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

Yes, this wasn't my first Rodeo either!

EDIT - Didn't stop me riding like a tw@t , just do it in a bit more safety these days as there's not normally something coming the other way on the track!

 

Umbrella is a nice touch too

 

I don't suppose if I still had it, I could ride it far. The reason I sold it about 7 years ago was because my wrists couldn't stand the prone riding position, but the bike was (and is IMO) a thing of beauty, Tamburini's finest hour possibly?

I've been very lucky to own many motorbikes with a wide variety of types over my riding career but there aren't many that I would just go and look at in the garage on a winters evening when it was perhaps snowing or freezing outside. The F4 was the exception.

 

Yes same bike I’m pretty sure, just had a different name on this side of the pond. It was actually not even available in the US because of emissions so it was a Canadian bike. Those RG’s had an even more vicious power and than my bike and I agree, my friend had the Gsxr1100 was an absolute missile

 

You are not joking, an MV a very nice bike indeed, but I have to agree on the wrists problem I find any bike of that ilk gives me issue's if not I would have another Moto-Guzzi Le-mans mk1

 

The styling on the F4 was way ahead of its time. SUCH a beautiful assemblage of shapes. Many designers used elements of this design after it came out. Still using them in fact.

 

Its sex on a stick, tho. I see why you bought it!

And there should def be a “crap bike you don’t miss” thread

 

I've got to ask the obvious question, why? I have a mate who had one, he loved his and wishes he still had it.

 

Was it your first V twin?

 

Over here we were well into Rave in 89 - think Disco with a turbo @Sandi T. - that'd explain 'em!

As to bike I wish I still had - well the list is a long one.

First 'big bike' - Moto Guzzi V50. Lovely bike, would like another to restore. Didn't sell it, it blew up on the M4, but still wish it hadn't and I still had it.

Blade, a 97 model - think everyone regrets selling a Blade. Although having said that, I couldn't justify having a Blade and the 01 Dayt, so perhaps the Blade had to go.

An XT250 I restored and then sold a few years back - should have kept, especially as I'm now looking at little green laners, but I needed more room n the garage for a track bike, that was not such a success story.

DS

 

I bought this CB750 K1 in 1974 for £500 with 2k on the clock at age 18. I recall the annual insurance cost me £80 fully comp.
I still remember the first time I swung my leg over it and thinking “what have I done, is this too big for me”. Having just past my test on a BSA 250 Starfire a couple of weeks earlier.

 

For me it was my Rd350lc, bought brand new in 1982.... Absolutely perfect. I would still have it now if it hadn't been stolen in 87..
My dt175mx's were good but... Not quite tug at the heart strings in the same way.... The KH250 I sold to get the lc always makes me smile wistfully too...

 

I suppose if they'd said: "These brakes are shite in the dry, but in the wet just forget it" , might have been a bit blunt. Lol

 

My only comparison at that time was the BSA, so I probably thought the CB’s breaks were awesome.

 

Well discs were a bit of a novelty in the 70's and as my mate found out on his Yamaha although it made them shine really well polishing your discs with wd40 didn't really help the wet weather braking even though it was supposed to repel the water.