The one you regretted selling

[nudemetalz]

Just reading up on the GT750 that Ixion has just bought made me think (I do too much thinking)

What was the bike that you think back on and tell yourself that you wish you hadn't sold it.
ie It may be worth a lot today or you just plain miss it !!

Mine is my old RZ-500. I loved it and still to this day do not know why I did get rid of it. Every ride was an experience as only an owner of a large capacity 2-stroke can relate to.

What about you peoples ..

[TLDV8]

I pretty much have every bike i ever bought,sold 4 roadbikes and 3 dirtbikes.... the flipside is i sold my CBX for $1500 in 1990.

[Sniper]

CG125, you always love your first bike.

[Lou Girardin]

'83 GPz750. Not for what it was, but for what it represented.

[James Deuce]

My '87 RG250FG.

Did everything well and I used to "Velox" the big boys on the Rimutakas.

[Ixion]

Velocette 500. I can only say that I was young stupid and insane, hankering after false gods. I have been punished by 30 years of regret.

[Omega1]

My 2000 TT600 Triumph, ok not the most popular bike,but I loved it, I only sold it to buy a Mate's Car huge mistake, after three months without a bike I decided I had to have another bike so I brought the ZX7R.

[Badcat]

my KTM 640 supermoto prestige.

http://www.kenkong.com/album/album.p...=55&personId=3

should have kept it and lowered the suspension.

[MSTRS:Me]

Over the years I have owned & sold many bikes. I am happy to announce that I still own the one I like best.

[SARGE]

had a 1985 Vmax; bought it in 89..took the rear shocks off and replaced them with some 440 stainless bars and 8' wheelie bars ( were legal for street use in the states at that time).. over the next several years, i built and tweeked and finally was knocking on 9.20's at the local drags. fitted HD clutchpacks, air shifter, frame braces and a 75 HP nitrous hit and it dropped into the high 8 second bracket, but at that point it was not used on the street

dropping anchor at 140 mph with Vmax brakes was a drama to say the least but i loved that bike.

[vifferman]

Over the years I have owned & sold many bikes. I am happy to announce that I still own the one I like best.

Same here, although I've had only 7 bikes, and apart from the XBR500RS mutant, each of them was better than the one it replaced, so I've no regrets. Although the dirtbike I had back in 76/77 would be nice to have some fun on, assuming I could get parts for it.

[Oakie]

Yeah, each bike for me was an improvement on the last (except when I sold the GT125 and bought a rusty push bike with no front brake) so I suppose I can't really say I regreted selling any. (The GT was sold because we had two littlun's a new mortgage and I only lived a kilometre from work so the bike was a luxury).

I still do wonder some times whatever happened to my only brand new bike, the 1980 ish Z400, rego 88FJO. Perhaps I'll do a search on the rego sometime and see if it's still alive.

[Postie]

I had an RGV250 with the banana arm and i had all the fairing replaced with custome made carbon fibre, it look hot and went like greyhound on speed. i sold it and regreted it instantly and said i would buy it back when the guy sold it. i just found out that he sold it last week and i didn't know about it..... and i want it back

[froggyfrenchman]

I had a GB400 that was as mint as mint. I had spent zillions on it, was full of
black chrome and the deepest black laquer you ever saw. my parents owned a plating shop so all the aloy, including the enging was polished to look like chrome.

I sold it for $800. To pay the bond on a house

[oldrider]

Honda ST1100 55mpg @100mph. Best long range bikes I ever owned but just wasted on the roads here now because of Police/Govt attentions to speed. (would love an ST1300)
Not an attack on Police, you just can't appreciate an ST1100 at 100kph, it's an obscene arbitrary limit.
TransAlps are excellent for the current attitudes on the road. Bland? yes. Satisfied? Yes. Do I approve? NO. Cheers John.