Its that time of year again, you know, January, when biking for most of us is just a dream and we long for the heady (read dry and warm) days of Spring to "fucking hurry up and" get here.
I've done about 500 miles on the Adventure in the last couple of months (Christmas got in the way a bit) and have sorted it a proper exhaust and I'm still happy to have it..... but, I feel there is still something missing from the garage.
I conclude that most things I have owned haven't really been a bit "special" which is why its been so easy to sell them on. Considering Dan's recent Lotus purchase I find myself wanting something a bit rare to fill a void. This bike will not be massively expensive but will be something I lusted after when I was a kid. Something that could easily sit in the garage, not turn a wheel for 90% of the year but still not "get the chop" due to boredom.
I met a bloke in Swindon a few years ago who had a garage full of modern classics (he was trying to sell his FZR400RRSP at the time) that inc an original R1, a ZXR750R and a mint RGV250 VJ22. He had the right idea.
The FZR RRSP would be top of my list, I'd love another RGV (I owned the last one at a time when biking really wasn't high on my agenda) or maybe an RD350.
Just wondered what else might be out there and what you lot would like to cuddle "modern classic"-wise. This list will not include one off specials or modded bikes so don't litter my thread with cafe racers, customs or streetfighters.
If anyone does stumble across a decent RRSP for sale, please let me know.
What think you?
One of these....
(http://www.whitedogbikes.com/images/Breaking_Bikes/honda-cbr400-nc29-m.jpg)
and its big brother...
(http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints-depot-restricted/motorcycles/honda-motor/honda_cbr900rr_fireblade_1992-12217.jpg)
I'd like to think my Buell and ZX7 will have classic value in the future.
Dicko's got a nice little collection, a 996SPS, a 999bip, a soon to be restored to mint slab side GSXR750 and an old BSA C11.
Not something that i often think about but this lept to the forefront when i read the thread ...
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CRW-NshClXw/UFSERzXlejI/AAAAAAAAEVk/jtyB87sDAes/s1600/untitledbike8.png)
(http://bikebikebikeseckey.up.n.seesaa.net/bikebikebikeseckey/image/R7_OW02.jpg?d=a1)
NOT MASSIVELY EXPENSIVE Millhouse.........
Otherwise the conversation would have ended when I went out and bought an RC30......
350 power valve...always fancied one of these..they aren't that cheap now though.
I'd actually quite like my old Trumpet Adventurer back...which I sold to buy my G1, but it is now worth about £3.5k and rising.
Exactly the reason I bought the NC30 last year. Lusted after one as a kid, bought one, sold it a couple of years later and regretted doing so since. Couldn't bring myself to sell it when looking at track bikes late on last year.
Its nice having a blast on one of them new fangled sthou's and the like, but I wouldn't swap either of mine for one.
Only thing that I'd like to add to my garage is an RS250 or NSR250, specifically a late MC28. Wanted them both as a kid, but never did.
If you're really after an RRSP, get yourself on 400greybike.com if you're not already, they come up on there every now and then.
Oooh yeah NSR250 with the credit card ignition.
Quote from: MOz on January 28, 2014, 02:48:52 PM
NOT MASSIVELY EXPENSIVE Millhouse.........
Otherwise the conversation would have ended when I went out and bought an RC30......
to be fair i didn't read much past the thread title, just thought of that as soon as i read "modern classic" then got distracted looking at pretty pictures....
For me.....by far the best looking bike of my time and therefore my personal classic is......
(http://www.motorcyclenews.com/upload/207054/images/ktm%20rc8%20racer.jpg)
And how pissed am I that I umm'd and ahh'd about buying one unseen Sunday when the advert in Gumtree was kosher and I missed the bargain of the year this far??
MOz....an RC8R? Did you not have one in the Akropovic colours?
Quote from: Maddog on January 28, 2014, 06:26:46 PM
MOz....an RC8R? Did you not have one in the Akropovic colours?
No I had a dream machine Red Bull rep on a standard bike and a 2010 R which was a lovely bike.
I missed a pukka, one of about 30 in this country, Akrapovic LE RC8R with a KTM reg plate and 271 miles that sold on gumtree for £6-fucking-k. The guy on the KTM forum who got it (lived in the same town - how lucky) had to pinch himself when he saw it with all the paperwork etc. Probably worth £10k as it was all there, including the club race kit and Akky system fitted.... I'd describe it as a once in a decade find and bargain......
6K is cheap!! Ive been having a look at them on tinternet and 6K is a bargain of a price! Dave Wood from DWR racing reckons they are probably the best bike ever built.....i agree with him!
£6k is not cheap, its a fucking steal......
Dad gave it to his daughter as a wedding present to help pay fo the wedding. She needed £6k, that's what she got......
Gutted. That said, if I had bought it unseen you could bet your bottom dollar it would have been a fake or nicked...
I like the thought of an original Blue R1 as mentioned. Mmmm
Quote from: Dq on January 28, 2014, 03:13:11 PM
If you're really after an RRSP, get yourself on 400greybike.com if you're not already, they come up on there every now and then.
Thanks for the tip - just signed up.
Another shout for an rs250
(http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/Gallery/Aprilia%20RS250%2000.jpg)
An urban tiger fireblade?
(http://media.turbosport.co.uk/2003/7/200372119341773708.jpg)
An early z1000, with one of the best looking standard exhausts ever put on a bike?
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3GdvY3cLon0/TqEEk8XWeCI/AAAAAAAAAD8/RbU_KP8V_s8/s320/UploadImages_P63000441.jpg)
and its big brother...
(http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints-depot-restricted/motorcycles/honda-motor/honda_cbr900rr_fireblade_1992-12217.jpg)
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Still lust after this in black. Had a 97 and now a 2013. But always wanted a 92 after seeing a guy sitting posing on a black one in George St Edinburgh, when they first came out. Cool as.
Quote from: coop on January 28, 2014, 09:25:16 PM
and its big brother...
(http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints-depot-restricted/motorcycles/honda-motor/honda_cbr900rr_fireblade_1992-12217.jpg)
Still lust after this in black. Had a 97 and now a 2013. But always wanted a 92 after seeing a guy sitting posing on a black one in George St Edinburgh, when they first came out. Cool as.
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My mate has a black 92.... Rode it a couple of years back and it felt sublime....
Quote from: MOz on January 28, 2014, 09:36:30 PM
Quote from: coop on January 28, 2014, 09:25:16 PM
and its big brother...
(http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints-depot-restricted/motorcycles/honda-motor/honda_cbr900rr_fireblade_1992-12217.jpg)
Still lust after this in black. Had a 97 and now a 2013. But always wanted a 92 after seeing a guy sitting posing on a black one in George St Edinburgh, when they first came out. Cool as.
My mate has a black 92.... Rode it a couple of years back and it felt sublime....
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Good to hear. What mileage on it.
Never remotely hankered after a somewhat old, but not really old, sportsbike.
Won't it just be like a new sportsbike, but shitter?
If I had the budget for 'special', I'd be looking at a proper classic (i.e. 1960s or older) and/or one of those funky new wave custom whatnots that seem to be what the cool kids are doing these days.
personally speaking my dream garage of affordable modern classic sportsbikes would be:
98 R1 in red and white
ZXR750R (i owned one of these, and i loved it but it was far from a mint example!)
VFR400 (only because an RC30 is too much money!)
916 (preferably an SPS but they probably dont fall into the 'affordable' category anymore!)
MVF4
SP2 in edwards castrol rep colours (got an sp1, again far from mint!)
and whilst it might not be considered a modern classic by many I'd have to have a 04 ZX10R as it was new out when i passed my test and was the ultimate hooligan sportsbike and i WANTED ONE BAD! :icon_bounce:
Any 851 or 888 would adorn my garage.
This is one of my fave pics taken when I had my SS and was looking after Dicko's 996
(http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr19/Vidal_photos/Bikes/duketwins003.jpg) (http://s465.photobucket.com/user/Vidal_photos/media/Bikes/duketwins003.jpg.html)
Damn, those 996s were pretty...
I take it all back.
Of course! Castrol SP-2. Forgot about that one
(http://www.speedzilla.com/forums/attachments/honda-rc51/25929d1272551267-flying-pig-project-life-death-re-birth-sp2-dscn0164.jpg)
Quote from: tucola on January 29, 2014, 09:54:04 AM
Never remotely hankered after a somewhat old, but not really old, sportsbike.
Won't it just be like a new sportsbike, but shitter?
This x a lot but then I'm only interested in riding bikes rather than restoring / looking at / talking about / collecting them.
Quote from: tucola on January 29, 2014, 09:54:04 AM
Won't it just be like a new sportsbike, but shitter?
Riding my mates 92 Blade, having ridden a 916SP and all the things I've heard about the RC30 I believe that statement to be bollocks.
Quote from: Gobert on January 29, 2014, 11:48:32 AM
Quote from: tucola on January 29, 2014, 09:54:04 AM
Never remotely hankered after a somewhat old, but not really old, sportsbike.
Won't it just be like a new sportsbike, but shitter?
This x a lot but then I'm only interested in riding bikes rather than restoring / looking at / talking about / collecting them.
You miserable bastard.....
You know I am.............. :azn:
I wouldn't mind a go on RC30 just to see if they live up to the hype but I just don't get on with 916's - one of my mates had a 916 then a 916sp and then a 996r (which was the first Ducati to use their 998 engine) which I rode quite a bit and disliked but as I said, that might just be me....
Would still like an RGV250
(http://wigen.net/motor/rgv250/images/RGV250M.jpg)
Or an RS250 in Chesterfield colours
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IM12yVuPhqA/TgVIkSMMYbI/AAAAAAAABxA/EauR6E2DZbM/s1600/1997_RS250.jpg)
Quote from: Lord Danoir the first on January 29, 2014, 10:38:47 AM
Any 851 or 888 would adorn my garage.
This is one of my fave pics taken when I had my SS and was looking after Dicko's 996
(http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr19/Vidal_photos/Bikes/duketwins003.jpg) (http://s465.photobucket.com/user/Vidal_photos/media/Bikes/duketwins003.jpg.html)
i also spy a crappy zx7 in there as well....
Nice borders though and good drive work, no weeds.
if you can guess what's behind the crappy ZX7r, Dom will give you a pound.
Quote from: Lord Danoir the first on January 29, 2014, 03:48:41 PM
if you can guess what's behind the crappy ZX7r, Dom will give you a pound.
Is it Mrs Dom???
A window?
Mercedes Nurburgring track car/paperweight?
Orange Lotus elise?
Or an Exige?
Or a Jaaaaaaaaaaag?
Just running through my Sir Danoir Garage Contents Timeline.
No this was the good old days before the collapse of 2008 (seen from space) and the subsequent accumulation of 'shitters'.
<sob>
172?
or the V8 debacle?
Your green Lotus pre-Nurburgring-olition.
orange exige of lovelyness... it will be mine one day.. oh yes. it will be mine mywhahahahhhahha
I still love the look of 916s. I would also love a KR-1S. I used to have a KR-1 but would have loved that extra 5 bhp. The sound, the smell, the powerband, the massive grin on my face after every ride. :grin:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Kawasaki_KR1-S.jpg)
What happened to the one Sharky was restoring??
Quote from: Raydial on January 31, 2014, 09:04:44 PM
I still love the look of 916s. I would also love a KR-1S. I used to have a KR-1 but would have loved that extra 5 bhp. The sound, the smell, the powerband, the massive grin on my face after every ride. :grin:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Kawasaki_KR1-S.jpg)
Oooo KR-1S, good call :cool:
I have a short list of two I'm going to look out for.
Any one of these :grin:
(http://p1.bikepics.com/2014%5C02%5C02%5Cbikepics-2638287-full.jpg)
Rob
Why, are they for sale?
every now and again, [only when it is sunny and dry] I take my kr1 out that I rebuilt.
(http://i1361.photobucket.com/albums/r677/martinkr1b1h/100_23852_zpsf80f5a29.jpg)
(http://i1361.photobucket.com/albums/r677/martinkr1b1h/100_1067_zps86aaa83d.jpg)
(http://i1361.photobucket.com/albums/r677/martinkr1b1h/100_1800_zps96d0a002.jpg)
Very nice.
Wow, that's gorgeous and spotless! And it's the exact same colour scheme as mine was. :cool: