I have never owned a motorcycle with...

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< 500cc
> 1000cc
German
Italian
KTM
American
Sports bike (fully faired, low bars)
2 stroke
Knobbly tyres
Boxer
Shaft drive
Adaptive headlights
Electronic suspension
Sidecar
Top box
Sheepskin seat cover
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I've never owned a water called 4T, nor a bike with fuel injection.

One I'd like to rectify is not owning a bike with multiple cranks, designed rather than snapped for preference.
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an auto blipper

still don't really understand what they do :eh:
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I'm working my way through the options.
VTwin
Boxer
Italian
Nothing over 1200
No 6 cylinder bikes (yet)

I'm most like to tick VTwin or Boxer next. SDR or Guzzi Sports V1200.
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formula400 wrote: Mon Mar 01, 2021 7:41 am an auto blipper

still don't really understand what they do :eh:
Blip. Automatically. Duh! ;)

Do you manually blip? If not this is probably the wrong thread to be explaining it
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Bar-end tassles.
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Mon Mar 01, 2021 8:19 am
formula400 wrote: Mon Mar 01, 2021 7:41 am an auto blipper

still don't really understand what they do :eh:
Blip. Automatically. Duh! ;)

Do you manually blip? If not this is probably the wrong thread to be explaining it
don't think I do.......off to YouTube I go
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You'll be on to the clutchless shifting after that!
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Re: I have never owned a motorcycle with...

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... a quick shifter. Until Saturday. Now I do. :D
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... a fresh-from-the-showroom smell.

Nor any other vehicle as a matter of fact
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Re: I have never owned a motorcycle with...

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Anything under 250cc.
Any electronic aids except my last one where I've reached the giddy heights of ABS.
Anything German or Italian.
No adventure bikes.
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out anyone else having owned it first.
Shaft drive
Six cylinders
a 2 stroke triple engine
Harley written on the tank


Oh, a boxer...
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I think I've made up for the forum's lack of boxers.....


Bikes I've never owned:
A hub-centre steered bike
A Girder forked bike (ridden yes, owned no)
A bike with leading or trailing link forks
A multi-crank engined bike.
A trike
A parallel twin (ridden yes, owned no)
A bike with slicks
non quod, sed quomodo
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Never had a Brit bike or a Yank one, never had German or Austrian. Never had traction control or a quick shifter. Never had a parallel twin or V4. Other than that I'm struggling.

All 4 Japanese manufacturers and Italian - tick.
Shaft and chain - tick.
Single, v twin, IL triple and IL 4cyl - tick.
2 and 4 stroke - tick.
Faired/unfaired - tick.
Air-cooled/liquid cooled - tick.
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derek badger wrote: Mon Mar 01, 2021 6:55 pm Never had a Brit bike, never had German or Austrian. Never had traction control or a quick shifter. Never had a parallel twin or V4. Other than that I'm struggling.

All 4 Japanese manufacturers and Italian - tick.
Shaft and chain - tick.
Single, v twin, IL triple and IL 4cyl - tick.
2 and 4 stroke - tick.
Faired/unfaired - tick.
Air-cooled/liquid cooled - tick.
Good call GP. I've never had a 'new' bike.
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A Ducati badge
A Cruiser styleee
more than 4 cylinders (but we did hire a goldwing for a week of our honeymoon)
An Electric bike
An Automatic gearbox
A sidecar
A stepthrough, scooter stylee
heavily modified
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Mon Mar 01, 2021 10:58 am You'll be on to the clutchless shifting after that!
I’ve got a quick shifter
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Never had a brand new bike
Triple (almost bought one but bottled at last minute and kept the one i had)
British bike
Harley
Cruiser
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Never had

A cruiser
A wankel engined bike
A touring bike like a gold wing
A British bike
A sidecar
A trials bike
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Couchy wrote: Mon Mar 01, 2021 9:42 pm This week I've not had

A cruiser
A wankel engined bike
A touring bike like a gold wing
A British bike
A sidecar
A trials bike
EFA