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    The bike you have loved/enjoyed most

    what is the most enjoyable bike you have owned, doesnt matter what year or condition, just the one you have had the most amount of fun on or the one you just wanted to keep riding, might not have been the prettiest, its a personal thing...

    and you probably remember it more fondly now than the time you owned it.



    i have owned around 27 bikes including dirt bikes but the one that sticks in my memory was my 1982 honda 250 superdream which i used for work, thought i was so fast on the thing when really i wasnt, at the time i had a new 97 cbr 600 as my weekend bike and really didnt seem to be able to go round bends anywhere near as quick, but when i think back it was the noise of the engine making it sound quick still realy loved it tho.

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    Well I've only owned 2 bikes so don't have much to chose from but it has to be the 1150 GS. 70,000 trouble free miles in 3.5 years and it just comes back for more. It's done everything from commuting, TT circuits, trips through Europe and blasts around the Kent countryside. I've even ventured off the tarmac on the odd occasion, which is where the one major fault arises - it's one heavy mother. Reduce that weight and it would be the perfect all rounder. Of course me acquiring some off road skills would help as well.

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    Only relatively new to riding so I've only owned the one bike - 1988 Suzuki NZ250S (pic in my profile). Have to say though it's been a fantastic learner bike... can be hustled along quite well in the twisties but dead easy to ride sedately through town as well. Very little maintenance needed (good for a newbie), cheap to buy, cheap to run, cheap to insure... and fun to ride. I'll be happy to keep it until I get my full.
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    Each and every of my bikes I've enjoyed, some for different reason, some for the same. But if I was to choose just one it would be my current steed. I've invested a lot of time and a decent wedge of money changing it to suit my likes. It's a bike I can ride for 40km or 400km and hop off grinning ear to ear, and then sit down with a ciggie and admire the bits I've already changed and contemplate those bits I haven't.

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    This old girl here

    Bloody good fun old bike, out dated when they were released flexy chassis, wooden brakes, comfy, lazy on tour, and I hardly ever used the electric start. But it took me on some great adventures

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    I would have to say 2 favourite bikes,an early 50,s A7 Shooting Star,always started,never let me down,handled well through the twisty lanes of Kent,a great allrounder,and for speed and thrills,my 1959 Royal Enfield Constellation,Lots of chrome,Peacock Blue metalic paint and at the time the largest over the counter road bike available in the UK.Allways drew a crowd when parked outside Johnsons Cafe.Those were the days!
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    Probably my RF900 at this stage, but I can see that either of my two current ones will take the pick very soon if not now.
    Probably the Speed Triple.

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    Well, only had two bikes. I'm in love with my Speed Four. Best bike i've ridden (and i've ridden a few now - my bike shop calls ME a bike whore). Done 44,000km in about 19 months on it and I love it to bits, even when stuff breaks on it (*ahem* speedo just died yesterday).

    Dont want to sell it, there's nothing out there that I like more.

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    Well out of my plethora of bikes I own / have owned, I'd say..um..my RZ500.
    The sound of those 4 two-stroke pipes coming into the powerband was something else. You haven't lived til you've ridden one of these.


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    I'd have to say....... my 1980 xr200 i had in my early teens...
    would ride that thing for hours and hours, everyday, rain or shine

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    Same as kiwifruit 'cept it was an 83 I think. I lived to ride that bike aevery day and its probably what kept me sane through some not so enjoyable parts of my life. I still have a "little moment" when I see a lookalike
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    my old zxr 250a wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

    i can buy it back if i want too

    so that might happen, i miss it too much.

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    It would have been my KR1s it was wheelie happy, zippy and light, just an all round blast to ride.
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    Well, the GSXR1000K6 was really fast, but I'd have to say the cruiser is far more fun to ride.... tons of torque too

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kflasher View Post
    It would have been my KR1s it was wheelie happy, zippy and light, just an all round blast to ride.
    tell u what i will buy you one and straight swap it for your zx10r

    it's a win win deal for both of us.

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