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Cheesy thread alert.

It occurred to me, I've had everything from 1-4 cylinders, 50-1200cc's, twin and monoshock, liquid and air cooled, RWU and USD forks, but I've never had a motorcycle with a radio/stereo or more than 4 cylinders.

What haven't you had?

Max points if you've never owned an IL4 or something water cooled.
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A boxer engine
An adventure bike
A generic commuter bike
A German bike
A British bike
Anything pre 1985
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Oh, I've never had a boxer either!

Had all the rest tho'

East and West German :)
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An inline 4 cylinder engine.

I was 71 last birthday and have been riding bikes since I was 16.
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mangocrazy wrote: Sun Feb 28, 2021 10:05 pm An inline 4 cylinder engine.

I was 71 last birthday and have been riding bikes since I was 16.
That's some feat!
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Boxer
Single cylinder
Off road
Kawasaki
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out crashing it.
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I've never owned an adventure styled bike,but I've ridden some and detested them in every way.

Never owned a British bike.
Never owned anything Italian.
Never own a bike that wasn't from the big four Japanese manufacturers.

It'll be 50 years on bikes.next year.
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weeksy wrote: Sun Feb 28, 2021 10:00 pm A boxer engine
An adventure bike
A generic commuter bike
A German bike
A British bike
Anything pre 1985
Wait, isn't Austria interchangeable with Germany :)
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KungFooBob wrote: Sun Feb 28, 2021 10:06 pm
mangocrazy wrote: Sun Feb 28, 2021 10:05 pm An inline 4 cylinder engine.

I was 71 last birthday and have been riding bikes since I was 16.
That's some feat!
I came close a few times, but something always stopped me. Was toying with the idea of a ZX7R and also a GSXR750, but bought something else instead. Can't see me ever owning one now. I rode a mate's CBR600RR and it just felt like a food processor. Or a washing machine on spin cycle.
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Twin cylinder 4 stroke
Three cylinders
Four cylinder 2 stroke
More than 4 cylinders
Bigger than 1170cc
Over 150bhp
Any form of automatic transmission
Less than 5 gears
More than 6 gears
Anything other than telescopic front forks
A shaft drive
Hard luggage
Manufactured in the last 20 years
Made any where other than Japan, Italy or Austria
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No boxers
No triples (I have ridden them though)
No Goldwings.

I would like to rectify all of these omissions, sadly the Goldwing will almost certainly elude me.
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A two stroke (unless you count a moped).
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Boxer
German
Italian
Honda(over my rotting corpse, NSRV500 excepted)
Triple
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Boxer engined
Water cooled 2 stroke
Il 4.(borrowed my dad's for 3 months though)
A fully faired bike
An off road / adventure bike, although more than 1 has been taken off road
Over 100 hp
A post unification German bike

Given how few bikes I've owned (5!) I'm surprised the list isn't longer to be honest.
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No boxers.
No adventure bikes.
No v twins.
No four stroke triples, or two stroke triples that ran.
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This should have been a poll. Boxers would be least popular, which is odd as the R1100/1150/1200/1250 GS has to be one of the most popular selling family of bikes ever!
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Realised that my exclusion list is longer than first thought. So no:

German bikes
Triples (I would like to rectify this)
British bikes (old or new)
Adventure bikes
Off-road bikes (I accept that this is a major failing on my part)
Overweight, over-specified touring bikes

And, of course, IL4s of any description...
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Dymag or Astrolite wheels.
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BMW, Suzuki, KTM, Ducati (or anything else Italian) badges.