Most exciting motorcycle you ever ridden

[Moo du]

What s the most exciting motorcycle you ever ridden or owned?

Do share your personal best and the features and/or the story that made it unique.

Travel stories are always interesting. Any photo, would help.

Not a competition. We talk about the motorcycles we fell in love with.

 

So my most exciting was the Honda CBR1000RR 2018.

 

Size and feel as a light 600cc. Good riding position. All controls soft and within reach.

Agile handling. Engine soft on the low, great hp on the high. The sound of the exhaust is

intoxicating. Sounds like you re driving a muzzled F14. Very frendly 140 hp!

I rode it for a couple of days all around Phuket. Most beautifull piece : Patong to Kata,

late afternoon.It felt like I was flying above the road at 130km/h

Reason to love Thailand #012.

Edited April 11, 2018 by Moo du

[55Jay]

Suzuki GS1100 when I was 14~15 years old.  It weighed more than I did. By a lot.                                                                                                                                60 mph in 1st gear, tears flowing out of my eyes, I managed to get this beautiful beast turned around and back to where I started.  Haven't ridden anything that powerful since.  Just not interested.  But.  No doubt. THAT was the most exciting, and petrifying, motorcycle ride I've ever taken.

Edited April 11, 2018 by 55Jay

[animalmagic]

The one that I almost crashed.........but didn't.  Ooops sorry, that would make several of them!

[BMW Overlander]

Ridden and owned many, about 2 dozen + past 30 over years.

All of them are exciting in some way.

 

ZZR1400 - clocked 290km/h right here in Thailand at Route 44 back in 2007

 

 

 

Best sport touring bike as far as I am concerned: BMW K1600GTL, lots of rides in Asia and around the Europe:

 

 

 

And best dual purpose bike BMW R1200GS Adv...great for highways and dirt roads/trails

 

 

 

 

[sammieuk1]

Honda CBR 900RR 92/93 red white and blue round headlamp model the scary one  Rothmans Honda leathers 177mph success on the M4 then 102 and 124mph tickets 9pts and sold within a year.

Now Liverpool livered scooter Honda I think.  

[Blackheart1916]

As a lover of the chook chasers (dirt bikes) the best I've ridden are various 500cc two strokes, WR, KX and the widow making CR 500 and CR 480. Had a KTM 950 dual purpose bike for a few years, brilliant on road and off. Now riding the bulletproof Honda XR650. Only ridden a few road bikes, and will never forget spending four days riding around Chiang Mai/Lampang area on a Ducati 900SS in the early 2000's. Great thread!

[lemonjelly]

1954 Bantam D3, plunger suspension, cornered like a spastic cow, rode it from London to Galway and sold it there, kinda miss it sometimes.


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[Deli]

R1 at full throttle in 6th gear hiding behind the shield. Emotional.

[Blackheart1916]

7 minutes ago, Deli said:

R1 at full throttle in 6th gear hiding behind the shield. Emotional.

That, my friend, takes balls!

[Hummin]

First ride on a 1987 Yamaha FZ 750, and got company with the police. Managed to get them off my back, and home safe. A memory for life, and what a bike for the time. 

[maximillian]

BSA 650 Lightning, 1963, back in 1970

 

Edited April 12, 2018 by maximillian

[ezzra]

My dearly beloved 1964 Vespa GS MK II, had to scour the world to find

a good one, found her in the US and shipped her to Melbourne as it's not possible to ship to BKK, what a pity as i would have loved to ride her everday...

Edited April 12, 2018 by ezzra

[alanrchase]

1986 Kawasaki GPZ900R. Except when l got nicked doing 125 mph on the A303 near Yeovil.

[transam]

2 minutes ago, ezzra said:

My dearly beloved 1964 Vespa GS MK II, had to scour the world to find

a good one, found her in the US and shipped her to Melbourne...

I had the SS180..Fond memories....

 

 

 

[impulse]

Anyone else feeling the disconnect between the 200 kph stories and all the Thai bashing that goes on for the very same kind of thing?

 

[impulse]

17 minutes ago, ezzra said:

My dearly beloved 1964 Vespa GS MK II, had to scour the world to find

a good one, found her in the US and shipped her to Melbourne as it's not possible to ship to BKK, what a pity as i would have loved to ride her everday...

 

There are so many places here in LOS that rebuild Vespa's that nobody should pine for them.  Go out and find one!

 

[transam]

6 minutes ago, impulse said:

Anyone else feeling the disconnect between the 200 kph stories and all the Thai bashing that goes on for the very same kind of thing?

 

Well I was riding underage, ended up in court many times for riding stuff, speeding, making a noise.banned twice after l got a license..That was over half a century back, but there was a police force that actually did their job, as l found out..

[poanoi]

i think most (ex) bikers will answer an honest "Cubic is King"

[impulse]

Just now, transam said:

Well I was riding underage, ended up in court many times for riding stuff, speeding, making a noise.banned twice after l got a license..That was over half a century back, but there was a police force that actually did their job, as l found out..

 

And that's kind of my point.  We weren't intellectually or morally superior to the Thais that are always being bashed here.  We just lived under a system that was rigged to reward safer behavior.  Or rather, nip unsafe behavior in the bud, hopefully before the tragedy.  Though I did lose several friends in high school to high speed auto accidents.

 

 

[Hummin]

14 minutes ago, impulse said:

Anyone else feeling the disconnect between the 200 kph stories and all the Thai bashing that goes on for the very same kind of thing?

 

For my sake, it was less cars on road, and the standard on the roads had a bit higher quality. Not so many surprises on roads you knew bether than your pockets, and we had proper training and sertification system. In Thailand you can expect everything and anything going to happen in the next few seconds. Caotic is the best describing word for the traffic picture down here. 

[transam]

1 minute ago, impulse said:

 

And that's kind of my point.  We weren't intellectually or morally superior to the Thais that are always being bashed here.  We just lived under a system that was rigged to reward safer behavior.  Or rather, nip unsafe behavior in the bud, hopefully before the tragedy.  Though I did lose several friends in high school to high speed auto accidents.

 

 

I don't bash Thai kids for being kids because I was a rascal on two or four wheels, it's what kids do...Well rascals do...

 

But even being a rascal I did use a bit of common sense, never had an accident on two wheels, oh, l did when l was 14, my first ride on a scooter, broke my arm...

[impulse]

20 minutes ago, transam said:

I don't bash Thai kids for being kids because I was a rascal on two or four wheels, it's what kids do...Well rascals do...

 

But even being a rascal I did use a bit of common sense, never had an accident on two wheels, oh, l did when l was 14, my first ride on a scooter, broke my arm...

 

First time I ever took a scooter out, my buddy Dave Murray foolishly let me take his much loved Honda 350 for a spin.  I dumped the clutch and the bike returned the favor.  Turns out that even the 350 had more power than the mini-bikes we grew up with.

 

I'd have to say that was my most exciting scooter ride.  But not in a good way...

 

Edited April 12, 2018 by impulse

[sandrabbit]

I had a Honda VTR1000 SP1 which Colin Edwards won the world superbikes championship twice with. Hand Made beautiful bike and I bought the last new one for sale in the UK at a cheap price. Bit of a handful on the road, the throttle was a bit sensitive in 1st gear and so much so that you needed both hands on the handlebars in in case you hit a bump. It could pull 90mph in 1st so was pretty fast from a standstill if you could stop the back wheel from wanting to overtake the front wheel but horrendous fuel consumption with a small fuel tank, riding sensibly the warning light would come on at 110 miles and using the performance it would come on at 80 miles or lower. Problem is bikes like these are licence killers, quite often on the m4 I would gently open the throttle in 6th gear to get past traffic to look down at the speedo and it would show 130mph with the bike so stable you didn't notice you were going that fast.

 

 

[themerg]

If I rode bent over on a café racer, I would walk bent over for an hour.1984 Honda V65 Sabre 1100 cc, 122 hp, shaft-drive, hydraulic clutch, V-4, liquid cooled. Quite a lot of hp in 1984. I had it up to 145 mph, 234 kmh. The bike had more to go. I didn't have anymore left in me. My stomach felt like it was 1 foot, .33 meters behind me, not nauseous, but very uncomfortably in a muscular, skeletal way. I am a sit up straight rider, not a café racer type. If I rode bent over on a café racer, I would walk that way for an hour. That bike was a crotch rocket.

Edited April 12, 2018 by themerg
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[ebonykap]

1976 and I split up with my gf so, feeling depressed, walked into a bike shop and rode out on a Honda 750cc (K6 if I remember correctly). Loved that bike; dragging off show offs in their souped up Torana XU1's at the traffic lights with ease.

It took me 4 years to pay the bike off on outlandish hire purchase. The month after my last payment, someone stole it from my carport. THAT was a very sad day 

[sammieuk1]

35 minutes ago, impulse said:

Anyone else feeling the disconnect between the 200 kph stories and all the Thai bashing that goes on for the very same kind of thing?

 

Your correct policing and social media did for the 200kph stories in the west unfortunately not here crashing seams not to hurt. 

[Beats56]

6 hours ago, 55Jay said:

Suzuki GS1100 when I was 14~15 years old.  It weighed more than I did. By a lot.                                                                                                                                60 mph in 1st gear, tears flowing out of my eyes, I managed to get this beautiful beast turned around and back to where I started.  Haven't ridden anything that powerful since.  Just not interested.  But.  No doubt. THAT was the most exciting, and petrifying, motorcycle ride I've ever taken.

I had one too the GS1100EX. It was Damm Fast.  use to take it to a drag strip. Very nice bike with the most comfortable seat of any bike

 

[impulse]

5 minutes ago, ebonykap said:

The month after my last payment, someone stole it from my carport. THAT was a very sad day 

 

As much as something like that sucks, I generally get some solace by figuring that it was a kindness from the Universe, saving me from the fiery crash that I was going to have in the near future.

[Hummin]

20 minutes ago, themerg said:

 

A classic beauty! 

Edited April 12, 2018 by Hummin

[colinneil]

Most exciting motorbike i have ever ridden.........Honda wave.