Best ever single-cylinder bike for the road?

[Beemer-5]

What's your vote?

Main criteria is performance and fun.

[black-k1]

My old Honda SS50 5 speed! Once did 56mph (2" from the rear of a lorry with me flat on the tank) and was the best fun a 16 year old could have with his trousers still on.

[rsv gone!]

BMW 650GS

[m3psm]

Yamaha SRX600

It's thinner than a rizzla for getting through traffic and will pull down a tree

They never caught on though because they were 601cc back when insurance bands were by engine size which meant you could insure a 750cc for the same money

[Beemer-5]

I am biased slightly, as i owned two of them, but my choice is a Husqvarna Nox.

[freddytin]

Aermacchi 350 four stroke single.

If anybody has one tucked away in the back of their garage going spare ?

[Wacky Racer]

60mph in first gear..........

BSA Gold star........

[EvoBarry]

I've always had a hankering for a Suzuki Goose 350, utilising the DR350 motor. It might not be the fastest out there but it sure looks fun

random googleimage example:

http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/Gallery%20%20A/Su...

[blueST]

What about KTM Duke 2?

[Ordinary Bloke]

black-k1 said:

My old Honda SS50 5 speed! Once did 56mph (2" from the rear of a lorry with me flat on the tank) and was the best fun a 16 year old could have with his trousers still on.

Are you sure it had the original speedo on it? My 4 speed hit 44 down a hill following a lorry, flat on the tank, wind behind me...

[hiccy]

If you want performance and fun, why go for a single? SV650 would probably kick the arse of anything you care to mention, as well as sounding completely on noisy pipes.

CG125 probably qualifies for the thread title.

[Rubin215]

black-k1 said:

My old Honda SS50 5 speed! Once did 56mph (2" from the rear of a lorry with me flat on the tank) and was the best fun a 16 year old could have with his trousers still on.

Mine did 57 with my trousers off...

And shortly after that I managed to get a pair of gloves for it, trading it in against an H100 A; now that was a real man's bike...!

[Beemer-5]

Wacky Racer said:

60mph in first gear..........

BSA Gold star........

Nice classic look, but in actual fact, a total pig of a bike to ride on the road, for many reasons.

[Beemer-5]

Ordinary Bloke said:

black-k1 said:

My old Honda SS50 5 speed! Once did 56mph (2" from the rear of a lorry with me flat on the tank) and was the best fun a 16 year old could have with his trousers still on.

Are you sure it had the original speedo on it? My 4 speed hit 44 down a hill following a lorry, flat on the tank, wind behind me...

They weren't even geared to do 56, so the speedo must have had a re-map!

[black-k1]

Ordinary Bloke said:

black-k1 said:

My old Honda SS50 5 speed! Once did 56mph (2" from the rear of a lorry with me flat on the tank) and was the best fun a 16 year old could have with his trousers still on.

Are you sure it had the original speedo on it? My 4 speed hit 44 down a hill following a lorry, flat on the tank, wind behind me...

It was off the speedo on the SS50. (The speedo stopped at 50mph) It was measured by a mate following on a KH250 - he was 17 before me! God knows what was happening to the engine but, like most 16 year olds, it didn't even cross my mind.

[hugoagogo]

Honda NX650 Dominator

[Beemer-5]

If we're talking small bikes, one candidate i had was a 1974 FS1E, which i'd fitted with a tuned YB100 engine.
Rather than 4.8 bhp, it had 12 bhp, quite a shock for other supermopeds.

[m3psm]

black-k1 said:

Ordinary Bloke said:

black-k1 said:

My old Honda SS50 5 speed! Once did 56mph (2" from the rear of a lorry with me flat on the tank) and was the best fun a 16 year old could have with his trousers still on.

Are you sure it had the original speedo on it? My 4 speed hit 44 down a hill following a lorry, flat on the tank, wind behind me...

It was off the speedo on the SS50. (The speedo stopped at 50mph) It was measured by a mate following on a KH250 - he was 17 before me! God knows what was happening to the engine but, like most 16 year olds, it didn't even cross my mind.

I got what I calculated (by the position of the needle past 50) to be 56, then every bulb blew

[black-k1]

m3psm said:

black-k1 said:

Ordinary Bloke said:

black-k1 said:

My old Honda SS50 5 speed! Once did 56mph (2" from the rear of a lorry with me flat on the tank) and was the best fun a 16 year old could have with his trousers still on.

Are you sure it had the original speedo on it? My 4 speed hit 44 down a hill following a lorry, flat on the tank, wind behind me...

It was off the speedo on the SS50. (The speedo stopped at 50mph) It was measured by a mate following on a KH250 - he was 17 before me! God knows what was happening to the engine but, like most 16 year olds, it didn't even cross my mind.

I got what I calculated (by the position of the needle past 50) to be 56, then every bulb blew

So, do we take that as a second vote for the good old Honda SS50?

[m3psm]

black-k1 said:

So, do we take that as a second vote for the good old Honda SS50?

God no. It was ste, but great after a pushbike Now the Derbi GPR50, that's a great bike

I'm sticking with the SRX as my favourite single.