Bikes that turn you on....

[Alex@POD]

ilovequo said:

Its always been a 999...
Hopefully an attainable dream!

I wasn't keen on the 999 for a long time, but it's started to become very appealing for some reason!

[RemyMartin]

AdamIndy said:

Uber cool, ultra rare(I have only ever seen 1) wsbk for the road

Ding dong!!!!

[1000TCR]

This is still Max' best work though...

[SteveSteveson]

yonex said:

1000TCR said:

I were right about that saddle though

Very cool, if you can live with the splinters

Only if you ride around without trousers on

[graeme4130]

martynj said:

I liked it so much... I bought it

oh, I like the look of that a lot
What is it ?

Edit; Ignore that, just found it

ReEdit ; Out of interest, what sort of cost is something like that ?

Edited by graeme4130 on Thursday 12th November 18:14

[castex]

graham22 said:

castex said:

Tuatara

A good friend of mine used to work for the Bimota importers when these were new. A little later I considered buying the 'normal' EXUP engined whatever YB model it was. Great to look at but awful to ride on the road, the padding strapped to the seat above says it all, very harsh and rough to the point you couldn't appreciate anything else.

See the oil level sight hole in the 'O' in the fairing - but can you see any fairing joins? Easy to check but front wheel off to get fairing off to change the oil - sky hooks required.

Still lovely though.

Haha! Great insight. See, this is why I love PH (for about the 5000th time).

Gecko1978 said:

The RC8 is the F22 of bikes it just looks like sort of bike that could tansform into a robot an destory a city like many a manga cartoon

Quite so.

[numtumfutunch]

I'm away from home stuck with a phone but the RC30 and Mark 1 speed triple do it for me, and a Foggy rep 916SPS of course....

[Biker's Nemesis]

Yes. Yes, I know its a Ducati.

[castex]

Another hero bike for me:



I'd like one stock and mint, a frankensteiner with the s1000rr motor, and another with sidecar so I could take my dog with me:

[Biker's Nemesis]

castex said:

Another hero bike for me:



I'd like one stock and mint, a frankensteiner with the s1000rr motor, and another with sidecar so I could take my dog with me:

Black-K1 is gonna wanna bum you now.

[epom]

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Lots of Ducati's on here already. I'm no different, though went for a little less power ;-)

Edited by epom on Friday 13th November 09:25

[castex]

Biker's Nemesis said:

Black-K1 is gonna wanna bum you now.

What can I say? The man has excellent taste.

[mitzy]

Love these

[castex]

Love those too. Kawasaki don't muck about.

[graeme4130]

epom said:

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Lots of Ducati's on here already. I'm no different thought went for a little less power ;-)

I have a mega soft spot for 899 Panigales.
The 1299 just seems too much of a monster to me, so I reckon the 899 is a nice compromise
I'll test ride one early next year when the weather's better in view to getting one

[bogie]

Corpulent Tosser said:

With the exception of one KTM, something all the bikes in this thread have in common is flowing lines, some fantastic looking bikes too.

I am old school, well just old, but I don't get the straight lines and sharp angles of many modern bikes, I am sure it works for comfort and aerodynamics, but for me they just don't look as good.

Same here, dunno if its the era you were brought up on, but the late 80s and 90s superbikes are still my preference for looks. The twin headlight endurance racer style is a classic design. Some of the modern bikes seem over styled to me, you half expect them to turn into robots ...im sure in another 20 years we will have moved on again

I still have one of my old faves in the garage from 89 .....

Edited by bogie on Thursday 12th November 23:07

[theshrew]

VonSenger said:

I do have a soft spot for these

You need to be chaining that down in a month or so, Santa will be taking it back up the chimney with him.

[Fastdruid]

bogie said:

I still have one of my old faves in the garage from 89 .....

Had to look at your garage as the picture didn't work but that's a bike I lusted over as a teenager.



I've now got a totally different '89 750 (a VFR) but while it's arguably a better *road* bike it's not a patch on the desirability of the ZXR.

[bogie]

Fastdruid said:

bogie said:

I still have one of my old faves in the garage from 89 .....

Had to look at your garage as the picture didn't work but that's a bike I lusted over as a teenager.



I've now got a totally different '89 750 (a VFR) but while it's arguably a better *road* bike it's not a patch on the desirability of the ZXR.

Yeah, it was the "affordable" superbike of the time, certainly compared with the homologation specials like the RC30 ...I commuted by bike in 1990 so it was not the machine of choice at the time for me until some years later. The VFR was a sensible choice, like the ZZR600 I ended up with for a few years back then. I think the early 90's was a golden era for sports bike development, every year it seemed the game moved on....there really were not many duffers from the mainstream manufacturers

[damon80]

A bit left-field, but these are an under-rated machine - a classic in their own right now:
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=https://uplo...