Your single ICE motorcycle

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I've never ridden a bike more tiring than my mates old kr1-s. I rode my 90s gpz1100-e1 up to Lancaster and we went out for the day. I rode around in 3rd and he worked like a loon. We swapped over for half an hour and I was breathing out my arse after 10 minutes.
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Potter wrote: Tue Aug 24, 2021 11:00 am
1.If the challenge was to keep one and I had to use it for daily transport,
2.The idea of keeping an old bike sounds great, but they need a lot more attention than anything modern.
1. Fuck that for a game of soldiers, I've got a car for transport
2. Hence my regular "what newer bike shall I buy" threads, I really enjoy riding bikes from the 80s, but they all require regular attention to keep running and it gets a bit annoying.
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When you say motorbike, I think I'd go for a car. And when you say ICE, I think I'd go for electric.

How else are we to achieve net zero? ;)
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Asian Boss wrote: Tue Aug 24, 2021 8:30 pm When you say motorbike, I think I'd go for a car. And when you say ICE, I think I'd go for electric.

How else are we to achieve net zero? ;)
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I think late 70s early 80s bikes excite me the most, because that was the era I was really into bikes. So, maybe a RD250/400e/f? Or maybe a Kwak Z of some description?
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Taipan wrote: Tue Aug 24, 2021 9:05 pm I think late 70s early 80s bikes excite me the most, because that was the era I was really into bikes. So, maybe a RD250/400e/f? Or maybe a Kwak Z of some description?
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Moto Martin CBX just for the sheer ridiculousness
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Dickyboy wrote: Wed Aug 25, 2021 6:21 pm Moto Martin CBX just for the sheer ridiculousness
That would be nice...
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Dickyboy wrote: Wed Aug 25, 2021 6:21 pm Moto Martin CBX just for the sheer ridiculousness
Mates BIL has a Moto Martin CBX rotting outside in his garden :wtf:
Not the CBX,but that Henry Cole bloke has got his cohorts rebuilding a Moto Martin Suzuki on the Motorbike show .
Bikes from the early to mid eighties hold the most appeal for me,so if I could only have one bike it would be a 350LC.
Being an old fart I don't want something porky or cumbersome for moving around & much as I'd like a 4XV R1
I know at my age it would be wasted on me.The 350LC would tick most boxes,gotta love a two stroke!
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I had a 4XV R1, easily the most mental bike I've ever ridden, and probably the most fun, but that fun is all on the illegal side of 100mph, it was a hateful thing to ride at legal speeds.
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