My list of bikes

[StormingHonda]

Add CBR900RRX to the list and its up to date.

http://www.vtr1000.org/phpBB3/viewtopic ... 18&t=23000

[MacV2]

79-82 Various borrowed off road wreckers...

82-83 Yam DT80MX new. Flogged it to buy...

83 IT175 2nd hand Enduro...Fun but shite on the road. Flogged to buy...

83 KH250 2nd hand..it was brown

83 X7 2nd hand Red.

83 RD250LC White n Red... At this point I still had the KH & X7 as well but they got flogged off along the way.
Sold the RD when I bought..

85 GPZ600R in Lime Green...Loved this bike, until some pikey b8stard's nicked it out of a locked garage, leaving me Brothers GS600 there even though it had the keys in the ignition !

85 K100 BMW company bike MCN

86 FJ1100 Company bike again killed by another Pikey b8stard scrap dealer pulling out on me, bust arm & a few cuts...lost the job as no car licence

Passed car test late 86.

Still had the GPZ at this point, when that got half inched...

86-87 NS400 HRC colours...Great handling bike, sold as in need of cash....very very

87-80 Worked in various Bike shops & rode everything from C90's to GL1500's at some point.

87-90 Owned
RG250 Gamma mk3 trade in bargain...Sold for a huge profit
XTZ750 brand new...sold on after 'an incident'.
XL250 tricked up Enduro 2nd hand.
GPZ600R in Red...It just wasn't the same.
TS125X in red...it was crap...
Plus some other's that I just can't remember TBH

Had a break mainly due to finances & other factors, but kept me hand in as me Bro always had a bike or two around him.

2005-06 NX650 Dominator...Blue fun bike once I ditched the knobbly's ...PX'ed at a profit for...

06 VTR100F in Red...now with bits of black as well...Keeper ?

[carmanbikes]

1978 = Yamaha DT125 fieldbike
1980= BSA B40 fieldbike
1983= Suzuki Gt 125
1996 = 1986 Suzuki GSXR 750
1998= 1993 Honda CBR 600 FP
1999 = 1999 Kawasaki ZX9 C1 My First Brand New Bike
2002 = 2000 Honda VTR Firestorm
2003 = 2003 Honda Fireblade RR3
2004 = 2004 Suzuki GSXR 1000 K3
2004 = 2004 Suzuki GSXR 600 K1 Track Bike
2004 = 2004 Husaberg Fe 400 Enduro , Got Stolen
2008 = Sold all Bikes and Had a Break
2012 = 2001 Honda Firestorm

[dragonback]

the years i got them i aint sure so will just list bikes from the start , from what my drug n drink induced mind can recall -
Yamaha ty50
Honda xl185
Suzuki gt380
Suzuki gs425
Honda ft500
kawasaki gt750
Suzuki ts250
Yamaha sr500
Suzuki gt750
Kawasaki zx10
Kawasaki zxr750
Kawasaki zx10
Kawasaki zxr900
Triumph tiger 900
Honda vtr 1000
yup think thats it , nice steady progression there i think you'll agree , i never sat my car test till i was 25 and even then it was only because of constant nagging to get it , used the bike all year round , will always remember trying and succeding to get home in some major snow on the kawa gt750 , having to get the bike side on to get the rear spinning against the kerb for traction and god knows how many attempts before getting up hill to garage ,
the kettle was wicked and evil as hell ,had full dunstall kit fairing an seat n tank unit rear sets n a set of microns that you could hear for miles which wasn't so good for the neighbours as i left for work at 5am back then.

[Miztaziggy]

Im probably what you guys would class as one of the newer riders going straight to bigger bikes, but, I personally dont think im that bad on the road. Some of you ive met may disagree

I started on a scooter when I was 16
1999 - Peugeot speedfight 50cc
2000 - Honda NSR 125

Then I went on to a car whilst I was at university, didnt get another bike until
2008 - passed my test and got Honda CBR600F (still the favourite of the bikes ive had)
2009 - Yamaha R1 (5PW type)
2011 - Honda VTR
2013 - Honda Fireblade

I hadn't really thought till I just wrote that, over 50% of my bikes have been Honda

[NHSH]

Too much to write.... especially if I have to add all the bikes I ever rode, That would be 20 times the list I owned, through the years had the chance to work and ride almost anything that moves on two wheels from BSA, to Goldwing and all the rest in between .

I'll just list the bikes I owned from the very first one
Piaggio 50cc
Vespa 150PX
Vespa 200PX
Suzuki GS 400
Suzuki GSX 750R
Cagiva 200 (Enduro 2 stroke street legal)
Suzuki DR 600
Yamaha XT600
Honda NX650
Suzuki RGV250
Honda Nighthawk 650
CBR600 F3
Honda XR650L (left to a friend in NY)
Honda Nighthawk 750
Honda XR650L
Suzuki DR350
Honda VTR1000F

[seb421]

Another change in culture now is for people to own both a car and a bike and only ride the bike on sunny days. When I began biking, bikers had one vehicle (their bike) and they used it for everything all year.
I wonder if this change in culture, especially the leaping onto a big bike from the start, is why it's necessary nowadays to have such strict licensing laws.

Does this bother you that much

If they can pass the relevant test then they ride can what the hell they want when they want.
A nob head will be a nob head regardless of engine capacity 125 - 250 - 400 - 500 - 600 - 750 - 1000 etc etc

Its a safer and clever option to use a car when its senseable to do so, if you have access to a car and its sh1t out side cold and icy why would you take the bike... its not fun, its not warm, and its never going to have the same grip or stopping potential as a car in poor conditions, plus you don't have the added hassle of a misting visor

If i could drive i would stop being a Richard head and using the bike when its dodgy,

You might be riding appropriately for the conditions taking it easy on your bike but who's to say an idiot in a 4x4 on the phone is, if they loose control on the ice and hit you, you're brown bread mate or bloody close to it.

Plus my dads 60 i think or late 50's and he's had both cars and bike all his life, he only uses the bike now when its a nice day, personally i wish i could do the same as this is the only time its enjoyable any one that says different must be kidding there self or never travelled in car.

The only exception i can think of to that rule is enduro bike, they are great fun no matter what's going on, a green lane blast ice or rain is still a great green lane blast and your not worrying about some silly car pulling out

[Rob]

My huge list

2000-2001 Suzuki DR125
2001-2002 Honda Hornet 600
2002- Honda VTR1000
2012- Moto Guzzi Griso SE
2013- ?????

[lumpyv]

well done stormin, this is my list from about 1 year ago cut and pasted. to mine I have had to add the mighty wisp

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.

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

I knew we had done this before.

[VTRDark]

I wonder if this change in culture, especially the leaping onto a big bike from the start, is why it's necessary nowadays to have such strict licensing laws.

I don't think it's anything to do with owning a car. In fact I think it's the complete opposite. Running a car and Insurance for youngsters is a killer on the pocket these days. So there is now and increase of bikes/scooters because of this, plus the increase of sitting in traffic with a car. With the increase of of bikes/scooters being a main form of transport combined with more vehicles on the road there are more deaths. The change in licensing laws in an attempt of lowering the death rate at the same time as making more money out of people.

(:-})

[alternative_vtr]

1979 - Yamaha TY175
1982 - FS1E on knobblies used off road
1984 - FS1E road legal at 16
1984 - MTX 50
1985 - GP 100
1985 - C70
1985 - KH100
1987 - MTX125
1989 - RD125 twin
1990 - CM250
2002 - Fazer 600
2002 - XR650R
2003 - CB900 Hornet
2004 - Fireblade
2004 - GSXR 750K4
2005 - CB1300
2005 - CB900 Hornet, CB1300 faired version
2006 - XR650R, KTM690SM
2005 Aprilia RSVR1000
2007 - GSXR750K6/7
2008 - CRF450X
2009 - CB900 Hornet
2010 - KTM690Duke
2011 - GSX850 - 1000 (my cafe racer build)
2012 - Firestorm
2012 - C90 project + Italjet 125 twin project
2012 - KH00

I have owned a few other bikes believe or not maybe another 15 or so but not of any consequence and can't remember exact dates so not listed them.
Bikes in bold are still in my garage with my sons 125 Aprilia scooter

[tony.mon]

Oh, god, years of buying an abusing innocent machinery laid bare...
A mobylette, year and model unknown.
A three-speed moped with a hand-change- like a scooter's new, but make unremembered EDIT: Casal
Honda CB250 G5 stripped, lightened, tuned and turned into a cafe-racer
Triumph Trident, one of the first 100 built, ray-gun pipes, the triumph version of the BSA Rocket Three. Brakes- appalling, heavy, but a cb750 beater, if ridden with attitude.
Many CB125's, about 6, bought, thrashed, rebuilt, thrashed again, rallied, so high mileage, nearly the unkillable bike.
Triumph Bonneville, only kept it for 6 weeks before it was stolen.
Honda CB550, bought as it had killed its rider, who'd gone through a plate glass window, apparently. New forks, a bit of tidying, not too bad.
Triumph 500 with a sidecar, took the sidecar off after discovering that it wouldn't pull the chair very well with high comp pistons fitted....then found that square profile Avon Speedmasters didn't grip much.
Honda SL125, bought with the fiancees engagement ring money- still got this one, less than 7000 miles.
Honda Hornet, bought new, ragged to 30,000 miles plus in three years, then sold.
Honda NTV, shaft drive, good fun, solid, but capable of being ridden down country lanes flat out in top- can't do that with the current one.....
Honda Firestorm. Morphed into a VTR1000 special, as there's not much left standard now.
And a few cars, nothing noteworthy except a couple of Renault 21 turbos- off the road more time than they were on it- but fun when they ran.

[Trainraider]

Suzuki TS125 -72 -old, ugly but lots of fun in the forests nearby.
Honda NS 125 F - the best small bike ever made, crashed point blank to a car. ouch!
Honda NSR 125 -91 Bad big brother for the previous one. But it had a "feature" of killing the pistons.
Honda CX500 C -81 Sideways v-twin. Reliable as hell. Drove 50 000km with broken cam chain tensioner without problems.
Honda CB900 Boldor - somewhat a bike without any character. Expect constant oil leak what drove me mad.
Honda CB600 Hornet - Sweet reliable ride. Fast black of course.
Honda VTR 1000 - "the broken unit". Bits and pieces for the moment, but it shall rise again like a phoenix from the ash!

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@ Seb, nope doesn't bother me at all. Just interested in the different cultures and how times are changing.

[seb421]

@ Seb, nope doesn't bother me at all. Just interested in the different cultures and how times are changing.

I guess you could call me old school then having only the bike mate, if finances was different and I could turn back the clock I wouldn't have spent every penny on motocross and would have got a driving licence and car. wombles these winters man they just seem to drag on and on and on urgh

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