lol we're well aware of your position on Ducatis. Despite the fact the 916/996 and 998 and even the 999 destroyed both domestic and world level series for year after year.Yorick wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 5:40 pmNo way.weeksy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 5:39 pm wouldn't you rather see this each day ?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/203513515700 ... SwOZlhVZ78
RC30 - Worth a punt?
- weeksy
- Site Admin
- Posts: 22957
- Joined: Sat Mar 14, 2020 12:08 pm
- Has thanked: 5504 times
- Been thanked: 12764 times
Re: RC30 - Worth a punt?
- Yorick
- Posts: 16282
- Joined: Sat Mar 14, 2020 8:20 pm
- Location: Paradise
- Has thanked: 10119 times
- Been thanked: 6649 times
Re: RC30 - Worth a punt?
Don't care what they won, they're a Marmite bike. Like KTMs.weeksy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 5:42 pmlol we're well aware of your position on Ducatis. Despite the fact the 916/996 and 998 and even the 999 destroyed both domestic and world level series for year after year.Yorick wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 5:40 pmNo way.weeksy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 5:39 pm wouldn't you rather see this each day ?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/203513515700 ... SwOZlhVZ78
- KungFooBob
- Posts: 13706
- Joined: Sat Mar 14, 2020 1:04 pm
- Location: The content of this post is not AI generated.
- Has thanked: 532 times
- Been thanked: 7242 times
Re: RC30 - Worth a punt?
if I had more money than I knew what to do with I'd have...
In this order...
RC45
SB8R
916SPS
ZX7RR
GSXR750RK
BSA Rocket 3 (1969ish, jut because my dad always wanted one).
In this order...
RC45
SB8R
916SPS
ZX7RR
GSXR750RK
BSA Rocket 3 (1969ish, jut because my dad always wanted one).
- weeksy
- Site Admin
- Posts: 22957
- Joined: Sat Mar 14, 2020 12:08 pm
- Has thanked: 5504 times
- Been thanked: 12764 times
Re: RC30 - Worth a punt?
You own a KTM
What do you like about RC30s then?
-
- Posts: 13496
- Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2020 7:57 pm
- Location: Milton Keynes
- Has thanked: 2612 times
- Been thanked: 6016 times
Re: RC30 - Worth a punt?
The only homologation special which ever appealed to me was the R7. These things a probably just down to what was unobtainable when you were a yoof.KungFooBob wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 5:48 pm if I had more money than I knew what to do with I'd have...
In this order...
RC45
SB8R
916SPS
ZX7RR
GSXR750RK
BSA Rocket 3 (1969ish, jut because my dad always wanted one).
Did they ever do a super duper VTR1000 SP-1/SP-2...or did it just win as it was, give or take? ISTR the race bikes even kept the starter motor?
P.S. I always preferred the US "RC51" name for that bike.
- KungFooBob
- Posts: 13706
- Joined: Sat Mar 14, 2020 1:04 pm
- Location: The content of this post is not AI generated.
- Has thanked: 532 times
- Been thanked: 7242 times
Re: RC30 - Worth a punt?
Shit, I missed the R7... and the YZF750SP.
I don't think there was a 'special SP1/2... each one was hand built by a man at HRC, so I imagine the standard one was pretty special.
I don't think there was a 'special SP1/2... each one was hand built by a man at HRC, so I imagine the standard one was pretty special.
- Skub
- Posts: 11869
- Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2020 5:32 pm
- Location: Norn Iron
- Has thanked: 9692 times
- Been thanked: 9707 times
Re: RC30 - Worth a punt?
Now there's a thing that kinda freaks me a little.KungFooBob wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 5:48 pm if I had more money than I knew what to do with I'd have...
BSA Rocket 3 (1969ish, jut because my dad always wanted one).
I'd hate to pop my clogs wanting something and being able to afford it,yet not buying it for whatever reason. I'm like that with Kawa triples,gonna end up leaving it too late.
"Be kind to past versions of yourself that didn't know what you know now."
Walt Whitman
https://soundcloud.com/skub1955
Walt Whitman
https://soundcloud.com/skub1955
- KungFooBob
- Posts: 13706
- Joined: Sat Mar 14, 2020 1:04 pm
- Location: The content of this post is not AI generated.
- Has thanked: 532 times
- Been thanked: 7242 times
Re: RC30 - Worth a punt?
There's no doubt he could afford one now, but he gave up bikes a good 15 years ago. He's 77 with Parkinson's.Skub wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 6:14 pmNow there's a thing that kinda freaks me a little.KungFooBob wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 5:48 pm if I had more money than I knew what to do with I'd have...
BSA Rocket 3 (1969ish, jut because my dad always wanted one).
I'd hate to pop my clogs wanting something and being able to afford it,yet not buying it for whatever reason. I'm like that with Kawa triples,gonna end up leaving it too late.
I guess after the sister and me left home and became financially independent he just didn't have the desire for one anymore, but when I was a kid he'd take me to shows on his A65 he restored and always pointed out the A75's.
- G.P
- Posts: 1944
- Joined: Sun Mar 15, 2020 9:12 pm
- Location: Wiltshire
- Has thanked: 2113 times
- Been thanked: 1310 times
Re: RC30 - Worth a punt?
OK I'll bite, what's the plan Stan?Potter wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 2:32 pm I might save it for The Big Change.
At some in the future I'm mulling the idea over of a complete change, selling everything and doing something very different. I don't think it's healthy or reasonable to expect to be able to just walk back into a life you left over a decade ago.
We'll probably keep a house as a bolt hole, but everything else will go, maybe at that point I'll try a new direction and have just one bike, maybe an RC30.
Re: RC30 - Worth a punt?
If we're talking about Ducatis, I know a man who may be looking to sell his immaculate 1500 mile 999r Fila Replica.weeksy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 5:39 pm wouldn't you rather see this each day ?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/203513515700 ... SwOZlhVZ78
And by immaculate, I mean possibly > @weeksy clean...
He hasn't talked money yet but the only reason he's selling is because he has seen another bike he wants.
Obviously it won't be cheap but it is a very good example, if you like that sort of thing.........
Kev
- KungFooBob
- Posts: 13706
- Joined: Sat Mar 14, 2020 1:04 pm
- Location: The content of this post is not AI generated.
- Has thanked: 532 times
- Been thanked: 7242 times
Re: RC30 - Worth a punt?
I can't see 999's ever been worth the same as the equivalent (R/S/SP) 916/9996/998.
I think I'd rather an 888 SP4.
I think I'd rather an 888 SP4.
-
- Posts: 11129
- Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2020 6:40 pm
- Location: The road of many manky motorcycles
- Has thanked: 626 times
- Been thanked: 4072 times
Re: RC30 - Worth a punt?
I know someone who had a YZF750SP, now has a couple of SP1s, one is a Moriwaki race bike, they both eat cdis, he regrets selling the YZF, he says it was easy to ride and never went wrong, but he's also got two or three Bimotas, so he knows all about bikes going wrong.KungFooBob wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 6:13 pm Shit, I missed the R7... and the YZF750SP.
I don't think there was a 'special SP1/2... each one was hand built by a man at HRC, so I imagine the standard one was pretty special.
Going back to RC30s, their race results aren't all that great, Fred Merkel won the first year of WSB on one, but Pirovanno was second on an FZ750 beating a load of RCs, a lot of what people think we're RC30 wins in Endurance and F1 were actually RVF750 results, and the RVF is more like a Grand Prix bike. Foggy might have had some good results in one in BSB, but my memory is that Rob Mac and Jon Reynolds won most British Championship rounds at the time, but I can't remember if they used Superbike or F1 rules then, I think F1, because Darren Dixon was using an RG500
Honda Owner
- Yorick
- Posts: 16282
- Joined: Sat Mar 14, 2020 8:20 pm
- Location: Paradise
- Has thanked: 10119 times
- Been thanked: 6649 times
Re: RC30 - Worth a punt?
The RVF750 wasn't allowed in BSB & WSB.
BUT, I was at the TT when they blew everything else away
BUT, I was at the TT when they blew everything else away
- Skub
- Posts: 11869
- Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2020 5:32 pm
- Location: Norn Iron
- Has thanked: 9692 times
- Been thanked: 9707 times
Re: RC30 - Worth a punt?
Funny,if I had to have a Ducati it would be a triple nine. I like the odd (for the time) looks Maybe because it's the only Duc I've ever had a run on!KungFooBob wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 7:56 pm I can't see 999's ever been worth the same as the equivalent (R/S/SP) 916/9996/998.
I think I'd rather an 888 SP4.
"Be kind to past versions of yourself that didn't know what you know now."
Walt Whitman
https://soundcloud.com/skub1955
Walt Whitman
https://soundcloud.com/skub1955
- KungFooBob
- Posts: 13706
- Joined: Sat Mar 14, 2020 1:04 pm
- Location: The content of this post is not AI generated.
- Has thanked: 532 times
- Been thanked: 7242 times
Re: RC30 - Worth a punt?
I've ridden a 748R and a 999S (and my 620SSie race bike).
The 748 was tiny and uncomfortable. The 999 was crippling.
The 748 was tiny and uncomfortable. The 999 was crippling.
- Skub
- Posts: 11869
- Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2020 5:32 pm
- Location: Norn Iron
- Has thanked: 9692 times
- Been thanked: 9707 times
Re: RC30 - Worth a punt?
Ha! It fitted me just nice. Then again I had an 04 ZX10R for 14 years.KungFooBob wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 9:51 pm I've ridden a 748R and a 999S (and my 620SSie race bike).
The 748 was tiny and uncomfortable. The 999 was crippling.
"Be kind to past versions of yourself that didn't know what you know now."
Walt Whitman
https://soundcloud.com/skub1955
Walt Whitman
https://soundcloud.com/skub1955
-
- Posts: 11129
- Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2020 6:40 pm
- Location: The road of many manky motorcycles
- Has thanked: 626 times
- Been thanked: 4072 times
-
- Posts: 13496
- Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2020 7:57 pm
- Location: Milton Keynes
- Has thanked: 2612 times
- Been thanked: 6016 times
Re: RC30 - Worth a punt?
I rode a 999 back to back with my old 996, I found the 999 waaay roomier. Its all relative though
- Potter
- Posts: 9666
- Joined: Sat Mar 14, 2020 1:32 pm
- Has thanked: 2216 times
- Been thanked: 4613 times
Re: RC30 - Worth a punt?
Lovely things to look at, but I don't fancy owning another 916 variant.
I actually prefer the look of the 888.
I actually prefer the look of the 888.
-
- Posts: 2380
- Joined: Sat Mar 14, 2020 2:56 pm
- Has thanked: 353 times
- Been thanked: 2168 times
Re: RC30 - Worth a punt?
Tbh they’ve not aged well for meweeksy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 5:39 pm wouldn't you rather see this each day ?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/203513515700 ... SwOZlhVZ78