Why do you have your current bike?

[Wolf]

Everybody who ever owned an RD350 was told they'd kill themselves on it

Yep. I had one as my first "Full Licence" bike. Air-cooled green monster. Wicked power band that took a little getting used to but I managed to survive it despite beeing greener than the bike.

Didn't like the riding posture, though - uncomfortable on all but the shortest of rides. The ride to my dad's place at Paeroa was nearly crippling. Progressed to Honda CBs and Suzuki GTs which were far more comfortable for me.

[Rashika]

Only real bike that colour is a KTM...

or a very nicely painted Buell...

[T.W.R]

Ha Wolf & Rashika REAL bikes were being painted orange way before KTM or Buell even though about it

[Rashika]

Ha Wolf & Rashika REAL bikes were being painted orange way before KTM or Buell even though about it

now YOU are just showing your age boyo!

[buellbabe]

REAL BIKES??... yep Harley have been painting them orange since 1903...

[Rashika]

REAL BIKES??... yep Harley have been painting them orange since 1903...

Thank you babe! I figured it was a while but dont ever seem to have facts to back it up...cheers!

[petesmeats]

Me and my old man got a gn250 which needed a bit of work on it... Got it on the road, got my liscence and had a bit of fun zipping round town. Crashed it twice (crashes cost me only $75 all up to fix...). Got it stolen twice. bought 2 other gns for parts. One day we were Trailering the bike home from my mates place where it had decided to not start on me and One of the tie downs came loose and the bike started to fall over so we stopped on the side of the road to tie it down again and a guy came over who lived across from where we had stopped and we got talking about bikes and he mentioned that he had a project bike that wasnt doing anything in his garage and that he wanted to get rid of... 2 days later i had myself a gsx400x impulse in parts scattered around my driveway.... Got this bike stolen also but seeing as it wasnt running they only managed to get it down the road and then dump it... Luckily. Got it back and got it running but couldnt be bothered to revinn it so sold it. Then i stopped riding for around 2 and a half years. Time ticked away and i discovered that i could get my full liscence and so I bought myself the CBR then got my liscence and have been riding it since... Im pretty happy with it but im pretty sure that anything to me is going to be fast compared to the GN. Now im a little more confident with my bike and am practicing the art of wheelie...

[T.W.R]

REAL BIKES??... yep Harley have been painting them orange since 1903...

lols was talking about real bikes, you know the ones that stop & go properly & go around corners XR harleys are a product of the late 50s early 60s, original harleys were red.

Eric Buell had the foresight to piss-off from harley & make proper machines ( as your mounts) then harley clicked & snaffled him back

[buellbabe]

HA HA didn't take ya long to bite...

[Wolf]

lols was talking about real bikes, you know the ones that stop & go properly & go around corners

Oh, come on. 97% of all Harleys ever made are still on the road today.

The other 3% made it back home.


Yeah, OK, it's been said on here before but I can't resist a classic...

[Unforgiven]

I was after a 250 sports bike that was cheap on gas (not hard after a turbo car), nice to learn on and I wouldnt get too bored on.
The GSXR was local, cheap and fitted the criteria.

[Wolf]

I was after a 250 sports bike that was cheap on gas (not hard after a turbo car)

Mate, Classic Zed's newly restored Z1300 would be cheap to run after a turboed car!

[Madmax]

rd350s did not do for me H1 h2 tripples were the go
stick an H2 engine in an H1 frame and its all fun from there on
(just never try this on an old H1 frame!!!,you would die)
ZX10Rs are about as much fun as anyone could want
just dont worry about the damper and your laughing

[SPman]

It was there
It looked good
Comfy
The salesman busted his nuts to sell it to me.
The full Akropovich sounds nice
I was "between bikes" and going spare!

-and why the fuck would anyone put an H2 motor in an H1 frame - did you actually WANT to die?
An early white tank H1 was enough for me!

[classic zed]

I bought a Kawasaki KH500 back in 1976, closely followed by a Z1000 in 1978.

The Z1300 was introduced in 1979, sadly I just couldnt afford one. Last year I found 2 on Trademe and bought them both, one has now become a monster project and the other fully restored back to new condition, next best thing to buying a new one I guess.