Top Ten bikes that "you actually would ride" list

it always comes down to this don't it...


my original actualy ride just mmeant for a ride...not mandatory iron but...although....posts tend to get wings of their own...which is cool.....i am digging seeing bikes included that i may not have wheighed in on....that's one of the GREATEST aspects of this group of riders(KZR) that being that I don't sit and watch MY own views and values get repeated back to ME...and sometimes I can come away from a viewing seeing a new angle i mighta missed.....

Recently some members have pointed out the harley bashing as a seperator/mean spirited.....even though i get my harley jokes in...i've learned here that not all harley guys are posers or vikings....

h-2
bimota kawi
and elr1100 84 are ones i could swap a top ten for....least i named ten......CHEATERS:blink:

I had a vivid dream last night about an h2 for sale in perfect/beyond perfect restored condition. Funny, I have never had a penchant to own one yet in my dream I was drooling over this bike.
As far as riding a fat lady I think better of a convertible. My brother's 69 ghia was a sweet ride to San Francisco and down through the twisties of highway one all the way to Laguna Hills where the car now resides. I will never ever ever ever ever ever forget that ride. That was one sweetarse car that made VW Trends many years back. Everyone kept asking me if it was the new porsche model that they hadn't seen yet. I asked the "Really?!" I guess not too many people have seen a ghia before. Just the sound of the engine after 3000 miles was a transcendental experience. But a fat lady? I rode my friends and hugely didn't like how comfortable it was. You could seriously fall asleep on his. He had cruise control, air conditioning, radio, refridgerator, microwave and a number of other amenities that make roughing it totally useless. Every time the bike rode by a Dairy Queen or Tasti Freeze it pulled really hard and I had to fight it from trying to make a pit stop. But all joking aside that huge fairing took all the wind off of your face, which incidentally is a big appeal to me, and when it was windy I felt like I was para-sailing.

I guess he didn't get the one with nitrous oxide spray and equipped with a blower cause then he would have really insulted that rice burner. He would have OWNED him. GRRRRRr..... get er done. lol To each their own.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: otakar wrote:

Here is the biggest joke of them all. GO ZX-12!!!!!

LMFAO! He was thinking he was in for a fun ride later. You gave him that tip touching look that all the short guys go for. :laugh: Hey, I don't remember any chinamen by us when you got on that bike. As I recall it was I the fly who took that picture. Were you fantasizing again about jumping in to a hot tub full of china men again. Damn Tri you better lay off of all those overtime hours. You are beginning to mix fiction with reality. :woohoo: trianglelaguna wrote:

what it's like a 650 or 800 somthing right

funny story on that photo....

they had the display monster v-max at the motogp....folks taking turns sitting on it for pics......it is a friggin clydesdale horse.....connan the barbarian /friggin giant bike ..just really really big first time near it........well it works out that when my turn came we were in line in front of some japanese folks....they were all smiles as i got on the max...and were giving me the thumbs up.....i guess they figured i was connan or somthing, one little guy was so impressed he got next to me and the bike for a photo from his group.....pretty friggin funny couple hundered folks walking aroung smirking at us....

Amen to that statment! I may be in that boat soon but I can't seem to shake the z1 habit I have gotten myself in to. I would have to say for sure I would love to own a Z1r turbo or NA bike 78 with a few mods done like a nice stretched swingarm not obnoxious but a few inches. A ZRX although I rode one I liked but wasn't overly impressed with so it certainly would have to be modified like the one we all saw in California when we went to the races nice little turbo number sweet!!! Mine wouldn't need to be turboed just a nice stretch some zx cams, nice pipe and a few visual add ons.
I am seriously thinking about that zx14
Ducati has impressed me but not the new monsters just the old school liquid cooled ones. Hmmmmm a nice older busa completely worked over with nice wheels paint and stretched. Maybe the new streetfighter?
I don't think I could come up with ten bikes but here they would be.
1. zx 14 which I will end up by next year buying
2. zrx12 mild to heavily modded
3. certainly a liquid cooled monster the last year before they bastardized them.
4. the Ducati Street fighter, perhaps
5. My bike
6. The new BMW 1000 is shaping up from what I have read to pique my curiousity
7. I have always fantasized about riding a bike with a sidecar.
Seven is a lucky number. I think I will stay with that as my final response.
otakar wrote:

The funny part is that I own all the bikes I love to ride.

So I forgot the z1r 8 and the old school worked over busa hmmmmm maybe two more I for sure would own and ride again my zr11009. and....
For the final 10 I would give both my testicles to find and own any of my dad's old bikes especially his 67 BMW just because I have that yearning to experience the feelings and experiences that bike gave him.

God, I really miss my dad... he turned me on to one of the special experiences in life that most people never experience. How about all of you guys? How did you all get in to riding.
God bless my father for passing the disease of two wheels and women for I have had my share and then some.
I could say music but then I took that to a whole other level that would have left my father envious of me. But I guess country music doesn't technically leave a lot of room for creativity musically speaking. Just good ol times and drunken moments which my father knew well. The music I kept, the drinking I dispensed with.

This first bike is at the top of my list, but the others are not in any order.

#1 The CR&S Vun

I first saw this bike at the Isle of Mann in 2007, it was the coolest production bike on the island during the TT. This bike looks fantastic from any angle, and the build quality is as high as the new Bimota's.

www.crs-motorcycles.com/ebgVUN.htm

#2-10

2010 Versys

2008 or newer KLR650

2010 Concourse 14

2010 Z1000 (This one is gitting great reviews.)

2010 Bimota DB7 Oronero

2010 Multistrada (The one with the desmoquatro engine.)

2010 CB1100

2010 KTM Super Duke 990

2010 YZF R1

you were up on the trun six hill holding hands with your buddy...east coasters...watch the whole friggin race behind a hill....lead em to water....chinese guys were around but maybe you did take that shot that time...before i told you stop taking pictures of me fag

saxjonz wrote:

LMFAO! He was thinking he was in for a fun ride later. You gave him that tip touching look that all the short guys go for. :laugh: Hey, I don't remember any chinamen by us when you got on that bike. As I recall it was I the fly who took that picture. Were you fantasizing again about jumping in to a hot tub full of china men again. Damn Tri you better lay off of all those overtime hours. You are beginning to mix fiction with reality. :woohoo: trianglelaguna wrote:

what it's like a 650 or 800 somthing right

funny story on that photo....

they had the display monster v-max at the motogp....folks taking turns sitting on it for pics......it is a friggin clydesdale horse.....connan the barbarian /friggin giant bike ..just really really big first time near it........well it works out that when my turn came we were in line in front of some japanese folks....they were all smiles as i got on the max...and were giving me the thumbs up.....i guess they figured i was connan or somthing, one little guy was so impressed he got next to me and the bike for a photo from his group.....pretty friggin funny couple hundered folks walking aroung smirking at us....

I forgot my other 9 bikes, excluding the agusta

-750 triple 2 stroke....maybe on a different frame fork and swing are setup.
-2000's KTM 530
-1986 Yamaha Radian yx600
-2001 Yamaha Roadstar Bobber, that i made
-2009 zx-14
-68 Shovelhead Bobber, or chopper, that i made. old school. My boss has a nice one.
-KZ1300 bobber that i made..lol
-CBX bobber that i made as well
-clean and naked goldwing gl 1100

trianglelaguna wrote:

what it's like a 650 or 800 somthing right

funny story on that photo....

they had the display monster v-max at the motogp....folks taking turns sitting on it for pics......it is a friggin clydesdale horse.....connan the barbarian /friggin giant bike ..just really really big first time near it........well it works out that when my turn came we were in line in front of some japanese folks....they were all smiles as i got on the max...and were giving me the thumbs up.....i guess they figured i was connan or somthing, one little guy was so impressed he got next to me and the bike for a photo from his group.....pretty friggin funny couple hundered folks walking aroung smirking at us....

:laugh: Yeah they were all looking at you thinking "Shit that guy's a gonner...."

I actually drove a new one, Jesus H Friggin Christ those bikes are nuts. I owned an older one and the new one has been put on some laboratory grade steroids. Way to unweildy to be a sport bike, and much heavier than the old one. Still way too much fun to be legal though. You roll the throttle on hard and the back end goes all over hell on you, and then when it hooks up the front wheel starts to jump, then ist time to shift, and the same shit happens all over again.:ohmy:

isn't that what bikes are all about. sliding sideways , smoking tires and having fun sounds like it would be fun to ride

kawaksi should see to it that this direction be headed right away....

To treat 10 bikes fairly, is one helluva lot of riding to pack into our shortish riding season up here. I do like a challenge though!

10. 1967 Honda CB77 Superhawk - 400cc twin for short commutes and back road blasts. Dual leading shoe front brakes!
9. 2005 BMR R1150R - Its already in the stable and its a great long distance mount. THe power brakes are a conversation point.
8. 1973 BMW R75/5 for daily riding - I just think it looks cool.
7. 1978 KZ1000 - also in the stable. When we were young these were *the* super bike that the cool teenagers owned.
6. 1984 GPZ900r - high speed thrills!
5. 2010 Kawasaki Z1000 - looks like a fun ride, but I'm having issues with the transformer type looks.
4. 1990's Kawasaki KLR650 - dual purpose thumper, 'nuff said.
3. 1970's SOHC honda CB750 - I wouldn't really ride one of the sandcasts.
2. Early Ducati Monster
1. 60's British twin - just to practice my electrical troubleshooting skills!

Seriously though, 10 bikes is a lot. I think I'd be happy with 4-5 of these....