Have you ever missed any of your old bikes?

[iCraig]

Hi,

As the question says really have you ever missed a bike you've gotten rid of?

I'm sat here looking at some old photos and wishing I'd never sold some of them. Plus having not owned a bike in 3 1/2 years I am now beginning to think about getting one again.
I do really miss my old GS500, was old when I owned it but it may have been 13 years old, I loved it though and sold it for an oh so unreliable GPZ500.

The other bike I miss is my Honda CMX250, wasn't the quickest or the best looking but it never missed a beat. Thinking about it I miss my Honda CB450, which was my last bike in 2007, never ever let me down....

Craig

[HD]

RM 125
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

I miss my Mille.
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[N cee thirty]

miss my rs50,don't know why


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[HD]

In fact, thinking about it, I miss my shitty little 'pitbike' I had. It was a 110 chinese thing. Heap of shit really.

I snapped the chain and the front brake snapped so I felt I had to sell it as it was beyond repair. Sold it for £82; bought it for £1000 (well bought for me).

Fuck me, £50 work and it would have been running again and I would be ripping it down the creek til the rozzers caught me again (long story)
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Rusty '02 Vito Camper + CBR600F3

[The Shaggy D.A.]

Yes. Financial problems meant I had to empty my garage of a 1963 AJS 350cc, a CB250RS, a CB400/4 cafe racer and a GPZ50R with a GPZ1000RX engine.

I miss the AJS the most. The 400/4 was a project that never really got off the ground, the 250 was a decent workhorse and the GPZ was my main daily ride.

I also miss my XJ900F, the BMW R100RT and the Bullet. I think I miss the GT550 the least. I bought it new, and I don't think I ever really loved it. Liked it, but not loved.
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[fezza612]

I miss my first ever Honda CG eventhough i brought another it just don't match the first.
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Previous: '02 Honda CG125, '03 yamaha enticer
Current: '98 Kawasaki GPZ500S

[Blau Zedong]

I miss my original GSXR750L. Had lots of nice bits on it (Yoshi / K&N / Dynojet / Rev Booster) and was clean enough under the plastic to eat your dinner off. Bodywork was a bit tatty in places but the advent of Ebay meant it could of been minted without too much effort. Revved like a 400, went like an 1100 - my current M model is a pale imitation.
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[truslack]

My RS50
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Current: Suzuki RG 125 Gamma, Honda H100, Triumph Tiger 800XC, Suzuki SV650 (minitwin)

[WildGoose]

I miss the CBR250 that was my first proper bike and it had a bit of magic about it, for whatever reason. At 17 it was the coolest thing ever.

If I had another one now, I would no doubt find it underpowered and probably uncomfortable. Though I still think it has a classic look about it, and have no interest in the looks of any modern equivalent sportsbike. That's not to say I wouldn't have one to ride

I miss the H100 because it was an incredibly simple little bike and fun to ride, but as proved, far too easy to steal. Now that I don't live in the town I doubt I would have the patience to ride it anywhere, as top speed was very low.

I would probably still have the tiger 955 if it hadn't snapped the chain and munched the engine. The most comfortable bike I have ever had, not much for going round corners rapidly, but if you just want to bang out 300 miles in one hit and still feel good at the other end you couldn't beat it.

Most of the rest have been kind of 'meh'. Though not sure if that has been me or the bikes.

The current CCM R30 definately gives me a kind of 'meh' even though I think it looks cool, and the idea on paper sounds cool.

But it doesn't do much well.
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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

I miss the '83 XL125. Bazzin' little bike.

[Eaten too much cake]
When i changed the knobblies and the gearing, it took me to Sheffield and back many a time. Strap a can on the rack and play all day in a disused quarry that i found
The main reason i miss it was it taught me about control, and using my body to keep the bike stable(ish). Traction...looking ahead more..n stuff. I was just starting to learn this when i gave it back to my uncle and got the bland as bland Honda CG.

I've still got the CB250RSA and it's for keeps.

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Pat
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[Old Git Racing]

Miss em all in different ways but the 3 that I wish I could have back were -
Yamaha 350YPVS I raced in roadstocks and rode on the road. it was a little rocketship, sounded like a TZ, all home tuned. Sold it after spending too much racing.

RG500 Gamma, made me feel like Sheene, very addictive lunatic powerband. Written off.

BMW R80RT, yes really, panniers, cylinders stuck out, slow with 'interesting' handling but boy did it have character. Sold it to pay for 2 TZ cranks rebuilt and a load of piston/rings.

Been thinking recently about another RG500, on the lookout for a good one.

OGR
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[Skudd]

I wish I had never given away my Africa Twin to my nephew. He didn't seem to appreciate £2k worth of bike for free. I wish I could turn back time.
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[pinkyfloyd]

Sometimes I miss the old RXS I owned. But not often
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[Teflon-Mike]

Batavas Go-Go pedal & pop moped. My first bike. I have absolutely no use for it, and the state I got it into it would be completely un-restorable, but hey, it was my first bike! Unceramoniousely dumped in a skip by my Uncle while I was on holiday with my Dad, as a teen-ager, during a garage clear-out!
A Vespa 90, I pulled out of a pile of scrap with no front end on it, and wanted to fix up. (aged 10!) Would be worth a fair bit now, and I though I still think that the perversity of the design is a cruel joke, I sort of am beginning to apreciate it... only taken me 30 years! aparently went in the same skip, during the same clear-out!
The BSA C15 that went skip-wise.... I dont 'miss', but I sort of gnash at, when I see Otta framed trials chops that actually work, and people pottering about on them with Boyer ignitions and Mikuni Carbs, and think, 'Oh, that would have been SO easy!" Had I hung on to it. Yup, same skip, same clear-out!
Though aparently before it went in the skip, my Grandad did stick it in the back of his Hilman Avenga estate and drive round to the then newly opened National Motorcycle Museum, just down the road, to see if they wanted it. Aparently they didn't!
The one I really regret is the Wire-Wheel RD250E I was given as a fixer-upper. It had been wildly tuned and ran on methanol, but only on one pot until it his 6K, then it took off like a banchee! Look at restored examples now, and think what it could have been turned into!I THINK this might be the only bike I have ever actually SOLD!
Got a DT50E in part ex for it, which was a bit of a laugh. When I stripped it down, the frame was cracked in about six places, and the exhaust was half copper plumbers pipe. sort of gives you an idea of the state of delapidation. Renovated it, age 16, for the road, going do-lally on tuning the engine with my Grandad, in a pique of interest in something a) not british, b) not four-stroke c) mine!
Went like stink, but unfortunately also went straight into the side of a blue Triumph Spitfire who decided to T-Bone me in classic SMIDSY, writing it off. Had hassle with the Insurance co, and eventually it went into a different skip, during a different garage clear-out. Though My Grandad kept the bottom end of the engine, suggesting he had an idea to use the gear-box for his lathe, as it would save him having to swap belts and re-tension the notor whenever he wanted to change speeds. After becoming the work-shop door-stop for a deacde, he stubbed his toe on it, and asked me when I was going to do something with that bloody engine. I reminded him of the lathe idea, he had no recollection what so ever, but then he had had three strokes in the mean-time!
AR125LC. The only vehicle I have ever owned from new. Bought it on tic, becouse I was too broke to afford anything second hand! It was stolen three times, and on the final attempt it came back in shattered fragments!
And that is ALL the bikes I have, in thirty odd years, ever parted with! Rest of them are all lying around some-where, in variying states of delapidation, or incompletion!
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[Rob W]

My little ZXR400.

Sold it to someone through here, and when I checked on DVLA it's never been taxed since I sold it, so it was either smashed up or tracked, athough I doubt the latter to be honest.


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[ms51ves3]

My CW50.

[Handsome]

My old Zephyr 550...
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[kingsknight]

I know I would miss my XR that is why I have never sold it
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TS50 (sold) NS125F (sold) NSR125R-K (write off after 2 crashes) CG125 (nicked) XR125L-3 (Sold )-: ) DR125SM '11 (sold yay) XL125V '12 (In love with this bike) XT600E '04 (fun on the dirt)

[Dibble]

My old Yamaha XT550 bought it as a non runner in boxes, got it going, despatched it for a year, crashed head on into an Astra, bought a XT600 front end for £20, ground out the yokes with a power drill(burnt it out). I abused it shockingly but it just kept going.

Sold it to a bloke called Del for £150.

Have always regretted it.................last week Helkat posted a picture of a mate of hers called Del...............I wonder if he's still got it.....................

[Kickstart]

Hi

Miss my first ever bike (Honda H100S). Miss my MBX125 which got nicked. Err, not sure I have got rid of any other bikes which I miss.

Did buy my AF1 Futura back about 15 years after I sold it.

All the best

Keith
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[MarJay]

I miss my RD350LC. I know that I'll probably never own one again, and it did ride well. It was an absolute hoot to ride but I didn't have a 'main' bike at the time, and I'd probably only have crashed it and ruined it anyway.
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[Seb]

Definitely got to be my Futura, it had a whole heap of character enhancing foibles and gremlins, it was a nightmare to keep clean with all the plastic, and woe upon ye if you broke anything on it. Trouble was it was immensely comfortable and planted yet nimble enough make you think you had a Millie tucked under the sofa when the going got twisty. Whilst it's not as smooth or reliable as the ZX9, it was a far nicer bike to ride.

Selling that thing was a huge mistake, I should have took note when I picked up a puncture on the way to the dealer to trade it in
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[Blau Zedong]