Bike you most regret selling

73 candy gold fizzy. first road bike . sold it for £90 then last year got a 73 candy gold and paid just under 3k. ooof! but I regret selling a Bsa c11 I restored in the 80,s with the help of my dad who passed away a few month ago. the beeza and me were on the front page of classic mechanics.

 

i miss my gpz750 turbo, mainly because of the amount of money a good one can fetch now. Mostly miss my gpz1000rx, which is strange as the gpz900r was the bike i always wanted since i was a little un. If i ever see it for sale i must buy it back..

 

Loved my FSIE, other mates had SS50, Puch, and a Gilera that looked a bit scrambler like...... but they all had pedals !! still think the Fizzy was the best.

 

Wish I'd kept my Sprint RS, in yellow, 04 plate. Never mind, I'm back on a Triumph now!

 

Royal Wedding Bonnie bought brand new [us spec] 1981 reg. cds 859x apparently still on the road !

 

Oh so many over the years panther 650, Ariel red hunter and many more which have come along and been sold on and the latest sale my ducati silverstone super but this lead to me purchasing my 2005 speedmaster which is a bit more practical ,makes me sound really old(but i'm not LOL well i don't think so) but when your father is into bikes ,my first bike a 1968 Matchless G2CSR when i was 13 and i still have it :upyeah:

 

How do you do it? You've not changed a bit! :wink:

 

06 Victory Vegas. Fast, sleek, sexy...everything I'm not. I needed something bigger for the long hauls. Really miss her.

 

Nice looking bike, I wonder if victory will rise from the ashes again

 

As I understand it, Polaris, who own both Indian and Victory, would essentially have been competing with themselves in the market, so they killed off one brand. Perhaps it'll come back in the future if someone else buys it.

 

I wouldn't disagree. I'm not really a cruiser person but I rather liked the Victorys. Mind you, I like the Indian Scout, too. So many bikes, so little garage space.

 

All of them.

 

I've had a few bikes, I don't miss them all. However I would like to still have my old R50/2. Slow and a terrible handler but classy and worth some money. I shouldn't have sold my 2006 883 Sporty. I didn't get too much for it so it wouldn't have been a big deal to keep it just to hear the rumble. I replaced it with a Twin Cam Deuce. I don't have regrets losing it because I had no choice as it burned up in a fire.
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I’ve had a few but the one I wish I still had is my year 2000 Yamaha Fazer 600. It was fast, had a great tank range, comfortable, great brakes, handled well and for its era looked good.
I would love to still have it but not as my only bike. Technology has moved on since then. So I would need a modern bike too.

 

1.Matchless 350 coz I know now I could get it running. I was given it and gave it away when I couldn't get it going and was too young anyway with no licence.
2. Honda CB750 K6.
3. BSA 250 Starfire, first proper running bike.
4. BSA A65 Rocket.

 

My XT500, I've had 50+ bikes in 44 years on the road and some real belters and bikes people lust after today but my XT was special, took it all over Europe had a brilliant month around Turkey and the balkans and it proved to the 19 year old me that you can go touring on any bike and I have LEA 322V I miss you still.

 

I’ve only owned about a dozen bikes, and nothing particularly esoteric or classic, but I’d like to have kept them all, in hindsight. Because they would be my life’s story on two wheels. From my battered old SS50 that gave me independence at 16, to my MV that reminds me to stay young at heart.

 

As others have said... I would have liked the garage space and pocket depth to have kept all my bikes, but if I could bring one back from the past... it would be LRJ910P, a mark 1 400/4 ... I moved it on to get a few more cubes and single cylinder grunt and ground clearance... but it was a lovely little engine really, and I learn a lot from working on it myself...

 

A difficult one but I'd have to go '04 R1, the first model with the underseat chimneys. Went to the launch on crutches with a broken hip after a bit of a cycling incident.



Sold it for this 1198SP, the bike I most regret buying and least regret selling.......