Is that the 175 or the 250?? i had the 250 and still to this day it was the best fun i have had on a bike didnt give a shit about it just rode it in all weathers back in 1984 bril times.
A hero's bike there Grandeelion. I remember my mate buying an early Z1 and being afraid to ride it home he asked me to do the honours. I thought the clutch was shagged and was trying to work out how to tell him until he pulled up beside me at the lights and screamed at me to "stopf ucking my back tyre yaf uckingc unt!"
Sadly not many pictures of my early bikes exist, so I've supplemented them with pictures off the net. My Suzuki K10 Bought for £20, stripped cleaned, resprayed, rebuilt for another £20. Compared with my mate's AP50's it was butt ugly but pissed all over them. The engine now resides in a go kart me and my mate built for his son (before he had one, but you know how it is) and is now sat waiting for his grandson to be able to reach the pedals. It let me down soooooo many times but in doing so taught me much about the vagueries of automotive electrics. My CB200 A proper bike. Cable operated front disc brake (guess how effective that was), electric start, completely invincible. It had a tank pad as standard! How ahead of its time was that! I passed my test on this bike. A guy in the "Three Horse Shoes", at the time, the only bikers pub in Exeter said out loud that I "looked like Snoopy flying his kennel against the Red Baron" while I was riding it, So I was Snoopy from that day on. I even decalled it as such. It was nicked from outside my door in the night and was never heard of again. Although I did once get a call from the Nottinghamshire police saying details regarding it had cropped up in an investigation, but nothing more. Paying off the finance left me without transport for a while until I signed away my soul on this, my 550f And yes T, that is Sandy Bay. Love at first sight. It very nearly killed me the first week I had it, leaving me with another £200 bill for repairs. I know, I know, but in 1978, it was a lot of money for me. This bike really is indestructible. Started first time, everytime no matter what abuse I put it through, and there was a lot. Could never adjust the bloody cam chain on it though. Drove mef ucking mad! I eventually put a pair of ace bars on it and couldnt believe how it improved the handling. Until I noticed how bent the old handlebars were, the result of dropping it on them, stationary in the snow once. Well it is heavier than the FireBlade. Special to me, this bike, and, as such it still lives in the back of the garage waiting for me to strip it to the bone and rebuild it bit by bit in my retirement. Other bikes will come and go, but not this one. 30 years of cars, then a customer of mine, strapped for cash, waved this at me. I loved it. I hated it. Then, I loved it again. Then I murdered it. It is, without doubt, the most Italian thing I have ever owned. It went when it wanted to go, it cost lots of money, just standing still, it handled beautifully, it pulled out of corners like a bike with three times its power. Then, when I wrote it off, I could still ride it home. It's gone now, but it taught me that the idiot Clarkson is right about Alpha Romeos, you have to have suffered one to truly qualify for petrolhead-dom, and an old Ducati is the same. Not really looking that hard for a replacement, but honestly, nagged by Jeanette to go into Bridge Garage one Saturday afternoon (that'll teach her), I found this. The bike that made me start looking at sportbikes when it was launched, even though I never had any reason to believe I'd ever ride a bike again at the time. The bike that when we talked bikes was the one that was always "Well if I ever got back into bikes, it would have to be this one." And there it is, sat on my drive, looking down it's nose at everyone. I've never before anthropomorphised my vehicles until now. Never even thought of them as "he" or "she", but this one is Bill. And he's way too fast for me and way too powerful for any logical purpose, but I don't care, because more times than not, when I'm on it, I've got this grin that keeps getting spit in my ears. Plus, he's got the seal of approval from my mother, who wasn't overly keen on me getting back into bikes in the first place, but because he's a Honda and blue, he matches her criteria for "always getting me home because it's a blue Honda".
I have owned 1. Yamaha YB100 2. Honda H100S 3. CB125 Deluxe 4. Yamaha XV250s ( brand new ) 5. Yamaha XV535 6. Yamaha FZR600 7. Honda CBR600 8. CB600F Hornet 9. Kawasaki ZXR400 10. Suzuki Bandit 600 11. Kawasaki ZX6R Ninja 12. Yamaha XJ550 13. Yamaha XV535 14. CB600F Hornet 15. Kawasaki ZX6R Ninja 16. CB900F Hornet 17. Triumph speed triple T509 18. Yamaha XV750 Virago 19. Honda VTR1000 Firestorm 20. Suzuki VS800 21. Harley Davidson XL1200 C Sportster ( still own ) 22. Triumph Speed four 23. Honda VTR1000 Firestorm 24. Honda CB900RRX Fireblade ( currently own ). Project bike that never got back on the road. 3X Kawasaki Z250's 1X Kawasaki Z200 1X Yamaha XV535 started riding 17 ( I think ) now 38, so that not bad for 21 yrs.
NSR125 RK vfr400 (no pic) gsxr600 k1 (this was after getting rear ended by another bike) first 1000rr 848 another blade(mobile pic as im waiting on my new slr)
hm i will not put the pictures in right order but i will just trhow them here ...i dont have pictures of all my bikes and couse i buy alot of crashed and resell them sometimes i dont have finished pictures of them ;PPP and also i use to make some funy pictures with many of my bikes this is an R1 09 crossplane and one of the funny pitctures i was talking about ;PP my last years 750 08 racing ;Pi know it has race fairings from a 06-07 gixxer but they where fiting so i dint want to buy new ones ;P 07 750 some bikes i bought them 1-2 times couse i found them in good prices and resell it so agian a street leagal 750 08 my 1st rizla 08 1000 after crashed that got 2nd ;p a 06 600 and same 600 difrent look ;P my 1st bike ;P zxr 400 96 my previews 08 cbr i think prety much thats it use to own a ducati 999 05 but for like 1 month realy hated that bike and a kawasaki 636 05 that maybe for 2 weeks so no pictures
Back in the late 80's I had a GSXR1100, here's a picture taken in the middle of the night at Heston Services where the Chelsea Bridge gang used to meet up. But my favourite all time bike was the RC30 from the early 90's. 'If only' I still had it now!
its a drag bike dont need tires just a wheel to roll hehheehhe i might one day start a thread with all my crazy pics ))
My Ducati 748 was my first big bike at 20 (which i still have) Then got a 1997 ZX6r to use on track Got another zx6r to drive down to Monaco on, Then chopped in the first zx6r for my Blade.
To join in then: First up, my first bike, a 1982 Yamaha XT 125... had been completely re-done to OE spec and was mint. I hated it with a passion... crap brakes, no speed, although it was fun off-road... means to an end whilst I saved for my full test. (Not actual pic of my bike... I hated it that much, the last thing I wanted to do was immortalise the thing on celluloid!) Next, a Honda 1987 CBR400... again, this was mint. Sold to the local bike shop having been bought as a mid-life crisis by some bloke who then stuck it in the back of his garage for 10 years. Love that bike to bits...... lifted into a van by 2 blokes from outside my front window, after 6 weeks of ownership, never to be seen again *sniff* (Again, not actual pic, as I have no means to scan pics!) After a 6 year gap, got back in to the bikes with my first Fireblade, an RR-T... beautiful bike, and in very good nick. (Again, not actual pic, as I have no means to scan pics!) Then, upgraded to a 929 blade... pic is me on track for the first time at Castle Combe, doing an exercise where the instructors wanted us to lock up the back wheel on purpose! Finally, my current P&J, 2007 Fireblade, in HRC colours.
But my favourite all time bike was the RC30 from the early 90's. 'If only' I still had it now! [/QUOTE] now where talking rc30 great pic as well mate down to the creg
This was the last bike I had and built with mods. started out as a 1989 gixer 1100 took Me 2 years to do .I really miss this bike it came a part of the family
I haven't got pics of all my previous bikes but here's the list and pic's that I have. Suzuki TS50X Yamaha RD350 x2 an F1 and F2 model Yamaha FZR600 R Yamaha YZF750R Kawasaki ZXR750 L2 Kawasaki ZX7R Suzuki GSXR600 SRAD GSXR 750 K5 My YZF750 track bike I still have. And lastly my current blade.
