Introduce here the one of your bikes that always will be the favorite.

[The Pastor]

cbr250 mc22.

my 3rd bike, but i really class it as my first bike - one that works

[Brian d marge]

Although it doesn't get as many mile put on as my Cruiser, the Royal Enfield Bullet 500 is still my favorite bike.
Riding something that gives you a taste of how biking once was is a lot of fun.
Although not a speed machine it is a very nice handling, pleasant bike to ride.

Isnt it !!!! I race Em!

Stephen

[Clivoris]

Aaah. Memories of glory days. As a 7th former at highschool in the 80's I did some deals and became the proud owner of a Honda XR 500a. No doubt my memories of this bike were greatly enhanced by raging hormones but it was a beast. Power-slides and wheelstands that lasted for days. Racing a mate on his RD 350 LC around country roads, and hooting with the closeness of it all. Being followed home by the popo after school to be complemented on my wheelstand control. At last I was one of those guys.
Broke my heart when it was stolen. Have often thought of getting another but don't want to be a catcher in the rye.
No pictures more's the shame.

[pzkpfw]

About 1990 bought an RD350LC (so there!) that was really a 250 that'd had the barrels and pistons changed.

Not the oil pump, so it was a pre-mix. All the oil pipes had been gooped shut. Used to ride around with a bottle of Castol Super TT in my pocket. (Also still had the single disk front.)

Bought it off a mate in Johnsonville, and with no more experience of riding than brief hooning around the farmland behind J'ville (start of the old coach road) on a Superdork (CB250RS), and some emergency braking practice at that park past Titahi bay, rode it back to Palmy (North).

It had been painted the colour of roadside bushes as "camoflage" but I repainted it Blue. Rode it for half a year or more with no licence (for me or the bike) no WOF most of the time and never ever got stopped. Chatted to a forecourt guy about the pre-mix situation once and forgot to pay for the gas. Spent the next half day hoping like hell the police were not out looking for me. Went back and paid, the guy wondered why I'd bothered.

Something I learned at University: Kick starting and warming up a two stroke at midnight doesn't make flatmates happy.

Did some reasonablish trips on it (Mt Ruapehu and back, via Wanganui), (round the Tararuas). Took my girlfriend for a ride on it and binned twice on the same gravel road. (A story of its' own). Rode it to my sisters place with bent handlebars. (About 45 degrees out).

Rode around in a canvas Nato army jacket, with a peace (CND) sign screen printed on the back, and two pairs of jeans until a mate broke a car in half with his GSX750. Then I bought all leather.

The chain kept coming loose and one week I got lazy about retightening. Going slow round a corner in town the chain slipped off the back sprocket and when I tried to accelerate away it whizzed round and knocked a bit of the case off. It dropped all of its' gearbox oil on the road. I got it welded up but after that it always dripped a bit.

I took the engine out for the welding (dumb idea) and never quite got the seal of the pipes right. After riding a while (when it got warm) all power would go away. I thought it was the carbs and stripped and cleaned them. Much later I learned that the 350 and 250 pipes were different in regards the the fitting into the barrels - and I think the bike probably still had the 250 pipes. (If you were a young workshop/parts guy in the Palmy Yamaha dealer in 1990, I apologise for being such a jerk).


For all that, it was a comfortable and easy to ride bike that never let me down in a way that wasn't my own stupid fault. Loved riding it, and sold only because I went overseas.


When I came back (3 years later) I found it in a bike shop in Palmy - someone had even fitted an oil pump. They wanted too much for it (and I was really really poor; had married that girl, and we had our first kid by then) so only drooled over it for a while.


No pictures, because everyone says I look like a girl in my 1990's bike photos. (When I bought my helmet, the guy said I'd have to buy another if I got a hair-cut). And you all know what an Elsie looks like.


[This time around (no bike from 1990 to 2005) I went the legal way, set an example for my kids. Did learners on an NZ250. Have to say I remember the RD being "easier" to ride than my current Z.]


I'd buy another, if the right one came along, at the right time. Though in a moment of clarity gave my RD250/350LC Haynes manual to the man formerly known as JIM2.


They say you always remember your first, and yes, it was a two stroke.

[puddy]

My GSXR1100L. I bought it with 8000kms on the clock. I did 5 GCs and the GC-and-a-half on it. It never broke down on me. I never crashed it, although I did hit a dog on it during the '98 GC. Had it for about 8 or 9 years. Loved that bike! I hate having my photo taken!

[Conquiztador]

I was looking for something and found this one from the past. Flame me as much as you like. I don't care. Loved reading the postings again.

And as it is a few years ago...perhaps some of the new members have a story to tell...

[Tigadee]

I believe the FZX and I will be inseparable...

[ducatilover]

My favourite. Some heap

[@ndy]

Aprilia RS 50cc CHESTERFIELD.



Yes a 50cc... first bike, first "almost' knee to the ground, best bike. Top speed of 110kpa. Having this when I was 15 (thank you Italian laws ) felt like Max Biaggi every day haha (and girls loved it).

One day i'll buy another one and put it in my lounge.

[unstuck]

Wish I would of kept my 1969 suzuki T500 titan. Had some good times on that fucker.

[BMWST?]

me mate had one...made my cb900 although the 900 was a better bike allround ,seem like an imitation of a bike

[roogazza]

Not this one but mine was the same model. One of my favorites and I've had 50 bikes.

[blackdog]

I would still quite like this one back in the collection.

Freaking animal of a machine, but I could foresee alot of enforced walking if I kept on my wicked ways with it at the time.

[sugilite:Me]

I missed this thread the 1st time around.
Here is mine....


At the time I had 3 bikes, a RG250, RM125 and a ATC200X. The 1st time I scrapped my boot while riding the RG250, I got ideas of becoming a Eddie Lawson, so decided to go all in on a fast road bike. There were only 20 RZ500's in the country at the time. It had the most character of any bike I've ever owned.
I saw it in the window at Wellington Motorcycles. It was lust at first sight!
I'd only just finished reading the day before how it won the Aussie six hour.
Bob Toomey was the sales man and he did not seem to keen to get it down out of the window for a 17 year old. I showed them the color of my money and it was done.
By 2nd gear, I knew I was buying the bike!

[Conquiztador]

I missed this thread the 1st time around.
Here is mine....


At the time I had 3 bikes, a RG250, RM125 and a ATC200X. The 1st time I scrapped my boot while riding the RG250, I got ideas of becoming a Eddie Lawson, so decided to go all in on a fast road bike. There were only 20 RZ500's in the country at the time. It had the most character of any bike I've ever owned.
I saw it in the window at Wellington Motorcycles. It was lust at first sight!
I'd only just finished reading the day before how it won the Aussie six hour.
Bob Toomey was the sales man and he did not seem to keen to get it down out of the window for a 17 year old. I showed them the color of my money and it was done.
By 2nd gear, I knew I was buying the bike!

The sad bit is missing... where and why did she have to go?