Bikes you'd buy to mainly just look at

[Skub]

Including the ape-hangers?

Maybe a little more flat.

[mangocrazy]

It bemuses my why folk are obsessed by older bikes as though they are better.
When VD started up in 2000 folk were saying new bikes are shit and love the old bikes.

Now folk are saying new bikes are shit and we love the bikes from 2000.

In 20 years folk will be saying, well, you can guess

I don't think that folks necessarily think 'older is better', it's more a case of folks looking back nostalgically to their yoof and the bikes they couldn't afford but still lusted after.

This is my entry; not as much of a diva as a 916, but a potent mix of brutal and pretty.

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[Taipan]

It bemuses my why folk are obsessed by older bikes as though they are better.
When VD started up in 2000 folk were saying new bikes are shit and love the old bikes.

Now folk are saying new bikes are shit and we love the bikes from 2000.

In 20 years folk will be saying, well, you can guess

Bear in mind they are "mainly just to look at"! For me, old Brit bikes were my introduction to motorbikes, so one of them is an obvious one. CB750 was the first big bike i rode and I still get nostalgic at the 750four badge.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I remember an episode of Grand Designs where the dude (of fucking course it was a bloke) had a 916 mounted on the wall. Quite literally above the fireplace. IIRC he couldn't even ride.

I'd love an RC211V to park in my living room. I wouldn't even need to feel bad about not riding it. I love the way they look and I love the "peak Honda" ness about it.

[Bigyin]

I had one just like that - and I sold it to Couchy, as I just wasn't doing the miles on it.
Why I didn't just keep hold of it is beyond me (other than it was a PITA to ride)

But I would probably now go for a 999s!

An ex of mine bought a 916 or 996 (cant remember the exact model) from my neighbour just as we split up so i never got to ride the Ducati as it was couriered to her new place a couple of weeks later. From mutual friends at the time she couldnt ride it either and soon moved it on

[KungFooBob]

£11.5K!!!

I'd have to put the clutch cover back to standard and those gold levers.

What's going on with the decal (?) on the seat unit near the rear lights?

[Taipan]

It bemuses my why folk are obsessed by older bikes as though they are better.
When VD started up in 2000 folk were saying new bikes are shit and love the old bikes.

Now folk are saying new bikes are shit and we love the bikes from 2000.

In 20 years folk will be saying, well, you can guess

I don't think that folks necessarily think 'older is better', it's more a case of folks looking back nostalgically to their yoof and the bikes they couldn't afford but still lusted after.

This is my entry; not as much of a diva as a 916, but a potent mix of brutal and pretty.


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I know its heresy to some but they just remind me of an early vfr750!

[Taipan]

It bemuses my why folk are obsessed by older bikes as though they are better.
When VD started up in 2000 folk were saying new bikes are shit and love the old bikes.

Now folk are saying new bikes are shit and we love the bikes from 2000.

In 20 years folk will be saying, well, you can guess

I don't think that folks necessarily think 'older is better', it's more a case of folks looking back nostalgically to their yoof and the bikes they couldn't afford but still lusted after.

This is my entry; not as much of a diva as a 916, but a potent mix of brutal and pretty.


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I know its heresy to some but they just remind me of an early vfr750!

[KungFooBob]

It bemuses my why folk are obsessed by older bikes as though they are better.
When VD started up in 2000 folk were saying new bikes are shit and love the old bikes.

Now folk are saying new bikes are shit and we love the bikes from 2000.

In 20 years folk will be saying, well, you can guess

I don't think that folks necessarily think 'older is better', it's more a case of folks looking back nostalgically to their yoof and the bikes they couldn't afford but still lusted after.

This is my entry; not as much of a diva as a 916, but a potent mix of brutal and pretty.


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I know its heresy to some but they just remind me of an early vfr750!

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I've got two already, my Kawasaki and my YPVS, both of them I just want to own and have no massive desire to ride either of them, I've also got an FZ750, that's not worth the effort of selling.

New bikes are better to ride than old bikes, but old bikes are more interesting, if I was going to have a bike in the front room as an ornament, then it would be a race bike from the 80s, but I don't know which one as I like loads of bikes.

[KungFooBob]

TBF, I already have one too.

I bought one so nice that I actually don't want to ride it in case I break it!

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

TBF, I already have one too.

I bought one so nice that I actually don't want to ride it in case I break it!

I've ridden one, the best thing to do is look at it, though they are very fast in a straight line.

[KungFooBob]

I think it handles ok. I got me knee down on the roundabout in front of ASOS and everything. Maybe you just have to be a real man with a hairy arse to ride one proper :p

[mangocrazy]

It bemuses my why folk are obsessed by older bikes as though they are better.
When VD started up in 2000 folk were saying new bikes are shit and love the old bikes.

Now folk are saying new bikes are shit and we love the bikes from 2000.

In 20 years folk will be saying, well, you can guess

I don't think that folks necessarily think 'older is better', it's more a case of folks looking back nostalgically to their yoof and the bikes they couldn't afford but still lusted after.

This is my entry; not as much of a diva as a 916, but a potent mix of brutal and pretty.

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I know its heresy to some but they just remind me of an early vfr750!

They're both red and of a similar era, but that's as far as the similarity goes for me.

[KungFooBob]

Red with a white double pinstripe reminds me of my NS125R.

[Yorick]

It bemuses my why folk are obsessed by older bikes as though they are better.
When VD started up in 2000 folk were saying new bikes are shit and love the old bikes.

Now folk are saying new bikes are shit and we love the bikes from 2000.

In 20 years folk will be saying, well, you can guess

I don't think that folks necessarily think 'older is better', it's more a case of folks looking back nostalgically to their yoof and the bikes they couldn't afford but still lusted after.

This is my entry; not as much of a diva as a 916, but a potent mix of brutal and pretty.


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Yes. Bikes to look at.

But some folk have a perverse hatred of anything new.

[cheb]

It bemuses my why folk are obsessed by older bikes as though they are better.
When VD started up in 2000 folk were saying new bikes are shit and love the old bikes.

Now folk are saying new bikes are shit and we love the bikes from 2000.

In 20 years folk will be saying, well, you can guess

They are different, and sometimes better suited to a current preference.

Find me a modern 250cc 2T twin that's a about the same size and spec as a TDR250 please.

[wheelnut]

If it was just for displaying and not riding my choices would probably come from the naked bikes of the 60s. I think bike engines are lovely to look at and covering them with a fairing is a sin.

The 6 cylinder Benelli, the Triton cafe racer, the Honda CBX1000 even the 70s honda cb750 and suzuki GS1000. From the 80s maybe an original Katana and a GPZ900

[cheb]

Freddie Spencer's CB900F would be nice too.

[Count Steer]

A bike just to look at? There isn't one. As said before, I find transport museums a tad sad seeing all those things that will never even get fired up again. Even worse are the private collections where things just get hoarded/hidden away as investments. Ride 'em, break 'em, mend 'em or let someone else have them who will.

I'd rather have really good models of things if I wanted something just to admire occasionally.