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Offline Brick

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Re: Cool, Unique and unusual Bikes you have had.
« Reply #15 on: April 09, 2016, 10:47:43 pm »

This was my first bike... I thought I posted this here but didn't see it so here it is again. I don't have a photo of it handy. 1970 Honda SL350 in Gold. I was back from Nam and stationed in New Mexico.
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Re: Cool, Unique and unusual Bikes you have had.
« Reply #16 on: April 10, 2016, 10:11:51 am »
1980 Suzuki GS450S. My girlfriends bike back in the mid 80s:



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Re: Cool, Unique and unusual Bikes you have had.
« Reply #17 on: April 10, 2016, 10:12:51 am »
I enjoy bringing old Hondas back from the grave. Here are three I revived...

'82 Honda VT500


'82 Honda FT500 Ascot


'78 Honda CX500
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Re: Cool, Unique and unusual Bikes you have had.
« Reply #18 on: April 10, 2016, 10:41:28 am »
Quote from: TN2Wheeler on April 10, 2016, 10:12:51 am
I enjoy bringing old Hondas back from the grave. Here are three I revived...

'82 Honda VT500






Are you sure this is an 82? I always thought that the VT was only produced in 1983 and 1984?????


I like the Blue with silver stripe from the 1985 Honda Nighthawk S
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Re: Cool, Unique and unusual Bikes you have had.
« Reply #19 on: April 10, 2016, 12:23:34 pm »
Here's three of mine that I considered unique from my stable.  The Sidecar rig passed through a couple of members when their kids were younger and the TDM was owned by at least 2 members as well.  I loved that CBX but it was a chore in the twisties.
 

 
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Re: Cool, Unique and unusual Bikes you have had.
« Reply #20 on: April 10, 2016, 12:26:14 pm »
Nice bikes!!!!!!!

Currently building a Cafe Racer out of a 99 Ninja 250.

Here's a 1980 CX500D completed project:



This Aprilia Dorsoduro 750 Supermoto was a fun bike:

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Re: Cool, Unique and unusual Bikes you have had.
« Reply #21 on: April 10, 2016, 12:43:06 pm »
Quote from: NinjaBob on April 10, 2016, 10:11:51 am
1980 Suzuki GS450S. My girlfriends bike back in the mid 80s:

Heck Bob besides a cool beautiful wife... You had a cool girlfriend back then too!
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Re: Cool, Unique and unusual Bikes you have had.
« Reply #22 on: April 10, 2016, 02:25:27 pm »
Quote from: Brick on April 10, 2016, 12:43:06 pm
Quote from: NinjaBob on April 10, 2016, 10:11:51 am
1980 Suzuki GS450S. My girlfriends bike back in the mid 80s:

Heck Bob besides a cool beautiful wife... You had a cool girlfriend back then too!
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Re: Cool, Unique and unusual Bikes you have had.
« Reply #23 on: April 10, 2016, 02:37:24 pm »
Quote from: fartymarty on April 09, 2016, 05:50:32 pm
Quote from: RIDEMYST on April 09, 2016, 02:05:40 pm
You could order them from Sears catalog and they ran pretty much like what you would expect from a mail order bike. :(

So yours didn't run very well?
Mine ran like a scalded cat, and out ran a lot of the bigger bikes back then. Seemed like Triumph 650s, BSAs and Nortons were the fast bikes back then (before the Kawa triples came out) I never out ran a Norton on mine but Triumphs and BSAs many times. I wouldn't have gotten rid of it except the Moto-X bug bit me and I traded it for a Husky 250.  ::)
Then looking at your photo again, it appears you are/were a big guy. I doubt I weighed more than 130 lbs when I was riding mine, probably a major factor in our different recollections on performance.  :D
Yes my Bridgestone was fast and could beat most bikes out of the hole at that time but I had to remove the plugs every 100 miles or so to keep it running! :( -JEP-
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Re: Cool, Unique and unusual Bikes you have had.
« Reply #24 on: April 10, 2016, 02:43:31 pm »
Interesting that two of my heroes have restored CX500s. A C model was my first street bike and "sport tourer". I thought it was a pig and traded it in on the 82 Sabre after my first road trip to Rocky Mountain National Park Check out the sissy bar backrest and high tech luggage system. ;D
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Re: Cool, Unique and unusual Bikes you have had.
« Reply #25 on: April 10, 2016, 03:09:53 pm »
Bike wasn't that unusual although you don't see many of them today
However the helmet was unusual



Maybe I should have worn this helmet



Or borrowed this one



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Re: Cool, Unique and unusual Bikes you have had.
« Reply #26 on: April 10, 2016, 08:48:21 pm »
Boy, you have opened a bag of worms here. You might get more info the an oil & tire thread!!  Yeah, we all have those that we wish hadn't got away on top of those "unusual" bikes. One that falls in both categories is my first Ducati.....'92 907i.e.  That was a very different bike but once the normal hustles of ironing oil the quirks, it was a great bike to ride. The impossibility of finding Italian fiberglass for 10 year old bike prompted me to sell after having it since new in '92. Maybe I shouldn't have. Sorry, no pix in this computer of it to post but it looked just like the one Brick had years ago.
I wish I had never sold my '93 VFR750F in Pearl White. Not sure what I was thinking there, had it just the way I liked it. I also once had a Kawi 250 Eliminator, cool like drag bike-like thing that would rev the high heavens. What fun.   TM
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Re: Cool, Unique and unusual Bikes you have had.
« Reply #27 on: April 10, 2016, 08:58:13 pm »
Quote from: STLTHMSTA on April 10, 2016, 08:48:21 pm
Boy, you have opened a bag of worms here. You might get more info the an oil & tire thread!! 


Thats the Idea, This is a Forum, Lets get people talking!
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Re: Cool, Unique and unusual Bikes you have had.
« Reply #28 on: April 10, 2016, 09:58:51 pm »
Quote from: STLTHMSTA on April 10, 2016, 08:48:21 pm
Boy, you have opened a bag of worms here. You might get more info the an oil & tire thread!!  Yeah, we all have those that we wish hadn't got away on top of those "unusual" bikes. One that falls in both categories is my first Ducati.....'92 907i.e.  That was a very different bike but once the normal hustles of ironing oil the quirks, it was a great bike to ride. The impossibility of finding Italian fiberglass for 10 year old bike prompted me to sell after having it since new in '92. Maybe I shouldn't have. Sorry, no pix in this computer of it to post but it looked just like the one Brick had years ago.
I wish I had never sold my '93 VFR750F in Pearl White. Not sure what I was thinking there, had it just the way I liked it. I also once had a Kawi 250 Eliminator, cool like drag bike-like thing that would rev the high heavens. What fun.   TM

Yea Tom I didn't have a photo of my Ducati 907ie on this phone so I got this photo off the internet. I too enjoyed that bike.
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Re: Cool, Unique and unusual Bikes you have had.
« Reply #29 on: April 11, 2016, 10:09:21 am »
You're probably correct.  It's been several years since I owned that one.
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