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Actually the C90 probably has a right to be near the top. The C50/70/90 is the biggest selling bike of all time.
I was a despatch rider for years in London (GLH and Mercury) and the closest calculation I can make is around 600,000 miles.
Plus another 500,000 in cars, some as a taxi driver.
Over a million miles altogether. (32 years+).Leisure motoring and riding will come to probably about half of that total.
The best bike I ever owned was the 999R Ducati.
Maybe not as fast as the GSXR1000, but had a soul, sound and character that no Japanese bike could hope to match. A brilliant way to take the original 916 forward.
When you are picking just 3 bikes, a hell of a lot of good machinery will miss out, by definition.
By the way, a standard RD350LC, the first model, was unfaired and would do about 114 mph geuine. Clock figures and tuned bikes are not really relevant.The fact is that the 250 and 350 LC bikes did not move things forward much. The 250 did a ton, which had been achieved, within a couple of mph, by bikes years and years before it. The 350 was barely any faster than my Kawasaki Avenger of 10 years previous.
The Honda CB750 K0 brought 4-cylinder bikes to the masses, with reliability bikes had never had, with anything like the power.
The 916 brought sex on wheels to the public, combined with fantastic handling and performance from a mere two cylinders.
The Brough stood alone in the 1920s, full stop.quote:
Originally posted by siddont agree with your opinion of the RD350lc it was an icon of the 80’s and i think brought a lot of people into riding because of its looks/sound and power which may not be considered much nowadays but was affordable for almost every 18-19 year old then and would definately be on my top 3
life sucks get used to it
Yes. I praised the LC big time, but the 916 was much, much more.
Being honest?
The 4×4 does the commuting between November and March.
The bikes stay put. Unless we get some sun.
Fair-weather?
Guess so, yep.Nope, the Z1000 was a simple update of an existing style, as was the Z1 really, although that moved the power game on a fair bit when it appeared. (To the dizzy heights of 82bhp. LOL.)
Same with any Suzuki 4-cylinder.
Katana, yes, style-wise, but underneath, just a UJM.
Goldstar? Never. Probably the most over-rated and over-priced bike you could wish to have. It was just a tuned and fettled version of the bread and butter B31, which was a stone-age relic, quite honestly. I rode a DBD34 Gold Star for a few days, one which had been restored, with RRT2 gearbox, the lot. It was quite honestly the most appalling heap I had ever ridden. Yes, it sounded glorious at times, did 80mph in first gear, did a ton and handled okay, but it was the most uncomfortable, vibratory, hard-riding beast imaginable, with a temperemental power band, a ludicrously high first gear which made hand-wrecking clutch slip a permanent job, the whole thing was a huge disappointment, unlike other old machinery, like the 450 Desmo, which is so much better at everything, except being priced in cloud cuckoo land. I agree that they look nice though, in their own way.
I had just about the first RD350LC to appear in the UK. Great bike. A real move forward for street bikes, but just not like any of the above. Same goes for the RD500LC and RG500 I also owned.That’s not strictly true, had a 916, CB750, 999R, GSXR1000 and an R1100GS.
So 4. The R1200GS is a lot better by all accounts.
Hope so.
The good thing is that it is standard and original, except for the exhaust and carb, the former being a British-made unit which sounds even better than stock and the fuelling now being handled by a (bigger) Amal MK2 Concentric, the original just about eating itself whilst the bike sat in a shed for 18 years.‘Before’ pics would be a while back, as restoration is three-quarters done.
Will post some finished ones though.
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Originally posted by ScouserIs it like this?
Be seen and be Safe!
Yes, just like that only not as good.
