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28-11-2021, 03:07 PM | #1 |
Too much time on my hands member
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Shipbourne
Bike: M900
Posts: 1,419
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A bike I lusted after in my youth
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28-11-2021, 03:20 PM | #2 |
Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2021
Location: Stratford Upon Avon
Bike: Multiple Monsters
Posts: 288
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Rd250lc. /. Dt175mx.
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28-11-2021, 04:37 PM | #3 |
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: stourbridge
Bike: M750
Posts: 352
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Z1 but when I rode it-handled like a pig so I waited a few months and bought a new GS1000 on 1st August 1978 and it was well worth the wait.
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28-11-2021, 04:59 PM | #4 |
Bronze Member
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Poole
Bike: M900ie
Posts: 470
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For me it was a Matchless G50, not too affected by being silenced apparently. The closest I got was by putting a G80cs into a BSA frame, amc box, roadholder forks, bsa alternator chain cases, gp carb, BTH dirt track mag. Petrol tank paint to look G50 ish. If anyone knows what happened to it let me know reg was BXU 496 I think.
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28-11-2021, 09:02 PM | #5 |
record breaker!!
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Peterborough
Bike: M1200R
Posts: 2,154
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I remember standing in the Horticultural hall in Westminster, drooling over a black and gold Ducati 900 as bevel.
Fast forward about a year, my bike was parked outside a mates house with a puncture, when the same model of bike came down the road, stopped, asked if we needed any help. The answer was no. The bike was started up then rapidly disappeared out of the village. The rider had a pudding basin helmet with a handlebar moustache. I looked at my friend and said one day...... Never owned a bevel, but now on my ninth Ducati!
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29-11-2021, 02:10 PM | #6 |
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: East London
Bike: Multiple Monsters
Posts: 9,712
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I lusted after a T140 US Export, a T160 ‘Lightning’, a Jota 120 and a Hailwood Rep. when I had my FS1E and a couple of Banthams.
I had a DT125MX, then a 250LC The bike I’d still really like is Monjuic 500… wish I still had all my previous bikes, they’d be a better investment than my pension looks. |
29-11-2021, 03:11 PM | #7 |
Bronze Member
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Hondon de los Frailes
Bike: S4r
Posts: 285
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I used to live 3 doors away from a bloke that had a Monjuic 500 - it sounded amazing, you could hear it from miles away, most of the neighbours weren't very pleased but it always impressed the sh*t out of me.
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30-11-2021, 05:16 PM | #8 | |
Too much time on my hands member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Forest Of Dean
Bike: S2r
Posts: 3,191
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My brother had a Monjuic 500, people always thought it was a 750, I 'looked after it' for a few months while he was on a posting. I think he swapped it for a Porche while he was in Germany. The prices now are getting a bit silly. Also had a 350 & a 250LC, the 250 was the other halfs but usually was thrashed by me. Got that off of someone who'd totted up a ban for peanuts. Trailed and fun raced a 175MX that rapidly was swapped out for a KDX200, ran one event on a DT125LC which is nowhere as good as the KMX or the (now they tell me) TS200R.
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29-11-2021, 09:36 AM | #9 |
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Join Date: Jun 2018
Location: Clevedon
Bike: M1200s
Posts: 555
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A shiny new kettle.
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29-11-2021, 10:57 AM | #10 |
Bronze Member
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Glasgow
Bike: M1100evo
Posts: 257
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On a Donninton Moto GP trip my missus wanted to visit Chatsworth House, a guy turned up on BSA Rocket Gold Star......mmmm, still drooling at the thought of it. A pal has just added a ‘73 Kwak Z900 to his collection, nice condition....stupid ,expensive price.
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29-11-2021, 12:33 PM | #11 |
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Join Date: Sep 2020
Location: Stirling
Bike: M1000ie
Posts: 120
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Mine was a Monster (which I've finally got!), 916-999, Aprilia RS250 (the Gen 2 model with the fat seat hump), any of the 400 grey imports - I've got a Rothmans Honda NC24.
I realise that having just turned 40, my choices might be a bit different to some of the above. |
29-11-2021, 01:03 PM | #12 | |
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Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Kilmarnock
Bike: Other Ducati
Posts: 18
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29-11-2021, 02:00 PM | #13 |
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Leics
Bike: M900
Posts: 2,842
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In my youth; Moto Guzzi 850 Le Mans, Kawasaki Z1, Norton Manx 500.
Later; a 916 and a 900 Monster but I was hardly youthful any more...
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29-11-2021, 02:58 PM | #14 |
Dismantled
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: East Molesey
Bike: Multiple Monsters
Posts: 2,222
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For me the first bike I really took any notice of and it absolutely got me started on the 2 wheel journey was an MV 750 S never got one but would deffo still have one should the chance come along
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30-11-2021, 05:21 PM | #15 |
Too much time on my hands member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Forest Of Dean
Bike: S2r
Posts: 3,191
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HA!! I used to park the 250 desmo next to one of these when I was working at Frys (as was) in Keynsham, always liked those sand cast casings. Sounded rather tasty too
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