Do you know what happened to your old bikes

[Gremlin]

zzr250 - written off (and I put it back on the road after a previous write off to boot)
zx7r - saw the next owner (after the one I sold it to) a few months later, seemed to be looking after it, but all the paperwork I'd handed over was gone
zx10r - randomly saw it on TradeMe a few months back - I'm actually surprised, knowing how they went
990sm - next owner after shop contacted me via KB and bought the spare seat I had. Reg shat itself shortly after he bought it, but as he said, he couldn't have bought one without being higher miler, and therefore cheaper. He did like knowing I'd enjoyed it. Sorta the reverse, learning the history of the bike from previous owner.

Sometimes I do wonder, but other times, I sorta don't want to know. Have quite a few fond memories and I'd rather keep them that way.

Still want the 990smr on trademe. Because.

[caspernz]

Not many of my previous bikes I've crossed paths with again. Sometimes I wonder, but then maybe I'm cold in that once it's out of my hands it doesn't matter too much to me. One of my bikes ended up with a friend of a friend sorta thing, although he bought it off the dealer where I traded it. Ashamed to admit that he looked after it better than me...

[Blackbird]

Sold my candy blue Blackbird about 8 years ago and saw it on the roadside with a for sale notice about 4 years ago at Buckland near Tuakau. My rare midnight blue GB 400 went to Hawera in 2003 and I did look up the details a couple of years ago and it hardly seemed to have put on any distance.

[Jeff Sichoe]

I still carry around the key to my stolen RGV 250 in the hopes one day i'll see her again, start her up and ride off into the sunset

[pritch]

Sold my Laverda to a guy in Taranaki area (I think?) and he had it on TM once but I think it didn't sell for what he wanted for it, but it was still mint...

I saw a nice one just such as that at the Chateau Tongaririo for the start of the Chateau to Plateau ride a few years ago. All the latest and greatest machinery there, but the biggest crowd by far was around the Laverda. Subsequently at the local pub one night in New Plymouth I was introduced to a guy who owned a Laverda 750. I told him about the one I had seen at the Chateau and he replied that it was his bike. I don't remember his name but the other people at the table would.

[Autech]

FXR150 - Sat in the lady's shed till the reg lapsed, probably a hacked up bucket now
GT250 - Never heard of it again, probably rusted away into nothing now
GSXR600 - Written off but not deregistered, probably been fixed up as a "Street fighter"

Did come across my car engine once on trademe and then the car later on which had had a turbo donk put in in place of my hotted up NA beast. Miss that car

[eelracing]

CG110 ridden into the grave.
RD250LC wrapped around a guard Rail.
RG250 Traded in on a TT250 (what a dickhead)
VFR700 wrapped around a traffic light
Bandit 1200 traded in on a TL1000S (good move)
Various GIxxer 600s & 750's all upgrade trades.

The rest are keepers.

[neels]

TC100 ended up a paddock hack after I thrashed it until bits literally started falling off
CB360 was mint when sold to an idiot, probably ended up crashed in a ditch
XS360 made it go then sold dereged and was headed to being a race bike.
XJ600 sold running and tidy, have seen it around a couple of times since
XL250 did a motor recon so probably still going, with more bits being progressively smashed off like when I owned it.
XJ550 haven't seen since ridden away when sold
Zephyr 750 sold to a kb member who dragged it back to being a nice bike and since on sold to someone else
DRZ400 turned up on trademe a while after I sold it with a complete motor rebuild, not sure if lack of maintenance or I dodged a bullet

[Night Falcon]

never seen any sold ones again. Had 2 written off but spotted one of those on TM in a photo parked next to the bike that was actually for sale....put it down to the universes way of telling me evrything was gonna be alright.....it was a KTM after all so deserved a 2nd shot at life the other one, a K3 XL350, not so much

[Laava]

I saw a nice one just such as that at the Chateau Tongaririo for the start of the Chateau to Plateau ride a few years ago. All the latest and greatest machinery there, but the biggest crowd by far was around the Laverda. Subsequently at the local pub one night in New Plymouth I was introduced to a guy who owned a Laverda 750. I told him about the one I had seen at the Chateau and he replied that it was his bike. I don't remember his name but the other people at the table would.

John somebody... oh my god I sound like a psychic..."is there a John in the room? Does anyone know a John?"

[boman]

My first real bike was a brand new 2008 SV1000 which I still see regularly. It is still in mint condition and has not a lot more kms on from when I sold it.

My Triumph Daytona got moved on to the South Island so I don't reckon I will see it ever again.

[Akzle]

. I don't remember his name but the other people at the table would.

you drunk .

[pritch]

you drunk .

Nah, it was a coupla years ago or more and I hadn't met him previously. Everybody at the table owned bikes and the one who did the introductions knew who he was.

[babysteps]

2 of mine on Trade Me in the last month, a Vespa PX200 and an Aprilia Pegaso, both still in the South Island, Would love to know where my Cagiva Mito SP525 ended up, I would have that back in a heartbeat. Still see my Guzzi Griso floating around Christchurch. Can't get the owner to part with it. . . 😓

[Maha]

I saw one of my old bike serving burgers at BK Hamilton several years back.