List your most recent 6 bikes in order of best.... (and why)

1. 2001 YZF R1. (does everything i ask of it and more... a truely awsome machine)
2. Ducati 916 (race bike) (was the class and styling, with a tonne of trick parts thrown at it was exceptional)
3. 1998 Fireblade (excellent all rounder, my first venture into Superbike teritory)
4. Thundercat 99' (lovely and comfy, inspiring and smooth)
5. ZXR400L1 (my first bike and cracking fun... ended up feeling lacking in power)
6. GSXR600 SRAD 99' (fun little sports bike but nothing much to write home about)

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1. Suzuki GSX1400 - Current bike
2. Kawasaki ZR7 - Post DAS bike
3. Honda CB125T - Pre-DAS bike
4. Honda CG125 - Where it all began.

Don't have a five or six, sorry

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=1) ZR-7 1999. Does what it says on the tin (just about everything) cheap to run and insure

=1) TYZ250 1998 trial machine. old school bike that's still more capable than me

2) XR600R (incl s/moto) fucking ace - Big Red Pigs are as reliable as fuck and enough torque and power to be a real hoot

3) XR125 2004 learner bike for the wife. Sadly sold and we now have a son

4) Yamaha GP100 x2 tried to get them going for the wife's learner machine, but failed (See XR125 above ). (I believe some had better luck and is using the engines in some go karts )

5) YZ250 1993 mx - scary fast

6) CB-1 first bike after my test

etc) couple of learner machines incl KMX, RXS, CB

EDIT - fuck, I listed them in order of ownership

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drinking is not the answer, but it may help you forget the question :burp:

1. Kawasaki ZX6R - cos she was given to me by Metz and she's beautiful
2. Beige girlie bike - unfortunate present as a 10-year old, I was expecting a Raleigh Racer
3. Green girlie bike with stabilisers - again, not my choice, don't like green
4. Small plastic and metal trike - only thing available in my size



However I am seeing a pattern that I never by vehicles

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1. CBR900RR-P - economical/comfortable/10 years together
2. RF600R-P - >10k rpm everywhere makes for big fun
3. 1/3share of FS1-E - it was better than the NS
4. NS125F - heap'o'shite

no 5 or 6

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1. GSXR600 (04 model) current bike - very pleased with it but I do get the nagging doubt that I could better use a 750 or 1000.

2. RD350LC (1980's? model) Was a real blast to ride, a pain in the arse to maintain

3. KLX250 (1980's? model) Great off road bike, taught me lot.

4. GSX750 (1980's? model) uninspiring ride and had a serious flaw (design feature) in the fuel feed that made it cut out at full throttle when the engine was cold.

5. GSX600F (03 model) pile of shite.

6. RD50 (1980's? model) Great when you are 16, pile of shite really.

1.Suzuki GSX-R1000K3. I don't like the gixxer blue and white paint job,I got the bike cheap and had no intention of keeping it long.Almost three years on and the monster torque still makes my day.

2.Kawasaki ZZR1100. I loved my ZZR,with the eccentrics spun round,a decent rear shock and a fork revalve you have all day comfort and a bike to embarrass sportsbikes on all types of roads.

3.Kawasaki ZX9R. A great road bike,almost like a slimmed ZZR.

4. Kawasaki Z1900. King dick in it's day.

5.Suzuki GS1000. A Z1 that handled.(better)

6. BMW R90S. A bike I bought for £900,rode for eight years,and sold for £2500.

Sorry Weeksy,only the first three were recent,I tend not to change bike too often,unlike CC.

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Pierlucio Tinazzi,a real biker.

my last 6 bikes:

1. Pan european stx1300a. superb engine and brakes. love it
2. Diversion 900. reliable but wooden brakes and wobbly handing
3. GSX550es nice handling but not much oomph
4. kwack gpz305 beyond crap
5. honda cb125td. was a nice proper 1st bike
6. honda c90. legendary

1. CCM R30 Absolute blast. The most fun i've ever had on a motorbike. Taught me more about handling, tyre and chassis feedback and wheelies than anything else I've ever owned or am likley to own! Cracking bike 10/10.

2. BMW R1100GS. I finally got BMWs once I'd owned this. I should have kept it.

3. Honda Hornet 900. Probably the most powerful bike I've ever owned. Loved it and glad I owned one, but it baited me evertime I went on it. Licence preservation forces sale.

4. Honda Bros 650. Longest I've ever owned a bike. Excellent little bike with a big following. Incredible build quality? Couldn't stop playing about with it.

5. Honda FJS 600 maxi scooter. Curent and only ride! Just ticks sooooo many boxes and answers all my current motorcycling needs. This will be with me for some time. Its a keeper.

6. Aprilia Leonardo 250 Scooter. Opened up a different side to biking for me.

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R1150 GSA - Fantastic touring bike and is a blast down twisty bumpy lanes. Surprises much more powerful bikes.
TDR250 - Fucking radio rental
RD350LC - Owned it for 17 years or so. It's laaaavly.
XRV650 - Fantastic city/commuter/hack bike that will go on for ever.
Bandit 1200 - Was ok I suppose. Great engine, pity the rest of it was shite.
KMX125 - A right giggle. Quite nippy wee things in full power guise and will do an indicated 90!

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'flat' twin

1. TL1000S - cos it was mental, edgy, exciting, sounded GOOORGEOUS and pulled wicked wheelies.

2. Tuono - as above, just twice the dosh.

3. GSX-R837K race bike - absolutely brilliant when it works, have sorted the handling and bored out the engine. But unreliable and expensive to maintain.

3. R1 - Very fast, capable, reliable, the perfect bike, but ultimately a little bland...

4. GSX-R1100K stunt bike - cheap, ratty, fecking fast, antisocial, 'exciting' in corners.

5. CR500 supermotard - Two words - fucking crazy. But it used to take me 15 minutes to start it and it was hardly easy to live with.

6. Bandit 600 - bought, streetfightered, tuned and written off twice by my 19th birthday. My lil baby... I still have it... or at least what's left of it.

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1. - RSV-R - only got it yesterday...... its fucking lush
2. - CBR 600 RR - awesome looking machine bit bland to ride
3. - ZX6-R J1 - loved it, stocking motor
4. - CBR 600 FV - first 'big bike' did everything very well, killed it in the Lake District
5. - TDM 250 - wicked fun
6. - YZ 125 - getting faster
7. - GP100 - slow

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1. ZX7R - Current bike and lovely. Tatty and abused but goes well and holds a great line. Can be thrown around.

2. SV650 - Great all-rounder. With Renegade can and airbox sounded awesome.

3. Bandit 600 - First 'big' bike. Felt like a missile at the time. Fast enough and bullet-proof though. Waterloo bridge speed record still not bested by bikes above (albeit mainly down to traffic conditions).

4. ZZR250 - First bike... good beginner.

5. That's it.

2003 954 Blade - so much more competant than I'll ever be.....

1998 918 Blade - the 2nd best bike I've owned

1995 893 Blade - the 3rd best bike I've owned.

These 3 bikes have covered over 60,000 miles with me, and apart from bling, consumables and servicing, all they've cost me is a set of rear wheel bearings for the '98.

1992 Yamaha FZR1000 Exup - ballistic but blown away by the first blade.

1988 Kawasaki GPZ900 the first big bike I owned that went round corners and stopped well.

1979 Suzuki GS1000 my first big bike, absolutely blew me away.

1 VFR750. Brilliant road bike, perfect for my type of road riding including a lot with Mrs P on the back.
2 '96 Blade. It took me out on my first track day and it all went down hill from there. Eventually changed shape at the bombhole at Snett.
3 CBR400 Race Bike. If you have to ask why you wouldn't understand.
4 KX125 Mental fun. Fall off, laugh, repeat until there's no petrol left.
5 XL125. Well it got me about.
6 Crunchbox. Still perhaps the best bike ever made.

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Plnk

err

BMW Rockster
BMW Rockster
Kawasaki ZXR400L5
BMW Rockster
Kawasaki ZR550 Zephyr
Kawasaki ZR550 Zephyr

or something....

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In order of ownership:

Gilera Runner 125 2t
Yamaha TW125
Honda CB500
Thundercat
VTR Firestorm

in order of bestness:
CB500 - Faultless little machine, fun, flickable, fast, forgiving, cheap
TW125 - Superb fun at lower speeds, unsettlable, daft looking, abusable
Thundercat - Awesome allrounder, very quick but let down by winter trouble
Runner - Loonycycle, great fun if you take your brain out, but corroded and built badly.
VTR - n/a really. could have been a hoot to ride, but not here and now.

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Good thread.

Let's see now...last six bikes:

R1100S BCR (current)
HD Streetrod
HD Dyna Sport
Sprint RS
TT600
R1100R

I'd find it somewhat difficult to put into some kind of order of 'best' perhaps because they're all very different to eachother. The 2 Harleys were, surprisingly, poles apart for example.

1. For all-out 'just for fun' I'd dare say the Dyna Sport ranks very highly. Sure, it wasn't fast by any means and in a straight line would just about keep up with an SV650. It had bags of character though, sounded fabulous and just looked stunning in all black. If I could have had two 'main' bikes I'd have kept it, no worries.
2. TT600 - once I'd had the fuelling done, it was a great little bike. Fabulous handling and with enough power to be fun. Rode like a 2-stroke aswell. Comfy, even for a 6'3" bloke like me. Put 12000 hard miles on it in 10 months and it never missed a beat.
3. R1100R - 'my' BMW. I love BM's Roadsters, and I had another one of these back in '98 which converted me to the brand. Always had a soft spot for them.
4. Sprint RS - great motor, solid stable handling with excellent (as usual) Trumpet brakes. Bit dull to look at but a worthy, underrated motorcycle. This has been a tie with the BoxerCup Rep which is my current bike. The BM's big, gruff, and quirkily handsome, vibrates a bit but is a bike I know almost inside-out having owned a few of them now. Excellent long-distance machine.
6. HD Streetrod - gorgeous motor, amazing brakes (especially as the bike weighs nigh-on 300kg) and very stable, slow-steering handling. Trouble is it was very uncomfortable, drank fuel like it was going out of fashion (rag the titis off it and it'll only do 30mpg) and was just too much like hard work to ride quickly. Although the Dyna had less ground clearance, it probably handled better. Still, on a smooth A-road the Streetrod could cover ground pretty quickly (as a few others found out to their surprise) and the motor's a minor masterpiece.

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Ringadingding

1) Thundercat. It did absolutely everything - toured, commuted, blasted on sunday and even made a pretty reasonable trackbike.
2) CBR 600 FS2 - like the thundercat, only erring toward the small/uncomfy side when on the road.
3) BMW R1100SS - like the thundercat, only erring toward the fat/wobbly side when pushed hard. Mmmmm heated grips.
4) TDM 900 - awesome down a crappy B-road. Too slow/awkward/soft everywhere else.
5) Kwak Zephyr 550 winter hack. - only on the list cos I was able to crash/kill it and not worry too much. This was its one redeeming feature.
6) RG 125 - handled far better than I appreciated at the time.

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Gibbo wrote

1. CBR900RR-P - economical/comfortable/10 years together

How do you do it ? I've only had mine for 12 months and I'm lusting after a change. I love the bike, but I want to try others :smoke:

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