When/Where/Pics was the last time you rode your bike ?

[Tricky]

Last weekend- it was muddy!

(I posted this in the off-roading section but by the look of it only two or three of us ever go in there so I've put it here too so that everyone can enjoy my supreme video editing skills )

[ChrisW]

Nice soundtrack

[Wossname]

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Took the Serow out today, first time for months - it suits the little roads round here. Lovely crisp Jan afternoon.

[Dodgy69]

Last weekend- it was muddy!

(I posted this in the off-roading section but by the look of it only two or three of us ever go in there so I've put it here too so that everyone can enjoy my supreme video editing skills )

Now you mention editing, what happened at the water. ? 8.50.

[Taipan]

Only ever seen one of these over here! There's more obvs, bu I just never see them about.

[Bustaspoke]

Only ever seen one of these over here! There's more obvs, bu I just never see them about.

My mate has one,I think he's had 3 of them over the years.
These days he's one of those blokes who spends more time in the man cave than riding.The other year the Z13 was sharing the man cave with a XS1100 & XT500.Now besides the Z13 there's a XJR in there.He reckons for moving around the XS1100 was the heaviest of them.

[Taipan]

Only ever seen one of these over here! There's more obvs, bu I just never see them about.

My mate has one,I think he's had 3 of them over the years.
These days he's one of those blokes who spends more time in the man cave than riding.The other year the Z13 was sharing the man cave with a XS1100 & XT500.Now besides the Z13 there's a XJR in there.He reckons for moving around the XS1100 was the heaviest of them.

XS1100! I'd forgotten about them! A mate chopped his RD400 in for one when we were yoofs. We were all like WTF! But man he could hustle that old Bus!

[Skub]

Only ever seen one of these over here! There's more obvs, bu I just never see them about.

Monstrously weighty and from memory,quite high in the seat too. Fast,smooth power in their day,but they were never as visual as the Honda 6.

[Taipan]

Only ever seen one of these over here! There's more obvs, bu I just never see them about.

Monstrously weighty and from memory,quite high in the seat too. Fast,smooth power in their day,but they were never as visual as the Honda 6.

My mates Dad had a CBX and his mate had the Z1300. The Kwaks rad definitely spoilt visual. ISTR the Kwak was the better bike to ride though?

[Skub]

My mates Dad had a CBX and his mate had the Z1300. The Kwaks rad definitely spoilt visual. ISTR the Kwak was the better bike to ride though?

I never rode a CBX 6 so I can't compare,but I had a GS1000 when I had a run on the Z13 and it didn't make me want one!

[Taipan]

CBX scared the crap out of me when I rode one. I had a RD250 at the time and got a go on my mates Dad's CBX. I got out onto a straight road and wound it up. I never knew I could put the scenery behind me that fast and bottled out at 130!

[The Spin Doctor]

Only ever seen one of these over here! There's more obvs, bu I just never see them about.

The ICE bike that makes an electric bike look like a lightweight

[ZRX61]

There would have been three of those 13's. The guys in the pic left the RockStore shortly before a mate showed up on his one to meet them.
The guy on the left also has a ZRX & an H2 (the new blowy version), the guy on the right has a "full set" of 13's.

[ZRX61]

Only ever seen one of these over here! There's more obvs, bu I just never see them about.

The issue that grounded more than a few is the plastic water pump drive bevel gears which involve a 90deg change of direction. Not available & no one makes an aftermarket version.
I had a black '80 which I embedded in the side of a Ford Granada after three months. That was the end of that... & the Granada.

[ZRX61]

Regarding older pics: I found out on Sunday that the bloke that owns the Lancia 037 also owns that Group B Audi Quattro... & apparently has more toys like those... The fucker.

[mangocrazy]

Regarding older pics: I found out on Sunday that the bloke that owns the Lancia 037 also owns that Group B Audi Quattro... & apparently has more toys like those... The fucker.

If he also has a Lancia Stratos in his collection I could really get to dislike him...

[ZRX61]

If you want to wake up a Z13 you bore it out a smidgeon & drop GPz750 pistons in the holes. Owing to the longer stroke you end up with a Z1500 & they go like absolute stink.

[Whysub]

Rode up to the Motorcycle Museum in Valle de Gaudalest, 15 minutes north-west of Benidorm. Seemed rude not to seeing as the weather was sunny and warm (17°c), and the roads from my place are really good.

Museum is small, but excellent, with some great bikes, some like the very rare French Japauto CB1000, built to avoid the import duties on Japanese bikes back in the 70's. Ugly.

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Also had a fan cooled Ducati two stroke, which is the same model that was the first geared motorbike I rode aged around 12.

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Nice to see lots of Bultacos, Montesas and Ossa trial and motocross bikes in there too.

[The Spin Doctor]

Great find, that Japauto.

I'm pretty sure they were still being raced at the French endurance rounds when I first went to the Bol d'Or in 79.

Pinched the following from the blurb for an Amazon e-book - the development and racing history, and it explains Whysub's 'import duty' reference, which puzzled me. Re the shape - I seem to recall that the bike might have been windtunnel tested, though that's a near-fifty year old memory so quite likely wrong.

"...the first 1000cc four-cylinder Japanese motorcycle, the 970cc Japauto Honda endurance racer fitted with a big-bore kit for the 736cc CB750 that was developed and sold by France’s largest Honda dealer.

The Japauto Honda first came to prominence as the winner of the 1969 Bol d'Or 24 Hours race and the team won again in 1972, this time using a CB750 motor in a British-built Dresda frame.

In 1973, there came a third Japauto win in the French classic. This time with the bike tested in this feature and then in the hands of Gerard Debrock and Thierry Tchernine. Two years later a Japauto was classed as the runner-up in the highly controversial 1975 FIM Endurance series, even after scoring more points than the eventual Kawasaki champions!

Alan Cathcart tested this significant racer in company with Thierry Tchernine, who gave tips on riding the bike he used to race and also confirmed the authenticity of this re-creation of it, even to the ultra distinctive Japauto bodywork that is so effective in giving protection, but which doesn’t impede riding the bike hard.

This edition also features the full Japauto racing history, including the achievement of Japauto patron Christian Vilaséca and his riders, Michel Rougerie and Daniel Urdich in scoring the first win for a four-cylinder Honda outside Japan at the 1969 Bol d’Or, some half a year before Dick Mann's perhaps more famous win in the Daytona 200.

In addition, there is a detailed technical description, including the modifications made to the air-cooled CB750 engine to enable it to produce a claimed 100 bhp at 8500 rpm.

Finally, as an interesting footnote to the story, 250 examples of Japauto's 1000VX streetbike were made as a replica of this Bol d’Or winner and of these 72 were imported to Spain as French-built motorcycles in order to circumvent ban on Japanese imports imposed as a protectionist measure for the fragile Spanish economy in the era of Generalissimo Franco."

Kindle download here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/HONDA-JAPAUTO- ... B015528K4U it's only 2.99...

[Horse]

Today.

I've not ridden since 2013, with the intervening years having all of my neck and balance issues, culminating with to skull/neck operation in 2020 and a year so of regaining strength.

I'm never going to be able to ride on-road again (balance is buggered and, due to the screws and rods, my neck would literally be at risk). However, today I had the opportunity to ride a trials bike.

Can still do it But, officially, the last time I rode a bike