Featured Drooling Over Some Bikes

Nice - used to play "fantasy garage" with my son when he was younger and interested in bikes and cars - before he found girls. We'd have £1 million to spend and would argue for somethings inclusion (before Top Gear's cool wall).

 

Here you go Jez it’s got to be an investment surely!

 

Yep, you’ll clean up with one of those Jez

 

This will spark a few hairy replies!

 

This will spark a few hairy replies!

 

few mates have ducatis lovely looking especially new v4 cant see myself ever owning onr though

 

Looks like the last one in the pictures belongs to Winglad!!

 

Went into the Specialist bike shop or whatever its called in Sheffield before Christmas.
I was just drooling over a mint original V reg. 2000 mile CBR 600 when a guy appeared. It's a real weird layout shop, more like the corner of a multi storey car park with a little barrier to create the area; just weird!
I comments to the guy, assuming he worked there, that he had a varied selection of clean classics.
His reply was Oh no this is the scrap yard you want to look in there, pointing to a closed door.
I stick my head through to be greeted with an hello from down the corridor.
First five bikes on the left were spanking Ducati's and created an impression especially when you looked at the tags umm.....
£ 72k was the first..... WHAT! yep £72 000.00
Next one was a bit cheaper, think it was £53k and so it went on
LOL, I reckon that first five bikes was a cool 1/4 million plus (sterling for our overseas friends).

They had quite a variety plus various oddballs, anyone remember the Honda NR 750?

 

Blaahhhdy ell, just checked their website. Some seriously good bikes in there, didn’t even know it existed, thanks for that. There’s these guys too http://steelcityclassics.co.uk/product-category/classic-bikes
if your budget doesn’t stretch to house buying territory, they are upstairs in SMC near to Wicker Arches.

 

Been in SMC a few times, didn't realise there was an upstairs doh

 

It’s not in the same league as The specialist but they have some decent stuff, including an X75 Hurricane a while back.

 

Specialist had a lovely MV Augusta 800 brutale Hamilton model. Red spoked rear wheel on a single sided swingarm looked gorgeous.

Yours Sir just......

Drum roll....

£20k

 

Here it is,

 

The one on far left was £80k.

 

Yep I remember both the Honda NR750 & NR500.

Got a picture somewhere of a NR750 that I took whilst at a bike show in Santander, Northern Spain.

Also saw Mick Grant in 1979 slide off the NR500 at Copse corner on the first lap of the British GP, Silverstone.

 

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Also saw Mick Grant in 1979 slide off the NR500 at Copse corner on the first lap of the British GP, Silverstone.[/QUOTE]

Well at least it saved him rattling to a halt after 2 laps, them things made fragile bikes look reliable .

 

£80k that’s peanuts

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-RC...868743?hash=item3b1e25de87:g:HiEAAOSwfEdbsi5U

 

I've had dealings in the past with SMC wouldn't recommend (based on my experience though may have been a one off, but wouldn't deal with them again )

 

I thought it was going to be the one where I got my Triumph from
When I said where is it then?
The answer was " we don't want kids climbing all over it and scratching the tank so it's in the warehouse "

Something around £200k if I remember correctly.