revtothelimit - motorbike forum

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.

A boxer engine
An adventure bike
A generic commuter bike
A German bike
A British bike
Anything pre 1985

Oh, I've never had a boxer either!

Had all the rest tho'

East and West German

An inline 4 cylinder engine.

I was 71 last birthday and have been riding bikes since I was 16.

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!

Boxer
Single cylinder
Off road
Kawasaki

out crashing it.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

A two stroke (unless you count a moped).

Boxer
German
Italian
Honda(over my rotting corpse, NSRV500 excepted)
Triple

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.

No boxers.
No adventure bikes.
No v twins.
No four stroke triples, or two stroke triples that ran.

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!

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...

Dymag or Astrolite wheels.

BMW, Suzuki, KTM, Ducati (or anything else Italian) badges.