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    Bike not brand.

    These days it tends to be classically styled machines with simple, flowing lines, curves, and minimal features. Whatever it is, it's got to have something that I respond to. The Transformers look that a lot of modern bikes have works for a lot of people but not for me.

    I'm also put off by complex machinery and electronic trickery. If I can't fix it myself and will be a prisoner to the dealer network / authorised mechanics etc then I avoid the bike.

    Re earlier comments about Cagiva years Ducatis and the 900SS - the bike's put me through the wringer alright, can't deny that... don't go there if you just want to ride... but I have never had better times biking. Sometimes you've gotta go with what works for you and practicality be damned.

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    Yep I think Bike not brand sells, I wanted a Triumph from the late 60s-70 era, but the price and thoughts of repairs pushed me towards a 99 Kawasaki W650 and I love it.

    An chance encounter with an old mate on his ride had me drooling.
    A bike brand I never imagined owning suddenly looked, sounded and felt so right on riding that I had to have one, hence the HD "Black Mistress" that has captured my heart and soul, the wife says I talk to and caress the bike more than her, she is probably right.

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    I once thought "brand" ... BSA or Triumph ... no rice rockets ...

    Now I think BIKE ... and I ride Japanese ...
    "So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."

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    I'll likely go with brand myself, as I have gone with Yamaha for my first bike and very likely stay with Yamaha. My silly reasoning behind this is I love their guitar design and quality, their logo being three tuning forks and they make some of the best grand pianos around. So if Vox or Gibson made a motorcycle I'd probably be riding one haha.

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    I love the look of Ducatis.

    I think of them like a 23 year old with big tits. Great to look at, but you don't wanna take it home.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rastuscat View Post
    You don't wanna take it home.
    Should read "You are not able to get one home".
    I have evolved as a KB member.Now nothing I say should be taken seriously.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aphro_Ant View Post
    I'll likely go with brand myself, as I have gone with Yamaha for my first bike and very likely stay with Yamaha. My silly reasoning behind this is I love their guitar design and quality, their logo being three tuning forks and they make some of the best grand pianos around. So if Vox or Gibson made a motorcycle I'd probably be riding one haha.
    I can understand that. Although I hate to think what a Gibson motorcycle would cost. My Les Paul Custom was ridiculous. I much prefer my Stratocasters.
    And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aphro_Ant View Post
    I'll likely go with brand myself, as I have gone with Yamaha for my first bike and very likely stay with Yamaha. My silly reasoning behind this is I love their guitar design and quality, their logo being three tuning forks and they make some of the best grand pianos around. So if Vox or Gibson made a motorcycle I'd probably be riding one haha.
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    ...I'm very brand conscious...I will ride any brand as long as I'm conscious...If I'm unconscious I am not very brand specific...Velocette is the brand of the machines I fell in love with when I was too young to piss straight, and still is...

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    Since my first post in this thread I have bought and sold a Triumph Tiger which was a bike I had wanted for some time. We now own a GSX1400 (my 3rd Suzuki) still yet to own a Kawasaki and looking very unlikely that will ever happen at this stage. Not sure why I not gone for that brand of bike in the past, I guess nothing grabbed by the balls at time of looking.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maha View Post
    Since my first post in this thread I have bought and sold a Triumph Tiger which was a bike I had wanted for some time. We now own a GSX1400 (my 3rd Suzuki) still yet to own a Kawasaki and looking very unlikely that will ever happen at this stage. Not sure why I not gone for that brand of bike in the past, I guess nothing grabbed by the balls at time of looking.
    So more a salesman choice than brand or bike then?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Dog View Post
    So more a salesman choice than brand or bike then?

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    Buyers choice...a salesman has never had to sell me a bike.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maha View Post
    Personally I just buy what gets the juices flowing at the time
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    I had a range of different brand bikes when I was young then liked Suzuki and that is the brand I like. Brought my new hayabusa because it was a Suzuki and a GSX. I didn't even take it for a test ride I new it would be good

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    Quote Originally Posted by mossy1200 View Post
    Should read "You are not able to get one home".
    Or "To old to remember what to do with one"

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