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Lovely bike
 
love a new bike...says the man who has caned the tits off my old FZ1 today, not rode it properly in over a year,i forgot what a great bike it was , il be out on it tomorrow for more fun, some great roads round the goyt valley
 
Nice machine. I love modern technology but don't want to own one. My most modern machine is a 1983 Moto Guzzi V50 - took it to the IOM for the Manx/ClassicTT.

My favourite (don't tell the others) local runaround is Beatrice.
 

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Much as I'd love a nice old rigid, I'm not sure my kidneys (or back etc.!) would agree!

My hips aren't up to getting a leg over an adventure style bike either but I can appreciate their versatility.
 
The design that goes into modern motorcycles must be incredibly intricate and difficult to finalise. Then they let things down with the final appearance and to be blunt they are not the sleekest of machines. Go back 20 or 25 or so years the models sold by the likes of the Japanese manufacturers, BMW, Moto Guzzi Ducati and Triumph (the Hinkley factory versions were stylish and did the job as they were intended. (And mostly reliable). The modern bikes to me simply lack style and seem to be sold on all the tweaks and add-ons the manufacturers can cram into a micro box of electronics. They are to full of gimmicks included to sell more bikes and have lost the art of style design and unable to design something which is both sleek and capable of looking good.

Even BMW have followed the route with their electric bike 110 MPH but with only a 80mile range. It looks as if it was designed and built on the same assembly line as a Lego model! It is plain bl**dy ugly! They should be sold with a free face mask to disguise your identity.:jawdrop:

And before anyone asks yes I do ride bikes and at present have two, both BMW's one from 1993 and the other from 2000 and cover around 15,000 miles a year. Both are entirely reliable and do not require a degree in engineering to service them ourselves. BMW Labour charges are around £120 per hour, and the others are not far behind

I have a friend who has a classic Triumph, a 1966 Tiger 90 that has been restored and the clean, classic design lines make maintenance an absolute pleasure, it doesn't leak oil (well not that I have seen) The design is a true classic and will be around long after some of the plastic adorned modern bikes have been long recycled.

Sorry, rant over.
 
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It's all subjective really, isn't it? My idea of a bike harks back to the clean lines of the 70's.
 
NorthEastCamera said:
The design that goes into modern motorcycles must be incredibly intricate and difficult to finalise. Then they let things down with the final appearance and to be blunt they are not the sleekest of machines. Go back 20 or 25 or so years the models sold by the likes of the Japanese manufacturers, BMW, Moto Guzzi Ducati and Triumph (the Hinkley factory versions were stylish and did the job as they were intended. (And mostly reliable). The modern bikes to me simply lack style and seem to be sold on all the tweaks and add-ons the manufacturers can cram into a micro box of electronics. They are to full of gimmicks included to sell more bikes and have lost the art of style design and unable to design something which is both sleek and capable of looking good.

Even BMW have followed the route with their electric bike 110 MPH but with only a 80mile range. It looks as if it was designed and built on the same assembly line as a Lego model! It is plain bl**dy ugly! They should be sold with a free face mask to disguise your identity.:jawdrop:

And before anyone asks yes I do ride bikes and at present have two, both BMW's one from 1993 and the other from 2000 and cover around 15,000 miles a year. Both are entirely reliable and do not require a degree in engineering to service them ourselves. BMW Labour charges are around £120 per hour, and the others are not far behind

I have a friend who has a classic Triumph, a 1966 Tiger 90 that has been restored and the clean, classic design lines make maintenance an absolute pleasure, it doesn't leak oil (well not that I have seen) The design is a true classic and will be around long after some of the plastic adorned modern bikes have been long recycled.

Sorry, rant over.
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Show picture please, I ride BMW.
 
Barney said:
Show picture please, I ride BMW.
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Not a problem, well not much of a problem. I will have to take one of each first. (I have a few of my old K1100lt when touring Germany, any good?)
 
Plain Nev said:
It's all subjective really, isn't it? My idea of a bike harks back to the clean lines of the 70's.
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I cannot agree more. I still miss my very early model of my Norton Commando from 1968/9 which I sold to get married in '72. The early ones had low level silencers identical to the Norton 650ss and 750 Atlas and came with a built in frame problem. In that they originally mounted the centre stand pivot directly onto the lower frame tubes and consequently they bent. Nortons in Andover (the factory) at the time reframed mine F.O.C. because it was a design fault., I don't know if it was legal, but they even stamped my original frame number on this new frame and destroyed the original. They were the 1st legally sold road bike with non metal fuel tanks made from fibre glass resin.
 
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