Motorbikes

[Kenb17]

Boxer for me

 

[pjm-84]

Best handling bike for me - BMW GSA Triple black.....I was shocked on how well that bike behaved..... loved the ESA as well.....just never had time for it and only managed a few hundred miles a year.

 

[Corradobrit]

The bike I owned the longest and only one purchased new.

https://imgur.com/UJQZGuC

 

[pchmlk]

Recently sold this Ducati after 20 years of European trips and track days. Still got my R1200gs though which is almost the perfect do everything bike IMO.

 

[sidepod]

I want to like the big adventure Beemers but every time I look at one they just seem enormous! That and the fact I don’t suit a grey beard.

 

[sidepod]

Recently sold this Ducati after 20 years of European trips and track days. Still got my R1200gs though which is almost the perfect do everything bike IMO.

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I ride one of those down to Le Mans once. Couldn’t stand up straight for a week after I got back!

 

[SanderR72]

I was late to the game, got my bike license in 2010 at age 38.

Started on a Suzuki XVS 900, which ruined my cornering technique. Went on to a Kawasaki Versys 1000 (first generation). Then a Kawasaki Z1000SX (2014). That was a nice one, should have kept it, but replaced it with a Kawasaki GTR1400. Sold that one when I moved back to the Netherlands from Belgium.

Missing the two wheels, I bought a Suzuki Bergman 650 for commuting. Traded it in after 6 months, it missed emotion. Next up (2019) came a secondhand Kawasaki ZX-10R. What a beast, impractical but fun.

In 2021 traded that one in again for a Honda Africa Twin, 2017 model with DCT.

Took it from The Hague to the Garda Lake in Italy through the Austrian Alpes and Italian Dolomites. Great bike, but with my 170 cm way too tall for me.

When I had to move to another apartment in 2023, I couldn’t easily take it with me so sold it and all my gear as well, thinking that I wouldn’t be driving a motorbike anymore because of other priorities etc.

What was I thinking??? In June 2025 while driving the Cali in Italy, I saw so many motorbikes that it started to itch.

And when I have an itch, it’s needs to be scratched. So in the last week of those holidays I started looking online. I wanted something different again. Looking at a new Ducati Scrambler, Royal Enfield Bear 650 and second hand BMW R NineT.

End of June I ended up with a 2016 BMW R NineT Scrambler… and all new gear.

 

[SanderR72]

The wife’s bike a few years ago. I’ve had to give up, ruined my hearing.

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The bike or the wife ruined your hearing? Or both?

 

[pjm-84]

This thread might get expensive.... love the R Nine T, but being 195cm tall put paid to most bike offerings / aspirations

 

[SanderR72]

This thread might get expensive.... love the R Nine T, but being 195cm tall put paid to most bike offerings / aspirations

The R NineT was sold to me by someone who’s just as tall (it was his ex wife’s bike). He liked the looks of it, but the bike is too small for him.

 

[Corradobrit]

I was late to the game, got my bike license in 2010 at age 38.

Started on a Suzuki XVS 900, which ruined my cornering technique. Went on to a Kawasaki Versys 1000 (first generation). Then a Kawasaki Z1000SX (2014). That was a nice one, should have kept it, but replaced it with a Kawasaki GTR1400. Sold that one when I moved back to the Netherlands from Belgium.

Missing the two wheels, I bought a Suzuki Bergman 650 for commuting. Traded it in after 6 months, it missed emotion. Next up (2019) came a secondhand Kawasaki ZX-10R. What a beast, impractical but fun.

In 2021 traded that one in again for a Honda Africa Twin, 2017 model with DCT.

Took it from The Hague to the Garda Lake in Italy through the Austrian Alpes and Italian Dolomites. Great bike, but with my 170 cm way too tall for me.

When I had to move to another apartment in 2023, I couldn’t easily take it with me so sold it and all my gear as well, thinking that I wouldn’t be driving a motorbike anymore because of other priorities etc.

What was I thinking??? In June 2025 while driving the Cali in Italy, I saw so many motorbikes that it started to itch.

And when I have an itch, it’s needs to be scratched. So in the last week of those holidays I started looking online. I wanted something different again. Looking at a new Ducati Scrambler, Royal Enfield Bear 650 and second hand BMW R NineT.

End of June I ended up with a 2016 BMW R NineT Scrambler… and all new gear.

Get yourself a disc lock handlebar cable. I've ridden off on the TDM850 with one attached early morning, when not thinking straight. None too clever.....

 

[SanderR72]

Get yourself a disc lock handlebar cable. I've ridden off on the TDM850 with one attached early morning, when not thinking straight. None too clever.....

Been there done that as well. I seem to manage to break those cables more often than I am forgetting about the lock, so gave up on them.

 

[Mansfieldman750]

We’re back and what a little beauty it is. A lot lower than the 765R but that’s a good thing at my age.
Get yersels a Triumph lads. All the best people had one, Steve McQueen, Bob Dylan, Buddy Holly, ever since the Old Testament in fact.
Joshua 7:26
“ The Lord was with Joshua, and his Triumph was heard throughout the land “

 

[SanderR72]

We’re back and what a little beauty it is. A lot lower than the 765R but that’s a good thing at my age.
Get yersels a Triumph lads. All the best people had one, Steve McQueen, Bob Dylan, Buddy Holly, ever since the Old Testament in fact.
Joshua 7:26
“ The Lord was with Joshua, and his Triumph was heard throughout the land “

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I’m not sure yet what I like best, the actual bike or the bible quote. The latter is hilarious (in a positive way)

But enjoy your new toy!

 

[secret lemonade drinker]

We’re back and what a little beauty it is. A lot lower than the 765R but that’s a good thing at my age.
Get yersels a Triumph lads. All the best people had one, Steve McQueen, Bob Dylan, Buddy Holly, ever since the Old Testament in fact.
Joshua 7:26
“ The Lord was with Joshua, and his Triumph was heard throughout the land “

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Where can I get a Pink Number Plate, it definitely suits that machine!

 

[calikev]

My old 765

 

[Mansfieldman750]

See, I said only the top people. My 765R was Silver Ice as well. Now for sale again at Two Wheel Centre in Mansfield but with one more owner since me

 

[Mansfieldman750]

And just to complete the set, the Imperial Purple one from 2012 ( or maybe 2011 ) which would have went nice with a Pink numberplate

 

[calikev]

My first triumph

 

[secret lemonade drinker]

The wife’s bike a few years ago. I’ve had to give up, ruined my hearing.

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I had one of those just after passing my test in 1988, 3 weeks later and many many bum clinching moments I changed it for a Honda CD185T Benley. So much more relaxed and I'm alive to tell the tale!

 

[pchmlk]

I ride one of those down to Le Mans once. Couldn’t stand up straight for a week after I got back!

Ha! Le Mans isn’t even that far! But they definitely hurt more as you get older.

The GS is awesome, grey beard aside. It takes a short while to get used to the size but they’re not really that much bigger than other bikes.

 

[SanderR72]

The “trouble” with motorbikes (with cars too but less) is that if you have N bikes in your garage, it’s N+1 bikes you want

 

[secret lemonade drinker]

The “trouble” with motorbikes (with cars too but less) is that if you have N bikes in your garage, it’s N+1 bikes you want

Then you end with a motorhome with garage so that it can be 2N+1!

 

[mickmull]

Norton Commando

 

[Polobear1959]

1983 , UK to Australia on my XS 750 Yamaha …… many adventures on the way including arrest by Iranian Sharia Guard at gunpoint & blindfold….. eventually made it to Aus … still here … love it!