Bike history

[breakerm]

So come on people what has been your bike history....

My first bike when i was about 10 was a kawasaki kx80 but didnt really get to ride it..
my old man broke his leg on it messing about when i was at school that soon got sold to my dissapointment
a few mates had few scramblers that we used to wombles about over the fields on.

when i was 16 i got a italjet formula 50 scootaaahhh..... i was the quickest kid on the block.. lol

then passed car test and bike went out the window for a few years..

had a wr450f really fun thing the front didnt wanna stop lifting..

then did my bike test and brought a Gsxr 600k1 with a custom paint job pipe rear sets it was a peach of a bike..till i had a big off when a cab driver pulled right into my path and i had to jump off or i would have been in his back seat...

after a year or so off bikes went and got a cbr900rr fox eye a real hooligan of a bike...until scaffolding tubes started falling off the back of a lorry and smashed it to bits.... which i brought back and streetfightered it...

and now i have come over to the dark side of V-twins with the storm... and i gotta say i am loving them.. the noise in unreal traffic parts like the sea for moses.. and the torque..

[bald_pig]

AJS Regal Raptor at 16
'88 Kawasaki GPX250R-II at 19
'92 Honda CB750 at 20
'97 Honda CBR600f at 21
'09 Yamaha XT660X at 22
'99 Firestorm at 23
Now 25

[alanfjones1411]

I passed my test on a BSA Bantam in 1963 (yeh that's right i'm 68 years old 69 in November) and went straight out the next day and px for a Triumph Bonneville in the days when no helmet was required.I have never been without a bike since then.Of the many bikes I have owned the most memorable ones being,Jubilee Bonneville,BSA Spitfire,BSA Gold Star,about four Bonnevilles.The modern bikes I've had Z1,FJ1100,FJ1200,CB900,H/D Sportster 1982 anniversary model (25 years of the Sportster)ZZR1100(loved that bike what a rush on the 1990 model fitted with ZXR 750 carb tops)and the most recent bikes have been Suzuki Bandit 1200 that I streetfightered,ZX9 with big bore kit taking it to 986cc and now the Firestorm.Of all the bikes I have owned the best bike I think was the ZZR1100.So many years (and broken bones)later I am still riding on two wheels,but I have promised the good lady that when I reach 70 years old my crash helmet will be hung up for good,so the most modified bike that I have ever owned will be going.So next year around this time it will be the end of an era for me.

[rmh]

ZZR400 straight after passing test on a 125 - (Gone)

VTR1000 new in 1999 - still here after 16 years....

KTM 950 Supermoto (gone) - crazy bike - but fun

Ducati Multistrada 1200 ST d-AIr - bought this year !!

[alanfjones1411]

forgot a couple of bikes,Norton Dominator with clip on bars, i thought I was the bee's knees on that going back to the Busy Bee,Ace Café and the 59 club ( google them if you don't know about them).I wanted a new bike so I traded in my CB900 with Brian Gray M/Cycles of High Wycombe for a XV535 in 1988 (big mistake) and sold it 2 years later and got the ZZR1100.The bike that really opened my eyes to modern sports bikes at that time was an R6 that my son bought V reg I think,i could not believe the acceleration and stopping power of that bike when I had a go on it.Sorry if i'm waffling on a bit but I have so many memories of the bikes and the times I have had on them.Wish I still had the old English bikes they would be worth a small fortune now.But I don't miss the oil puddles where ever they were parked.

[fabiostar]

god i can still rem. 1980 i sat up all night waiting to turn 16. on the stoke of 12 out i went on my very secondhand yamaha DT50 and that was me started.that died and changed it to a suzi ER50 followed by a RD250 on my 17th birthday. followed by.
kawa Z250
RD250
KH250
X7 250
X5 200
RD250
250 superdream
RD350
RD350
RD350. i liked them and they crashed well lol
Yam XJ550. great wee bike
honda CB750f2
FZ750
honda dommie
suzi GT500
Suzi gs850
another 850
GS 1000
Katana 1100 that got the nads tuned of it
Guzzi le mans 1000
Ducati 900 Darmah
Cx500.
kawa klr600. never ever again. a heap
GPZ550
Kawa KMX200
honda cb650
yam xt600
yam xt660
kawa ZX7R
god knows iv forgot a lot more as the last count there was about 60 road bikes then i went racing on spondon 200 yamahas and yamasaki hybrids then onto TZ350s and honda RS 125s
then supermoto bit in a huge way and done that for about 12 yerars riding in irish and british championships. the stupidest bike during that period was an ex GP500 KX500 in supermoto trim.lol... it still keeps me awake at night thinking what it was like to ride lol.

and now iv ended up at my storm and a wee 600 divvy as a wee hack.

the Guzzi the storm and that KX500 being the ones that id put at the top of my list..

as somebody said its in your blood. i did try to walk away from bikes as i thought id had enough but, iv ended up back at square one

[turbo_billy]

In order if my memory serves me correctly.....
FS1E-DX Sold
CD175 Sold
Z250 Scorpion My one and only brand new bike. Depreciations a bitch....... Sold
PUCH Maxi Stolen and torched
DT175 Sold
CB750 K2 Written off by an idiot car driver turning across my path
CB750 F1 Sold
CX500 Swapped for the X7
X7 Sold
GS1000E An "S" lookalike, eventually sold
GS1000E Stage 2 race cams, High comp pistons, another one broken, this time by a 78 year old woman doing a U turn....
CBX1000 Low mileage, bought off a guy who worked on the rigs hence the reason.....
GS1000E Sold to a mate
GT500 Bought for the £50 scrap value my mate was going to get for it....Rode for 6 months, got a puncture, removed the rear wheel and watched the swingarm twist Sold for spares or repair
CBR600 The one that got me into biking. Sold when I bought the CBX
It was at this point the disease set in and I stopped selling and just started being greedy......
CBX1000
GS1000S
CB900F
CBR1000F
ZX10
FZR1000 Genesis
GSXR750
CBX1000 Special
GSX1100F Swapped this for the Firestorm
VTR1000
SP1
SP1 Legends
And hopefully I haven`t finished yet.......

[lumpyv]

oh well here goes..

1968 raleigh runabout
fizzy
honda cb 200
yam rd400e
yam dt175
bsa b44 victor
honda cb 550
yam xt600e
vtr1000
Raleigh wisp. (anyone got a spare carb laying about )?


would quite like the rd400 back or the dt 175 just for fun..

[RAINMAKER]

honda 250 G5
honda 550 F2
honda XL250 s
honda KZ 750
BMW R100s
honda CB 900
honda CB 750 Fn
honda CBR1000 F
honda CBR 1100XX
honda VTR 1000
Suzuki GSXR 1000 K6
BMW RT 1150
Harley Superglide Custom 1454 cc
Yamaha XJR 1300 SP.................................best bike was the BMW RT 1150

[firestorm_al]

1998 Suzuki Bandit GSF600N
1998 Honda VTR1000 FireStorm
2000 Suzuki Bandit GSF600S
2001 Triumph TT600
2007 Yamaha XT660X
2004 Aprilia SL1000 Falco
2009 Yamaha XT660Z Tenere
2006 Honda FMX650
2009 Ducati Monster 1100 (Current Fairweather bike)
2010 Kawasaki 650 Versys
1984 Honda PX50 (Still got, being prepared for moped marathon)
2004 Aprilia SL1000 Falco
2014 Suzuki DL650 V-Strom (Current everyday bike)

[AMCQ46]

Always had a bike since my dad got a Suzuki ts100 farm bike when I was 12., but obviously not a serial chop and changer like some of you buggers

Suzuki TS100
Honda XL125
Some old ossa scrambler
Beamish 325 trials bike
Simpson S50B1 moped
Suzuki X5 200
Honda Superdream 400
Yamaha 350LC
Suzuki GS1000S icecream van
Suzuki GsX750ES
MZ 250 racer
Kawasaki kdx200 water cooled enduro
Alfer 250 enduro
GasGas EC 200 enduro
Beta 250 trials
GasGas TXT 250 trials
VTR 1000
Kawasaki KH125 1976

Still got the KH, the VTR and both GasGas bikes. Wish I still has the GS1000 and the LC

[stevegringo]

1977 CG125
1985 TS125X
1989 NTV600 REVERE
1997 XJ600N ( brand new ! )
2001 VTR 1000F (WROTE IT OFF OOOPS ! )
1995 TDM 850 ( GOT TAKEN OUT BY CAR DOING A U TURN ) written off aswell !
1997 GSF600N BANDIT
1995 GSF600N BANDIT (FOR SPARES/REPAIRS )
2001 GSF1200N BANDIT
1997 GSF1200N BANDIT
1998 VTR 1000F

Still got the last 1200 Bandit and the VTR !

[breakerm]

so by the looks of it im a tight wombles who dont like change...
How many bikes do some of you lot need???

but in my defence the 98 fireblade was brought for £1500 i had for about 6 or 7 years did everything i wanted it too.... commuted, weekend blasts in the lanes, hooligan moments, track days keeping up with and sometimes over taking the modern day bikes...... got wrote off, got my money back i paid originally, streetfightered it had more fun then sold it for £1300 cant argue with that in my eyes... and only reason i sold it was cause it needed a some work doing cause it was 15 years old...

lets see what the storm can do for me lol

[fabiostar]

so by the looks of it im a tight fcuker who dont like change...
How many bikes do some of you lot need???

but in my defence the 98 fireblade was brought for £1500 i had for about 6 or 7 years did everything i wanted it too.... commuted, weekend blasts in the lanes, hooligan moments, track days keeping up with and sometimes over taking the modern day bikes...... got wrote off, got my money back i paid originally, streetfightered it had more fun then sold it for £1300 cant argue with that in my eyes... and only reason i sold it was cause it needed a some work doing cause it was 15 years old...

lets see what the storm can do for me lol

can you have to many???? hell no ,not unless the fun police find out lol

[StormingHonda]

I made a post a couple of years back, I've owned.....a lot of bikes ( 34th )

http://www.vtr1000.org/phpBB3/viewtopic ... 89#p188589