This is pretty damn cool: http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/motorbi ... 764230.htm
I'm not normally into bikes but...
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That is nice, indeed.
The Rovering Member
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I can definitely see the attraction.
That does nothing for me whatsoever....
I like my bikes a little more.......errrr..."modern" is the word I'm looking for.
Not new by any means, but nowhere as old as the OP.
Something along the lines of this:
One of which I owned in the 80's, when it looked like it came from 50 years in the future compared to everything else around, and tbh I reckon it still does...
I like my bikes a little more.......errrr..."modern" is the word I'm looking for.
Not new by any means, but nowhere as old as the OP.
Something along the lines of this:
One of which I owned in the 80's, when it looked like it came from 50 years in the future compared to everything else around, and tbh I reckon it still does...
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Wow, haven't seen one of those for ages. Nice.
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But it's a Rover, there's the attraction.
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I'm sure I will too, but if I find one of those down the local tip, well then........
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Yes, the Quacker is more to my taste than the modern bikes.
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That sounds entertaining, though I'm not really a bike man.
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I had a mate back in the late 80's I think it was. He had a Kawasaki 650. Took me for a quick spin, I love speed and anything that gets the juices flowing, but wow that thing shifted. It was uncool for a guy on the back of a bike to "cuddle " the rider, so I was gripping the bar behind me to stay on. Never felt relief like it when we finally got back in one piece. All I could think about at the time was " if we get a puncture now, that's it , I'm history. Trouser change was nearly in order.
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You have good taste Harvey.
This is my daily:
Had a 1990 Kawasaki GTR before that. Fantastic engine, rubbish everything else. The Sprint is beautiful to ride in comparison.
This is my daily:
Had a 1990 Kawasaki GTR before that. Fantastic engine, rubbish everything else. The Sprint is beautiful to ride in comparison.
harveyp6 said:
I remember the Rickman bikes, never really in to cafe racers though. I grew up in a bike garage in Dorset, mainly Suzuki stuff.
I can still remember the first Z900 I ever saw, I had to go and lie down after seeing that thing. I might just go and get one
There is a bike shop opposite work in Dorset and he offered me a pristine Z1000 for £5K the other day.Richard
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harveyp6 said:
Cute!
I had a ride on the back of my mate's BMW 650 down to Rye in Sussex (a grand town) one November Sunday in the early naughties & enjoyed the small amount of time it took to arrive & then a couple of pints at The Standard Inn. I asked him before we left whether I should wear extra trousers & he remarked that it wasn't that cold, but I wore track-bottoms under my jeans regardless. It still took my legs three hours to get back up to body temperature once we got home though.
He did say I was a better passenger than our other friend however, as I let him lean into the corners without trying to right myself, which in our friend's case was assisting the horizontally-thrusting pistons in attempting to throw them flat onto the road.
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Regarding Ewok's steed, this goes for me too:
I like the old style cars, built in the mechanical style but I can understand why they evolved from that look, for the aesthetic & streamlining possibilities of the coachwork.
With something as elemental & basic as a motorbike, to cover up all the mechanical shenanigans when they had evolved, in their turn, into a sculptural & very attractive part of the machine just seems perverse to me, as though they want to have the same visual diversity as a car. This is not possible with mass-produced machines, they're too small to carry the coachwork & different makes of bike now look more similar to eachother than any car of the late 20th century ever did & that's saying something.
I guess it's more to do with the streamlining & love of speed itself than caring what the thing looks like, but to me that looks like a fairly bulbous, shapeless, get-lost-in-the-crowd kind of machine, despite the fact that it may be able to approach the fat end of 200MPH. I'm guessing that's important to bikers but then:
Although, I would be over the moon to find an original Rover or Starley push-bike.
harveyp6 said:
I like the old style cars, built in the mechanical style but I can understand why they evolved from that look, for the aesthetic & streamlining possibilities of the coachwork.
With something as elemental & basic as a motorbike, to cover up all the mechanical shenanigans when they had evolved, in their turn, into a sculptural & very attractive part of the machine just seems perverse to me, as though they want to have the same visual diversity as a car. This is not possible with mass-produced machines, they're too small to carry the coachwork & different makes of bike now look more similar to eachother than any car of the late 20th century ever did & that's saying something.
I guess it's more to do with the streamlining & love of speed itself than caring what the thing looks like, but to me that looks like a fairly bulbous, shapeless, get-lost-in-the-crowd kind of machine, despite the fact that it may be able to approach the fat end of 200MPH. I'm guessing that's important to bikers but then:
:wink:The Rovering Member said:
Although, I would be over the moon to find an original Rover or Starley push-bike.
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Pretty expensive an original Rover push-bike i guess going by the price of the badge any way! :shock:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Imperial-Rove ... true&rt=nc