May I see what you ride?? [IMG]

I was waiting for you to chime in...and yes, I couldn't have said it better myself. The new Bonnies still have a few issues here and there, but none nearly as serious as the "classics".
I've thought about buying something like that, as a second bike (third?), more than once. Or maybe something like a "modern" Enfield Bullet, that actually DOES have the old bugs ;)
I've seen that first shot before, she looks really mean, doesn't she?? Thanks so much for sharing! :-)
She's a sweet bike, for a little 650 twin. She's got problems of her own also though. The luggage was the first addition, for convenience while commuting. I tried to add a windscreen but the one I purchased didn't fit, despite the supplier stating that it was specifically for my model and year of bike. I'll be manufacturing a set of brackets for it, myself. The stock handlebars had an awkward bend to them, that put strain on my wrists, so I swapped them out for a set of straighter and flatter, braced motocross bars. I'll likely add a set of motocross brush guards also, to protect my hands from the Fall cold. I've also ordered a custom Hyperpro shock for the bike and am considering swapping the fork internals for a sealed unit from Bitubo in Italy, because the stock suspension isn't anywhere near what I came to expect from the custom Race-Tech/Penske setup on my previous bike.

By the time that I'm done, I'll have spent 50% of the original cost of the bike on suspension components alone. Motorcycles: The only hobby more expensive than photography.
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This Man Lion's City LL is one of them. :D



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for me it´s no longer ride but rode; after about half a million kilometers on bikes my silly back prefers sitting in a boring but comfortable and warm French car now.

And being German it is probably an easy guess what I used to ride, BMW. From the one cylinder R27 (with a Steib sidecar during the winter months) via the R50/5, the R90/6, the R100, the R100RT to the K100 (2x) and the K100RT (2x).

Too bad I am not sure where I put the box with all the old Canon AE-1 prints; so far the only ones I have scanned a long time ago are of my first 4-cylinder K100 in 1983 or 84. Was one of the very first ones, frame number 00001618, bought it as a demo from BMW Darmstadt. It was a real sensation in those days when BMW, after 60 years of flat twin engines, presented their newest model with a 4-cylinder engine! Cops and customs stopped me a couple times that year, not to check my papers but to have a closer look at the bike, lol!

Was very sceptical at first, but soon I knew that almost everything about the 4-cylinder was a lot better than what I had before with the flat twins, except the sound! Was just that ordinary Japanese 4-cylinder sound now, very much like the Yamaha XJ 900, close to a sewing machine, grr!

Here are three scans of that first naked K100, prints were not very good anymore. Second one: It took me about a week, but in the end those 8 lines were hand polished and shiny! BMW Darmstadt liked it so much that they asked me twice to do it once more on two of their bikes.







Raj, what I really would like to hear is a soundfile of your Triumph and of Jim´s beautiful Norton!! Real classics! Both were not very common here in Germany, it was mainly US GIs who rode these oil dripping British Ladies over here in the 60s and 70s; BSA, Triumph and Norton. Some of these 2-cylinders were more vibrators than motorbikes, lol!

René
 
...instead of me sharing a pic of my beater, I just offer you a trade....my 150mm f2 for your bike.

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I'm late to the party but had trouble uploading these for some reason.

The first pic is my Yamaha Vino 125. The second is my electric bike, an A2B. It's hard to say which of these is more fun to ride.









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Raj, what I really would like to hear is a soundfile of your Triumph and of Jim´s beautiful Norton!! Real classics! Both were not very common here in Germany, it was mainly US GIs who rode these oil dripping British Ladies over here in the 60s and 70s; BSA, Triumph and Norton. Some of these 2-cylinders were more vibrators than motorbikes, lol!
rene, that's quite a story and just gorgeous pictures of a lovely ride! The only BMW I've ridden is a single cylinder F650 with a Rotax engine, maybe not the quintessential BMW experience but that's about all I've been able to get my hands on. Needless to say they are wonderful machines!

I'll out up a video very soon, but in the meantime here's a sound-byte from my 1985 Yamaha RD350 twin right after I restored her.

Here's that post: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1022&message=36626349

And here's the sound-clip: http://justyamahard350.com/myRD350.wma

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