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So it's a slightly less smelly turd then Fred?

Only one bike I'd consider.....

https://www.chinesemotorcyclepartsonline.co.uk/manufacturers/AJP Zongshen engines I think! Fuck that!

Chinese!

No big deal going round without your underpants Fred! @Renegade has gone round without his teeth for 40 fucking years!

Chinese motors? ?

Love them.......and the YR5. And looking back the GS750/GS1000 and Z1/Z900 have aged well too. Once it went into the 80's all the ludicrous angular styling came in.......that stuff looks really weird now.

Yeh.......first job in those days was ditch the stock tyres. Remember the weird feeling when you first put TT100's on........the bike kept on wanting to drop to the side!

Remember those Yokohama's? ?

@Muddy.......given the choice of any classic.....I'd choose one of these: a red GT380J from 1973. Why? Well it's certainly not because it's the best bike I had in that era......that was my GS750. It's because it was my first NEW bike.......April 18th 1973......the week before my 19th birthday. When I got that it felt like I'd finally become a real biker so to speak. Don't forget, that was considered a big bike back then. If I had one now......how would it improve my life? I certainly wouldn't have young birds eyeing me up as I went down the street cos they don't do that anymore. And if they did I'd probably get put on the Sex Offenders Register. And thinking back was it so great in 1973 really? A month after buying the bike......My alltime hero Jarno Saarinen got killed at Monza, and a month after that I met my first wife. Then it was downhill all the fucking way! Mistakes like that last a lifetime.

Thing is there's very few modern bikes that fit that niche now......only the XT660R. And generally most early XT's here have had a pretty hard life.

His name's bizarrely? That's......bizarre!

DR650 is a good bike.......but they were never imported after about 96. So very rare. The one I had in 2010 was a German import to the UK.......then it was imported into Spain. 650 Strom is what you want Ray!

Bruce needs a lot more medication than just Penicillin Pedro!

Especially when the tank slapper kicks in! And then of course there's braking in the wet!

On a FB Group for mainly older guys......which can make quite depressing reading at times with everybody listing their health conditions, and complaining about their low Pensions......the talk went to old vs new bikes. A lot of these guys have classic bikes or modern retros like Bonnies etc......very few seem to ride my type of bike or do that type of riding. So I said......."I love looking at the old bikes but I have no mechanical ability whatsoever, and they'd end up being a money pit. And also if I rode one I think I'd be disappointed compared to modern machinery. Probably find out my H1 500 triple from 75 wasn't quite as rapid as I remembered it". A guy replied....."If you are 65 + you would probably think your H1 is a hell of lot faster than you remember". I asked him......"How exactly does that work given the Strom does 0-60 in 3.6, and the H1 does it in 4 seconds? Standing quarter of the Strom is 12.5 seconds, and the H1 13 seconds! Top speed on the Strom is also higher as well". The irony is that the H1 had the reputation of being a fire-breathing monster, yet it's totally blitzed by the 650 Strom which is considered an old mans' bike in this era. The world has moved on.......and because I never stopped riding (I think a lot of them there are BAB) my perception of things has moved on incrementally over that period. But it seems like some people just can't move on! Don't get me wrong.....I'd love it to be 1973 again........but it ain't gonna happen. What you say?

Might well be it Bob........it was a long time ago!

Haven't got a clue Bob........I've got a history of getting lost and never knowing where I am. Still happens now because a lot of the places I end up don't exist on Google Maps.

Just delete the vid from your quote!

2014......

That's what it's all about guys! If I was in your position I'd be doing the same thing Alan......but my trip would be Poland first, and then across to NL to visit my sons.

Followed Harleys? You lost me on that Dave! Here's a little clip that I couldn't use on my other vids because a fly had splattered on the lens. It's a bunch of Beemer Boys coming from the other direction and getting the fuck out of the way! And then a couple of Harleys in front........but not for long!

What's that @Muddy?

Post the pics Pedro........it's the nearest these wannabes will get to motorcycling!