90's bikes are the best!

[KungFooBob]

I've joined a friendface group for 90's bikes. It's full of SRADS, ZX7R's, VFR750, etc...

It's a very popular group so my feed is just full of pics of 90's bikes.

They are so much better looking than anything made today.

I don't care that they don't make 200bhp or have electronic riders aids. Is it just my age, If I was 10 years older would I think think 80's bikes are the best?

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[Skub]

Nah.

I hear folk talk like that about music too.

The best era is the present,the here and now,up until the point legislation interferes with tech.

I have nostalgic feeling for 70s bikes,simply because that's when I started,but if modern stuff handled and braked like the old 70s wobblers I'd be the first to complain. Technology moves on and racing improves the breed. We all win.

However,all the 'clean air' and battery vehicles leave me cold,so in a few years time I'll probably be in an 'internal combustion bikes were the best' forum!

[Couchy]

All bikes are best

[Cousin Jack]

I like the look of 60's bikes.

I don't like their brakes, handling, reliability, etc.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I like the looks of 80s and 90s bikes, but the older they are the more shit they are, my 1983 YPVS 350 is a better bike than my 1982 Z1000J, my FZ750 is better than my YPVS and my FZR400 is better than my FZ, and so on, the newest bike I've ridden was a 2002 GSXR750, I would be amazed by a 2020 bike, but why do they have to be so ugly?

[Yorick]

It's like saying 90s cars were best. And 90s TVs are the best. 90s comms systems.

90s laptops the best. LOL

[Potter]

The only thing that matters is which ones (of anything) make you feel the best.

I like all bikes but I feel best riding my 1936 500cc single.
It sums up all that is good about two wheels, it's noisy, it's very mechanical, you have to be really involved and you feel exactly what it's doing.

[Couchy]

My 2020 Enfield is one of my favourites but it has the look and feel of an older bike but still rides like a modern one

[Potter]

From a looks perspective I'm not sure much looks better than a tidy FZ750 for a road bike, they sum up an era when every year things came out that moved the game on massively.

Race bikes, Schwantz's Pepsi Suzuki or possibly Mamola's Cagiva.

[weeksy]

I can totally get the 90s thing, mostly because of Carbs... For example the 1998/1999 Yamaha R1, it was just a glorious machine to ride, really impressive. I actually enjoyed it more as a bike than the 2005 R1. But, i can see how 'new' bikes are better in some ways... but really in 90% of instance, it's the riders holding the bike back, not the technology within the bike that's holding the rider back, so rarely matters.

[Potter]

I don't feel a huge difference between modern bikes and 90's bikes, there is obviously some but it's not huge.

I feel a massive difference between pre-WW2 bikes and 80/90s bikes - so if I get off my 1936 bike and jump onto my TDR250 the difference is incredible, it feels like I'm on a magi carpet and everything is so smooth - but if I jump off my 1988 TDR and onto a 2020 BMW GS then there isn't much difference other than size and power.

[weeksy]

I don't feel a huge difference between modern bikes and 90's bikes, there is obviously some but it's not huge.

I feel a massive difference between pre-WW2 bikes and 80/90s bikes - so if I get off my 1936 bike and jump onto my TDR250 the difference is incredible, it feels like I'm on a magi carpet and everything is so smooth - but if I jump off my 1988 TDR and onto a 2020 BMW GS then there isn't much difference other than size and power.

That's a bit weird mate

[KungFooBob]

I think it's more the looks than anything. None of the modern stuff looks half as good as an early 90's GSRX or a ZX7R.

Even the SRAD's looks better than the current crop of Gixers.

[Potter]

I don't feel a huge difference between modern bikes and 90's bikes, there is obviously some but it's not huge.

I feel a massive difference between pre-WW2 bikes and 80/90s bikes - so if I get off my 1936 bike and jump onto my TDR250 the difference is incredible, it feels like I'm on a magi carpet and everything is so smooth - but if I jump off my 1988 TDR and onto a 2020 BMW GS then there isn't much difference other than size and power.

That's a bit weird mate

Not really, there is only so far you can go with conventional suspension, my 1936 bike is hard tail with only a damper on the front girder forks.
The TDR and anything new is more or less the same.

Out of all the bikes you've ridden there were obviously differences but I don't think anything was a complete step change, like going from girder forks to conventional forks.

[weeksy]

No, i absolutley agree with that bit, none of them have been as revolutionary as that and the benefits are clearly more incremental than a massive step in technology, but still, they're very very different to me.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I think alot of my favourite bikes come from the late 90s and early 00s. Thats mostly cause I lasted after them as a teenager though.

I still think the original CBR600RR is the best looking 'mainstream' sportsbike ever. That's probably cause it looks the V5 RC211V, which at the time seemed impossibly exotic to me.

Isnt it weird how I have no major desire for the bikes I can now afford, but I still want the ones I couldn't afford back then? I could go buy a V4 Panigale tomorrow, but I'd much rather buy a 916 for example.

[Potter]

No, i absolutley agree with that bit, none of them have been as revolutionary as that and the benefits are clearly more incremental than a massive step in technology, but still, they're very very different to me.

I suppose it's just where you take a baseline from, I remember riding the CBR600 back in the early 90's and feeling like it was from another planet compared to the older stuff I was used to riding, whereas now other than riding position and power I feel like most of what I've ridden that was made in the last 40yrs feels very similar - the biggest differences being the quality of brakes and how the bike handles whilst on the brakes.

[weeksy]

I think alot of my favourite bikes come from the late 90s and early 00s. Thats mostly cause I lasted after them as a teenager though.

I still think the original CBR600RR is the best looking 'mainstream' sportsbike ever. That's probably cause it looks the V5 RC211V, which at the time seemed impossibly exotic to me.

Isnt it weird how I have no major desire for the bikes I can now afford, but I still want the ones I couldn't afford back then? I could go buy a V4 Panigale tomorrow, but I'd much rather buy a 916 for example.

What's the most modern/big/new bike you've tried ?

[Potter]

Isnt it weird how I have no major desire for the bikes I can now afford, but I still want the ones I couldn't afford back then? I could go buy a V4 Panigale tomorrow, but I'd much rather buy a 916 for example.

100% the same.
I think I was just more excited about bikes back then, as well as the psychology of being a young fellow desiring something out of my grasp.

[weeksy]

he biggest differences being the quality of brakes and how the bike handles whilst on the brakes.

In some departments you'd have loved the 690 Duke, it was both superb on the brakes along with being awesome to trail brake into a corner and how it was fine being leant over and still on them.