Past Loves....any Bikes You've Loved And Lost And Wish You Still Had..

The bike I most wish I still had is this 2016 Thruxton R. I traded it for my current 2019 Speed Triple RS which I don't regret but do wish I'd have been able to keep the Thruxton, too.

 

I had a go on one of these and I didn’t buy it as I couldn’t believe how much the front "dropped" into slower corners!
Beautiful bikes though. Gorgeous.

 

Coming from an aircooled GSX 1100 with a skinny 19" front I never noticed that problem
Remember the old VFR 1100 with a 16" front? *that* bike fell into roundabouts. Not in a good way.

 

I had a foxeye blade (95) and just had to learn not to use such agressive input. Kept running a bit wide on bends from contra steering too hard

 

I'm bound to agree

 

I had a red one of those in the early 70's GRJ 44D.
Had clip-on's and a sporty plastic front mudguard.

 

@Pegscraper, nope, good guess but it's a First Gear jacket that I bought from a local motorcycle gear shop. I bought it "bone stock" and had the rivets and patches added later. Those additions make for a fun story. I saw a really cool Rocker style jacket on the Dime City Cycles website a number of years ago. They offered one men's and one women's version. When I e-mailed them about the women's jacket they told me they had a guy named Mike make it for them. They called him to see if it would be ok for me to contact him directly. Mike and I connected via e-mail and he was more than happy to customize my jacket for me.

I had collected most of the patches you see here but he had some for sale one of which was the large Ace Cafe patch on the back. So I placed my patches where I wanted them, took photos, and shipped my jacket and patches off to Mike in Florida. He also had all the rivets so we discussed the design of those one he received my jacket.

It seemed to be taking a very (very!) long time for him to customize my jacket and when I checked with him he was quite apologetic. Turns out his "real" job was a weather man and he was hunkered down covering the news off a hurricane that was happening on the Florida coast at the time!

So, with apologies for the minor thread derailment, here are the photos of my First Gear Rocker MC jacket.

P.S. It might be sacrilegious to have an Ace Cafe London patch on my jacket when I've never been there. But even back when I bought that patch (and well before joining this forum), I guess I was drawn to the UK.

 

You need another Thruxton to go with that Sandi

 

Twist my arm, Dilli!

 

Great jacket @Sandi T. but as Dilli said, you've got to get that Thruxton now to go with it... you know it makes sense

 

I used to live by the Ace in Stonebridge when I was a kid.

When it was a tyre depot tho

 

Jeezus how old are you

 

It was that period post fifties/early sixties heyday and pre revival. My old man used to work at the garage on the corner. We lived over Moss' grocers on the Stonebridge Rd going down to the North Circular. '68/69 I think.*

The year. Not my age

 

I owned the re-iteration of the 450. The 500T

I must confess it wasn't my favourite bike.