The Motorcycle Thread!

A_Volvo_Driver · 2015-03-01T04:43:46+00:00

I have a 2013 Hunter Bobber. It is a nice bike for Learners, and I think that it looks great too. It is fun to ride, but has had some intermittent electrical...

rado

Yeah I'm on Michelin pilots 2s atm . Been a good tire . Read some reviews on the 3s . Seems Michelin are very good for this type of bike .

rpo83

It's great to find a motorbike thread here..

I'm a new member who has just bought a V50 D5, but i have been into bikes for the last 35 years... i am drawn to odd/interesting bikes for some reason.

I have a few bikes, currently all Italian, i have recently imported some rare bikes from Japan.

These 2 are my First Bimotas, i have owned the SB6 (Black) for about 14 years, i added the YB5 about 3 years ago. Bimotas historically made bikes using donor engines from Honda, Kawasaki, Yamaha and Suzuki. This provided the best of both worlds, the technical design of the italians, but with the donor bikes engines and electrics. The SB6 is powered by a Suzuki GSXR1100 engine, the YB5 is powered by a Yamaha FJ1200 engine.

The "ta" in Bimota was in respect to Massimo Tamburini, one of the founders of the company, Massimo has been widely considered as one of the finest bike designers of our time.

Ex850R

rpo83
It's great to find a motorbike thread here..
I'm a new member who has just bought a V50 D5, but i have been into bikes for the last 35 years... i am drawn to odd/interesting bikes for some reason.
I have a few bikes, currently all Italian, i have recently imported some rare bikes from Japan.
These 2 are my First Bimotas, i have owned the SB6 (Black) for about 14 years, i added the YB5 about 3 years ago. Bimotas historically made bikes using donor engines from Honda, Kawasaki, Yamaha and Suzuki. This provided the best of both worlds, the technical design of the italians, but with the donor bikes engines and electrics. The SB6 is powered by a Suzuki GSXR1100 engine, the YB5 is powered by a Yamaha FJ1200 engine.
The "ta" in Bimota was in respect to Massimo Tamburini, one of the founders of the company, Massimo has been widely considered as one of the finest bike designers of our time.
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I remember a bike show in Melbourne, laying on the floor to check out the frame of a Bimota , brilliant!

Outside we watched and listened as Lucky Kaiser cranked up the vee twin built with two cylinders of a Rolls Royce Merlin engine, ahh the good olde days!

BTW, theres a Harris Kawasaki for sale on marketplace, unfinished project, new Harris exhaust built at Harris before being sent here from them after a check of frame . Race built motor from US builder etc etc, $20K , well worth it considering nobody is going to have one at any meet you go too.

Spac

Two Bimotas... you win this thread!

242GT

My favourite ride, my 1979 XS750 triple

242GT

This is called a mid life crisis, turning 50 and importing a 9,400miles from new 1985 VF1000R from Medolothian, Chicago, as my present to myself, still got it many yrs later at Robbo Pie shop. Aaah the sounds of a V4... ?

Ex850R

Love the V4 and the Firestorm? V2 of Honda, the old guy at work rode every day , he is near retirement and only gave it up as he moved to an area of bush with lots of wildlife. Now he needs a rifle instead!

I see a blue RG500 Suzuki on ebay....great fun the two i had, both colour schemes. A bike i should have kept.

242GT

The RG500 was actually a better bike than the RZ500 if you ask the experts, I've seen a few in real life a handsome well engineered machine, certainly wouldn't say no to one parked in my garage, wouldn't mind being 30yrs younger to ride it as it should be either ?.

Was there a German/European model famously modified?

Personally I like the original factory colours, sweet sounding 2 stroke on song

rado

242GT
The RG500 was actually a better bike than the RZ500 if you ask the experts, I've seen a few in real life a handsome well engineered machine, certainly wouldn't say no to one parked in my garage, wouldn't mind being 30yrs younger to ride it as it should be either ?.
Was there a German/European model famously modified?
Personally I like the original factory colours, sweet sounding 2 stroke on song

Always preferred the Yamy rd (rz)? over the rg

Ex850R

242GT
The RG500 was actually a better bike than the RZ500 if you ask the experts, I've seen a few in real life a handsome well engineered machine, certainly wouldn't say no to one parked in my garage, wouldn't mind being 30yrs younger to ride it as it should be either ?.
Was there a German/European model famously modified?
Personally I like the original factory colours, sweet sounding 2 stroke on song

I had two Rgs , the first in Geelong , nearly bought the GSX 750 as it came in a week before , the other one that came into Pratt and Osbornes , also a blue and white went to a retired 747 pilot in Torquay who had a lower floor full of collectable bikes that took his fancy , bet that collection was a goldmine years later...

The second after a dumb beemer choice...second RG was a black n red one , had GP 500 rego!!

Always heard of the RZ frame not being up to it and that the RG had a better power spread , certainly was good screaming at 180Ks , that was fast enough on a light bike ( private road of course..)

rado

Don't know how to put a link up via phone so took some screen shots

rado

1000 cc 2 cylinder turbo ?

PaddlerEd

Caught up with a mate over the weekend, and found out one of his lad's mates had come off of the Yamaha TTR-600... And killed the plastics on the rear.

Anyone got a source for "new" plastics?

Wino

I just want to share this cool photo I took.

wdj

Hey guys I have a chockers back veranda. Two 1984 FJ 1100,s. Will build one great bike from the two and some lucky person gets a very good bike from the leftovers.

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morch_66479

Ex850R

morch_66479
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Altona Nth!? Wagon looks familiar.

wdj

Like the silver wagon. Bill

morch_66479

Ex850R
https://ozvolvo.org/discussion/comment/179679#Comment_179679
Altona Nth!? Wagon looks familiar.

Yeah, I live in Altona North. Well spotted :-) Where you based?

Ex850R

morch_66479
https://ozvolvo.org/discussion/comment/179686#Comment_179686
Yeah, I live in Altona North. Well spotted :-) Where you based?

Was in McIntosh rd near the circle , now in Willi.

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