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  1. #13861
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    Quote Originally Posted by F5 Dave View Post
    Never rode the triple. They had ads in cycle 1980 with the different engines

    Rode the single SR500 (had a TT500)
    Rode the twin XS650, or was it TX
    Rode the four XS11.

    None of them made me want one.
    Ya either love a big single or ya don't...
    the TX was the pre XS... tx had a few issues sorted with the xs
    xs1.1 awesome toque great engines but again either like em or not
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    Quote Originally Posted by dangerous View Post
    Ya either love a big single or ya don't...
    the TX was the pre XS... tx had a few issues sorted with the xs
    xs1.1 awesome toque great engines but again either like em or not
    The TT was kinda fun around the suburbs (an 18yr old had but one vehicle) but kinda dreadful too. That headlight was woeful come to think about it.

    But the SR was almost a cruiser, guess they pandered to the amercan market too far. The SRX looked better but haven't ridden one.

    Got far more fizzy by that stage by RZs.

    The 1.1 was kinda same vein as my GS but felt heavier still.
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    Quote Originally Posted by F5 Dave View Post
    Never rode the triple. They had ads in cycle 1980 with the different engines

    Rode the single SR500 (had a TT500)
    Rode the twin XS650, or was it TX
    Rode the four XS11.

    None of them made me want one.
    I knew a bloke in hikurangi who made a Ducati style trellis frame and ali tank for his crashed XS11 and he sent me out for a spin on it. Compared to my Darmah of the day, it was pretty awesome but I guess also far removed from stock. Great motor tho!
    Only a Rat can win a Rat Race!

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    Quote Originally Posted by F5 Dave View Post
    Never rode the triple. They had ads in cycle 1980 with the different engines

    Rode the single SR500 (had a TT500)
    Rode the twin XS650, or was it TX
    Rode the four XS11.

    None of them made me want one.
    I've ridden the SR500 .. it went quite well. Not exactly awe inspiring ... but I'd own and ride one. Quite a few big singles ended up as commuter bikes. With good rubber and with a few teeth less on the rear sprocket ... even the dirt bikes did the job well. Being narrow made them both good in traffic.

    There was a TX650 as well as an XS650. The TX650 was well sorted and popular. Yamaha tried to improve on the TX650 ... and created a TX750 (Also a twin). And they had a shit-load of problems with them.

    I thought the XS1.1 was heavy. In later years I got the FJ1200. The XS wasn't that heavy ...
    When life throws you a curve ... Lean into it ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Laava View Post
    I knew a bloke in hikurangi who made a Ducati style trellis frame and ali tank for his crashed XS11 and he sent me out for a spin on it. Compared to my Darmah of the day, it was pretty awesome but I guess also far removed from stock. Great motor tho!
    In the early 1980's ... I rode a GS1000e. I did quite a few miles in company with an XS1100.

    It took a bit of effort to keep up sometimes ...
    When life throws you a curve ... Lean into it ...

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    Optimistic scumbag buyer.

    https://www.trademe.co.nz/3018844813

    This guy mistakingly listed his bike for $1 now some fuckwit (read first question) is harassing him because he's not following through with the $1 "sale". Dude needs his head cracked.

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    "Re-listed my bike."

    Faaaarking maggot!

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    Dear friends I dropped by to play an old favorite, one that never ever gets old. The mighty purple H2A!!!

    https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/m...ing/3021058007


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    I see your ning ninga and raise you a potato potato. Listed as HD but will prob have zero HD parts and been listed for a long time as well!
    https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/m...ing/2992741519
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    and here I was thinking you were posting the Paihia harley, but at 60,000 this ones a winner too, we need to tell him he's dreamin'


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    It has "Manly" valves. Clearly as a girly-man I could never own it.
    I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave

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    My mother was born in Manly.

    I have questions.
    Don't you look at my accountant.
    He's the only one I've got.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Laava View Post
    I see your ning ninga and raise you a potato potato. Listed as HD but will prob have zero HD parts and been listed for a long time as well!
    https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/m...ing/2992741519
    That sum would seem seriously optimistic. The other day I saw a YouTube clip of a guy with an Orange County Chopper that cost US$80,000 new. Fifteen years later he had bought it for $8,000. There was no instrumentation so there was no knowing how many miles it had done. The thing was so uncomfortable though that he felt it would not have travelled far.

    OK the chopper here looks 1000% better than an Orange County PoS but even so...



    Here's the clip:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eklhXby-XBg
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beekeeper View Post
    and here I was thinking you were posting the Paihia harley, but at 60,000 this ones a winner too, we need to tell him he's dreamin'
    The obligatory oil catch tray underneath it. If it WAS worth $60,000 ... it wouldn't leak oil ..
    When life throws you a curve ... Lean into it ...

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