Bikes getting too sick?

[**R1**]

But who the fuck wants to be "sensible"
Not me!
May as well go out and buy a beige cardy, pipe and slippers!

I agree, if they wernt what people wanted im sure the factorys would have started building bikes with a 120kph limmiters, and snooze controll...

[FROSTY:Me]

all i can say is --xj900 nuff said really

[SPman]

So, Tony . . . thats why your're selling it - snooze control faulty . .?

[Dafe]

If you are having probs keeping a licence (used to be a prob of mine), then stick to the big v-twins. You can cruise on them at legal motorway speeds all day, and they still go like stink when you want to open them up, or put them on a track. Great for torque and quick launches from the lights.

They may not be quite so quick as the fours, but they are a lot quicker than the bus - once you've lost your licence.

Totally agree with you dude!

Also, Ride to enjoy!!! Nothing beats riding a V-Twin with aftermarket cans! Just love riding at 100k even, just sounds so good.
Love rumbling upto lights and love rumbling away from them too.
Can't beat rolling down a busy city street enclosed by buildings and just letting off that accelerator and engine braking to a halt - The sound is ohhhhhh so goooood!

Thanks to White Trash for selling me my much loved Noise Machine!

[oldfart]

[shrug] squidlies crash 'em, squidlies remove themselves from the gene pool. Usually before they've had time to propagate. Darwin in action.

Ah yes, nature at her finest. Same result in Hastings last weekend. Always a lottery to see if any of us survive our youth. Some how I survived the 70's wobbly jappers & plastic tyres, but they sure didn't go a fraction as fast as todays bikes. I bought my humble GPZ to keep within the law, but it isn't farken working as the bloody thing still insists on speeding & taking me along for the ride.

[Toast]

Totally agree with you dude!

Also, Ride to enjoy!!! Nothing beats riding a V-Twin with aftermarket cans! Just love riding at 100k even, just sounds so good.
Love rumbling upto lights and love rumbling away from them too.
Can't beat rolling down a busy city street enclosed by buildings and just letting off that accelerator and engine braking to a halt - The sound is ohhhhhh so goooood!

Thanks to White Trash for selling me my much loved Noise Machine!

Yeah man, those SVs are class! Some dude at the gas station after a Puke track day had one, and it felt like it was gonna bring the canopy of the servo down...mint I think his one had Two Bro's pipes. Off the throttle slowing down they sound eeeven better.

[Paul in NZ]

Rubbish - still one of the best looking motorcycles on the market today - and Riccardo Engineering (as in Triumph Riccy), Cosworth, Lotus etc were all involved in the new Triumphs.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries of Japan Inc they ain't.

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Well looks are subjective things eh! I reckon the W650 is a really nicely proportioned bike and has pure lines. The new Bonnie is cursed with a fugly engine and exhaust pipes but thats just my opinion.....

Oh well, ya pays ya money!

[ZorsT]

is this the next stage then? fins, to keep you on the ground?

nice bike tho

no, see page 80 of Taking to the Road by Rhys Jones. You will see a picture of a race bike with upside down wings, apparently the "authorities decided it might destabilise the other bikes" so they were banned. The picture is black and white. I estimate it was from the 70's

[Rincewind]

Ha HA - but my Guzzi is the real deal mate.... Not a copy...

Diving through the close ratio box just for pleasure to hear the howl from the straight cut gears coupled with the menacing bellow from the open carbs. It makes a noise like a WW2 fighter on emergency power pulling out of a dive. Like a willful stallion its a bike that needs a firm hand as you feed it into the sweeping bend, never shifting from the seat and real men don't ride like that! Suddenly you are not so much clipping the apex, you obliterate it in a flash of 80's excess as a double handfull of throttle brings a startled lurch and a angry roar from the gutted mufflers.... No ripping of calico here, no technology induced steroid manic behaviour just the powerful conversion of hydrocarbons into pure fun and an Italian aria that would put a horn on a jelly fish and turn Elton John straight!

Its a mans bike sonny! It even says so on the side!'

You stole that of a packet of cornflake's or summat!!!!

[Paul in NZ]

You stole that of a packet of cornflake's or summat!!!!

No, I was bored and made it up.

Really it's an oily old pile of crap but I figure the magazines can get away with it......

[ZorsT]

No, I was bored and made it up.

Really it's an oily old pile of crap but I figure the magazines can get away with it......

WRITE BOOKS

[Rincewind]

No, I was bored and made it up.

Really it's an oily old pile of crap but I figure the magazines can get away with it......

Ha Ha top man, you should write that stuff for a living mate it's better than some of the pro stuff I've had to read...made me laff

[Oakie]

Eh -= someone mentioned ECNZ *perk*

Stratford Power Station here... Fitter...

Small world, I used to be a linesman for Alstom, and my old man was an operator at almost every station in the south island. Then up here at Haywards. Freaky

I didn't do anything too exciting. Drove a desk at Twizel Area Office from '88 to '92. Made sure that the money that came in to and went out of the organisation was accounted for.

[geoffm]

upside down wings? Sounds like Brittin's first bike, a V twin built out of 2 Westlake speedway motors. Had a mag article around here somewhere...
Geoff

[oldfart]

no, see page 80 of Taking to the Road by Rhys Jones. You will see a picture of a race bike with upside down wings, apparently the "authorities decided it might destabilise the other bikes" so they were banned. The picture is black and white. I estimate it was from the 70's

Sounds like Roger Freeth's RG500. Around 76-77 he worked out the aerodynamic design of Aerofoils required to produce more down force on the bike. THey were considered dangerous, (yet more feckin bureaucratic dip shittery). Next season, factory RG's that Sheene & co were riding appeared with aerofoils built into the fairing.