Which one do you really miss?

[Corse1]

I do miss the racing a lot but its wearing off. The triumph was a bloody good bike too! If I could add one more it would have been an XT500 30 years ago.

[pete-blen]

Crazy Spaniards! I rode Steffan Merrimans factory built TYZ250 and nearly shat my pants.

How about a TY500.....
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8656/ty500d4.png

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/...f124f0b2_b.jpg

[Crasherfromwayback]

How about a TY500.....
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8656/ty500d4.png

lol. Cool bike. But it'd be a heavy gutless pile of poo compared to the TYZ, as I'm sure you'd know. But I do like that because I'm a sick bastard.

[98tls]

My old green/black 500/4 would be the one i really would like to have back,many hours spent on the Summit road and Hundaless,loved that bike.

[pete376403]

Yeah I've had two of them. Great bikes but need another gear.

6 speed from the FZ750 goes right in. If you want a 6 speed fzr1000 there's one in my sons garage thats looking for a new home

[Grumph]

The only ones I wish I could have kept were the Manx and the Mach 3.

that Manx had won 3 NZ GP's and was a bloody good one.
I swear i've still got fingerprints on my ribs from the first time I stood the Kawasaki up with a girlfriend on the back.

[Crasherfromwayback]

6 speed from the FZ750 goes right in. If you want a 6 speed fzr1000 there's one in my sons garage thats looking for a new home

Yeah I hear that. And mate...if I had any spare money I'd ask you more about it. Thanks for the offer though. I'm hoping to do a road trip in the States next year. Buy either a slab side GSXR1100, or an FZR1000...use it, then crate it up and send it home.

[Crasherfromwayback]

I swear i've still got fingerprints on my ribs from the first time I stood the Kawasaki up with a girlfriend on the back.

Hahahaha...is she your wife now?

[pete-blen]

lol. Cool bike. But it'd be a heavy gutless pile of poo compared to the TYZ, as I'm sure you'd know. But I do like that because I'm a sick bastard.

They would be a pig.... The UK seems to be the only place yer seem them
think they were not built by yamaha....

[Fastmark]

poms always had the hottest lc's stan stephens was the man eh

Yes we did and he was!

I had a RD350LC YPVS which was used for everyday stuff, weekend blasts and toured on (quite quickly, more like a long distance race)which once it got a bit tired went off to Stan the man for a little TLC. Had to run it in again afterwards which was torture but once done by christ that thing shifted, and the frame flexed, the tires ran out of grip and it was an absolute blast, best fun bike I ever had

Wanders off into the distance looking for someone to bore the arse off about past 350 exploits......

[98tls]

The only ones I wish I could have kept were the Manx and the Mach 3.

that Manx had won 3 NZ GP's and was a bloody good one.
I swear i've still got fingerprints on my ribs from the first time I stood the Kawasaki up with a girlfriend on the back.

I grew up a few kms south of the Hundaless in Nth Canterbury,all the guys that worked for the old man had bikes but to cut a long story short i once when young,dumb but eager stuck my hand up to ride a Mach 3 with absolutely no front brakes at all (not even lines) from Kaikoura to just Nth of Parnassus,i had never ridden a 2 stroke in my short life and still wonder how i didnt kill myself through the Hundaless,changing down seemed to result in going fastercompared to anything else i had ridden.One of lifes experiences for sure.The blokes that worked for the old fella fell about laughing when i related the trip home...

[Motu]

Sucks to be a youngin and missing out on all of the awesome bikes that you guys had during the 60's and onwards.

These days bikes become legends in their own life time, and others like 250's have an inflated value. Early '70's was the best time for bikes - the fading away of the British bikes, and the rise of Japanese and Italian bikes, everyone was on bikes. But old bikes were just old bikes, having the latest and greatest was what they wanted, old bikes were worth nothing. That was my world - I didn't want the new bikes (although I bought a couple of brand new ones), old stuff was what interested me. There was no rego, WoF or VIN bullshit - you could drag an old bike out of a shed that hadn't been on the road for 10 years, go to the Post Office and register, no problem.

One bike I always regret parting from was this 1964 Rickman Metisse, just an old out of date motocross bike - like these days saying a 2002 CRF250 wasn't worth riding. Put lights on it and ride it on the road, not a problem in 1975.



I don't really miss this one, but another example of a non road bike with lights registered and put on the road. In 1973 riders of RD350's looked down their nose at me, but I was laughing, they were wannabes, I was on the real thing.



But this is one I do miss and regret selling - the Honda XLV750.

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[mossy1200]

6 speed from the FZ750 goes right in. If you want a 6 speed fzr1000 there's one in my sons garage thats looking for a new home

Mine was good with 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbsbM...yer_detailpage

[george formby]

This was a beast of a trials bike.
Montessa COTA 348

I learned to ride on one of those. More accurately how not to get hurt falling off the back. There is a 247 on trade me.

Prolly the one bike that always comes back to haunt me was my DT 400, Stage 3 Stan Stephens tune. Only bike I've ever owned that I approached with a mixture of fear & exhilaration. It's still sat in boxes in a shed in Scotland with TDR 250 forks & brakes & a few other baubles waiting to have another day in the sun. Can't kill it.

[Big Dave]

I miss the stunting on a Buell. Any Buell though.

And no - no regrets - give me a new/next one any day.