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    Quote Originally Posted by Edbear View Post
    My first bike was a '51 B31.
    I once had a 1951 B33 (It was not my first bike)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Banditbandit View Post
    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!
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    I wanted a GT750 waterbus but ended up with the GT380. Then an XL350 big single banger then a CB550


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    Quote Originally Posted by Edbear View Post
    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 ..
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    Quote Originally Posted by Murray View Post
    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.

    Quote Originally Posted by Banditbandit View Post
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by martybabe View Post
    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
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    Quote Originally Posted by Edbear View Post
    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.
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    RZ500....with 4 chambers to go with it !!! Rinnnnnng ning ning ning ning !!!

    Damn,..I so remember those old days.


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    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 ... )
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    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.





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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BigAl View Post
    +1 for the Z900, a little later the GS1000S or RZ500 were the objects of my desire
    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.

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    Gn 250. Ftw!

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