off topic - motorcycles

Any motorcycle enthusiasts here? if so what have you owned and what do you ride? I'm looking to purchase a brand new Lexmoto Arizona in black beauty of a bike that... when I have a full license I will be on a Harley

 

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Yep, that was my pride and joy back in the day- does that count?

 

is that a pocket bike?

 

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I don't take it out much these days....

 

I have a Honda XLR125R at the moment, my pride and joy. Covered in majassive spiders at the moment, makes me cry

 

learnt to ride a bike when i was a kid,currently have a old fireblade

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and a intruder

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sold this in the summer and now regret it wasn't the fastest/loudest thing but an excellent runner worse thing is someone near me bought it so i see it all the time

 

next time im in newcastle we will ride together as long as you ride that beautiful intruder

 

could be worse... such as a scooter

 

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I used to have this . It fired little orange missiles.

 

My last bike was an Aprillia RSV-R. Loved it.

Unfortunately with work and kids I rarely got the time to use it so I sold it about 3 years ago. When the kids are older I will probably get bikes again but will probably go for a 600cc rather than 1000cc.

 

Used to have one of these when I was a kid:

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It exploded when I took a corner in a disused chalk pit a bit to fast, front wheel hit a clod of chalk on the surface and spun the wheel about and left me hanging on as it raced vertically up a cliff face. I threw myself off to the side and it landed down a 10 foot deep gully and went BOOM.

Parents opted never to allow me to have a replacement even though I'd been riding the thing for 4 years.

 

my kids will never got me off a bike, I love the wind through my hair... I mean head.

 

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This is me trying to impress the birds on Beadnell beach, I reckon water skiing's for tarts.

 

had a scoot for a while, was fantastic fun. in the days when road laws werent reeeeallly laws in your own head. in other words, just didnt give a ****, but the xlr is amazing. So many forests around here you can just go for a rake around them or into a dirty wet field is always good fun. a mate of mine has a motox track near my house too its fantastic fun.

 

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I'm so sorry

 

should of asked your parents for something a little less likely to send you into oblivion, funny enough I came off a scrambler in weston and my old man sold it... ****er.

 

Used to be my message alert tone .

Followed by this for a while.

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http://youtu.be/tmQtWA6K9XA

this is my txt tone. not all of it, just the god damn polar gooks part

 

Love bikes. I'm lucky enough to have 3.

A BMW R1200RT, mainly for long trips with the missus - Germany, Belgium, France Luxembourg and Ireland in the last couple of years.

A Yamaha TDM 900, mainly for having fun on. Long journeys on this tend to give me numb nut syndrome.

A 30 year old BMW R60/7, mainly for tinkering with. One day I'll get it properly fettled for riding again.

Although most of my every day travelling is by car these days, I've been riding bikes since 1978 and couldn't bear to give it up.

 

my pick of the 3