Do you ride a motorcycle?

[Luc Punksblood]

I was struggling to keep older bikes running and needed something reliable (new) then saw this for sale near my work. May be the slowest bike I've owned but I'll be damned if it ain't one of the classiest lookin'. Rode full-time even through two winters on it but I've got nothing left to prove to myself or anybody else so I parked it this year and got a beater. 'Bout time to fire it back up.

Royal Enfield 'Rocker Red' Continental GT650

 

[AerGuitar]

Most impressive!

Is that a vulcan 800 sitting in your shop?

I always liked to work on the Kawa - pretty simple and an almost perfect base for a custom bike ...

"It's a Chopper Baby!"

Wow!! Good eye! Yeah, Vulcan VN800B. One of the best mid weight bikes out there, in my opinion. I painted that one in 58’ Corvette colors, NOS vette emblems, and won a few bike shows with it.

 

[4444Design]

I was struggling to keep older bikes running and needed something reliable (new) then saw this for sale near my work. May be the slowest bike I've owned but I'll be damned if it ain't one of the classiest lookin'. Rode full-time even through two winters on it but I've got nothing left to prove to myself or anybody else so I parked it this year and got a beater. 'Bout time to fire it back up.

Royal Enfield 'Rocker Red' Continental GT650

That's one nice scooter!

Winter on the motorbike? I did that when i was still ridin' a moped in the age of 16 when no car-driving license was possible but never on a motorbike.

 

[4444Design]

Wow!! Good eye! Yeah, Vulcan VN800B. One of the best mid weight bikes out there, in my opinion. I painted that one in 58’ Corvette colors, NOS vette emblems, and won a few bike shows with it. View attachment 695534

I'm absolutely your opinion abvout those Vulcans:
- much lighter than any HD
- reliable
- easy to work on

Cool color + cool idea with those emblems

 

[Gratefuldenimhead]

Thanks mate!

At some point i realised i had too many bikes but no time for riding 'n wrenching - this is when i started to "cull the herd" with remaining a SPORTY for my wife, the SLIM i ride and a 50cc VESPA to cruise in shorts and flipflops.

The PAN was a blast to ride but each hour ridin' required 2 hrs prepping her and post-ride was almost the same. That was the main reason to let her go ...

My wife's SPORTY

Those bikes

 

[rambler44]

Late to this thread. 2013 Bonneville T100 - photo at the Pullman national historical park in Chicago.

 

[EP71]

I own a Royal Enfield Classic 350 and a Triumph Bonneville T120.

 

[beetleything]

Does what it says on the tin...... Norton 961 SP

 

[beetleything]

Rental in Grand Canaria - great roads - great weather.....

 

[LeatherHunter]

Vulcan 2000 LT Classic

 

[beetleything]

2nd time in Gran Canaria - Rented the new V2 Ducati - nice - fast - easy to ride - bit plasticky .......

 

[Peter Mackin]

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2nd time in Gran Canaria - Rented the new V2 Ducati - nice - fast - easy to ride - bit plasticky .......

Do you like the quickshifter? The gt pro is the 1st bike I've ridden with one fitted. I don't see the point,especially on an adventure bike.when the gearbox is so good to begin with.

 

[barnabus]

Do you like the quickshifter? The gt pro is the 1st bike I've ridden with one fitted. I don't see the point,especially on an adventure bike.when the gearbox is so good to begin with.

The quickshifter is superb on my KTM. Up and down, works best when you're on it a bit.

Edit: although that is a sports bike I suppose

 

[Trouser Bark]

I wondered how many of us actually need leather because we ride motorcycles, and what people ride.

I'm a rider. Currently in the stable:

2006 BMW HP2 Enduro
2023 Honda CRF450RL
x KTM 640 Enduro
x KTM 640 Prestige Super Moto
x ATK 605 Dirt Tracker
x Yamaha Morphous (scooter)
x Honda Big Ruckus (scooter)
1972 Yamaha RT360

I've ridden all through North America multiple times, ridden from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Ushuaia, Tiera del Fuego, Argentina, rented a BM in Frankfurt and rode (twice... once w/ each daughter riding pillion) through Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Lichtenstein, Austria, etc. I studded the tires on a Honda 650 and rode it through five months of snow and icy winter (Heated gear and all but wasn't as fun as it initially sounded. Pulling up at the post office I'd get some crazy looks for sure). Even the Harley winter trike guys would look surprised. There was so much steel studding in the tires that I could feel the bike gallop rather than roll along smoothly.

I've had a bunch of other bikes over the years as well. Big KTM dual sports, same in BM, etc. I always liked the mid range bikes for physical size and that they're a little easier to toss around but when you ride them a little quicker than intended they get thirsty as all get out and for a guy that likes to go far enough that he can check out a few countries away that never worked.

Got hit by a rock the size of a shoe box bouncing off of a sheep truck on Route 40 in Argentina, pics in front of the hand sprouting from the Atacama Desert, slept in Columbia in a room full of more than 100 lizards, roared full throttle for miles on the autobahn w/ a daughter on the back and snapped my medial malleolus off two summers ago. Had to ride 450 miles home w/ my shifting foot dangling. Screwed back on now. Good times.

Except for that last bit.

And oh yeah... that gray Gucci (edit: Guzzi) a page or two back is a beauty.

I never ride in leather though. I'm a textile man in that respect.

 

[Trouser Bark]

Wow! I thought that was a Z1B at first glance and was shocked at how much work would've gone into bringing it up to that condition... then I realized it's fresh off the press. Kawasaki nailed that one for sure!

 

[Trouser Bark]

The old Laurence Grodsky method of "look where you want to go". Nicely done.

 

[beetleything]

Do you like the quickshifter? The gt pro is the 1st bike I've ridden with one fitted. I don't see the point,especially on an adventure bike.when the gearbox is so good to begin with.

yeah not being used to it i didn't use it at first ! After a few days i got into it and when i was on it - going up the gears it was great - but slowing down and general riding i just changed with the clutch.......

 

[Robson]

Moto Guzzi V7 850 special

 

[Honeybadger]

HD Lowrider S me in Switzerland below

 

[panigale]

The current Ducati roster.