Guilty Pleasures - Bikes you'd like to try/own...

[Easy-X]

...but maybe not when your friend's are about

I fancy tearing about on a little Ninja 125 - an utterly pointless exercise now I have a full licence but something I should have done after doing the CBT
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Royal Enfield Continental GT 535, Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[Polarbear]

I'd like the latest GoldWing to keep. The latest Triumph Rocket 3 to play with and an RD250 to see how much I am looking at the past through rose coloured glasses.

However Santa is definitely not bringing me any of those things.
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Triumph Trophy Launch Edition

[WreckTangle]

does it have to be a bike , I have a secrete crush on this.....er... bike


https://hackster.imgix.net/uploads/attachments/958881/1_SynwhSG3lqYOtEq-dw7ySQ.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=740&h=555&fit=max
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My wife asked me to get her something that goes from 0-100 in under 5 seconds for her birthday. ......................I got her a bathroom scale.

[JackButler]

It's a long story, but in the late 80's I was lucky enuff to be allowed to ride a Rothmans Honda NS 500 GP bike, the 3cyl beast & not the 4cyl that allowed tyre sliding. This was essentially the real thing that Freddie Spencer put to such good use, built from HRC's spares stock for 'selected' members of the bike press to experience, it was only a few bhp down with slightly tamer brakes from the bikes that started on the grid.

I can still smell the exhaust in my nostrils, hear the ringing in my ears & I remember ever inch of every lap I did to find the right gear to be at the edge of the power band to drive it out of the corners.

I would donate my heart for just one chance to experience that on a modern MotoGP.
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I clean my guns with the tears of the snivelling, left wing scum.

[LustyLew]

I've always wanted a TW200. Poorly made but just looks a laugh. Could get a VanVan200 I guess, but I dont like the seat!

Would also like a potter about on a RE Himalayan and the DCT Africa Twin.

[AldridgePrior]

Very nearly bought a VMax the last month then talked myself out of it. It's like a draw, a pull if you like towards a bike that offers nothing except the fact I've always liked them.
Reading reviews or hearing mates opinions on them still doesn't put me off owning something that isn't either rational, practical or suitable.

[Easy-X]

[weasley]

I fancy a MSX/Grom. I can’t justify having one but I’d like to have the lifestyle where one would be useful to have.
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Yamaha XJ600 | Yamaha YZF600R Thundercat | KTM 990 SMT | BMW F900XR TE

[chickenstrip]

[RhynoCZ]

I'll say it, Baotian 50!
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'87 Honda XBR 500, '96 Kawasaki ZX7R P1, '90 Honda CB-1, '88 Kawasaki GPz550, MZ 150 ETZ
'95 Mercedes-Benz w202 C200 CGI, '98 Mercedes-Benz w210 E200 Kompressor

[chickenstrip]

[lilredmachine]

[MarJay]

I have owned 2x 350 powervalves and one 350LC. The LC was immense fun. The Powervalves were a bit bland.

For me I want a go on a Rocket III. I'd love to own something like a Tuono V4 or even an RSV4 but at the moment I can't really justify the cost. I'm not really that bothered about the Ducati V4, or the Crossplane R1, and the inline 4 superbikes don't really do it for me.

I'm going to have to go for something of a practical compromise in the next few months, so watch this space.

Dream bike though? Suter MMX500 without a doubt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL8Jq6MJJxs
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British beauty: Triumph Street Triple R; Loony stroker: KR1S; Track fun: GSXR750 L1; Commuter Missile: GSX-S1000F; Cheap project: CBR900RR FireBlade
Remember kids, bikes aren't like lego. You can't easily take a part from one bike and then fit it to another.

[chickenstrip]

[Nobby the Bastard]

[stevo as b4]

I've always wanted to experience the 'joy of six' but there's only one six shooter for me, and with the right exhaust fitted I get very sticky!

But I'm a cheap whore, who has a list of 125&200's I'd like to try. Obviously a V3 Honda 400, and a V4, 500 Yamaha (though the engine is better in other bikes than its original home).

I've always wanted to try a very sharp focused V-twin 1000+ sports bike but not a red one. Quite like the bikes with 60degree engines.

The original V-max I'd have a good go at, and a Kawasaki Eliminator 1000, I'd really like one of those!

But the mostest wanted bestest rides of all would have to be after a box of brave pills. A really big old YZ, RM, or KTM and live for those last few moments of life!

[P.addy]

[redeem ouzzer]

GT380. All the noise smell and spectacle of a 2t multi but completely civilised.
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Be a REAL MAN!

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

250 hornet
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"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."

Mobylette Type 50 ---> Raleigh Grifter ---> Neval Minsk 125

[RhynoCZ]

Well, to give you something to think about, I've always wanted to ride one of the 50cc GP bikes, however it never happened and never will. People don't race these here and you can't really ride one on the open road. Also, track days would be awful on a 50cc two stroke, amongst liter boy racers.

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'87 Honda XBR 500, '96 Kawasaki ZX7R P1, '90 Honda CB-1, '88 Kawasaki GPz550, MZ 150 ETZ
'95 Mercedes-Benz w202 C200 CGI, '98 Mercedes-Benz w210 E200 Kompressor

[chickenstrip]

I'm done thinking. Give me something else
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[weasley]

[Fizzer Thou]

Luckily I can afford to buy just about any bike there is with a few exceptions.But when a friend bought himself a F4S MV Agusta I really quite liked the idea of owning one of them.Until it started to have some major problems,like the alternator wiring burning out and the fuel tank rupturing.Put me right off.

Last year I was at P&H in Crawley and there was the most delightful KTM 500 EXC with 17" road wheels fitted Yup I would deffo like one of those.Just to try.But then if I liked it that much I could fit 17" wheels to my existing KTM 450 EXC.But I have my XR400R fitted with 17" road wheels and I do not ride that often enough

I think that I will just enjoy what I already have
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Just talk bikes.What else is there?

Always have a 'Plan B'

[chickenstrip]

[weasley]

Ooh, also just remembered I lust after one of the CCM Spitfire models.
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Yamaha XJ600 | Yamaha YZF600R Thundercat | KTM 990 SMT | BMW F900XR TE