What's your favourite era?

[onearmedbandit]

It's not their fault I'm a cunt!

So, whose is it?

[Crasherfromwayback]

So, whose is it?

I take full responsibility mate!

[RGVforme]

I take full responsibility mate!

Makes a fucking change.....

[Katman]

Mid to late 2000s was an interesting time. Bike manufacturers were pouring money into sports bike RnD and pumping out "new" revised models every 2/3 years. Yamaha R6s, R1s, whole lot of GSXRs and ZX6/10Rs. It was like the cold war of modern motorcycle history.

And yet they all looked the same.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Makes a fucking change.....

Oh my! Another cutting and whitty remark from the gimp.

[jellywrestler]

And yet they all looked the same.

they hadn't heard of a wind tunnel when the bikes you and i like came out....

[MD]

Would this favoured era coincidentally be when you were between the ages of 17 & 25? When I consider it, that era & things from it are my favourite.

Yeah that's going to prove the popular era. Wont see many picking the era they were 75 y.o.+ stuck behind a walking frame.

So for me years 17-25 were awesome. Being 19 was the best (1979). Still a stupid teenager but close to an adult.

[Big Dog]

Today and tomorrow.
I miss bikes I had or lusted after in my youth... but in all reality I can't go back and ride in the past. I can go ride in the present or the future.

This current age of bikes that hark back to a nostalgic era but with better handling, brakes etc. floats my boat.

But the real thing I like about the now is there is so much choice.

Mind you, not so keen on the trend towards cheaper parts that don't do the bike in question justice, or the trend towards litre bikes that look like 600s.


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[Voltaire]

50's Triumphs, 70's Nortons, 70's Ducatis , BMW's and Moto Guzzi's. No Japanese bikes.

[jellywrestler]

50's Triumphs, 70's Nortons, 70's Ducatis , BMW's and Moto Guzzi's. No Japanese bikes.

you been brainwashed or just a little ignorant?

[Voltaire]

you been brainwashed or just a little ignorant?

Your telling the story Spyda....., I just don't have any Japanese bikes in my shed. Only the ones I mentioned.

[jellywrestler]

Your telling the story Spyda....., I just don't have any Japanese bikes in my shed. Only the ones I mentioned.

not even a favourite that might have stuck in your mind? i'll admit to liking one model of harley.......
there's a lot of bikes i like that aren't in my shed, and the odd one in my shed i occasionally have a love hate relationship with

[pritch]

My favourite era is now. Sure there are bikes I have ridden in the past that were great but going back to the 60s is not appealing. I'd rather ride the bloody things than work on them. A short time ago I'd have said that the best bikes ever are the current years crop. Bearing in mind that we wouldn't even have dreamed of bikes like these just a few decades ago.

It is possible that with ever more restrictive emissions controls, possible future social pressures opposed to recreational use of a diminishing resource, the proliferation of 80KPH zones and double yellow lines, that this will turn out to be the golden age of motorcycling.

OK, not everybody can afford an RC213V-S, but back in their day very few could afford a Brough Superior or a Vincent Rapide. Even though those two latter are old now they aren't exactly affordable today either.

In a way I hope I'm wrong, but this could be the high point. Whatever, it's bloody great, we're spoiled for choice. Enjoy it while it lasts.

[Madness]

I prefer the second half of the 80's myself.

[Ocean1]

My favourite era is now.

Absolutely. Ignoring nostalgia value almost any bike today is better than any bike made a decade ago, and that's been true for as long as I've been riding.

Not ignoring nostalgia brings SCBob's rule into play, and for me that was mid to late 70's. Although thinking about it a bit further I was riding exclusively dirt bikes then, and maybe the above applies less there. Certainly there was a significant jump in performance improvements about then, in fact for dirt bikes there was arguably more advances in that decade than there's been since.