How many old bikes?

[srob]

Sorry if I'm repeating a previous question, just got internet access back so been out of touch for a while!

Just wondering how many old bike fans there are on the site.

[BliarOut]

Dunno about a fan, but I've still got this... A 68 TR6 Trophy

[Eliminator]

20 years younger, but my 1987 Eliminator is still my pride and joy

[likesbikes]

I used to have a 1977 Suzuki GS550, it was my first bike, it was nearly as old as me and I loved it!



It spent its later years retired in my Mum's garden and I was always about to start restoring it until one day I went round there and she was gone (The GS, not Mum). Some dirty thieving little cksucker had nicked it!

I cheer myself up about it by hoping it was some teenage scrote who thought he'd take it "over the fields" and the heavy old bus, not particularly suited to life off the tarmac, killed the little.....!

[Killer2005]

My sister has a 22ish year old Honda CM400T (if i remember rightly).

[Wacky Racer]

Hmmm, I used to have a mint, maroon 1969 Triumph TR6 Trophy USA export model, with upswept pipes in 1972...........

Sold it for £365.......

[srob]

There's certainly a good selection of bikes on here, plenty to keep us unemployed busy!!

I'm in the process of putting a TR6 engine into my Triton, bit of a theme running here.

[nutskie..]

1979 180 Degree crank Laverda Jota
1966 500SS Dunstall Dominator (cafe racer trim)
1974 Triumph in 1968 Norton featherbed frame

They don't make 'em like the used to.....

[v15ben]

I give you a 1961 Norton Dominator Type 99 600, my dad's toy!
Always a fan of classic bikes, I think it's my grandad's influence!

[Pigeon]

I like old bikes for the same kind of reasons that I like old cars, plus the extra reason that modern bikes are all four-strokes. So I have my old two-stroke MZ, with the only electronics on it being those I designed myself.

[srob]

I have some fond memories of MZ's, my Dad had a couple when I was younger and we went all over the place on them.
One memorable trip was across the fens- which is abnormally flat- two up on an ETZ250 with a massive head wind and hailstones the size of ball bearings!! I was practically deaf by the time we eventually got to Cadwell Park! The MZ didn't skip a beat though.

[cinqster]

Back in the 80's when I was a nipper, I used to run this 1976 BMW R90S outfit that I put together myself. I managed to squeeze 120 out of it with a passenger in the chair!

900cc on L-plates...quite surprised that I'm still here to tell the tail.

http://photos.wanadoo.co.uk/album/album_fullsize.html?c_photo=23816200

[Monkey boy 1]

regretted selling my collection of brit bikes a few years ago to finance a house move, they were
1977 T140V Triumph Bonneville,
1963 T20SH Tuger Cub
1970 B175 BSA Bantam
1968 D14/4 BSA Bantam
1965 D7 BSA Mantam
& over 100Kg of BSA Bantam spares.
(they just kepd on breeding) !!

I only have a 1984 Sizuki GSX1100ESD with a Katana style body kit. Not my ideal bike hence it's been sitting in the garage for the past 3 years collecting cobwebs.

[JGREENWELL]

I have a 1967 Royal Enfield Continental GT


mines in bits though, nearly finished