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There is a ton of different bike manufacturers, both current and historical which all had their different focuses both in brand itself or in model lines, be it racing, consumer every day transport or niches like off-road desert racing. I just wanted to make a thread for posting the more out there examples for fun/shaming/discussion. Like this one  What is it? That's a Cagiva V-Raptor 1000. Suzuki TL 1000 engine in a package designed by Miguel Angel Galluzzi, same man that designed the ducati monster.  More info about the model can be found here among variable quality of motorbike journalist spiel. https://www.motorcyclenews.com/bike-reviews/cagiva/raptor-1000/2000/ https://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/cagiva/cagiva_v%20raptor%201000.htm https://www.visordown.com/reviews/motorbike/raptor-1000-2000-2006-review and it was also available as a boring normal naked variant. 
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Another nice example, shown on the forums before. The Aprilia moto 6.5  Designed by Philippe Starck, who have among an insane amount of other stuff designed the lovingly crafted "golden turd"   More info about the bike can be found here https://www.mcnews.com.au/aprilia-moto-6-5-starck/ https://www.motorcyclenews.com/bike-reviews/aprilia/moto-6.5/1995/ Supradog fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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Mar 17, 2021 21:32
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I have a thing for cool gauge designs and I especially like when the standard two gauge setup gets shaken up This is an older Yamaha of some vintage that I can’t find.  This is a 66 Suzuki T20. I especially love the odometer setup   This is an older Honda 305 with the same setup  1966 CB77 Super Hawk  this is the one that started my weird obsession I don’t know why but I really like and care about gauge design. I’m the wii-u water noticing guy but for bike gauges https://twitter.com/badmiiversepost/status/469556540656340992?s=21
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Mar 18, 2021 01:21
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The frame on the RSV1000R is a thing of pointless beauty and it's the one motorcycle I truly lust for. I've never even seen one in person yet it made me an Aprilia fan for life.
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Mar 18, 2021 05:42
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 Did you know De Tomaso also made bikes? Bikes with a good number of cylinders?  The Benelli 750 Sei  "During the 1960s and 1970s, de Tomaso acquired a number of Italian industrial holdings. As well as the Ghia and Vignale coachbuilding studios, he earned control of the Benelli and Moto Guzzi motorcycle firms, the Innocenti car company (founded as an offshoot of the British Motor Corporation to build Minis in Italy), and, in 1975, the celebrated sports car maker Maserati, which he rescued from bankruptcy with the assistance of the Italian government. Over time, however, he sold many of his holdings; Ghia was sold to Ford (who would make much use of the name) in 1973; Innocenti and Maserati were sold to Fiat (which closed the former) in 1993." More info about the bike here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benelli_Sei https://www.motorcycleclassics.com/classic-italian-motorcycles/benelli-sei-750 https://caferacergarage.eu/benelli-sei-the-first-6-cylinder-motorcycle-story/
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Mar 18, 2021 18:44
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How about weird but definitely not wonderful? https://www.instagram.com/p/CMetf3TleYZ/ Be sure to check out the video where he shows you all the chains, it would be so easy to lose a finger on this thing
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Mar 18, 2021 21:09
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More rare than wonderful, a 1987 Honda CB350sg  From what I can find out this was originally a south america only model(like the honda nx400 falco) that was gray market imported into the uk like the honda bros, then found its way up here north. Hard to find actual info about it on the web since the model came and went pre-internet. I did find the specs which are nothing real special. Air cooled, 6valve parallell twin, about 190KG wet. 17liter tank, 34HP. Commuter/basic transport bike. Mix and match of honda parts used on other bikes from that era. Interesting dash though, I like the blue contrast on the clocks.  More images in this for sales ad. Supradog fucked around with this message at 11:12 on Apr 5, 2021 |
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Apr 5, 2021 10:34
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Those 80's/90's parts bin bikes are always interesting.
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Apr 5, 2021 19:20
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THE CHECK PANEL From a 1980 Suzuki GSX1100ET
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Apr 15, 2021 17:54
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Supradog posted:THE CHECK PANEL That rules, and the fact that they could have put in a simple battery indicator light instead, but didn't, even moreso.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:37
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Kind of in love with the bastard child of the 80s interstate cruisers, the killed by politics Honda GL 650 silver wing. Got upgraded to 650cc to overcome it's 500cc variants shortcomings and tax killed it. It helps that this little silver nugget is clean and have been cared for.    A one year only model wonder. More info about the model here https://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/Honda/honda_gl650_83.htm
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Apr 23, 2021 23:38
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Interesting. I've seen multiple cx650's but they were all cut up and trashed, always wondered what a silverwing was meant to look like. They made a jdm 400cc version too which are more common, they don't have the big fairing but still designated gl400 silverwing.
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Apr 23, 2021 23:43
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I like both the cx and silverwing, I’ve always been intrigued by that motor
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Apr 23, 2021 23:54
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Supradog posted:Kind of in love with the bastard child of the 80s interstate cruisers, the killed by politics Honda GL 650 silver wing. Got upgraded to 650cc to overcome it's 500cc variants shortcomings and tax killed it. This would go really great on display inside of the gondola behind my house.
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Jun 3, 2021 03:08
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Bike design? Engineering? Idk it's weird. https://www.notechmagazine.com/2021/07/inventor-harvests-methane-gas-from-ditches-and-ponds-to-power-his-moped.html quote:“Eight hours of hoeing for a twenty kilometer drive will ensure that it will be the best twenty kilometers of your life.”
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Jul 14, 2021 03:01
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If you photoshopped out the man and showed someone that picture, their brain would accurately reconstruct his appearance by inference from the bike alone, like a really crap blindsight.
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Jul 14, 2021 03:09
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Local wizard runs scooter off of farts
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Jul 14, 2021 04:23
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I always thought eight hours of hoeing paid better than that
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Jul 14, 2021 04:39
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Probably one of the worst people possible to be stuck talking to at a party
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Jul 14, 2021 08:58
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MomJeans420 posted:Probably one of the worst people possible to be stuck talking to at a party Chose your fighter: Finance Bro:  Bitcoin Chud:  Scooter Fart Wizard:
Beve Stuscemi fucked around with this message at 13:17 on Jul 14, 2021 |
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Jul 14, 2021 13:14
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Chose your fighter: At least scooter fart guy has good taste in motorcycles.
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Jul 14, 2021 15:03
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Scooter fart wizard has an amazing bookshelf and board game collection probably. Honestly if you could rig up some kind of semi-automated harvesting method and pressurized the methane in something other than a victorian glass fucken...thing then that wouldn't be too bad if the alternative is an e-bike. Low efficiency, low energy so a small air cooled engine with low power but it's better than pedalling.
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Jul 14, 2021 19:45
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I reluctantly choose scooter wizard guy, but I think I'm just going to leave the party at this point
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Jul 14, 2021 21:58
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Chose your fighter: Scooter Fart Wizard 100%. It's going to be very awkward at first but eventually we'll find something of mutual interest. Can we play bang/kill/marry instead? That's easier.
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Jul 14, 2021 23:35
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Neat thread idea. Here is my favorite concept bike of all time, the Yamaha Sakura. Its lines are perfect. I love the color. It's just exactly what a motorcycle should be.  Someone already posted the Moto 6.5, which I also think has near-perfect lines, so here is the mockup of what would have been the next in the series, the X-Ray:  1980 BMW Futuro, ft. Ace and Gary:  It's hard to beat the BMW R7 (1934) for pure class in a Dick Tracy sort of way:  I've never been a huge Gold Wing fan, but 1999's X-Wing is the absolute highest-proof distillation of THE MILLENNIUM into a motorcycle and I would absolutely own it, wearing a silver racing suit: 
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Jul 15, 2021 03:09
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Sagebrush posted:Neat thread idea. This bike is so staggeringly perfect I think it's safe to assume that it wouldn't be able to function because they didn't leave space for some vital thing like starting or cooling systems.
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Jul 15, 2021 03:23
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Sagebrush posted:I've never been a huge Gold Wing fan, but 1999's X-Wing is the absolute highest-proof distillation of THE MILLENNIUM into a motorcycle and I would absolutely own it, wearing a silver racing suit: Interesting I've never seen this before but my eyes see a ST1300. It's even a transverse V-6 (ST1300 is transverse V-4). My guess is Honda intended this to be the replacement for the Goldwing but incorporated the ideas into the ST1300 instead. 
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Jul 15, 2021 20:10
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1999 was not better than 1986 it seems
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Jul 18, 2021 03:57
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Ooh, aside from that odd downward stance, that thing looks really cool
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Jul 18, 2021 13:18
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LimaBiker posted:Ooh, aside from that odd downward stance, that thing looks really cool Worth bearing in mind that 1986 was bang in the middle of the era where big power and high tech were a thing but knowing how to build a bike that handles was very much not yet a thing.
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An angry jelly bean.
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Jul 18, 2021 20:10
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3OQTU-kE2s Re: crappy handling - Old bikes were really loving crap. This is a short old film about speed wobble/tank slappers and how to deal with them. I still want one, but ffs, i'm happy that modern bikes (usually) don't do this stuff unprovoked. I am sure that the enormous brass balls of the test rider played a big role in keeping those wobbly bikes upright by working as some kind of tuned mass damper like they have in the big skyscrapers in Japan.
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Jul 18, 2021 20:12
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LimaBiker posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3OQTU-kE2s A modern bike will 100% do the exact same thing, you just need to be going much faster, because they've successfully pushed the death wobble speed higher than horsepower usually allows you to go. Really fast stuff like superbikes and GP bikes are basically all shake at high speeds and yes, tuned mass dampers are in play in motogp as an attempt to maintain stability at 350 without sacrificing too much agility and roll rate.
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Jul 18, 2021 20:17
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:1999 was not better than 1986 it seems This looks like the camera pill you swallow to diagnose GI issues.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:1999 was not better than 1986 it seems This is freaking awesome
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Jul 23, 2021 05:48
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Sagebrush posted:Neat thread idea. Holy poo poo Sagebrush posted:
Art Deco Batman
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Aug 3, 2021 06:12
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I've always been a fan of the Art Deco Batman bike. I have an animation cel from the Mask of the Phantasm movie with it doing a sick jump.
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Professor Wayne posted:I've always been a fan of the Art Deco Batman bike. I have an animation cel from the Mask of the Phantasm movie with it doing a sick jump. That rules, let me know if you ever want to sell it
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 A Yamaha xz 550 with an aftermarket round headlight, led indicators and for some strange reason a low side plate?. Anyways. It's a pretty rare 2 year only good speced bike from the early 80s v-twin Water cooled Shaft drive 213kg wet 17 liter tank 65hp The major issue is some really finicky first year model carbs. Apperantly very sensitive to fuel quality and any debris or gumming up. Parts availablity for model specific stuff is also zero. Good luck getting anything for the 2+2-1-2 exhaust.  Looks good though. 
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Very, very cool, almost like a Yamaha take on a pantah.
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