bike at menwith hill

Hi everyone, this is my other hobby & my true passion, the photo is not technicaly good,but just thought i would share as i know one or two people on here have bikes. the bike is a bmw r75/6 1975, in the background is menwith hill which is a american air base in the uk [see the balls]. it usually has a few campaigners from green piece outside who i think live in tents etc brrrr in winter. any other bikes?. steve

... Cool Bimmer !!!

Love the sound of those.

Here's mine. Not a big one but goes well and has impeccable road manners.

Been the star of a couple of posts here already !

Cheers.



And another couple you may enjoy.





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Rgds, Dave.
Have fun - take lotsa pix.

http://eyemindsoul.blogspot.com/

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Thats my toy ..ZX1400. Brocks full system pipe, PC111+ignition module, Wilber shocks, Muzzy Velocity Stacks, K&N High flow air cleaner, plus a zillion other aftermarket goodies too long a list to give. Way too fast and way way way too fun.
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now these "things " I really really do not get. Seems you have to be somewhat overwieght to ride em ..and you actually enjoy puttsing along with all the force a 65 hp nioisey V twin can push 6-800 lbs of steel. They turn poorly, stop poorly, accelerate poorly, look lumberous and are. Yet people love this kind of dynosaur design. In fact for many a bike is not a bike unles it looks like or better is a Hardly ..er Harely. Oh well to each their own ..just pleeeese stay outah my way !!LOL









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Scott, Dave, Painter, great pictures!

Sorry, couldn't resist, but this is mine :

hi painterdude thanks for reply, i know what you meen about the "other type of bike" but everyone to there own, i like the look of your ROCKET but them days have gone [old git] for me, now its- slow rattley & chug chug, & the bikes no better, having said that if i had the cash i would have , a rocket, a cruiser, a dirt bike, in fact a different bike for everyday, steve

Hi Dave, yes saw your bike in a earlier thread, hence why i showed mine. really like the other old beemer, not yours?. i really like the old uns [like me], like the look of yours which would be a bit more sensible for me!, but i have had beemers for 40 + years so a bit late to change i think. thanks for the reply. steve

Hi aig, yes your bike looks about as fast as mine on a good day, thanks for the laugh. steve

saw this shot once before and it still is a great one!!
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pd, thanks!

It's one of my early HS10 shots which I think shows how good it is at capturing light and colour

Haha reminds me of this German superhero Wastel on his flying bike could not get any more daggy

... Never owned a Bimmer.

Had a Trumpy way back when I was a teenager. Sprung hub Tiger. In those days it wasn't about comfort or roadability, it was about speed, and noise !!

Every part which used to fall off, was made to the most exacting standards

Other than a DKW and a CZ, both motocrossers, all my other bikes have been from the land of the rising sun.

Cheers.
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Have fun - take lotsa pix.

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I had a 600 BMW some years ago, wish I still had it.
Here's mine! It's not very fast but makes a good job cutting grass! =D
Feel free to check for noise (HS10)(SOC).......





Mick...

ukmick said:

I had a 600 BMW some years ago, wish I still had it.
Here's mine! It's not very fast but makes a good job cutting grass! =D
Feel free to check for noise (HS10)(SOC).......

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Prefer a strimmer myself - better at taking tight bends
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Del

No picture but years ago I had a 450 Honda.. had some great times cruising around.

My first post on this site (been lurking for a-a-ges) and it's about bikes...

Kind of appropriate really.

My first bike was a little Honda Varadero 125 which was great - it took me across Ireland on a week-long tour. Here it is pictured on a back-road in County Clare (west coast).





My current bike is along similar lines - just bigger - a Honda Transalp 700. Here shown lurking on the Mynydd Eppynt in South Wales.





Quite often I'll put my s9600 in my Camelbak rucsack and take off for a day's riding out into Wales. Some magnificent roads and beautiful countryside over that way.

Ride safely and keep it shiny side up.

Michael

looks like a great go anywhere bike ...It should be the kind of bike I ride...but having tasted the power drug I probably never will.

I was talking to a guy recently on a windy road going through the mountains ..He told me an 83 year old guy checked in at a gas station he was at on the route ...The old guy was riding a 09 yamaha 1000cc land rocket and lovin it through the twisties.
Its a life long addiction I'm thinkin!

ps ..your bike bears more than a striking resemblance to the KTM Adventure series..I had a 640KTM Adventure as my cross country bike ..but alas it was a dog and I got rid of it .

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... Welcome to FTF.

Nice bikes.

Love the road through the Brecon Beacons. Now, that would be fun on a bike.

Cheers.
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Have fun - take lotsa pix.

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Hi Dave,
Thanks for the welcome.

I've been enjoying your posts and your photos on the forum for some while now. You show people just what can be done using Fuji's higher-end bridge cameras and a good photographic eye.

The roads through the Brecons are good - though there are loads in the area which are equally amazing - some fairly wide and sweeping where you can get up to "Ahem..." speeds, down to windy little lanes with grass growing up the middle and sheep running out across them, and you're tootling along at 18 mph in first gear. The Transalp excels at tackling all kinds of roads and road conditions with aplomb. BTW the CBR150 of yours looks pretty sweet - there's a few CBR125's round here, but sadly they tend to be trashed by kids who are mainly filling in time until they're able to drive some raggy little hot-hatch with a loud exhaust.

I shoot quite a bit with my Panasonic GH1, but I don't like to take it on the bike somehow, so the s9600 goes into my rucsack quite nicely, and I feel (though have no proof of this) that it's probably less troubled by general shocks and vibration than the Mega-OIS 14-140 lens on the GH1. I generally shoot in RAW and process through Lightroom. Mostly, I find the image quality pretty convincing, a bit noisier and more CA than the GH1, but it still produces images which will produce pretty fine A3 size prints - when shooting at 80 ISO. If I was going on a motorbike tour, I'd probably take the Fuji in preferance to the Panasonic - it's a good all-rounder. I've used it to produce photos for publication without any issues. Like any tool, it's about understanding how it performs.

The Fuji also holds a special place in my heart as the first digital camera I had which made me to feel as inspired and as creative as my old Pentax LX. My partner also bought it for me as a birthday present a few years ago.