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Post by Harold on Sept 14, 2017 12:15:13 GMT
I don't see it as a competition between old and new, the truth is it is down to personal taste, beauty in the eye of the beholder and all that. I can see the good in pretty much any bike and I think the CBR600 is a modern classic, I've owned 3 of them and to me the 2001 CBR600F has to be one of the best all round motorcycles ever made. But the truth is modern motorcycles are an engineering wonder, the technology in them would have been unimagineable a few years ago but will old guys like us be able to pull them apart and rebuild them in a shed in 40 years, probably not without a suite of computers to help. The beauty of the Superdream and bikes of that era were they were and are simple but effective motorcycles which done the job they were designed to do very well, now bikes are very much more complicated but they still do the job they were designed to do very well and if you can't find a modern motorcycle you like you aren't looking hard enough or perhaps your rose tinted glasses are obstructing your view a little. Let the debate begin  |
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Post by Somersetdreamer on Sept 14, 2017 16:51:46 GMT
I just like most bikes & won't slate any off two wheels better than 4 The difference between my fireblade & my Superdream is massive but they both give me something I don't want to lose --FREEDOM-- |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2017 17:47:03 GMT
Agree it's a debate about personal taste - of course - and we are all different.
Don't you miss something with old bikes as well though - following one and smelling it. Seems odd now that you don't smell any fumes from a modern bike. It's great for our lungs and our kids and the planet etc........but it's still odd, nonetheless.
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Post by bodie on Sept 14, 2017 18:28:16 GMT
you are write about the smell Nick even though my garage has a 32 year old capri and 20 year old fireblade init the smell has changed with the addition of my SD going back to Rich's mates Triumph if you changed the sticker to say Yamaha most people would not know the differance!yet back when I was at school if someone had put say a Yamaha rd 250 sticker on a SD I would have known it was wrong that what I mean when I say they look the same ! |
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Post by bodie on Sept 14, 2017 19:34:44 GMT
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Post by ian on Sept 14, 2017 20:17:10 GMT
Or front room!  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2017 20:44:10 GMT
castrol R oh im in heaven
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Post by stevie on Sept 14, 2017 20:51:13 GMT
You cant beat the smell of 2stroke; takes me right back to 1976 when i was 13 wishing i was 16 and getting a fizzy.
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Post by bodie on Sept 14, 2017 20:57:00 GMT
castrol R oh im in heaven in classic week me and paul stayed behind two rd 400's for a few miles on the coast rd just to ride along with our visors up and breathing in more than we needed to!  |
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Post by bodie on Sept 14, 2017 20:57:40 GMT
Or front room! well it is in Italy |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2017 20:58:41 GMT
in heaven again i can smell it
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2017 21:00:18 GMT
only experience ive had with fizzy is coke cola
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Post by bodie on Sept 14, 2017 21:02:09 GMT
You cant beat the smell of 2stroke; takes me right back to 1976 when i was 13 wishing i was 16 and getting a fizzy. if you had put your fizzy in a carcoon you could get 6 grand for it now  there is a resto one in a garage I deliver the mail to its blue but its got no pedals , don't know if that's correct or not , will take photo of it 2mora |
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Post by stevie on Sept 15, 2017 7:28:08 GMT
Yep bodie, if only we had known.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2017 8:24:35 GMT
Never went the two stroke way except for a Puch Maxi - but agree, the smell of two stroke is even more hedonistic than the smell of four stroke.
What I love the most about all these older bikes is returning to the garage after a ride - say around an hour afterwards. This is when all the smells come together after they have heated then cooled in an enclosed environment. Polished alloy, chrome, oil, rubber, vinyl to name just a few. Beautiful.
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there is a resto one in a garage I deliver the mail to its blue but its got no pedals , don't know if that's correct or not , will take photo of it 2mora