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Post by peakdreamer on Aug 14, 2018 8:37:00 GMT
The good,RIDE magazine has just included the 250n in its list of iconic motorcycles.
The bad is they then go on to carry out a (typical) character assassination of the bike.
I certainty do not think I look at my 250 through rose coloured specs but their descrption, really...
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Post by terryc on Aug 14, 2018 10:43:14 GMT
The worlds full of arseholes Peaky and most of them are journalists
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Post by buster on Aug 14, 2018 15:05:00 GMT
half the problem with journalists is back in the day they were given a bike with a full tank of juice and off they went and spent a couple of days riding round at someone elses expense, nice work if you can get it. but here in the real world its people like us who bought the bikes and lived with them day in and day out and the truth is the superdream is a good looking bike it draws interest wherever you go on one (especially these days, when modern bikes look like they do) and my personal experiences of them showed them to be very reliable. are all these modern rocketships going to be failing their mot’s 10 years from now because the engine management lights on? or the abs hasnt been properly maintained or the traction controls packed up or, well I could go on but I’ll just be happy when my dreams up and running and riding...
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Post by stevie on Aug 14, 2018 15:37:19 GMT
Mine is 37 years old gets used 5 days a week to and from work for the last 6 years, what is to slate about that.
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Post by bodie on Aug 14, 2018 18:59:27 GMT
probably a fella not reached 30 yet and has never been on one or even seen one and I bet he dosnt know back in the day a fella averaged nearly 100 mph in an F3 race in the IOM on a 400 SD  |
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Post by av70 on Aug 14, 2018 22:46:20 GMT
Why not reply to the article and tell them what a pile of $hit it is???
If you have an axe to grind....grind it!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 3:22:43 GMT
half the problem with journalists is back in the day they were given a bike with a full tank of juice and off they went and spent a couple of days riding round at someone elses expense, nice work if you can get it. but here in the real world its people like us who bought the bikes and lived with them day in and day out and the truth is the superdream is a good looking bike it draws interest wherever you go on one (especially these days, when modern bikes look like they do) and my personal experiences of them showed them to be very reliable. are all these modern rocketships going to be failing their mot’s 10 years from now because the engine management lights on? or the abs hasnt been properly maintained or the traction controls packed up or, well I could go on but I’ll just be happy when my dreams up and running and riding... Great post..... |
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Post by davefirestorm on Aug 15, 2018 6:42:04 GMT
I haven’t read the article ( I stopped reading Bike mags years ago  ) but if you look back to “the day” and look at what the Superdream was up against ie two strokes it will lose I’m afraid.Compared to the competitions four stroke equivalents though and both of the Superdreams win hands down,not many of the journos Do this though.Look at the big advantage to this ie we don’t pay silly exaggerated money for an “icon” |
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Post by JonnyHonda on Aug 15, 2018 8:21:25 GMT
I'm the same, I read an old article on the K100 (yes, I know I keep baning on about the Ks) and it was slagged off for being "Predicable and Linier" in performance, and now it's the queen of the custom cafe racer scene,
Journos of that era were all "Clarkson-esk", it was all grunt, power, performance. My Old SD back in the day, took me to and from work 25mile each way, every day regardless of the weather for 3 years. My 350lc a little later tried to kill me on several occaions
Fads and fashion, horses for courses I ride what I like.
BTW, have you seen what a pristine LC is fetching? Probably because most of them are in the bottom of ditches or blown up in a garage somewhere.
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Post by davefirestorm on Aug 15, 2018 9:39:58 GMT
Precisely and long may it stay that way regarding prices,these so called icons are bought mainly by speculators looking to make a few quid,Vincents,Broughs,Goldstars etc.etc. Superdreams are affordable For now anyway |
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Post by kickstart on Aug 15, 2018 20:40:04 GMT
I,ve been riding superdream on and off from being 18 back in the early 80,s , summer would come along and I,d want a bike, the superdream looked great to me , you,d get the free local advertiser and there would be a few for sale almost every week close to home , I,d buy them , use them and sell when the weather turned cooler to get my money back, my bike cost peanuts nearly nine years ago , gets used most days 8 months of the year , brilliant , how could I slate that 😀😀
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Post by kickstart on Aug 15, 2018 20:44:06 GMT
To add to the above a few weeks back bumped into some old mates and the conversation got back to us riding our bikes , I told them I,d still got a superdream and that I was still enjoying bikes some 35 years on , they now both want a bike 😀😀
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Post by marktrower on Aug 16, 2018 10:16:12 GMT
So you read some bad comments about your bike probably by someone harth are age my son road mine a while back and was not overly impressed I let him ride the A10 back home from the local bike night last week his eyes were everywhere bar the road,soon pulled over wanting to get on his bike mumbling under his breath how do you ride that thing it's f*****g .Dangerous no wunder they went bust.so the wet dreams have a image so what lots of people say they are s**t mainly by persons no nothing about them I was one.
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Post by stevie on Aug 16, 2018 11:03:04 GMT
When i was 17 i had an RD350b, if i am being honest superdreams in my hooligan eyes were s..t nearly 40 years on how very wrong i was.
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Post by bodie on Aug 16, 2018 17:57:11 GMT
Stevie just imagine how much more of a hooligan you could of been on a 400 SD with 4/5 more hp  |
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) but if you look back to “the day” and look at what the Superdream was up against ie two strokes it will lose I’m afraid.Compared to the competitions four stroke equivalents though and both of the Superdreams win hands down,not many of the journos Do this though.Look at the big advantage to this ie we don’t pay silly exaggerated money for an “icon” 
