more bike porn

[DILLIGAD]

As long as we don't get some numpty sticking his CB500X with adventure farkles in, or a Honda 300 Rebel with bad chopper bling, i'm all for it.
This topic has been quite refreshing and enjoying for TV, very little dross.
Now just waiting for the annoyed & upset Phantom owner to stick a pic in of his beloved custom Hog, replete with tassles on the handlebars and studded PVC leather lookalike saddlebags...............
************
More triples - the fantastic post industrial nuclear retro heritage LC350, sorry,
magnificent Yamaha XSR900;
 

 
 

Snob!!! HaHa!
I bloody like that Yammy!!!! Reminds me of my RD400.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[DILLIGAD]

This thing was rare and used to fly. No sub liter Jap could keep up with it especially on twisties & roundabouts! Lots of carbon panels too. Was owned by BIL.

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[Justgrazing]

29 minutes ago, DILLIGAD said:

Snob!!! HaHa!
I bloody like that Yammy!!!! Reminds me of my RD400.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Haha yea I remember the RD400 in that colour .. And no mistake a quick bike for the time .. 

[Justgrazing]

24 minutes ago, DILLIGAD said:

This thing was rare and used to fly. No sub liter Jap could keep up with it especially on twisties & roundabouts! Lots of carbon panels too. Was owned by BIL.

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

Nice bike those Lav's .. suffered from some dodgy electrics but that aside they were something a bit different .. And in the dark green they looked quite cool .. 

[Justgrazing]

" just popping down the shops dear , won't be long " 

 

When not even 2 engines are enough .. The late Russ Collins aboard his 1970's 3 Honda engine powered dragbike A T & S f .. Bit of a reach to the bars there mate .. 

Edited August 22, 2018 by Justgrazing
Sp

[thaiguzzi]

3 hours ago, DILLIGAD said:

I bloody like that Yammy!!!! Reminds me of my RD400.

Yeah I do too (ex Rd 350 AND RD 400 owner).

429k cash for a new one, plus Motodemic headlight plus Dart flyscreen plus Graves exhaust system, ECU flash and air filter, plus Yamaha Genuine accessories (Tm) alloy rear seat cowl...…..

Oh and you can't get the 60th anniversary Yellow Speed block paint job anymore, so add the paint job in to the price...

FYI, the bike has a Monster 696/796/1100 type tank. A plastic tank with removable (in this case proper aluminium) panels unlike the Ducati with removable PLASTIC panels.

[thaiguzzi]

6 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

There you go Guzz' a part British triple with a front drum

Yeah, brilliant innit? Lets be honest, the Laverda triple was the greatest thing since sliced bread at the time, and nobody has ever made a better air cooled 3 cylinder m/c engine.

6 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

ahaha numpty CB500 hahaha .. Wow the Yamaha looks cool in that colour scheme .. I ain't seen many of those XSR's about , I'll have to read up on 'em abit ..

I have spent hours & hours on You Tube and the net reading up about them, watching road tests, listening to different ex systems. Critics & journos rave about them. This 850 triple from Yamaha is often said to be the best road engine out there.

I really need to have a test ride on one. I think I want, nay need one. It's smaller brother the XSR700 gets rave reviews too.

359k for a S/H one with a full $1100 Akra system at a BKK dealers. 429k new.

47 years riding legal (& illegal) road bikes and working on them.

I have never owned a water cooled motorcycle, nor worked inside a water cooled engine.

Maybe it's time to get with the times (Luddite)....

[thaiguzzi]

3 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

No Italian tie-up and a front drummer .. 

The ultimate Triton.

Proper T150 power, no girlie gayboy T160 thumbstart. Barrels look like a big bore 850 kit.

Black wheel hubs and brake plates are MAGNESIUM.

Beautiful.

[Justgrazing]

3 hours ago, thaiguzzi said:

This 850 triple from Yamaha is often said to be the best road engine out there.

Ironwoods take on the XSR .. Dont know who makes the over and under 'zorst but the subdued paintjob is an alternative to the yellow & black ..

 

Would come as no surprise if the engine is one of the finest out there .. Honda get a lot of plaudits for their engine innovation and design but some of Yamaha's achievements are worthy of praise also .. Audi consulted with Yamaha when designing 5 valve head's for their 4cyl range of engines as Yamaha had done it back in the 80's .. Yamaha designed and built the V10 in the Lexus LF along with working with Volvo , Toyota on various other projects .. They also built their own design F1 engines in the 90's which was quite powerful .. when it wasn't blowing up but hey F1 engines were supremely fragile back then striving for power by rev's so blow up's were part expected .. And from what I've read the XSR 9's younger bro' is quite a good machine also .. 

[thaiguzzi]

14 hours ago, thaiguzzi said:

47 years riding legal (& illegal) road bikes and working on them.

Edit. 41 years.

Otherwise i'd be even older than I already am. ?

 

*****************************

 

Big, black  and beautiful Norton twin chop (or bobber in Hipster speak);

 

Edited August 23, 2018 by thaiguzzi

[Justgrazing]

2 hours ago, thaiguzzi said:

Edit. 41 years.

Otherwise i'd be even older than I already am. ?

 

*****************************

 

Big, black  and beautiful Norton twin chop (or bobber in Hipster speak);

 

Hahaha hipster speak .. Yea everything is bobbed nowadays .. Norton is cute .. Who's it by .? Sticking with it here's a crossover you don't see too often .. Norton JAP's .. 

 

Edited August 23, 2018 by Justgrazing
Sp

[Justgrazing]

Bit of an eclectic mix guys .. The black bike was I believe built by the same guy who made the 48 cyl Kawa put up earlier in the thread and has an engine made out of the 2 front cylinders of a R R Merlin Spitfire lump hence the capacity of nearly 5.0 ltrs .. This machine was about in the late 80's but only recently have I found photos of it again .. The double CBX is I believe American .. Love the exhaust set up .. The " Nordian " is not a crossover I've seen before as old Indians are fairly thin in the ground but different none the less ..

Edited August 23, 2018 by Justgrazing
Sp

[Justgrazing]

Possibly the looniest of the lot .. MTT's 420RR .. Not a looker by any stretch of the imagination ( reminds me of a sperm whale from the front ) but as a road bike engineering exercise it will take some bettering .. And not many bikes can say they've got a Rolls Royce lump in 'em ( apart from the one above ) .. A-merican chat show host Jay Leno has the earlier version and recalled in an interview how his bike melted the front bumper of a car that pulled up too close behind him at a set of lights .. Way to go .. Vid's on you know who tube if any of you fella's want to see more .. Oh and checkout the redline .. 

Edited August 23, 2018 by Justgrazing
Sp

[thaiguzzi]

Let's go a bit left field..................  a motocrosser.

Slightly, just a bit modified Yamaha YZ450...........

Just imagine, how ridiculously fast this thing is.

 

[Justgrazing]

1 minute ago, thaiguzzi said:

Let's go a bit left field..................  a motocrosser.

Slightly, just a bit modified Yamaha YZ450...........

Just imagine, how ridiculously fast this thing is.

 

That is cute , that is cute as hell ..?

[Damrongsak]

Couple clean ones ...

 

 

[Justgrazing]

70's oddball's .? Suzuki's hugely complicated RE5 rotary complete with super cool 6 warning light instrument pod and DKW's much simpler take on the same idea .. A far easier to maintain and more fun bike to ride ..

[Justgrazing]

Yamaha's take on the rotary that never went into production ..

[DILLIGAD]

70's oddball's .? Suzuki's hugely complicated RE5 rotary complete with super cool 6 warning light instrument pod and DKW's much simpler take on the same idea .. A far easier to maintain and more fun bike to ride ..

Never liked that instrument cluster on the RE5. Looked like a Thermos flask!!!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[KhruGin]

My bit of bike porn, with one proper porn pic for those who like porn.

 

1st up, my baby Harris Magnum 1, with a Z900 motor out to 984cc and all the tricks inside. 1985. My hair is shorter now lol.

 

Next up, okay bog standard and brand new. GSXR1100G and one of the first 250 imported into the UK. Revolutionary for its time in February 1986 and 160 mph from a stock bike for its time was impressive. Great bike it was to ride.

 

Number 3, well 2 of them, Z1000 H1, fuel injected zeds. One 100% stock and was a few bob to buy in 1990 10 years old. The other small mods and a great run around. 

 

Finally, the porn and sadly my mates bike not mine. Harris Magnum 3 with GSX1100 motor out to 1200 odd cc with a turbo too .... boy that thing was mofo-ing fast. Used to leave me on the straights chasing him on the gixer. (1987). Oh the lady is rather nice too.

 

Happy Sunday, Cheers KhruGin. Nice thread BTW.

Edited August 26, 2018 by KhruGin

[thaiguzzi]

21 hours ago, DILLIGAD said:

Never liked that instrument cluster on the RE5. Looked like a Thermos flask!!!

You aint kidding!

Possibly the worst i've ever seen.

Jesus those two, especially the Suzuki (note metal flake paint job - so 70's) hit every branch of the ugly tree on the way down.

The Yamaha (being a Yamaha) is only slightly better. I would imagine that those Wankel engines are pretty lacking in the character dept too.

[thaiguzzi]

More Speed Triples;

modified/customized early 955's with nice paint jobs from my collection of downloaded Internet S3's...

 An Italian BRG (British Racing Green) and an American lovely blue specimen.

Both with racing stripes.

Want one.

 

Edited August 26, 2018 by thaiguzzi

[DILLIGAD]

You aint kidding!
Possibly the worst i've ever seen.
Jesus those two, especially the Suzuki (note metal flake paint job - so 70's) hit every branch of the ugly tree on the way down.
The Yamaha (being a Yamaha) is only slightly better. I would imagine that those Wankel engines are pretty lacking in the character dept too.

My neighborback in Salf Londonistan used to ride a rotary Norton for the City Police Force. The rev counter had 2 sweeps, the first one between 0 - x,xxx, then it went back to 0 - xx,xxx again!!!!!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[richard_smith237]

 

[Justgrazing]

23 minutes ago, thaiguzzi said:

You aint kidding!

Possibly the worst i've ever seen.

Jesus those two, especially the Suzuki (note metal flake paint job - so 70's) hit every branch of the ugly tree on the way down.

The Yamaha (being a Yamaha) is only slightly better. I would imagine that those Wankel engines are pretty lacking in the character dept too.

Yea sure the Suzook was ungainly if we're honest but the rotary concept was something they all looked ( not only bikes a lot of car manufacturers did the same ) but only Suzy and Yam' pursued it with Yam getting cold feet eventually about production .. Even Suzuki weren't exactly sure what it was when you remember the RE5 was sold right alongside their own GT750 a far better bike of the two .. The concept itself is not without its advantages and Mazda , chief Rotary cheerleaders haven't let the idea die but it was Suzook's way too complicated take on it that guaranteed it's failure when  compared to how it could be done which is where the DKW came in as the comparison .. though a looker that was not but being German whadya expect .. And Norton also had a dalliance with the idea that convinced Plod amongst others to operate some and not forgetting Steve Hislop's epic '92 Senior TT win on the Norton 588 Rotary .. The marmite instrument pod .? personally I think they're cool and along with the bikes thereselves now fetch a small fortune if you can find one .. 

[DJ54]

You guys should be ashamed for causing such heartache on a Sunday morning! Awesome bikes! #missthebikes

 

About five years ago my son on his 71 BMW R75 and I’m on Roadking 

took a rideout to Temecula wineries (40+) with rolling hills and great 

ride. We didn’t go for the wineries this time but have many times prior. 

 

Rode through the area where wineries are located all the way to where wineries end. Not made it that far prior due to many tasting stops. 

 

We saw an older bike sitting out front of the last winery and decided to check it out...it was a great find and made the day even better. The winery is about 60 mikes out of Los Angeles.

 

If you’re ever in Southern California it’s worth the trip. Link below 

Are pictures of bikes at The winery. 

 

http://motodoffo.com/collection/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[DJ54]

[mogandave]

I’ll have to swing by there next time I visit my sister in Riverside

[thaiguzzi]

Proper engines;

And a water cooled one ;

[Justgrazing]

Another Hageman minimalist take on Yam's XV/TR engine ..