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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: What other bikes have you owned / ridden Reply #45 - 10/18/16 at 17:50:18 BSTON wrote on 10/18/16 at 06:25:40: Just for Kris01, here's a better picture of the Ninja. Purty! Thanks!
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5106 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: What other bikes have you owned / ridden Reply #46 - 10/18/16 at 21:14:27 I'm not a sport bike kinda guy , but dam that's a good looking bike ! What model is it ?
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Reply #47 - 10/19/16 at 08:08:23

Dave wrote on 10/18/16 at 13:12:02:

Don't ride that spiffy white bike at sunset (or near the river)......the gnats around this area would really stand out on that pretty paint!

I'm more than a little concerned about how much it's going to show stuff like that. I really like things to be clean and orderly but don't like taking a lot of time to keep it that way. We'll see how it goes.

It was in the upper 40s this morning for my commute. I had left my balaclava at the office on Monday so I didn't have it this morning. I really didn't get too cold though. My hands and thighs seemed to take the most of it...but I was still wearing thin gloves and just jeans though so I stayed fairly warm considering. It gives me hope that I can get at least a couple more weeks of commuting in before it's painful.

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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: What other bikes have you owned / ridden Reply #48 - 10/19/16 at 19:20:32 This is not a pic of mine but it's a fairly accurate representation. I wish I had some pics of mine. I have great memories of riding with my dad on this bike when I was 5 or 6. He passed away in '99. To this day I get nostalgic when I hear a 2-stroke and smell the fumes!
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old_rider Serious Thumper Offline Backyard Bill Productions Posts: 3147 flordia panhandle Gender:	Re: What other bikes have you owned / ridden Reply #49 - 10/20/16 at 18:20:04 Ok just a couple A few are photo representations... but I have had each of these, and a couple more.
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jcstokes Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com is very useful Posts: 2119 Mauku New Zealand Gender:	Re: What other bikes have you owned / ridden Reply #50 - 10/20/16 at 21:54:46 The little GN250 that brought me back to motorcycling
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Reply #51 - 10/21/16 at 04:11:56

I suppose I really started riding with a little Tomos moped when I started going to NC State back in the mid-eighties. Although it probably wasn't very smart, I used to ride that little moped all around the construction zones near my neighborhood and get it muddy about every week. After getting it confused with a dirt bike and being stupid by leaving it out in the rain over my 2nd summer, it pretty much turned into junk.

But my first "real" motorcycle was a 1993 Honda Nighthawk 250. I used to ride the ever lovin' crap out of that bike all around Raleigh. From there, I moved up to a Nighthawk 750 and then a few years later, I dabbled with a couple of Harley Fatboys. Those Hogs look nice, and they sound good but holy pre-oly they are waaaay too heavy to maneuver easily.

When I look back at it now, that little 250 was my all time favorite even though I couldn't get past 60 MPH on the darned thing.

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2012 S40 Boulevard (White and Silver) - small changes so far like windshield, sissy bar, saddlebags... but mostly stock.

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Reply #52 - 10/21/16 at 08:44:19

Here's the list, in roughly chronological order:

1965 Honda CB160
1973 Honda CB350K4*
1982 Honda CM450*
1972? Honda CL125
1982 BMW R100RT (stolen 2 weeks after I bought it) :'(
1984 BMW R80RT*
1980 Kawasaki 305
1978 GS750E
1981 Honda CB650
1978 Suzuki GS550E
1982 BMW R100RT
1984 Yamaha Venture 1200
1993 Kawasaki Concours 1000
2002 Kawasaki Nomad 1500FI
2015 Suzuki S40 Boulevard*

(* indicates purchased new)

Favorites:
-- CB160...1st taste of "freedom" at age 15, learning how to wrench
on my own machine
-- CB350...toured all over the western U.S. & Canada
-- GS550E...bought cheap at a yard sale, getting back into riding
-- S40...a step back from "Mondo- Bikes"...rediscovering the Joy of Motorcycling
without all the "bells 'n whistles."

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Reply #53 - 10/21/16 at 09:31:28

1977 Yamaha RD200. Bought it at age 15 or so and used it to get to work. It was a 2-stroke twin with a startling power band! It was the blue and gold version with chrome fenders. So quick!

1978 Yamaha XS400. Put on small, glass-pack slash pipes, drop bars and a quarter fairing to make a café bike. Need to find some pics of that old bike! I was hit by a car coming home from work at age 17. Landed on my face after flying over the car. Bike was totaled and I was almost totaled, too. After that, didn't ride except some 3-wheelers in the sand pits and putted around on my room mate's 883 Sportster.

Fast forward to 2008 when I bought a Genuine Buddy 150cc scooter as a way to avoid buying an extra car when my twins were old enough to drive. I let them drive my truck to school and I took the scooter for work. Did some "mods" to get that scooter moving fast and put 40K miles on it. Rode year round in Denver as long as there was no snow or ice on the ground. Heavy rain, hail, 15 degrees, 100 degrees etc...

Bought my 2008 S40 in May of 2014 and ended up selling the scooter because I just wasn't riding it anymore. I've put 11K miles on the S40 since I got it Cool

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Reply #55 - 11/05/16 at 23:33:03

Then one of these:

And one of these:

The Sports Star was also designated the SS80. 80 was supposed to be its top speed. But when you tried to get there, things fell off. The rear fender came loose on the way home from the dealer on the day I bought it, and it stopped dead a couple of times when the connector on the back of the ignition switch vibrated loose.
I really appreciate the counterbalance shaft on the S40.

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Reply #56 - 12/27/16 at 13:28:14

Two bikes I wished I'd never sold.

About 20 years ago I sold my 71 Triumph TR6. It was a mildly customized rescued flat tracker. Had a stock seat and tank with tall tracker bars, but no battery, no speedometer or tach, no turn signals, hi/low toggle on the headlamp, no key, not switches on the bars except for a kill switch, no side panels or airbox, oil cooler and regulator hanging under the seat, shifted on the right rear brake on the left, 69 Impala taillight, subtle ghost flames and a really cool ARD belt drive magneto.

Sadly, I never took a picture of that bike, but here is an example of the ARD magneto. The distributor cap is on the backside.

The other bike I "stole" from my dad when I was in high school. It was a 73 Suzuki T500 2-smoker. Orange and white. I thought it was ugly back then mid to late-80s) but wished I had it now.

I rode it around a few years and then let my buddy talk me into selling it to him for $300. He took it to college and left it for dead when it wouldn't fire up one day that fall. I said "You should have called me, I would have come down and picked it up for $250!"

If only I had it today...

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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: What other bikes have you owned / ridden Reply #57 - 12/27/16 at 19:47:45 ohiomoto wrote on 12/27/16 at 13:28:14: If only I had it today... I've said that more than once! :'(
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old.indian Serious Thumper Offline Fighting Foreign Terrorism since 1492 Posts: 975 Central New Mexico Gender:	Re: What other bikes have you owned / ridden Reply #58 - 12/28/16 at 08:31:02 My buddy taught me how to ride on his BSA 650 in'69. '69 CB 450, '69 CB 750, '73 Norton 750.... Long break involving wife and children.. '95 750 Nighthawk. Another long break until 12/14 when I bought the '07 S40... I'd love to have any one of them today... In fact, I saw a Kawasaki W650 on Craigslist.......
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: What other bikes have you owned / ridden Reply #59 - 12/28/16 at 09:29:48 I saw a Kawasaki W650 on Craigslist. I don't get excited about much any more, but my SIL is getting my W650 fixed up and road worthy. I'd look at the CL ad if you could link to it without a hassle.
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