A sort of biking life. Lots of pics.

[Pie-Roe]

I've seen a few of these, so I thought I'd make one up.
A lot of the bikes I have had, I don't have lots of pics, or I lost them or whatever, but here goes.

So I passed by bike test third time on 20/10/07. I failed the first time for not using the front brake hard enough, the second time I got a front blowout on the way and crashed, and the third time I passed with no minors. I think I still have the pass cert somewhere.

Anyways. My first bike was a '99 GSF600S, that I bought before I passed from Kris on here. He delivered it and then I had it sitting in my front garden for a while. Pretty sure it was 550 delivered.
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I crashed this on a country road on a load of mud at 2am, and bodged it back together with silicone bathroom sealant on the rhs engine cover. Rode it around for a few thousand miles, then it failed an mot and I sold it.

I then bought a FZR600, low mileage, brilliant condition. I think I paid 800 for it.
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Was fun, but there was some kind of incident with a bus, I don't really remember what, but I sold it anyway.

After that I bought a zxr750, was mildly damaged, I think I got it for around 600. It was great fun, but very heavy. Sold it to CM after a friend dropped it.

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The only pic I have of it, is with the CB125 I bought from hoffy or hoddy or something off here for 100 quid. I cleaned it up a bit, then traded it for a bag of weed. My friend Squiffy_the_wombat did some good work, but had to sell it to fund his k2 1000 mot (all consumables at once)

I then bought an RF600, and a DRZ400E. Had them both at the same time.
The DRZ was excellent fun, full FMF system, lots of trick bits.
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Sold them both for boredom reasons I think.
The DRZ went to fund the CCM r30 I bought off Jenks, but it was terrible so that went too. no pics unfortunately. I did blow up a berlingo on the way home with it in the back though!
At this point I had a series of bikes, I don't remember the order really.
A MZ ETZ250
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A RF900
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A purple and pink rf900
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A KTM 625 SMC of some description
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The purple and pink rf developed second gear death, I sold to Big CC racing who flogged it without telling the next owner, as I saw it on ebay about a month later.
The black/red one I made about £500 on.
The KTM suffered severe death of the electrics, then cooling, then engine, then I sold it for a massive loss.

Then there was the second FZR600. It was a 250 quid bike that had a bit of MOT left. Squiffy crashed it at lydden hill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpYCiDNFFS8
Then another friend Chakraist on here, crashed it at a local set of roundabouts.
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This was how I first came to know/of paddy, who bought it from me.

At the same time as this, I had a husky TE610, which blew it's coolant system, then head gasket.
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This was how it sat, unloved for a while after I accidentally dropped a cam chain link into the engine. I don't touch the insides of engines anymore.
Sold it as a box of bits.

After this there was another rf600, I blew this one up.
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I had a CZ175, which was free, very rusty, and had an interesting start proceedure. You had to push in the gear lever and kick it over backwards, it doubled as the kickstart.
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Sold it for 70 quid

At some point in here I also had an XT600. A proper old one. I got it for almost no money, and it had a rubber bung to replace where someone had removed the starter motor. I don't seem to have any pics of this. I also don't have any of the nighthawk. or the gpx750

I bought a VTR1000F with Squiffy that was in bits but complete from a breaker. Made a fair profit on it.
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I love my GT550s
I've had three of them! only pic I have is of me being chased round Pfizer's industrial unit by Chakraist.
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After this I had my first X11, which I had my first real crash with a car on. It was undamaged as such, just some scratches.
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I did a lot of this:
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Then I did a proper job of it myself...
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I bought a divvy for 300 quid after that. It was excellent. I dropped it in the snow a few times, but 100mph and 60mpg, it was a very good commuter.
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Sold it because a friend needed some cheap wheels and I changed jobs to a walking commute.

After that I moved house and didn't have any bikes for a while. Then I started having an itch and bought a SV650 that was up for sale locally cheap. It was shit and I sold it after a month
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Then there was a RF600, a RF900 and the BCF monkey bike. Which I hasten to add was in premium condition when Iain bought off me.

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The rf6 I bought for 400 with no papers, passed MOT with no work and I sold it for 900. The rf9 I sold to fund the next X11, and a guy got killed on it in Manchester, and well, most of us know the story of the monkey bike.

After this, I had the second X11. This was my favourite of all the bikes. It had lots of power, lots of noise, and lots of muscle looking meaness. Kinda ugly but I liked it. I paid 1700 ponds for it.
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Unfortunately as most of you know, I had a little oopsie on the mayday run last year. Some dickhead overtook a shittone of bikes into my path and hit me head on. Knight was behind me.
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I broke my foot in lots of places, and it hurt a lot. I couldn't walk for ages bla bla. Sold it to dumbarse.
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I bought a TLR before I could walk again, and put a foldable cane in the hump so I could hobble at the other end.
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I had some fun exhausts for it. Fisty now has them, but is too scared to use them for waking up the welsh dead.
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Unfortunately this was ended by a van driver 200m from my house.

While I had the TLR though I bought a Thundercat off a guy on here for 400, sold it to JM the next day for 720 I think it was. Passed MOT with a small amount of work and he rode it to BBQ 2013 the same day.
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JM messaged me about it, I wanted a second bike, my intentions were not to flip it. I thought it fair he got a cheap bike and I got profit

After the TLR went to be assessed for the crash, I had a bandit 1250 hire bike. It was okay, wheelie happy, fairly nippy but so bland.
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I then bought a CB250 Superdream from Shaft.
It took a lot of doing, from the time I arranged to buy it, paddy volunteered to pick it up in a van, but broke his hand, TLR was broken, and then I got rear ended in my dad's mondeo on the way to get it. Finally hired a van and got it home.

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It was fun enough, but wasn't the best for my commute, so I sold it to a guy who wanted to restore it.

I then bought an ER-5 from Paddy, who bought it from Nemo.
It was cheap, cheerful and pretty bashed up.
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Ran it around for a while. Was surprisingly nippy to 80, and handled okay. I snapped the chain and sold it for pennies.

I then bought a blackbird off Paddy, who got it from Mr_joolz, who crashed it somewhat, who bought it from Jay12234 or something. (pics are stolen from paddy's photobucket as I don't have any yet)
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It's okay, I'm using it as an everyday bike. I plan to give it a big overhaul, and maybe some chink fairings. Or maybe I'll sell it. Probably sell it to be fair, I fancy another x11, or something similar.

So yeah, that's me and what I've had. Except a few I don't have pics of or have forgotten.

Biking has given me lots of fun. Lots of moments like this
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With headscratching as to what to do next
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Bikes in the kitchen.
Group efforts
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But yeah, lots of fun, and not much breaking of myself.
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Previous: GSF600, FZR600 x2, ZXR750, XT600 Tenere, CB125, CZ125, ETZ 250, ER5, CCM R30, DRZ400, RF600x4, RF900x2, GS500, VTR1000F, 640 SMC, CB250 NIGHTHAWK, GT550x3, GPX750 TE610, CB500, X11x2, SV650, ZING 125, TL1000R,CB250 Superdream, CBR1100XX

[Eddie Hitler]

That Thundercat for £400. . Absolute steal.

Cool write up.

[krarkol]

Enjoyed that!

I take it you like the RF's then
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Bandit 600 - deaded

[Carvel]

[Shreeve]

Cracking little story that was.

Cheers for all the pics, you've had a crazy amount of bikes!
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Current: Suzuki GSX650F (2010), Suzuki GSXR1000 K7, Suzuki GS250T (1980) currently restoring: Clicky.
Previous: Honda CBF 125 (2011), Suzuki GSXR750 K4

[Shaft]

[Carvel]

Never heard of them but that does explain it. Based on a Mk2 fiesta.
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[Shaft]

Pretty stylish thing, looks vaguely like a miniature Capri with pop up headlights.

Quite rare too, less than 20 made IIRC.
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[AlanC]

So, on average, around 5 bikes a year.

I passed my test less than 4 months after you and, including the 125 I had while learning, I've owned a grand total of 4 bikes.

Talk about "how the other half live"...

[bikertomm]

Jesus wept, Paddy has a contender

Awesome read
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[Pigeon]

Wow, that's a lot of bikes in 6.5 years. Very cool.

What's the love of RF900's?

[MaybeGuy]

What a disgusting display of scrap bikes, majority of which should never be on the road.
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Kickstart wrote: Hi I tend to agree with Matt. All the best Keith

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