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

Came across this old photo of my RZ250 today. I do miss my two strokes.

Out with the old
In with the new

After surviving a terrifying experience with a vacuum operated cruise control fitted to a XJ6 Jaguar back in the mid 70's, I'm a confirmed coward when it comes to cruise control. The imprecise carb action on my 70's Harley is bad enough without any form of automatic throttle action.

Originally Posted by Shearer

Came across this old photo of my RZ250 today. I do miss my two strokes.
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I too miss the sound of my Suzi GT500 ram air with aftermarket expansion chambers. Lost a good 30kgs of unneccessary heavy silencers, and woke her up sufficiently so that my Olds could hear me coming home from about 2km away

Originally Posted by XR500

I too miss the sound of my Suzi GT500 ram air with aftermarket expansion chambers. Lost a good 30kgs of unneccessary heavy silencers, and woke her up sufficiently so that my Olds could hear me coming home from about 2km away

Those big twin Suzukis' with expansion chambers sounded dangerous alright. The '84 RZ500 I bought new, sounded like a washing machine. Knocking a steel rod down the exhaust centres helped it sound two strokish at 7000rpm plus, but still not like a twin or triple. All Hail the two stroke...

Yep, but she was a tripple, hence the juice flowing sound

Originally Posted by outlander

After surviving a terrifying experience with a vacuum operated cruise control fitted to a XJ6 Jaguar back in the mid 70's, I'm a confirmed coward when it comes to cruise control. The imprecise carb action on my 70's Harley is bad enough without any form of automatic throttle action.

I got the factory fitted cruise retro fitted on my 2018 Fat Bob, I just could not get an even ride without it, I had throttle creep all over the place. The cruise fixed that and I missed it when riding the Africa Twin so started looking for a solution.

Actually a bit of 2 smoke goodness in my garage right now, along with it’s more recent cuzzy…

One of my favourite road bikes, one I should have kept. my 996 Matrix Edition, the carbon cans were outstanding for setting off car alarms, especially if you did laps in an underground car park .....

This one is a bit special, it's an 853, 916 top end, 748 bottom end, so much fun to pedal hard!

Another one I should have kept...

Quite like the Ducatis but just can’t fit on them. Saw an MH900e a few years back, the bike you could only order online from Jan 2000. Guy pulled in to my local servo while I was filling the Landy. Stunning bike and super sound.

My new project since i finally got my ATC200 running properly, I brought a ATC70 . These trikes are addictive !!

Originally Posted by XR500

I too miss the sound of my Suzi GT500 ram air with aftermarket expansion chambers...my Olds could hear me coming home from about 2km away

Brings back memories. Had a 500 twin at uni and my engineer flatmate used to design and make expansion chambers from scratch. The ones he was doing for the Titan had only reached the stage where the megas were done and I couldn't resist whacking them on and having a ride. Talk about LOUD. As for performance, the power band was super narrow but when she came on song, it'd lift the front wheel with no persuasion. Anyone who has every owned a Titan knows this is impossible normally as the very long wheelbase made wheelies very difficult. Anyway, the noise level pissed off a few people down the street and Mr Copper made a little visit..

Originally Posted by 6x47

Brings back memories. Had a 500 twin at uni and my engineer flatmate used to design and make expansion chambers from scratch. The ones he was doing for the Titan had only reached the stage where the megas were done and I couldn't resist whacking them on and having a ride. Talk about LOUD. As for performance, the power band was super narrow but when she came on song, it'd lift the front wheel with no persuasion. Anyone who has every owned a Titan knows this is impossible normally as the very long wheelbase made wheelies very difficult. Anyway, the noise level pissed off a few people down the street and Mr Copper made a little visit..

Long wheel base alright. I only ever saw 180kmh on mine, sandwiches would blow clean of the tank mounted sandwich holder...

got a new ride for a while...


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