Bucket List Bikes

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Aprilia Moto 6.5

They're actually pretty good to ride, definitely fun.

[KungFooBob]

NSR500-V

I remember going to the Gold Cup (or maybe he Cock o'North) some time in the mid 90's with my old man to watch Ian Lougher ride Oliver's Mount on an 'ultra rare' NSR500 V-Twin, first in the UK or something.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Bucket List Bikes for me

A proper racing RG500, a late stepped cylinder one, dunno why, but that's the 500GP bike I want to ride.
The race NR750 with pistons like tins of spam.
One of the works AMA Superbikes from 1981, Freddie Spencer's CB750, Wes Cooley's GS1000 or Eddie Lawson's Z1000, though I suspect they'd all be pretty horrible to ride.
Husky SMR630

I think I've owned or ridden pretty much every obtainable bike that I've seriously lusted after, but there haven't been a lot of these, 1983 350 YPVS, 1985 GSXR750, YZF750, 1998 R1 are the ones I wanted so much it almost hurt not to own them, and I've owned all of them.

[Tricky]

A sorted (preferabley late Evolutione ) V-Due



A completely original UK spec AS3, ideally in this colour



And I'm another one for a Rune- of all the overweight crusier sort of bikes, this is the only one I've ever really fancied, so far at least
This would do, and on this, it's be rude not to poke the baffles out

I guess there's only 1 then.

Kawasaki h2R thing with green frame that tricky used to own.

Yeah, mad bike with 240+ genuine rwhp on BSD's dyno, would wheelie by twisting the throttle at 110-120 , loved that bike in some ways, but a chocolate teapot if ever there was one- I offered it to so many to have a go on, never understood why no-one ever took me up on it- seriously!

[Wossname]

Vincent Black Shadow - just oh yes.
BSA Spitfire - nostalgia
T120 Bonneville - as above
RC45 - of course.

That’ll do. Wouldn’t mind owning them all either.

[Mr. Dazzle]

A sorted (preferabley late Evolutione ) V-Due

Why does the seat need two exhausts?

[Taipan]

2017-08-27_03-35-06 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

Always wanted a fightered one of those. I love the sound of that engine, but you can keep yer girly fairings!

[KungFooBob]

It's the Big Bang one that sounds mental, the older ones sound like any other IL4... fortunately for you, they do a premade fightered R1 with the Big Bang engine.

The MT10.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Which isn't big bang.

Just had to say it, 'cause I always do.

Same firing sequence as a pipe and slippers VF... blah blah.

[KungFooBob]

ok, Two Bang.

They do sound far more like a big v-twin than an IL4 tho'

[Supermofo]

2017-08-27_03-35-06 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

Reminds me of the Ace Cafe in the mid naughties, them and K6 Gixxer thous and the naughtier side of the LondonBikers forum especially Ghosty who'd be knee down in the car park before usually baiting the police into a chase every Friday night. Proper razz down to Frith Street in Soho mob handed, riding like you'd never get away with in London now. Good times

[Mr. Dazzle]

ok, Two Bang.

They do sound far more like a big v-twin than an IL4 tho'

And they sound pretty much exactly like a VFR on a nice pipe, it's just that people don't mentally associate the two and hence don't notice

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

ok, Two Bang.

They do sound far more like a big v-twin than an IL4 tho'

And they sound pretty much exactly like a VFR on a nice pipe, it's just that people don't mentally associate the two and hence don't notice

I think they sound more like a VF500 with a hole in the collector box.

[Sadlonelygit]

spondon turbo nutter bike, not to ride, just to polish and take to a bike meet every now and again.
nr750
a nice katana restomod from japan

[mangocrazy]

ok, Two Bang.

They do sound far more like a big v-twin than an IL4 tho'

And they sound pretty much exactly like a VFR on a nice pipe, it's just that people don't mentally associate the two and hence don't notice

It's all to do with the order of the bangs and the spacing in between them. If a crossplane R1 sounds like a VFR, it's because the firing order and spacing between bangs are the same.

On an RC24 VFR750 the bangs numbered 1 2 3 4 come from cylinders 1 3 2 4 in that order. (#1 back left, #2 front left, #3 back R, #4 front R)

So the sequence is: #1 180' #3 270' #2 180' #4 90' #1 etc..

If you had a metronome set up to go tick tick tick tick ...... the bangs would be on ticks numbered 1 3 6 8 9 11 14 16 17 and so on (that is two full cycles, 1440 degrees crank rotation, four revolutions).

Alternatively this (bangs are 1, non-firing is 0) : 1-0-1-0-0-1-0-1-1-0-1-0-0-1-0-1

[rodbargee]

would love a go on a real MV 750S 4 into 4

[rodbargee]

I think the baffles would have to go..

[rodbargee]

its the noise it makes as much as any riding experience

[Supermofo]

its the noise it makes as much as any riding experience

This was parked at Old Warden when I visited late summer. Sounded lovely, had a quick chat with the owner, lucky guy