What motor bikes have you owned

242GT · 2022-10-01T23:52:22+00:00

Had a few in the past , that was my last bike the XJR 1300 Started off on a DT50 then rd125 , rd250 rd350 , 750 ninja and a few pos in betw...

242GT

Yep Ducatis , great bike to own , had 1981 MHR with the Nissan electrics that would drop out suddenly, bot top heavy.

The new Dukes look amazing.

Wouldn't say no to the tri coloured 851 if I was in my 30's ?

Ex850R

242GT
Yep Ducatis , great bike to own , had 1981 MHR with the Nissan electrics that would drop out suddenly, bot top heavy.
The new Dukes look amazing.
Wouldn't say no to the tri coloured 851 if I was in my 30's ?

The Geelong Suzuki dealer also sold Ducati , had a MHR in the main window and a 750F1 Tri- Colour in the other window!

Clive740

Ex850R
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I see the GPZ 550 in silver!
I reckon we only got red ones here, it looks ace!
I rode one once , guy in bike shop said take it out while a tyre was going on my bike.
Good fun!

The black and silver bike is the 900R, my GPZ550 was red like most were, although there were a lot of black ones in the UK at the time.

AshDVS

Ex850R
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The Geelong Suzuki dealer also sold Ducati , had a MHR in the main window and a 750F1 Tri- Colour in the other window!

That would have been Pratt & Osborne back in the day, before Peter Stevens took over just about everything. Lol.

Ex850R

AshDVS
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That would have been Pratt & Osborne back in the day, before Peter Stevens took over just about everything. Lol.

Yep indeed , Yamaha dealer as well as the other guy out on Mercer street i forget now, reckon i bought my 350LC fro him , dont recall..

Donny Osborne raced TZ Yamaha at the time.

The Honda shop up the road from P&O shop the lad there raced too , he always played up going past the P&O shop , Honda VFR , once on back wheel up the hill through the lights , moccasins on , giving us the fingers in the shop window , EXCELLENT!!

nugget_940

76 dt100 yammy, 15 tc250 husky, 12 hyo gt650r, 20 ktm duke 390

Now I have none :(

nugget_940

VolvoMike
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My 1098S. Gorgeous thing to look at... a shit of a thing to ride for more than 30 minutes!!!
The new exhaust looks superb and you feel it... sounds unreal too.
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How do you find the Toce exhaust? Trying to locate some slip ons for a friends 848

VolvoMike

nugget_940
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How do you find the Toce exhaust? Trying to locate some slip ons for a friends 848

They're loud.... super loud. The termis may sound slightly better but the look of these are superb.

carnut1100

Wish I never sold it...

Wino

Suzuki TSR250

Honda CBF250

Honda CB400

Triumph Thruxton Ace

Harley Lowrider (FXLR)

currently only own the Thruxton.

should have 60,000km’s on it soon, bought in new in 2014

once I finish my ute (ages away) I’ll be building another Harley, but a cheaper one this time that I can drop. Probably a dyna of some description, I like the more svelte frame although the M8 motor shits all over the twin cam from a massive height

Spac

*TS200R

Wino

Oh. Yeah!

dfettell

Long list.

Started on the dirt and eventually raced Enduro for a few years:

RM 250B

PE 175X

IT 490

YZ490 (registered}

DT200

KTM 300EXC

KTM 525EXC

KTM 530EXC

Husaberg 450FE

Husaberg 570FE

Road bikes which included a few years of Proddy racing:

GSXR 750 G

GSXR 750 J

RGV 250 J

RGV 250 L

RGV 250 M

KTM 650 Supermotard

KLX 650

Probbaly a few more I cant remember!

Dauntless

2004 WR450F

morch_66479

Hi All,

I've had a few motorcycles in my time living in Aus since 2011.

The passion all kicked off with this little CT110 postie bike:

Then moved onto something a little more serious:

Then moved away from the naked bikes, would love to own another again sometime soon...

next weapon was:

Followed by my 2 current bikes:

Last track snaps at Phillip Island were doing the California Superbike School Level 2 & 3

My next bike that i would like is the KTM 1290 Super Duke R EVO

Enjoy the snaps :-)

Marty

morch_66479

Looking back at this post since it got a recent like from @AshDVS and I wrote that my next bike would be a KTM 1290 Super Duke and looks like my dreams came through.
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GreenGL

Honda CBR250RR - MC22

Had it for a couple years, moved it on as I hardly had time to ride it, and didn't really have the space for it, you can see it lived on the rear patio

Spac

Terrible photo, but this is El Wifeo on her way to an organised ride, with her, my, and The Girl’s dirt bikes on the trailer.

Steyn

Are there only plastic bikes still running down there??? At least there was one non-Japanese marque represented, if only in modern guise.

In order of importance, from 1975 to 2012:

Ducati 750GT

Ducati 750 Sport

Ducati 350 Mk.III

Ducati 450 Jupiter

Triumph Bonneville

and not a single starter button to be found in the lot.

martyG

Obtained as a basket case barn find in the UK 12 years back, brought to Oz and restored by me - NOT others.

Ex850R

martyG
Obtained as a basket case barn find in the UK 12 years back, brought to Oz and restored by me - NOT others.
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A lot of times at busy petrol stations I'd stop for petrol at in the 80s (2 stroke, use the juice....) old guy would wander over and talk about......his Vincent Black Shadow , two or three times , others not so salubrious.

I've got video copy somewhere of missus uncle who raced at Tower Hill Reserve between Warrnambool and Port Fairy , it's collapsed volcano hills providing a great dirt track for the bikes in the 50s.

Steyn

Now we're talking! Beautiful piece of history, and you've done an awesome job, sir. My hat's off to you!

Not far from here, in this quiet little rural province where I reside, is an ex-pat American with a barn full of 30+ Vincents, almost all in running condition, including a number of rare singles. He brings them out on display every summer at the annual classic car show. He said he started buying them back in the 60's when they were just used bikes. because he couldn't afford to get Knucklhead Harleys, and these were cheaper! Oh how times have changed.

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