Who owns the bike they really want ??

[ktulu]

Britten

*Nuff said

[Slingshot]

Britten

*Nuff said

There was talk a while back of the Britten Motorcycle Company producing a road version of the V1000. I remember the price tag estimates were around the $50K mark and they would have to make 250ish modifications to the race V1000. I wonder if they will ever do it?

I was casually thinking the other day about what would be involved in building a look-a-like Britton. Perhaps taking a TL1000, crafting a new fairing set, moulding the exhaust...etc The rear shock would be difficult to hide and it would never look that close to the original....but it would sure turn heads!


Onto my dream bike...at the moment, it would have to be the MV Agusta F4 1000 Tamburini:



I've always loved the MV Agusta F4, but the lines on this one, and the paint job...what can I say. The price tag is a little out of reach though.

[vifferman]

I own a bike. If I didn't want it, I wouldn't have bought it.




Actually, maybe that should be: "if the vifferbabe hadn't wanted it, I wouldn't have bought it".

[Biff]

If I could only own 1 bike at any 1 time, mine is the only one I''d have as It does everything I currently need a bike to do, which includes communting, touring, fast bike rides etc etc.

[bugjuice]

not sure what my absolute fav-must-have bike would be.. there's plenty of bikes all offering a ton of stuff..
I love the bike I have now (lets face it, who doesn't?* ), it does everything I want from a bike at the moment, and I'm hoping to have it for a while.. But then there's the Duc 999 which I think is one sexy bike.. I just wanna take it out for a few weeks on a test ride and just it hard. But then that Agusta is a tad sexy too and I'd do the same with that.. On the other hand, I've seen some nice tourers that I wouldn't mind having too. I'd go everywhere in comfort.. I guess I just have to win lotto, buy me a big shed so I can park some stuff in there, then when the mood suits, I'd be ouuuut n abouuuut.. But I think me 636 would still be standing in the middle with a couple of new friends..

*I know not everyone does, and it's a totally bias thing to put, but I love it, and everyone drops a jaw at it, so I'll take my 5 mins of fame, if that's all it's going to be...

[Sniper]

There was talk a while back of the Britten Motorcycle Company producing a road version of the V1000. I remember the price tag estimates were around the $50K mark and they would have to make 250ish modifications to the race V1000. I wonder if they will ever do it?

I was casually thinking the other day about what would be involved in building a look-a-like Britton. Perhaps taking a TL1000, crafting a new fairing set, moulding the exhaust...etc The rear shock would be difficult to hide and it would never look that close to the original....but it would sure turn heads!


Onto my dream bike...at the moment, it would have to be the MV Agusta F4 1000 Tamburini:



I've always loved the MV Agusta F4, but the lines on this one, and the paint job...what can I say. The price tag is a little out of reach though.

Just what I would have said SS. Bloody nice bikes and I know someone who has one. Wont let me ride it though

[Sniper]

argh!!!

[Cajun]

Hmm, the bikes I would love to have, I most probably will never own, they just too big for me...

R1, 996.... Fireblade! (heh, I sound like NC_30 now... )

Joni my wife is 5'5 5'6 on a good day, she owns a vtr1000f, she rides my gixxer which is rather high(825 or something silly like that) I know of a girl in the states who is 5'1 and rides a gixxer 600, biggger bikes have plenty of ways of lowering, espically gixxers, they are very simple to lower, and it does not really effect the handling.

Wife has lowered he vtr1000f by about 3 cms at seat high(mainly to be safe when parking etc, and she was still lapping taupo race way in 52's with out using her brakes, which arn't a bad to time, with out really trying)

[Slingshot]

Just what I would have said SS. Bloody nice bikes and I know someone who has one. Wont let me ride it though

I hadn't realised there was even one in NZ...I would even just love to see it in the flesh!

[madboy]

Oh, God, please grant me an MV Augusta F4... pretty please. Every time I see that one around here I just want to get down on my knees and worship it.

However as I have no soul God probably wouldn't be coming to the party with an F4, so I'll have to save really hard, be really really really really nice to my partner, let her buy another bloody dog and then borrow heavily so I can own a GSXR1000 or R1.

[ALTRON]

Agreed

I have owned my nc30 for 7 years now and feel I don't really need anything newer, faster. Sure I laugh when I get destroyed by faster bikes (SP1,996,CBR's) off the lights but that's not what the NC series is about. Its all about da corners

I find the NC isn't suited for long trips if you are on the tall side of things as it can get a bit cramped. Any trip around 100km's is alright though.

While my ultimate dream bike would be a factory RC45 with all the tricky bits id more realistically settle for a RC30 (if I could find one)

NC's are unique bikes

[Sniper]

I hadn't realised there was even one in NZ...I would even just love to see it in the flesh!

Believe it or not, there is a guy in Blenheim who has one and he imported it

[White trash]

Well, it does almost 300kph. It wheelies as easy as breathing. It handles as well as any other bike on the road.

Yup, I own the bike I want.

Untill the K5 is released, then mine's just an overweight, ugly hunk of shit that wouldn't pull the cock off a chocolate mouse.

Heap'o'shit.

[Paul in NZ]

If I was gunna sell my soul for a bike...

It would be for this (i'd sell yours for the beeser or a Tiger 90 though)

Paul N - sucker for upswept pipes

[Skunk]

Yup, pretty much got them. ZRX, KLX250, KLX 250/300, ZX6R. Two are the wife's. All are in both names... So they're all mine to use.

Please don't tell her I said that.

Please.