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Ian Frog
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Life started on a zxr400 for me! soon got bored of that after 8 months!

 

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Then came along a gsxr600 for 8 weeks! I was involved in a big smash that saw it written off

 

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After I got the pay out I went out and bought another gsxr600

 

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Which I crashed!! and repaired to this

 

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I thought those gsxr's where out to kill me so I swapped it for a TL1000s!

 

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Kept that for 9 years! then got the FJR

 

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1999 Aprilia RS125

1996 Honda RVF400

1995 Honda Fireblade

2003 Honda Fireblade

2004 Yamaha R1

Mid 90s Honda CR250

2004 Honda CBR600RR

2006 Honda Fireblade

2007 Honda CBR600RR

1998 Yamaha R1

2010 BMW S1000RR

2011 Aprilia RSV4R

2001 Yamaha R6

2011 Aprilia RSV4 Factory

2018 Ducati Panigale V4


7 Hondas, 3 Yamahas,3 Aprilias a BMW and a Ducati and still never owned a twin or triple!.

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Very interesting reading and surprising how many of us had Z650`s back in the day!

Great fun machines and good for apprentice hooligans lol.

Cheers

Ian

I enjoyed mine and kept it as immaculate as it was when I bought it used

I traded it in against a new Gpz750 and I was gutted when I went back to the dealer a couple of months later - there was "my" Z650 sitting outside. It was scuffed as if it had fallen over, the seat was ripped and the chain was hanging loose and rusty :cry: What a waste of a lovely bike.

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Very interesting reading and surprising how many of us had Z650`s back in the day!

Great fun machines and good for apprentice hooligans lol.

Cheers

Ian

I enjoyed mine and kept it as immaculate as it was when I bought it used

I traded it in against a new Gpz750 and I was gutted when I went back to the dealer a couple of months later - there was "my" Z650 sitting outside. It was scuffed as if it had fallen over, the seat was ripped and the chain was hanging loose and rusty :cry: What a waste of a lovely bike.

That is a sad tale.

I loved mine but did have an unexpected encounter with a wall in the Isle of Man which resulted in a damaged generator and a slightly bent crank !

Straightened by a guy in Douglas by hand with a dial gauge , hammer and a lot of patience.

Traded in for my first Ducati but so wish I had kept it !

Saw it a couple of years later and the owner had been to Greece and back on it so was obviously a lot further from imminent death than I had thought.

Cheers

Ian

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Well here goes!!!! How do you remember 49 years of bikes!!! Every time I see somebody's list reminds me of some think I owned!!

And also like [mention]fastbob[/mention] and [mention]rennie[/mention] loads of projects and boxes of bits!!



BSA BANTAM D14/4.


LAMBRETTA TV175


RALEIGH RUNABOUT.


ITALJET 125LC. :thumb:


HONDA'S CB500/4

CB250J In bits.

CB360 In bits.

CBX750

CB750F2

CB400/4

CB550F

CB650Z x 3, 1 = Highest mileage Honda to date, 203,000miles.

VFR400 NC30 x 2.

VFR400 NC24

CBR400RR NC23 x 2. Still own one.

VFR750 x 1 + 2 IN BITS

GL1000 GOLDWINGS x 2, 1 With Sidecar.

SL125.

CL125A.

CB125RSD, Rare!!

VF500.

VFR800 x 3, 2 Still owned.


SUZUKI'S T200 x 2

GS550

GS750

GS1000

GS650GT Worse bike ever owned and the only Shaft drive I will ever own!!!!

GT250 x 2

T500 x 4 + 3 IN BITS Brought from America Cheap!!

GT500

TS185

RGV250 x 2

BANDIT 600

BANDIT 400

SV1000


YAMAHA'S RD350LC x 2 1 Being the First Batch in UK :D

XJ550

DT175MX.

FZR400RR

FZR1000 x 2

DT100

YZR600

TDR250 :thumb:

YDS7

TZR250RC :thumb:

R1-Z :thumb: :thumb:


KAWASAKI H1B 500

ZX9R

Z1

Z650B1 Best Despatch tool I owned, until the engine exploded big time all over the M3 just pass Fleet services!! Oops!

Z750 In Bits.

Z1000J Ex Steve Bateman's F1 1105 MORIWAKI Awesome but Bloody Money Pit!!!!


And while writing this lot up I remembered 4 more!! Including 3 I own now!! Which I have now added :scratch:

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Well here goes!!!! How do you remember 49 years of bikes!!! Every time I see somebody's list reminds me of some think I owned!!

And also like @fastbob and @rennie loads of projects and boxes of bits!!



BSA BANTAM D14/4.


LAMBRETTA TV175


RALEIGH RUNABOUT.


ITALJET 125LC. :thumb:


HONDA'S CB500/4

CB250J In bits.

CB360 In bits.

CBX750

CB750F2

CB400/4

CB550F

CB650Z x 3, 1 = Highest mileage Honda to date, 203,000miles.

VFR400 NC30 x 2.

VFR400 NC24

CBR400RR NC23 x 2. Still own one.

VFR750 x 1 + 2 IN BITS

GL1000 GOLDWINGS x 2, 1 With Sidecar.

SL125.

CL125A.

CB125RSD, Rare!!

VF500.

VFR800 x 3, 2 Still owned.


SUZUKI'S T200 x 2

GS550

GS750

GS1000

GS650GT Worse bike ever owned and the only Shaft drive I will ever own!!!!

GT250 x 2

T500 x 4 + 3 IN BITS Brought from America Cheap!!

GT500

TS185

RGV250 x 2

BANDIT 600

BANDIT 400

SV1000


YAMAHA'S RD350LC x 2 1 Being the First Batch in UK :D

XJ550

DT175MX.

FZR400RR

FZR1000 x 2

DT100

YZR600

TDR250 :thumb:

YDS7

TZR250RC :thumb:

R1-Z :thumb: :thumb:


KAWASAKI H1B 500

ZX9R

Z1

Z650B1 Best Despatch tool I owned, until the engine exploded big time all over the M3 just pass Fleet services!! Oops!

Z750 In Bits.

Z1000J Ex Steve Bateman's F1 1105 MORIWAKI Awesome but Bloody Money Pit!!!!


And while writing this lot up I remembered 4 more!! Including 3 I own now!! Which I have now added :scratch:

 

Seeing your comment about your GS650GT made me laugh, then I thought do you really own 2 goldwings that aren't shaft driven lol?

Cheers

Ian

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Not as many RD250LC or 350LC as I was expecting in the above comments.


My list

Yamaha MT125

Honda cbf1000 mk1

Kawasaki zzr1400 briefly (bought, ridden 6 times, soon to be sold)

Down payment on a versys 650

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Seeing your comment about your GS650GT made me laugh, then I thought do you really own 2 goldwings that aren't shaft driven lol?

Cheers

Ian



Haha, told you it was a long day, and [mention]Ian Frog[/mention] correct the wings are Shaftdrive, but I suppose being a Sidecar outfit and a Large bike never noticed the Shaft so much! But the 650 was just Crap! Hated it, Missus made me replace it in 2 weeks!!


Trying to find some photo's at moment, not good on computers :?

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Kawasaki zzr1400 briefly (bought, ridden 6 times, soon to be sold)

Down payment on a versys 650

 

That's quite a change.

 

I went through something very similar.. from a K1200GT to an F800S.


The F800S suited me much better than the 1200... which though a great bike, I was very glad to see the back of.

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Very interesting reading and surprising how many of us had Z650`s back in the day!

Great fun machines and good for apprentice hooligans lol.

Cheers

Ian

 

1978......

 

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The GS750 was a far better bike though!


1979.....

 

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Love the flared jeans XT :thumb:


I had red one just the same, at the same time (including the baby). Swapped it in for a Z1R (dick extension) that I never really got on with. That’s when I started to go Italian

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My few seem insignificant compared to some of you lot :lol:


First bike was a Stomp 140 pit bike which got me hooked on motorbikes and then owned the below over the last 10 years.

KXF250

Husqvarna TE 410

SV650

CBR600F3

GSX-R750

KTM950SM

CBR600F4i

Aprilia Dorsoduro 750 (favorite bike out of all of them and wish I never sold it)

GSX-R600 (track)

Street Triple 675R - current


Long term borrowed off friends:

CB500

GSX750

Daytona 675

Aprilia RSV4

Husqvarna TE 510

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Very interesting reading and surprising how many of us had Z650`s back in the day!

Great fun machines and good for apprentice hooligans lol.

Cheers

Ian

 

1978......


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The GS750 was a far better bike though!


1979.....


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Actually totally agree with you on that thought.

I had my GS in 84 and loved it.

at the time I thought it was a great mix of power and handling.

Cheers

Ian

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Not as many RD250LC or 350LC as I was expecting in the above comments.


My list

Yamaha MT125

Honda cbf1000 mk1

Kawasaki zzr1400 briefly (bought, ridden 6 times, soon to be sold)

Down payment on a versys 650

 



When I was a kid my dad had a yellow rd200. When that got nicked he replaced it with a white rd400. I used to beg him to take me to cubscout footy matches on the bikes. I was shite at footy, and didn't enjoy it, but the rides there n back were awesome 😀

...... probably counts for nothing in this thread, but fab happy memories coming back now 👍

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Starting in 2003:


Honda XR 125 2003 - Never wanted this, 'rents made me get it.

Aprilia RS125 2000 - Amazing bike

GSXR 750 SRAD 1999 - I loved this bike soooo much,.. then I f00ked the engine by letting the cam chain slip.

Yamaha Thunderace 1996(ish)

Yamaha Thunderace 1996(ish) - yeah I owned two of these at the same time, never even liked the bike much xD

Aprilia RS125 2000 (another one!) - Worth owning twice

GSXR 1000 2010 - Current daily

CBF125 - Mrs Learner, my salted-roads commuter

SV650 2008 - Mrs's first big bike, my salted-roads commuter

CBR600RR ABS 2011 - Mrs's second big bike, will be my wet weather commuter once it's fixed.


...I should really start letting the salty roads trash my bike instead of the Mrs xD

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I have only owned 4 bikes so far, my first i thought was a gilera but it was a Garelli after looking on google for pics, second was a 1978 Yamaha YB100, 3rd is Xena and last but not least Bridget :thumb:


The garelli (courtesy of google)

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The YB100 (courtesy of google)

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I have only owned 4 bikes so far, my first i thought was a gilera but it was a Garelli after looking on google for pics, second was a 1978 Yamaha YB100, 3rd is Xena and last but not least Bridget :thumb:


The garelli (courtesy of google)

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The YB100 (courtesy of google)

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My life in motorbikes………..


1965 Honda CM90 – Pushrod model bought from teacher at school


1970 BSA Starfire – I thought a CD175 would be better but my mate persuaded me, he was wrong!


1972 T120V – Had porous barrel casting, sent back to Meriden to fix, took six months as next day they went on strike!


Honda P50 – Better than the bus


Suzuki B120P – Rode it from Yorkshire to Plymouth one night, via Wales for variety, swapped for a Humber Sceptre


Suzuki GT500 – Not as nice to ride as the Triumph but always arrived


Ossa 350 – So good it could climb trees


Yamaha YB100 – Restored for my wife, she rode it once, bless her.


Yamaha SR500 – Was an art form to kick-start


BMW R650 LS – Nice bike but vibrated a bit


1985 BMW R80 monoshock – Beautifully made, big numb thing


RD350 YPVS – Excellent machine, was raced by two lads on FS1Es, I lost but I doubt they survived to old age


Norman Nippy – Not sure what I was thinking of


VFR750 – Too heavy and too tempting to speed


XBR500 – Hated the low bars and rearset footrests


BMW CS650 – Had stood for 10 years and was home to old cobwebs and dead spiders


Honda CB400SS – Single cylinder import – SS stands for Standard Single


Tmax – So wide it was difficult to get feet down, very noisy screen


Puch 50 – Never got it to run properly, turned out to be the ‘fixed’ timing was out.


CN250 Helix – Now on my third, must say something about me


VX535 Virago – Love the low seat, not so sure about the looks


1956 Rouge Lion Moped – I think I’m regressing back to childhood!


GrahamH

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yamaha fs1e suzuki 250 x7

yamaha as3 125

yamaha rd 250e

suzuki gs550

yamaha rd 350lc

yamaha xj550

yamaha 350lc

yamaha xj600

honda cbr 400 tri arm

yamaha serow

honda vfr400

kawasaki 550 zephyr

honda c90

yamaha rxs100

honda cb500

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Bianchi Tonale 175 OHC Non runner

Triumph Sports Cub T20SH new.

BSA 441 Shooting Star new..very disappointing.

Triumph 65 Thunderbird Outfit.

Ducati Mk3 250 new great little bike.

Triumph T100, used and unreliable.

Triumph T100 Daytona new fragile.

Norton 750 Commando 'Combat' new total rubbish, dreadful.

Honda CB750 ohc new boring.

Honda CB400F new great bike wildly underrated.

Laverda 3CL 980 triple Jarama new wonderful. best bike I ever owned stupidly I sold it.

Laverda SF750 hard work.

Kawasaki ER6F nearly new a great bike much better than you'd expect.Kept it 10 years. Bloke who bought it wrote it off almost immediately.

BMW G310R new still got it, in a real world it's all I need at 75

Never been without at least one roadworthy bike since 1964 and still doin' it !.

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