Show us your motorbike. Stll, action or broken.

[MRsDNF]

@AntmanQ

Wooow! you guys AWESOME!

The bikes and stories aren’t bad either.

[Gofer]

Was

Is now

[ecotack]

My Honda Blackbird. Sadly up for sale. Not ridden in the past 4 years after I fractured my sternum in a car crash. I think its time to sell

[rbmcmjr]

2012 Yamaha Super Tenere

(1980 Laverda Mirage TS hiding in the background)

[MRsDNF]

Nice bikes rbmcmjr. Love the Laverda. :+1:

[MILSPEC]

cool bikes rbmcmjr, like the color schemes

[weklund]

… My Restored 1966 BMW R69S …

[MRsDNF]

That looks real sweet weklund. Do you get her out much?

[weklund]

@MRsDNF

That looks real sweet weklund. Do you get her out much?

Runs like a well oiled sewing machine. Quite and a pleaseure to ride. I love those Earles forks. I ride it a few times a year these days. Oldie but goodie and I am a little paranoid to hit the road on the ole beauty.

I still ride the hell out of my 1978 Honda CT90 …

[Muto]

Been wanting to post in this thread for a while and didn’t get to it so here goes.
Here are some of my summer toys

[Muto]

@weklund

p=. … My Restored 1966 BMW R69S …

Beautiful BMW !

You recognize this seat?

Been recovered of course, not by me. Got it with some mini bike stuff. Not exactly my color choice but cool non the less.
Looks like the original condition ones bring some good coin on the Epay as it was an optional seat from what I could gather.

[MRsDNF]

When I grow up Muto I want a collection like yours. The good wife would say you had more than one problem.

[KawiBoy1428]

Sweet Honda 70 Muto!

Love the mini bikes too! I have a bunch of bikes and mini bikes in need of attention, and I’ll restore once I’m retired!!!

Did a Speedway Green Horn Resto a way’s back….it was a PITA for a Mini Bike

Looking for a Benelli Volcano and Indian 80-100cc mini-bikes that I always wanted as a kid….

[Gebe]

@slmjim

When I joined I mentioned something about “…yet another expensive hobby”. I hereby present my main “expensive hobby”: motorcycles.

I’m blessed to have a lovely wife who is also a Rider. She’s been on my six (and occasionally on my twelve) for more than 80,000 miles while astride three different bikes of her own. Wife & I are long-time motorcycle enthusiasts. She encourages me to buy bikes, and will happily discard excess Christmas stuff to make room in our basement workshop for more bikes, as long as she has something to ride!

First two are our His-n-Hers ’93 CB750 Nighthawks bought new as a pair in 1993. ’93 was the only year in a 12 yr. CB750 Nighthawk production run that Honda made the Nighthawks in two colors. Only changes we’ve made are color-matched Targa fairings. Otherwise they’re box stock, both showing more than 65,000 miles. Reliable as anvils.

She insists that her Candy Metallic Red Nighthawk is “prettier” and faster. Rubbish I say! My Candy Tahitian Blue Nighthawk is clearly more handsome, and undoubtedly quicker.

Her Hawk. She “claims” HerHawk is prettier & faster. I have ended up chasing her tail light a few times when I haven’t been paying attention & she just whips right past me…

His Hawk. My unshakeable position is that HisHawk is more handsome and quicker.

Our 2009 Honda ST1300A. Pan European to our friends across the pond. It’s really my wife’s bike. I’m just the lowly chauffeur, tasked with spiriting M’Lady safely across the land & into adventure. We were somewhere south of Pueblo, Colorado when this pic was taken.

We collect & restore vintage Kawasaki Z1’s. This is where our real passion lies, and where the “expensive” part of the hobby really makes itself known. Wife has not only succumbed to the vintage bike bug, she’s become a very good mechanic’s helper in her own right. I’ve learned not to get between her and a fastener needing tightened when she’s wielding a torque wrench.

In order of acquisition:

1974 Z1A. My first Z1, aka His Z. Bought new in 1974. Keeping it as a period custom. I’ve done nothing to this bike that can’t be undone in a day and put back to stock appearance. Original factory paint. Me and her did lots of courtin’ and sparkin’ on this bike . Lovingly referred to as One of Six.

1975 Z1B. Her Z. Two of Six. From this bike my wife got her nickname: The Lovely Z1BEBE. We are third owners. Local find in the newspaper classifieds. Period custom. A stock Z1 is tall for a street bike. Suspension and seat modified to fit her better by lowering the overall seat height. This bike has the most pronounced primary gear whine I’ve ever heard from a Z1. I ride it sometimes just to listen to the music. It’s a perk of being her wrench . Original factory paint.

1974 Z1A. Three of Six. Third owners. Local word-of-mouth find. As close to box stock as the current parts situation will allow. Factory paint.

1973 (late ’72 manufacture date) Z1. Four of Six. Barn find. Had been in a flood during over a decade of barn storage. Z1BEBE secretly thought I’d lost my mind the first time she saw it, but I could see the diamond in the rough. An intense, daily 18 month restoration effort. Original factory paint (!). We spent hundreds of hours bringing the paint back from the brink by gently rubbing it out with jewelers rouge. As close to box stock as the current parts situation will allow. One of our favorite toys.

1975 Z1B. Five of Six. eBay find. History unknown. As close to box stock as current parts supply allows. NOS factory paint set.

1973 (late ’72 manufacture date) Z1. Six of Six. History unknown. This is the bike that completed a two-decade goal for us - a complete production set of Kawasaki Z-1’s. Found it in a dingy New York warehouse. There was just this one eensy-weensy little problem; it was a basket case. Bare frame, two partial motors (one of which has the correct #’s for this frame), over two dozen boxes of disorganized, grimy parts. Guy I bought it from wasn’t the one who took it apart, but he said the guy who did was pretty sure all the parts were probably still all there. He thought. So me & Z1BEBE are standing there in this ancient, dimly-lit warehouse in Marion, NY, hundreds of miles from home looking at a piles of parts & boxes. I’m thinking about the sheer scale to the project confronting me when she says “I think we should buy it!” That’s probably still echoing in that warehouse to this day. And so began the project that became known as “The Seven Year _itch”. We could have probably gotten it done in three years, more or less, but life sorta kept getting in the way during this project. Almost all of the correctly date-coded parts were eventually found in the many boxes that accompanied the frame & motors. We touched every part of this bike, from the crank & tranny to the smallest washers and electrical bits, cleaning, painting, refurbishing and, occasionally, bleeding along the way. Aftermarket paint set imported from Japan for this project.

If you buy a bike, it’s yours. If you build a bike, it’s even more yours.

The Z1 family photo. This photo predates Six of Six, so it doesn’t appear. We need to do a new family photo, but it’s sort of a PITA to get all the Z1’s out of the basement at once.

And now, for your viewing pleasure, a bit of universal truth. Or, Life Explained.

slmjim

Absolutely stunning Z’s slmjim! My favorites of all my bikes that I’ve had, (too many to remember), since my first 300 Honda Dream I purchased in 1963.

I had two Z’s. A brown 1974 and a blue 1975. Loved those bikes! I put over 50K on each one and they were as reliable as rocks. I had Kerker 4 into 1’s on both and Mikuni 30mm smooth bores.

Your collection is amazing and those Z’s are going up in value every day.

[MRsDNF]

The wife refused to register this bike for me again as it has sat dormant in the shed for far to long (I did have a reason for keeping it registered) so has been consigned to the retirement home away from here with the long ago retired IT250 as future projects. I hope the dnf tag has long gone by then or it will never happen.

[lostheplot]

thought mrs dnf would have posted this.
new swm adventure bike.

[Macka17]

Keltex.

That Dragline behind the fence was my mode of work for near 35yrs.
Them, Cranes, and excavators.
With a coupla Dozers. (Cat and boxes, b4 Scrapers).Trenchers and other toys thrown in the mix.

My last bike. After 26ish yrs on them.
Was a 600 Suzi Dakar single dirt bike for road. and a Maico 400. double rear shock on track.
The Dakar ended up on it’s side at some traffic lights when a tin can took me out sideways.
He jumped the lights as I went through
and topped me over the tray of a semi.
Shattered a Kevlar full Face at the back when my head landed on concrete.
Hence my no memory problem.
Dead on side of rd. Medics brought me back.
That was on June 1 1990 at 4.15=20 pm.
NEVER been back on a bike since.

That Farkin’ hurt.
Broken neck. R shoulder/arm ripped off.
R side of chest/ribcage ripped through Right lung.
R leg broken in 7 places.
Plus multiple breaks. Took 6 yrs to get over that.
and only one lung.
with electronic implant in neck\Spinal chord to camo Pain a bit.

Bikes are great. Just stay away from ALL things hard. OK.
And wear FULL gear at all times on ALL rides. on track and off.

Enjoy them but be ready to drop and slide it at any pre contact point. Use it as a buffer.
You CAN replace an insured bike. YOU ain’t insured for life. just bumps.

PS.
My First bike was a 1937 Matchless G3L. 350cc,
rigid rear end. Springer Forks.
Sorry brain in backwards today…
When I was 16 yrs old in 1957.
The MOST beautiful thing I’d ever seen hey. Wish I still had her.

PS. We raced the old “Waterbottle” Suzi 750 Triples in the tracks. Mainly with a chair on the side (Scrambles and Motocross.)
NOTHING could touch them. Wheel spin for full track from start to finish line.
MAGIC things to ride when you could hang on for long.

Same as the Maico and KTM early 500/600 with steel clutches.
Bang ON Bang off. Nothing in between. NO slipping.
Usually spat me off the back when I tried to ride my mate’s 500.
Too light to hold the front down, but. the power…… drool.
If only…
Those things were evil if you much under 75kg in weight.

[MRsDNF]

I’m not sure I’d get back on a bike after that Macka. Good to see you still here.

[Spartan]

I’d show you my bike and my colors……but I’m afraid I’d have to kill you to keep my identity secret.

I am the proud leader of Hells Muppets. My thunder rides are….a V-Strom and an electric bike.

Be afraid……

[Perpetual_Lumen]

Right now I ride a 2000 Honda Valkyrie tourer with an original Valkyrie tour pack.
My lady rides a 08 Honda VTX 1300 Retro
ill upload pictures as soon as I get off work.