Motorcycles (Page 3)

I have a 2007 Kawasaki Ninja 650R and love it. Red too, matches my tri bike. Which makes it a little confusing.

"Yeah, I'm going for a bike ride. No the red one. No, the other red one."

I think the connection is just the active, outdoor, adventurous lifestyle.  It's convergent demographics.  Kind of like there are probably a lot of people who both spend more than 10 hours per week playing video games and eat fast food more than 3 times per week.

BTW, I have a 2002 Sportster 1200.

Motorcycle rider/racer here - I do both tri racing and moto racing for the same reason, as a way to focus and escape the nomal and every day "me". 

First shot is fiancee and me (me in the lead!).  My race bike is an SV650 and my street bike is a Honda VTR1000 SuperHawk.  We do long distance vacation rides during the summer on our sport bikes as well as race.  We're cutting back a little on both this year due to our wedding in August and general economy cutbacks

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I prefer twins, too (no double meaning intended there... but geez, there's ANOTHER pun). 

WMRA?  I raced LRRS... poorly.

I need to send Pirate Girl to this thread... she kicks arse.  Oh, Stake, too.

Gee, none of us have ever heard about that.  Tell us, won't you?

Got it, Mom.

I'm just saying to have fun in your bubble.  Enjoy that filtered air.

You bring the crowns and heads of conquered kings to my city steps. You insult my queen. You threaten my people with slavery and death! Oh, I've chosen my words carefully, Persian. Perhaps you should have done the same!

  Kidding... Mom.

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Mine is vintage, like all my rides: 1075 Honda CB400F,  1982 Raleigh Grand Prix, 1978 Datsun 620 King Cab.

That's what got me into bicycling to start with.  Read an article about how much it could help you ride better/faster.  I've ended up riding my bicycle or running outside any day that it's nice now, so the motorcycle is currently sold/up for sale.

It was a fun 2.5 years and 22k miles of riding, though.  I'll miss it a bit when it's gone.  

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And this is my baby ....................

1075 was a good year for Honda.  Dude, when you say "vintage," you ain't playing around!

I'm in as well.  Bought this when the gas prices started climbing - 50 miles per gallon, and lots of thrills per mile.

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heres my contribution.  i love riding and here in Texas is just about year round.  matter of fact, i rode today.

Yup - WMRRA - and I know pirategirl from another moto forum!   she led me here as a matter of fact!

Sadly, my motorcycle days are long behind me. I had a 650 Honda Nighthawk before I had a car (or driver's license for that matter). That was followed by a limited edition Pearl White VFR700 Interceptor that my brother and I both went in on.

The last one I owned could hardly be considered a motorcycle, but it was a blast to zip around on - a Yamaha YSR50 - a tiny little 5 speed 50cc two stroke that would about 53mph topped out if I put my chin down on the tank to get below the fairing.  

The fastest bike I ever rode was my friend's V65 Sabre - what a monster.

Today I have to settle for convertables, but I certainly can't complain about that department.

Thanks Dave for the link to the thread. And I'm so glad to see LauraLynne addicted to tris too! He he. She did one and now is hooked and hanging out on the BT.

Motorcycles got me into tris. I roadraced motos for a few years, and wanted to get in better shape for that. So I decided to do a tri to help and got hooked on tris. Then we bought a fixxer upper house, so the roadracing funding has been derailed to the house and my hubby and I have been taking a break from the track. But we will go back in a few years when the house spending gets down to reasonable levels. I still have all the race stuff and gear. You know a racer has really quit when they sell the tire warmers, stands, etc.

Here's my first bike. We dug this '70 Hodaka Super Rat out of my parent's backyard and put it together enough to make it run and for me to learn to ride a motorcycle. I still have it and another '70 Hodaka Ace 100 awaiting restoration.

My first streetbike was a '72 Honda CL450 that I bought disassembled and in boxes from a guy for $100. He had started the restoration but wanted to work on a car instead. So my husband and I restored it and I learned to ride on the street with it. Later it became a vintage racer. I still have this one too.

My MZ Skorpion that I raced for many years. Love it, still have it.

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I raced an R6 for awhile. We actually sold this one. We do all the paint ourselves on the bikes, and this was my favorite. When we sold it we covered it in silver as I didn't want someone running around with my paint job.

I raced a Yamaha TZ250 for awhile, then gave it to my husband who still races it. I'm not a 2-stroke person.

Right now between my husband and I we have 13 motorcycles in the garage (about 8 are mine). We can't seem to get rid of any as they are cool and have sentimental value.

(ahem) I would like to claim a few cool points for sending Elaine the link to this thread.

13 bikes!!!  That is so awesome.  I thought I was cool when I had four.