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

Originally Posted by Ryan

Were Honda VFR and RVF 400s popular in this country?

I had a CBR 400 gear driven cam import in '97. More fun than a barrel full of monkeys. There were VFR and RVF 400's at most bike shops, sales were hampered by engine size. Real little jewels and scare and expensive now.

Had an RC30 off a dealer for the day to see if I liked it, the bike was immaculate and an ex racer with the original as new bodywork refitted.

The handling was superb and well set up I particularly liked the slipper clutch you could slam down through the gears with no rear wheel lock up or chatter first I had experienced this.

Wish I purchased it and kept it they are expensive, classy and unique with a great sound track.

I had my Fireblade at the time which was more powerful and a double seat, still like the RC30

This 1988 one is for sale in UK and only $ 52,000 nz !!!!!!!! not mine unfortunately. https://www.thebikemarket.co.uk/honda/vfr/vfr750r-rc30

Love those bikes. Them and the Ducati 916-998 series have to be the best looking sports bikes ever built for the road.

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.

Originally Posted by Bonecrusher

Also just sold this TT350 86 vintage .....


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Thats awesome, what a bike

Originally Posted by Shootm

@Philipo looks like you need to put a motor in it to stay in this thread

Originally Posted by gadgetman

It's already got a two cylinder phlip-phlop motor.

Hahahaha Yeah seems that way but fuck as long as it's got only two wheels she's algood. At least no one has posted a pic of a bloody E-Bike

I've had plenty of motorized wheels ( & have the hardware in my spine to show for it ) but just enjoy pushing myself at the mo ( might get a road bike again at some stage, always wanted a Fireblade or GSX-R750 )

But fuk I'm happy pushing my body to it's limits while I can, just got my Strava ap sorted this morning & got KOM on a new trail that opened last week so not to bad for a 46yo semi alcoholic painter aye lol

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.

I generally just used the treadly for transport, but did a few races and trails too. My aim was to be barely able to stand when I got where I was going. Fastest time to uni (10km) was not on the motorbike. I'm calm as with any motorised transport, but on the bike...the roads mine. Could not stand anything else beat me across an intersection controlled by lights. Put way too much torque into the crank and twisted out the rear spokes. Taught myself to respoke wheels and still have the frame I made to make it easier.

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 gadgetman

I generally just used the treadly for transport, but did a few races and trails too. My aim was to be barely able to stand when I got where I was going. Fastest time to uni (10km) was not on the motorbike. I'm calm as with any motorised transport, but on the bike...the roads mine. Could not stand anything else beat me across an intersection controlled by lights. Put way too much torque into the crank and twisted out the rear spokes. Taught myself to respoke wheels and still have the frame I made to make it easier.

To be fair, the average Christchurch driver is glacially slow at noticing the light has in fact turned green, and that they should drive off in order to allow other road users to clear the same intersection. I have often wondered if it is a Christchurch thing, to get off the light and through the intersection as slowly as possible in order to prevent as many as possible from getting through. The average Christchurch driver also has zero situational awareness and a complete inability to identify and track the moving variables in their operating zone. Must be scary as a pushbike operator in that environment, the drivers in this town are far too retarded for me to do the pushbike thing, even though it makes sense to do it.

Originally Posted by 257weatherby

To be fair, the average Christchurch driver is glacially slow at noticing the light has in fact turned green, and that they should drive off in order to allow other road users to clear the same intersection. I have often wondered if it is a Christchurch thing, to get off the light and through the intersection as slowly as possible in order to prevent as many as possible from getting through. The average Christchurch driver also has zero situational awareness and a complete inability to identify and track the moving variables in their operating zone. Must be scary as a pushbike operator in that environment, the drivers in this town are far too retarded for me to do the pushbike thing, even though it makes sense to do it.

To the first point, we are not glacially slow getting away when it turns green. There are often cars still going through as it turns green and as such, we now make sure they have actually finished before we put our cars "in front of them". Most of them seem to fall into two categories.....Primarily small newly painted Japanese turbo sedans wagons or hatches with exhaust pipes that look like they were stolen off a truck......And the second lot are large US or Aussie ute/ cars that are people trying to look like a local version of Greg Murphy. The first lot dont have a lit of cash and are usually effectively bankrupt to avoid paying all their fines, and the other lot are spending so much money that fines are just a running cost.....


As a push bike rider, I can also attest that they see us, some of them just dont care if we are there or not, and others can be roper dicks. Mostly though, they are pretty good, and once they see that you are stopping for red lights and following road rules they are less inclined to be dicks. But we also have a fair number of cyclists who seem to think red is for cars, footpaths are for bikes, and helmets are for dopes.

Like so many things in life; a few bad eggs in Japanese cars tarnish all young drivers with the same brush, A few bad eggs with money Tarnish all V8 drivers with the same brush, and a few bad eggs on cycles tarnish all cyclists with the same brush.

I will finish with one point. I saw the council putting in cycle lanes thought the city a few years back and thought it was a senseless waste of money and space. Then I started to use them as an alternate route to see where they went, and I must say, I enjoy using them. For my 25 km commute to work, the last 5 km that would usually be on traffic filled roads with angry commuters and cars stuck in traffic, I am zipping along on a back street, and can get to where I am gong faster than in the car. If they are done properly, they are great. If they are done like St Asaph street, they are bloody diabolical.