How many motorcyles have you owned in your lifetime?

**Posh Tourer :P** · 1st December 2005, 05:13

bugger, I'd better fully explain since I've already answered the poll then....

errr. 87 MZ ETZ250, 80 Honda CB125T, 83 BMW R65LS....

And then in the UK, so far, eighty-something Honda Bros 400, 93 XJ600S Divvy, 80 BMW R100S motorsport colours...

crosses fingers and hopes....

Oh I might have listed milky's ZXR400 too....

**inlinefour** · 1st December 2005, 09:19

I'm too busy chasing another bike to actually try to think how many Ive owned. The road legal ones are easy to remember, but then there are more bikes Ive owned that where not yet that.

**heavenly.talker** · 2nd December 2005, 08:05

Re: the bad rep and comparing with other threads

Man were you on drugs when you wrote this? lol

**zadok** · 2nd December 2005, 09:19

Six - ER185; CB250RS; XZ550; Z750; NTV650M; 1000GTR.

**rogson** · 2nd December 2005, 11:05

The bikes I remember in rough cronological order of purchase (not year of manufacture):
T350, RD350, DT175, KTM250, VF750F, H1, KTM500(84), DT175, KTM500(86), KZ750, KTM500(89), GPZ900, KTM300(94), RF900, KTM300(98), ZX9R, XF650, GSX1200, KTM300(04).

The rest - I forget.

**Divot** · 2nd December 2005, 11:34

Me ah lets see -
XL100
CB360
XL250
CB350
CB650
Wife

Harley 883 and loving it

**R1madness** · 2nd December 2005, 12:10

Well i cant actually remember now as the drugs

have taken hold of the long term memory

but it is well over 30 and growing. Check out my list http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...344#post387344 Every time i try to list them i get stuffed up because someone says what about the .... you had in 198? And i think oh yea and the bla bla from 1992. Bugger.

**Oscar** · 2nd December 2005, 12:11

I might of missed a couple - but here goes in order of ownership:

1974 Suzuki TS185L
1979 Yamaha DT250D
1979 Honda XR185
1979 Honda CT90
1973 CZ 250 Falta
1978 Honda CT90
1980 Suzuki A50
1978 Yamaha RD400C
1980 Suzuki PE175N
1981 Yamaha IT175G
1982 Suzuki PE175Z (Stolen)
1983 Suzuki PE175D
1984 Honda XR200RE
1986 Yamaha IT200
1986 Yamaha YZ250 (Enduro Kitted)
1982 Suzuki PE175Z
1988 Yamaha TT250
1989 Suzuki RMX250
1991 Yamaha YZ250WR
1985 Suzuki A50 “Moped Mayhem”
1992 Honda CR250
1991 Honda XR250
1995 Honda XR250
1996 Honda XR400
1974 Honda MT250 (Restoration)
1984 Yamaha XT550
1998 Honda XR650RL
1991 Yamaha 125 CZ (Scooter)
1996 Honda XR400
2000 BMW F650GSD
2002 Suzuki DRZ400EK3
1994 Honda NX650 Dominator
1993 Yamaha TDM850
2003 KTM LC4E 640*
1979 Yamaha TT500*
2004 Suzuki DL1000 V-Strom*
* Currently Owned.

Edit:
With ref. to incredulous feedback, I think I should have pointed out that I am a) old and b) a complete waster.
The enduro bikes basically got trashed in a season and some of the others seemed like a good idea at the time...

**Mooch** · 3rd December 2005, 05:56

Originally Posted by mjvduc

for a starter Maico 125cc aircooled I was young:spudguita
Y DT80cc (I was 15 and she....)
Y TZR250 (yes I am that old

)
Y RD500 (one of the best bikes I ever had)

Y YZF750 (dead boring)

KTM 620 crosser
Ducati 900M with lots of extras

and since last month I'm in love with a 748R (ducati what else) and 853cc

that's

me

Have you got a 853 kitted 748 R ?.

**zadok** · 3rd December 2005, 10:05

Originally Posted by ghost

learnt on a MR50, XT250

owned
XZ400
FZ750
FZ750
FZ750
FZR1000
YZF1000
YZF1000,

what can I say, I like Yamahas...

How did you find the XZ400? I had the 550 and when it didn't have electrical problems, it was brilliant. Any hickups with your one?

**FROSTY:Me** · 3rd December 2005, 10:44

Sounds like a friggin ego trip -not intended to be--Ive owned over 100 bikes so far.
First bike was a Honda 50 stepthrough -3 speed semi auto
-yep a cub. I was 9. It had a piece of 50mm angle iron welded from the steering head to the bottom of the petrol tank -no fairings -no mudguards
Used knobbly tyres. The angle iron was from me jumping it one time too many

**DingDong** · 3rd December 2005, 10:47

I havent done this so here gos...
cg125 - age 10
er185
ts185
er250
cr200 (trials)
ct125
rm250
yz250 (moto)
kx250 (moto)
kdx200 (moto)
yz490 (moto) - age 15
ts185
a100 bucket
it465
dr250
xl250
xr250
kdx200
dt185?
kz200? (cruiser thing) - age 20
gs1100
dt185
xs400 (racing)
gsx750 (racing)- age 25
xj650/4 sports (racing)
xj650/4 sports (racing)
xj650/4 cruiser (racing)
dr500 (500 is correct)
gpz900 (racing)
gsx750f - age 30
rf900 - current
xr200 - current
There maybe some I've missed, but if I cant remember them they must have been shit.

**Mattyc** · 3rd December 2005, 15:41

and in order even

1981 rm80
1985 kx80
1985 yz125
1986 kdx200
1992 yz125
1990 kdx200
1993 yz250
jap import GSXR250rr - was a 1990 or something but the same as a nz new 93
1994 GSXR400rr

Current

Ktm sx250
Kawasaki ZX9R

the Mrs bike

1997 CR80 big wheel (stoppie master)

Fuck some of you have owned a shitload of bikes, how old are ya ... im 27

**Leong** · 3rd December 2005, 18:45

Hows this for a list:

2005 Honda VTR 250

SHortest one posted I THINK!

**Wolf** · 3rd December 2005, 21:40

I clicked on 6-10 but then counted them up properly and it comes out at 11 so far, have photos of all but my old GT125, CB550 and the GSX250 (the latter of which is out in the shed so I can photograph it any time - if I ever reassemble it again...)

2 Yamahas - RX125 (1st bike) and RD350
2 Hondas - CB360 and CB550
1 Puch - SR150
1 Zundapp - Bella 154 (150cc)
5 Suzukis - TS125, GT125, GT50, LS400 and GSX250

Feel like an amateur compared with Oscar and Wayne.

Had a long term loan of another Honda while I was restoring the Zundapp so I got pretty familiar with its foibles. Lost count of all the bikes I've borrowed or test ridden.

So, despite starting out on a Yamaha and having a Yamaha as my first "M-class" bike (full licence), I'm mostly familiar with Suzukis and Hondas with the occasional dalliance with Yuropeen scooters.

Borrowed a couple of Kawasakis for prolonged periods and was less than impressed with them - one had the distressing "feature" that if the battery went flat (which was frequently) you couldn't crash start it - could run up and down the road for hours on end and the engine would not fire - as if the output from the alternator was trying to recharge the battery rather than feeding the coil. Compared with my Honda CB360 that had a screwed battery and faultlessly started with a couple of kicks, my TS125 (likewise) and (later) my LS400 that took less than 10 metres to get it up to speed and get the engine running on a crash start, the Kawa was not a friendly bike when low on battery power.

The other Kawa was a 250cc sprots boik I borrowed for a few weeks to commute and I found that on cold mornings on the lengthy ride from near Tauwhare to Central Hamilton, the engine would die a couple of streets from work and would not start again, forcing me to push it the rest of the way. After work it would start faultlessly, I would take the exact same route home and it would make it all the way home without a hitch - just didn't like cold mornings even after the engine had had plenty of time to warm up. I could have understood it more if it ran like a haunted shithouse for half the journey and got better close to work but it ran sweet from first start and I had no trouble starting it after gassing up at the garage 5 minutes from my house then it would die and wouldn't start around 20-25 mins later.

I'm not saying that all Kawas are like the two I borrowed, but the experiences do make me think twice about ever buying one. I'd want to borrow a Kawasaki for a month in the middle of winter before considering buying it - don't know many people willing to let someone take a bike on that much of a "test ride".