Anyone ride Motorcycles?

[Sgt.Stupid]

I had 89’ Honda VFR400R nc30 and a 94’ Suzuki GSXR1100 in the past. Now my only bike is a 2011 Honda CBR250R, a little single-cylinder motorcycle.

*not my actual bikes

 

[Bill Murray]

86 VMax. Took me five years to get it back together after a bitch ran me off the road. First pic from first ride after getting it back.
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Perfect bike to go very fast in a straight line!

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A history of my two wheels

Started with a 1982 Yamaha Seca 650. Was the perfect bike to start on. Enough power to have fun on in the city but goddamn terrifying on the highway.

1982 Honda CBR 600. Fun bike, bought out of emotion. Bike had the shit beat out of it by previous owner(s), I sold it back to the guy I bought it from.

1982 BMW R80RT (dunno WTF it was with 1982s) also bought out of emotion, thought I'd tour the world....I didn't Stupid decision, it rode like a lazyboy chair. Had a grounding fault I never managed to figure out. German craftsmanship my ass, bike was a pain.

1994 Yamaha Seca II 600. Nice upgrade from the BMW. Good solid naked bike but fundamentally underpowered for what I wanted.

1998 Honda VFR was the first new bike I ever owned. Loved that machine even though it tried to kill me. This was the bike I had a bad accident on. I was fucked up, it survived the crash reasonably unscathed....but I got back on it the following year. Hurt when I sold it and got out of the sport for a while.

2018 Kawasaki Versys 1000. Honestly the best bike I've ever owned, does whatever you want it to do. Go fast - check. Twisties - check. Haul an ungodly amount of kit (mine is decked out with hard Givi panniers & trunk) - check.

And then there's the dirt bikes from the 1990's. Model years are a bit fuzzy as I was either drunk or hungover for much of the decade.

First was a 1992 Kawasaki KDX200 or 220. Fuck me that thing was fun....throttle was as twitchy as a 19 year wacked out on meth. Just a fun thing to ride on the trails & in the mountains.

Up the stakes to a 1995 (I think) KDX500. The extra CC's really weren't worth it with the added weight. Still fun though....shit any 2-stroke engine is fun.

1994 (again, I think) Honda XR600. It was a 4-stroke so an inherently different ride than a 2-stroke. I always got the feeling that a 2-stroke bike pulled the passenger along where a 4-stroke pushed you. I can't say I didn't like the Honda (you're in the woods, riding around with your buddies, will drink beer later on and if lucky find a chick in the campground to come back to your tent) but that first KDX was still the bike to beat.

Now I'm old and my knees are fucked so no more dirt bikes for me Now I'm looking at a side x side for the cabin.


Some stock pics since pre digital I was stingy with film.

 

[DeathHand]

Yup, Harley's. But sold my last one back in the 90's. One FXE shovelhead (my fav) and a few Evos from mid-late 80's. Rode in 2 international MC's.

I miss it but no got the bucks to get another and not gonna hop on a Jap bike, lol, hell, they're almost expensive and sound like shit.

 

[Fact21]

I had a RD350 for a while. There are way too many fuckwits on the road driving SUVs and trucks these days to be riding 2 wheels any more...
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350 -2 stroke is a beast also

 

[Force]

Started on the 250, my missus uses that now. The ZX6R is 11/10.

 

[Fry_Swatter]

...I ride over Motosexuals...

...Harley/Choppers are alright...

 

[Solomon Kane]

Here’s mine.. View attachment 796697

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