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Uncle Joe
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 Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 8:37 am Post subject: Future Classics |
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I wonder which of todays bikes will become future classics?
For me, one stands out above all others, the Ducati 916. Any other entrants?
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Old-Nail
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 9:50 am Post subject: |
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| For me the Harley V-rod, virtually any Ducati, Moto-Guzzi Griso, and perhap's BMW's oddly styled cruisers. |
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welder
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 10:53 pm Post subject: Re: Future Classics |
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| Uncle Joe wrote: | I wonder which of todays bikes will become future classics?
For me, one stands out above all others, the Ducati 916. Any other entrants?
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Fully agree about the 916.....still achingly gorgeous! I rode one once and it was so minimalist my eyes were on a level with the front wheel spindle. I rode it down the runway at RAF Alconbury........it's several miles long, having been designed for use by VERY large military aircraft....got a bollocking from the MP's. Oh well!
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welder
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 12:27 am Post subject: |
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Kawasaki GPz 900R, the first of the superbikes. The year they were introduced they came 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th on the Island in the production class. I had one, a 1985 model, gave it to number 1 son when I bought the Fireblade.....went for a "spin" together......couldn't lose it....bugger!
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Uncle Joe
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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welder, have you forgotten the forerunners of the Gpz, the Z1, Z900, and Z1000? Surely they were superbikes also?
Most people reckon the CB750 as the first superbike though....(not me!!!) 
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welder
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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All of them qualify, without doubt. As regards the Honda I was certainly a fan.
In the summer of 1970 I was hitch hiking to the Cote d'Azure to meet up with some hippy pals and got dropped on the outskirts of a village overlooking the Med, in the back of beyond. It was around 6-00am and I was sitting at the start of a series of bends, nothing much moving, chilling and enjoying the glorious weather and surroundings. I heard a muted howling noise approaching from my left, that's going a bit I thought...soon a red 4 cylinder bike flew by, expertly ridden through the bends. I didn't recognise the bike...4 cylinders? Shortly I heard it returning and stood in the road for a better view, the rider saw me and pulled up beside me, grinning, and I got my first look at a Honda CB750 and it was a thing of beauty. He'd owned it for 4 days and was madly in love with it... 4 cylinders, overhead camshafts, 4 megaphone style pipes, metallic red, chrome and laquered ally finish....I'd never seen anything like this, unless Hailwood was racing it!
That was one of the images I shall always carry......even though he didn't offer me a lift!
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Uncle Joe
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 8:57 am Post subject: |
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At the speed Mike rode, you very rarely saw one then either! 
The first bike race I ever saw was the 1965 Senior, which he won of course......in appalling conditions...
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