What is the one bike you have owned in the past and wish you always kept

[Bigyin]

As it says on the tin guys and gals which is the one you wished you had kept and why

Mine was an RD250LC from my late teens.

It had a 350 front end with twin discs, race tune to create a silly top end powerband, rearsets, clip ons, twin headlights and Allspeeds

I sold it as i was skint and urgently needed to clear some debt before joining the RAF so out of 3 bikes 2 had to go.

I sold the wrong ones

[Bigyin]

FFS, Past not fucking paste .....first thread started and already fucked it up

[Yorick]

I have very fond memories of most of my race bikes, but wouldn't want to ride any of them again. It would blow the nostalgia apart.

Only one bike that I have really fond memories of was the GT750 I bought at 18. Amazed I stayed alive. That also needs to stay in the past.

I won't mention the 8 GSXR1000s

[weeksy]

Ooooh there's a question.

I think I'm going to say my first KTM 950smr. Bought brand new and should have kept it. Realistically though it was never going to happen.

If I could find an old bike of mine though and it was still in the condition as when I sold it, I'll take my old Ducati 916. It was amazing.

[Taipan]

I took a Sh300 up to 88k and regretted not keeping it to click over to 100,000, but that was the only reason for wishing i'd kept it lol. I loved my CCM with the old ditch pump rotax engine in. I changed the carb for a pumper one, well X81 did, and I added a mid range cam and ran it on racewets through winter. Fooking awesoem bike. With the carb, cam and gearing it just lifted the front so easy and I got half decent at wheelies. Not sure I'd still want to have it, but by fook did I have some fun on that bike. I even met up with people from the forum!

[Couchy]

Meh just lumps of metal lol

[Dutchman]

Financially an Urban Tiger blade that I sold for £900 in 2010. Had no space for it and was pretty knackered after I'd done ridden it round UK, Europe (& Rockingham!) so wanted shot at the time, but thery're going for 6k now.

I miss the Multistrada 1200 but it needed to go once it was out of warranty. But that engine!!

My real problem is the Guzzi CAli 1400 I have now. Bought new, love it, went on our honeymoon all round Italy on it & can't bear to part with it. But I do want an MT09 and cannot fit 2 bikes into the steel box i have instead of a garage.

So obviously I'm looking into whether I can get the driveway altered to see if i can convert the cellar into a garage/batcave... Quoted 8.5k today - bit salty.

[Nidge]

My RR-X blade

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[Druid]

Financially my 1976 Ducati 900SS. Sold for £1700 in 88 or 89, now fetching at least 25k. I wouldn't want to actually ride it these days though, it would sit in the garage alongside the Mk1 Escort that I sold for £100 in the late 70s

I wish I still had my 1050 Speed Triple - plenty fast enough, comfortable and sounded wonderful with Arrow exhausts

[rodbargee]

My Laverda mirage can't find my profile pic of it at the moment either great bike loads of character handled to a degree too fantastic sound.

[Big Red]

2008 kwak Z1000 in pearleasant orange.
Sold to my mate 5 years ago after constant pestering to sell it to him.
Regretted it ever since and nothing i have owned has filled its place
Until i managed to buy it back from him last year after he covered 450 mls in the 5 years he owned it.

[Buckaroo]

Without doubt, my Triumph Speed Triple 1050. I realized my mistake about a week or so after selling that I should have kept it. Swapped for a Daytona 675. Also a great bike, but not close to the Speedy.

[The Martian]

Original roundeye fireblade WPP (some may even remember it?) lovely bike. I crashed it (yeah yeah) and sold it to the Polish lad over the road, then helped him build a nice Street fighter / stunt bike with it. He did cherish it as I did though and kept it for a good few years, even took it home to Poland with him.

Most rideable all round thing in standard guise though and comfortable, even long distance with this lanky twat on it!

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I'd like another 1998 or 99 R1, but it would only be used on track and I doubt if I'm good enough to use the full performance of one.

[v8-powered]

Either my RSV1000R Factory or most likely my very well sorted 5VY R1

[G.P]

A 1976 Honda 400/4. Its wasn't as fast and didn't handle quite as well as the 400 suprdream I'd previously had but it was much nicer to ride and sounded great.

Talking of 400 Superdreams, I will try and get this one back in the family in the next year or so. A mate of mine bought it off my Dad around 1983 and it now lives near Cahors, France.

Not in bad nick for a 40 odd year old bike. Its still used regularly

[Nobby]

CX 500. Go on , laugh. But no , it was comfy , did 60 plus to the gallon once you ditched the standard paper filter.
Rode it an average 1000 miles a week , every week for nigh on 5 years.
Got through an alternator , a water pump seal 2 cam chains and 2 final drive splines.
Full Polaris in the winter. Jobbed.

[Dodgy69]

Ktm 950 sm in orange.

[Buckaroo]

CX 500. Go on , laugh. But no , it was comfy , did 60 plus to the gallon once you ditched the standard paper filter.
Rode it an average 1000 miles a week , every week for nigh on 5 years.
Got through an alternator , a water pump seal 2 cam chains and 2 final drive splines.
Full Polaris in the winter. Jobbed.

You have just reminded me of my CX500. First big bike. Liked it but due to new baby, mortgage and a problem with the bike, I sold / gave it away. Fast forward nearly 30 years and I got another. It was a big mistake. Talk about rose tinted glasses. What a difference three decades have made to handling, brakes and so on. We're pretty lucky these days with the bikes available.

[Bwana]

I'm a pack rat. Apart from 4 bikes I bought as a lot sale of 7* a few years back and 1 that I had as a yoot I've still got every bike I ever owned. I suppose out of nostalgia I'd have that old Honda 250 bored to 305 (after fucking up the cam through cack handed wrenching). Let it go to a friend of one of my brothers while in college. Bit of a pig on the handling for on and off roading but excellent wheelie bike.

*Still trying to unload one of them, a 1975 RD350 in pretty damn good shape.