk.
http://www.coys.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/cars/auto-draft/Ref-28-BMW-R75-Africa-Corps-4-750x563.jpg
Now you've started it.
California.
Uber alles.. .
California uber alles


That's going to be in ny head for a while.

Anyway Flip will be along soon no doubt with that pic drawing him in like a reverse magpie.

[Metastable]

500cc two stroke Suter V4, track only = perfect.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/64oBm5y1Zd0/hqdefault.jpg

For street giggles:
Avinton - SS engine, little else. big twin in little bike.
http://monsieurvintage.com/photos/2014/04/avinton-1-635x423.jpg
http://moto.zombdrive.com/images/avinton-7.jpg

[pritch]

Have to agree with you there.

I was smiling at some of the choices and thinking of your earlier remarks. (For Crasher two strokes rule.)

Previously we only had prices, now we have lovely colour pics too. Brilliant.

I thought that V8 Guzzi was presented as an original? The only quote I can remember was to the effect that it was twenty years since one had come up for sale.
That sort of implies it wasn't original but isn't definitive. I see that the full story can be assessed from the link.

[Crasherfromwayback]

(For Crasher two strokes rule.)

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You know it!

[Banditbandit]

I've always loved the look of these

http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/Gallery%20%20A/Moto%20Morini%20500S%2078%20%202.jpg

[jasonu]

I've always loved the look of these

http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/Gallery%20%20A/Moto%20Morini%20500S%2078%20%202.jpg

:sick: Nothing special to see here...

[Banditbandit]

:sick: Nothing special to see here...

Taste is taste - and individual ..

[jasonu]

Taste is taste - and individual ..

Tru dat sista.

[husaberg]

I've always loved the look of these




:sick: Nothing special to see here...

If it was the 3 1/2 sport with wire wheels and drum brakes maybe.
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[F5 Dave]

People get squishy over morinis but I'd think that they would be slow as heck opening the volume control.
A Benelli 2C would be quite cool however.

[Grumph]

People get squishy over morinis but I'd think that they would be slow as heck opening the volume control.
A Benelli 2C would be quite cool however.

Funny you should say squishy....from the factory most had at least 2mm squish which on a heron head is f'n useless. I did a Dart for BEARS racing which went pretty good in the end. But not exciting IMO. Like porting a snail shell too, inlets curl through 180 degrees in the head castings.

A Benelli 2C has nice running gear compared to it's jap opposition of the period - but the motor is like a Suzuki T10 built in China with Italian electrics....

[husaberg]

People get squishy over morinis but I'd think that they would be slow as heck opening the volume control.
A Benelli 2C would be quite cool however.

From memory the morini they had about the same HP as a 250 LC.
But looked ubber cooler.
the bigger ones were no faster than the 350's pretty sure the later they were, the slower they were.
The 2c while pretty, is just a big bored 125. Someone on KB up Auckland has one or two of them, He posts occasionally on ESE.

[Voltaire]

I had a Guzzi with the Heron head, the Heron design makes for interesting reading, but a pretty gutless bike.
For those of you who don't know what it is, the head where the valves go is flat and the combustion chamber is in the piston, works for aircraft engines of the 20's, Cortinas and Jag V12's I think.
The current crop of Guzzi 750s are probably the same.
+1 on Moto Morini 3 1/2 with drum brake and spokes.:Punk:

[jasonu]

A Benelli 2C has nice running gear compared to it's jap opposition of the period - but the motor is like a Suzuki T10 built in China with Italian electrics....

So I'm right, they're shit.

[F5 Dave]

Well really I'd like a Hardley Ableson SS350 that I could put ape hangers and highway pegs and join HOG.

B-ring ding ding ding..

[husaberg]

Well really I'd like a Hardley Ableson SS350 that I could put ape hangers and highway pegs and join HOG.

B-ring ding ding ding..

Oddly, I always like the Aermacchis.
those last shitbox HD350ss had the best Aermacchi 350 engine with 5 speed and a decent head.
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Then the RR250 and 350's. These were the best bikes Harley never made
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Plus when Harley sold them off they became Cagivas

Anyway
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[F5 Dave]

The Barton was the best bike that Harley.. . no wait that wasn't them. It wasn't even Buell.

[husaberg]

The Barton was the best bike that Harley.. . no wait that wasn't them. It wasn't even Buell.

I see what you nearly did there.:innocent:
But the Hardley RR250 won three consecutive world championships and 350 one.
I'm not sure if the Barton Buell even finished a race meeting.

[Banditbandit]

If it was the 3 1/2 sport with wire wheels and drum brakes maybe.
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very nice ...

[pete376403]

Well really I'd like a Hardley Ableson SS350 that I could put ape hangers and highway pegs and join HOG.

B-ring ding ding ding..

If you really wanted to piss off HOG you should find a n H-D Rapido

[Moi]

If you really wanted to piss off HOG you should find a n H-D Rapido

You'd soften them up with the Rapido...

and go in for the kill with a Topper :bleh:

http://v-twin-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/harley-davidson-topper-ad.jpg

[F5 Dave]

Who said I wanted to piss off the hardlyableson T-shirt, bandana, and matching jeans club. I just wanted to buy my way into a group of devilmaycare righteous bros and get some respect. Might as well ride a decent bike while yer at it.
After all Harley is my middle name. No really, it actually is.

[Moi]

...I just wanted to buy my way into a group of devil-may-care righteous bros and get some respect...

Then the Topper's for you... look at the threesome, how much more devil-may-care could you be?

[F5 Dave]

Hmm, I'd have to change my whole wardrobe, and I'd look dreadful in those red hotpants.

[Metastable]

Aermacchi Harley Davidson.... might actually be a giggle to ride. I believe most were 50 - 250cc 2-strokes.
http://www.bestcarinf.com/manufacturers/aermacchi/aermacchi-harley-davidson/aermacchi-harley-davidson-50cc/aermacchi-harley-davidson-50cc-4.jpg

Until you guys started talking about the Barton Buell, I didn't even know it existed.
http://www.influx.co.uk/blog/bike-crush-buell-battletwin/

Looks Heavy :D
http://d3d9npwwya966f.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Buell.jpg

[jasonu]

Aermacchi Harley Davidson.... might actually be a giggle to ride. I believe most were 50 - 250cc 2-strokes.
http://www.bestcarinf.com/manufacturers/aermacchi/aermacchi-harley-davidson/aermacchi-harley-davidson-50cc/aermacchi-harley-davidson-50cc-4.jpg

Until you guys started talking about the Barton Buell, I didn't even know it existed.
http://www.influx.co.uk/blog/bike-crush-buell-battletwin/

Looks fucking ugly. :D
http://d3d9npwwya966f.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Buell.jpg
Fixed it for ya...

[F5 Dave]

Erm. . .thats totally not it.

https://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en-NZ&ie=UTF-8&source=android-browser&q=750+Barton&gfe_rd=cr&ei=zxvbVt6UDqXM8gef_JbgBA&gws_rd=ssl#gfe_rd=cr&gws_rd=ssl&imgrc=fsVxQiF9qSyG1M%3A
https://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en-NZ&ie=UTF-8&source=android-browser&q=750+Barton&gfe_rd=cr&ei=zxvbVt6UDqXM8gef_JbgBA&gws_rd=ssl#gfe_rd=cr&gws_rd=ssl&imgrc=fsVxQiF9qSyG1M%3A


https://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en-NZ&ie=UTF-8&source=android-browser&q=750+Barton&gfe_rd=cr&ei=zxvbVt6UDqXM8gef_JbgBA&gws_rd=ssl#gfe_rd=cr&gws_rd=ssl&imgrc=e-xy5kvagCDD8M%3A

[Metastable]

He is correct thought that one I posted is Fugly! :D

According to the article, the frame for those 1000 and 1200cc Buells were also from Barton.