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matlow Scooby Slapper
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Posted: 10:42 - 16 Jun 2017 Post subject: Going back |
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Re-visiting bikes from your past, is nostalgia over rated? Fancy a bike from my back catalogue but am un-decided. Now to further complicate things, this would be moving from a 2003 Ducati 749s to a 2009/10 blade, so an upgrade in power but to my mind not necessarily in character, however not all the "character" of the Ducati is positive.
The blade was a bike I rode all the way to Slovenia and back, a bike I loved but had to move on to free up some cash.
I appreciate its subjective but am indecisive and would appreciate other peoples experiences. ____________________ Hornet 600, CBR600F, 929 blade, 07 R1, R1200GS, 09 Blade, 750 SRAD, ZZR1200, 954 Blade, KTM 990 Adventure, Ducati 749s |
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Posted: 11:10 - 16 Jun 2017 Post subject: |
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I'd rather the Blade than the Ducati. Both are so modern I don't think nostalgia comes into it, but I get what you're saying. If you'd be OK financially I'd say go for it. ____________________ I want your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle.
Suzuki GP125 Suzuki GSX600F Suzuki SV650S KTM EXC250F SkyTeam Bongo 125
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Rogerborg nimbA
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Posted: 11:17 - 16 Jun 2017 Post subject: |
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I tried a Ninja 250 briefly when I was on my 25kW license, before cheaping out with a Gpz305 instead.
So it was partially recapturing my lost innocence (awww) which encouraged me to take a look at one again last year. I'm very glad I did, I'm having a great laugh on it.
If you have happy memories, why not go for it. If you're grinning you're winning, and worst case, bikes aren't that hard to sell on. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike |
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matlow |
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matlow Scooby Slapper
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Posted: 15:27 - 16 Jun 2017 Post subject: |
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[quote=" If you're grinning you're winning, and worst case, bikes aren't that hard to sell on.[/quote]
Good point well made ____________________ Hornet 600, CBR600F, 929 blade, 07 R1, R1200GS, 09 Blade, 750 SRAD, ZZR1200, 954 Blade, KTM 990 Adventure, Ducati 749s |
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Polarbear |
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Posted: 17:42 - 16 Jun 2017 Post subject: |
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Agree with above.
My nostalgia is 70'and 80's bikes. 70's two stokes and 80's early inline 4's from Japan.
Although I'm a Triumph aficionado now, I never really got into the old Brits although I owned a dog BSA Rocket 3 and a BSA Starfire back then. Well before the silly money times.
I now have a 2000 Fazer 600 as well as my Trophy. Nostalgia? No, It's a cheap hack that I class as modern. ____________________ Triumph Trophy Launch Edition |
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Teflon-Mike |
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Pretty hard to 'go-back' when I still have most of the bikes I have ever bought! The only ones to have escaped are a DT50 and an AR125, really... I have few rose tinted memories of the DT50, and would NOT wish to suffer one ever again!
The AR125 is another story; I actually woke up in the middle of a nightmare some months ago, in which I was arguing with my mother and Step-father over "When will you move this dam bike out of our garage!" which was a bit surreal... was actually the last place it was seen, quarter of a century ago, rather mangled, after getting it back of plod, before is-co came and took it away, and 'dream' argument was sort of a time slide, trying to explain that the bike had been taken away twenty five year ago, BUT on turning up to open shed and prove it was gone, being shown it sat there, NOT smashed and in bits, but whole, and having to ride it 'home'... i which 'dream' considered the conflict between now and twenty five years ago, and where in this surreality 'home' might be.....
When woke up, it DID sort of suggest I might miss the poor little thing; but I also recall I had been riding it for almost a year beyond my full licence, getting ever more blase about how hard I ragged it, and convinced that if I carried on, I WOULD probably kill myself on it... and revisiting teen-dreams, I actually took a tangent and got that Yamaha Enduro to restore to do 'different', and when that went west, looked at alternative teen dreams by way of the KR1S I had wanted when I was 19, and the Moto-Guzzi GT1000 had also rather aspired to, to do something I HADN'T done, rather than re-do something I had....
So no, really little drive to re-visit bikes that WERE part of my past... and aren't any-more.... I mean, I have had my Montesa Cota for over 30 years, since was 15! Its still part of my present! The VF-Thou that was a large chunk of my pre-married life, is still here, too... and probably beyond hope of redemption, and have ever less enthusiasm to restore it, or get another, now.
About the only one I am occasionally tempted by is an air-cooled RD250. I had wire-wheel '77 example... a very BAD example, I had circa 1986, that I never really got to do any miles on; It was an abomination, with far too many twit-attempts at tuning when it was L-Plate eligible! A pig to start, tended to only run on one pot until 6K then went mental! And was quickly traded on, as I had no real use for it! That would similarly not so much be going 'back' to something I have done, but something that bike didn't give me the chance; either to do a full ad proper resto, or experience a well sorted example of the breed.
In a similar vain, I did pull a Vespa 90 out of a scrap heat when was a school-boy; a motorcycle of MUCH wonder... I spent most of my time taking it to bits and putting t back together 'Wondering' how such a fundamentally flawed design could ever 'work' let alone be hailed as a design icon! I never actually got to ride that one... my Grandad had stolen it's front wheel from the same scrap-heap for his wheel-barrow, and I got into a LOT of trouble, after I got the Vespa running, and tried to borrow it back! Again occasionally have 'second chance' pangs, but usually looking at PX200's rather than 90's!
Closest I actually came to one was spotting one on e-bay with a side-car, which just bowled me over, as SUCH an automotive anathma; I mean not only has it got wheels too small, and the engine in the wrong place, AND not even on the same axis, SOME-ONE had chucked a CHAIR on the side to go the whole hog of utterly unreasonable compromises! For which reason alone, I just wanted to sample the thing!
But.... Motorbikes have no reverse gear.... you cant go backwards, just do something the same, differently, which, to my mind with SO much that could be done in biking has to be better of doing the same thing on something different but not as good as just dong something 'different'.... I have as yet to own a hard-tail chop, for example.. or ridden a speedway bike, so whilst such novelties remain to be explored... stuff I already have, takes a back-seat! ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
Current Bikes:'Honda VF1000F' ;'CB750F2N' ;'CB125TD ( 6 3 of em!)'; 'Montesa Cota 248'. Learner FAQ's:= 'U want to Ride a Motorbike! Where Do U start?' |
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Posted: 11:30 - 17 Jun 2017 Post subject: |
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Nostalgia?
2009/10 bike. Buy it. Ride it. Not as good as you remember. Flog it. Buy something else. Easy peasy.
70s/80s bike. Buy it. Can't ride it, cos it needs fixing. Can't get the parts anymore/parts cost an arm and a leg. Find 'enthusiasts' forum, learn how to DIY/find someone who can sort it. Ride it. Not as good as you remember it. Flog it. Lose loads of money in the process. Different level of commitment. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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I bought my current bike back from the fella I'd sold it to a year before.
I'd like something "better", but realistically, for what I do with it, the additional money that'd cost isn't really worth it atm ____________________ CBT - 17/09/12 * Theory - 23/10/12 * Mod1 - 05/03/13 * Mod2 - 25/03/13 * BOSH!
Current - None but shed project H100 (first bike )
Past - ER5, '93 ZZR600, '92 CB400 SF, ZZR600 (again), yellow Monster 620, Blackbird - black Monster 620ie - '96 ZZR600 |
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Posted: 19:14 - 18 Jun 2017 Post subject: |
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RG125 Gamma.
The original one in blue and white, is what I always wanted when I was 17 but I bought a KH100EX instead because it "was the sensible choice, slower and cheaper insurance".
I am now much older and may have had a glass of wine (or 2) so am off to ebay / gumtree to see what I can find |
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kawakid wrote: |
Que 2 years later no 33bhp and all too eeasy. |
Let's clear this up.
You mean, cue.
Queue = line that you stand in.
Que =
"Manuel, have you brought in the Major's luggage yet?"
"Que?"
HTH ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 283 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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