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

For me it’s my 2nd bike a 1985 rz500 and my 4th bike a 2001 cbr929.
The rz had such a fun powerband and the cbr was such an easy, confidence inspiring bike to ride

 

I know. It make TOTAL sense, MrB! It's very important to have the correct motorcycle to go with ones jacket style. Or is it the other way around? If only I had a bigger garage...along with a larger bank account. Then I'd most definitely have a Thruxton in the stable.

 

Get that Lewis Leathers jacket out and resurrected, @Pegscraper! And let's see some photos of it, too.

 

I’ve been fortunate to own some terrific, charismatic motorcycles—I’d consider a 2002 R1, an R1100S, and a 2007 Tuono among them. But they have come and gone and the only bike that I’m disappointed that I sold is this one.

Aprilia 2001 Mille R.

it wasn’t as fast as some, wasn’t perfect. It may sound silly, but there was just something about it. It struck a romantic, emotional chord with me and I miss it.

 

That’s because Mille’s have character & soul, the early R models were beautifully made.
They are not to everyone’s liking, people seem to love them or hate them, I love them, I have had 3 including my current race bike, & also owned a Tuono.

 

The 450 had more than its fair share of limitations but was incredibly well made and well if there's a chance Joanna Lumley sat on it before me.....

 

Wow this is, at least for me, a very philosophical thread. Thinking of which bike I miss, I realize I do not, and makes me go back and think... why ? I am now a completely different person from what I used to be, before a big thing happened in my life , where I lost everything material to the last penny and way into negative numbers, and lost the ability to literaly see, and help my sons as wanted and needed. I recovered from that fully, although there are scars, ugly scars, like te ability to thrust anyone, and the love for material things, for which I find no attachments anymore. I could loose everything again, and feel no pain and maybe even enjoy the challenges that come with that. I met the most living angels when I had nothing and have met none having everything, you guess / do know why. But to be fair, I had a bike I loved a lot, a 1989 Ninja 250 that I owned when I was in the Navy, that bike saved my sanity then, she was my friend during bad times. That bike was almost given to me by a super rich guy who almost gave it to me, he would have taken one dollar for it if thats what I had offer, I guess he felt my pain and my need then, and I got that little jewel with 300 miles on the odometer for a few hundred bucks, and I rode it like forever and the little thing never ever even showed the slightest fault. So cheers to a bike, a piece of metal and rubber and plastic that can be a friend and I guarantee, better than any pill or Dr. therapy...

 

I had one of my sons dirtbike stolen while in my care, and man I got pissed off !!! It was a KX100, and I got so mad tears of fire were coming out of my eyes. I looked for that bike for months, and I knew it well, I custom made the rear brake pedal and the shift lever myself for my son as a gift, they were like the original, but hand made, I could have recognized them from a mile away since I made them by hand in my shop. I am lucky I never found the thieve, I would be in jail and he, in hell...

 

My appologies for my ignorance, but what is that “bucket” looking device on top of the CBR luggage ? Pls pls don’t tell me is a porta potty !!!!!

 

I have possibly posted this on here before, but in a moment of madness I swapped this and have regretted it since.

 

And I never learned, I recently sold probably the most complete bike I have owned (kicks himself again)

 

This little beauty wasn't sold, it was written off just 3 weeks after I bought it , hit some spilled diesel on the exit of a roundabout in Basingstoke & went flying down the road on my arse!
I was just getting acquainted with the RC8 which was a stunning Motorcycle & drew a crowd when you stopped.

On the plus side, the accident convinced me to stop riding like a tw@t on the road & start clubman racing, this was in part funded by the money from the insurance payoff, so every cloud eh!

 

I think it is what we call in the trade....

A Bucket.