Thread: Bike Porn - Regardless of the motor, Show off your "two wheeled" beasties

I was meant to get a ride on my mates bike like this just before I moved back here.
Wasn't organised enough so dipped out
Cant remember the year but about a 2013 aprilia V4 tuono.
best bike he's ever had. This isn't a pic of his bike,
even my son said it looked like bumblebee from transformers

2015 YZ250

DEP Expansion Chamber, V Force Reeds, Aftermarket Ribbed Seat Cover, Flywheel Weight, Folding Levers etc.

I prefer technical riding. Hill climbs, enduro, trail and cross country racing etc but do the odd bit of MX for fun too.

Used the have a Suzuki GSX600 Bandit but wasn’t riding it much so sold it to buy our first house. Wouldn’t mind another road bike but maybe when the kids are older and I’m not spending all my money on hunting and dirt bikes haha.

Strava does provide a good challenge. Used it a lot in Taupo. Would really piss me off though if I did a screaming run somewhere and the bloody thing would fail to record. Had it happen a number of times.

Yeah mate I hear ya about Strava, after blowing me ring out for the past 2 weeks I've discovered my phones GPS is poked. Nothing worse than riding ya guts out to get back to the ute & discover it hasn't uploaded anything

Finally got it going this morning using my old phone, funny as I haven't given two shit's about times etc for the past 20 years & now I'm getting all competitive

Kicked the tyres on this yesterday... DCT version, pretty cool.

Originally Posted by ishoot10s

Kicked the tyres on this yesterday... DCT version, pretty cool.

One day when Im big

Originally Posted by ishoot10s

Kicked the tyres on this yesterday... DCT version, pretty cool.

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i had also one bevor the bmw

Originally Posted by ishoot10s

Kicked the tyres on this yesterday... DCT version, pretty cool.

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What did you think of the transmission?

@Shearer Bloody good actually, clever tech in there, overlapping the gears via double clutches. Yeah. Pretty tame in Normal mode, changes up quick to get on top of the economy and I learned to use the flappy paddles when I wanted to get past something. Sport mode is a lot more aggressive, holding the gears longer between shifts and the little blips it does on downshifts are hilarious. I really liked it. The position and handling are close to my CRF450 and I'm really thinking this is where I'll go. Have you ridden one?

I will sell my Fatbob and even privately I expect I will take a big hit. I have enjoyed the couple Harleys I've had but honestly think the Adventure style is more me. I just can't be bothered waiting for HD Pan America, it's not due here for another 13 months...

Originally Posted by ishoot10s

@Shearer Bloody good actually, clever tech in there, overlapping the gears via double clutches. Yeah. Pretty tame in Normal mode, changes up quick to get on top of the economy and I learned to use the flappy paddles when I wanted to get past something. Sport mode is a lot more aggressive, holding the gears longer between shifts and the little blips it does on downshifts are hilarious. I really liked it. The position and handling are close to my CRF450 and I'm really thinking this is where I'll go. Have you ridden one?

I will sell my Fatbob and even privately I expect I will take a big hit. I have enjoyed the couple Harleys I've had but honestly think the Adventure style is more me. I just can't be bothered waiting for HD Pan America, it's not due here for another 13 months...

No. Haven't ridden one. I would never be able to touch the ground.
Just heard mixed reports about them so wondered what you thought. You will be able to go places a Harley would never take you. I'm sure you will really enjoy it.

Embarrassing? Each to his own. I'm not embarrassed to have been around and across the US for a total of 18,000+ miles on 2 V8 bikes in succession over the years.

Originally Posted by sightpicture

Embarrassing? Each to his own. I'm not embarrassed to have been around and across the US for a total of 18,000+ miles on 2 V8 bikes in succession over the years.

V8 bikes? homebuilds, factory? details/pics, their point/purpose?

Originally Posted by sightpicture

Embarrassing? Each to his own. I'm not embarrassed to have been around and across the US for a total of 18,000+ miles on 2 V8 bikes in succession over the years.

For that, you needed a car engine? Whatever happened to a good old fashioned motorcycle..?

Factory, in TN.

Both my US V8 bikes are posted on this thread.

Touring with 8200cc plus NOS to move things along, just because I could :-)

Originally Posted by sightpicture

Factory, in TN.

Both my US V8 bikes are posted on this thread.

Touring with 8200cc plus NOS to move things along, just because I could :-)

Had a look, being a bit slow tonight. Had a couple of Busas, that's my idea of a quick tourer, very underated because the wrong people ride them. Was out at Ruapuna testing on my Superbike one friday, bought my gen1 Busa out in the van as well just for shits and giggles, good old girl was getting low 40's before the brakes quit - funny as fuck backing her into the hairpin in front of club 600 riders, scares fuck out of them, you're not supposed to do that! Ran out of brakes going into the right hander after Nanas, had to stand it up and thats me up the ripple strip onto the grass and shortcut it to the dipper and back to the pits, fun over, back on the Super and get serious again.