Motorcycles

[All Hail Wu Welsh]

I've noticed there are a bunch of people into motorcycles on here but no motorcycle thread.  Post pics of of your rides, good motorcyle blogs/websites, pics of some sweet cycles, tales/plans of epic rides etc.  I currently don't have a motorcycle, but am starting to save and will hopefully have enough once the weather gets warmer, I have my eyes set on either a triumph boneville or daytona preferably from the years 73-79. Anyways here are some good blogs i occasionally check.

http://4qconditioning.blogspot.com- im sure everyone knows this one

http://www.czombieblog.com/- another motorcycle blog run by skaters

http://vise22-satanscrate.blogspot.com/- this one is mostly in japanese but still has some sick content.

[HATE!]

I've posted this pic before, but it's the best I have.  This is me and Bad Motorscooter.  She's a 2001 Triumph Bonneville T-100 Centennial Edition.  Painted Lucifer Orange and Gun Metal.  She's totally stock. 






I had my eye on the brand new Norton Commando 961 SS, but it looks like it will go for about 17k, which is WAY to much for me.  So I will wait it out.  She's a pretty one too.

[Beer Keg Peg Leg]

I've posted this pic before, but it's the best I have.  This is me and Bad Motorscooter.  She's a 2001 Triumph Bonneville T-100 Centennial Edition.  Painted Lucifer Orange and Gun Metal.  She's totally stock. 






I had my eye on the brand new Norton Commando 961 SS, but it looks like it will go for about 17k, which is WAY to much for me.  So I will wait it out.  She's a pretty one too.

god help us...

[The Drew]

i like riding bikes too...

im going to trade in my honda and get a yamaha sr400 sometime next year... going to make it into a cafe racer...
http://www.yamaha-motor.jp/mc/lineup/sportsbike/sr400/cafe/index.html
http://www.yamaha-motor.jp/mc/lineup/sportsbike/sr400/

both sites are in japanese if you are interested

[ahlee]

I've been looking into starting my first bike. This thread could help.

[Donkey Lips]

the DL rides an '81 harley sportster and an '85 honda rebel.  the sportster is some pretty scary shit and is a work in progress.  the rebel was a work commuter that is fun to beat on.  if anyone wants to learn, find a friend who has a 250 size cruiser and learn on that.  light shit that you won't murder yourself on too hard.  this rebel is pretty much indestructable.  the tank is all beaten from drunk college kids tipping it over in my parking lot.  the sportster will get sold as soon as i find a BMW r90.  that triumph is fucking sick hate.

[jrock]

i want a triumph so bad. 

[Sleazy]

riding a bike in houston is beyond gnarly

[yeah dude!]

riding a bike in L.A. is beyond gnarly

[floop]

riding a bike in L.A. is beyond gnarly

i've been wanting to get a bike but i live in LA and don't necessarily want to die.  if it weren't for other drivers, and shitty roads it might be more doable.   when i see bikes cruising through the middle of traffic it does make my morning commute seem more appealing

nice bike HATE.  that's pretty much my 1st choice for what i'd want to get (except in black)

[kinky john]

I've posted this pic before, but it's the best I have.  This is me and Bad Motorscooter.  She's a 2001 Triumph Bonneville T-100 Centennial Edition.  Painted Lucifer Orange and Gun Metal.  She's totally stock. 






I had my eye on the brand new Norton Commando 961 SS, but it looks like it will go for about 17k, which is WAY to much for me.  So I will wait it out.  She's a pretty one too.

You sir, have good taste.

Thinking of buying one of these



A pal of mine is selling 2. He also has one of these which I also fancy..



Greeves scottish trials, proper vintage trials bike and at £1400, is the cheaper option, but will need making road legal, lights and such.

[HATE!]

Damn kinky john.  You also have good taste!

I've been into bikes forever.  My first vehicular accident was on a motorcycle.  I was 4 and riding on the gas tank of my dad's bike on some fire trails in the california hills and lost it in some loose dirt.  I don't give a shit about going fast, I am all about style, and cafe racers are where it is at!  BSA, Triumphs, Nortons.... motherfucking BRITISH STEEL!  actually the other day I found this dope Royal Enfield painted flat olive green.  So stylish.  Tried to talk the dude into letting it go and I was wasted, but no luck.

[The Drew]

Damn kinky john.  You also have good taste!

I've been into bikes forever.  My first vehicular accident was on a motorcycle.  I was 4 and riding on the gas tank of my dad's bike on some fire trails in the california hills and lost it in some loose dirt.  I don't give a shit about going fast, I am all about style, and cafe racers are where it is at!  BSA, Triumphs, Nortons.... motherfucking BRITISH STEEL!  actually the other day I found this dope Royal Enfield painted flat olive green.  So stylish.  Tried to talk the dude into letting it go and I was wasted, but no luck.

i love BSA's... but parts for the classic british bikes are freaking expensive...

hate, is flat olive green the same colour as british racing green... if so that is a mighty fine colour

[HATE!]

Nope british racing green is that really nice hunter green color, very classic color for British bikes.  Flat olive would be a non gloss paint and it's like olive green.

Here is a similar Royal Enfield to the one I was looking at.



Whenever I am done with the Army, I'll probably load up a backpack and split for 6 months to a year and try and hit all four corners of the country.

[All Hail Wu Welsh]

sick bike hate, like everyone else has stated you have great taste, and i too have the same plan to hit all four corners of the country on motorcycle at some point hopefully in the not too distant future.  here are some sick triumphs i've found craig list hunting


1970 tr-6


1970 tiger

and this sweet machine, a bike just like this is what aspire to own one day
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Triumph-Tr6c-bobber-custom-chopper-650-rat-rod-trophy_W0QQitemZ220502174477QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_motorcycles?hash=item3356f42b0d#v4-37

[HATE!]

Christ man, that TR-6 is fucking beautiful, and that Tiger is nothing to bat an eye at.  I really want to restore a 1973 Bonney because that was my old man's first bike.

Here's a '73 Bonney.  I'd go all stock and do it in a british racing green and somewhere subtle throw a little lettering and filligree with the name "Bart" because that's the old man's name.



I did a little riding in Europe, mainly Germany, but whenever I was in Italy or Spain, I'd rent a scooter for however long I needed one.  Back in 1996 I was zipping around Ibiza on scooters with some homies and we were trying to play catch with a bag of oranges while driving (fucking dumb) and I hit a curb and just wrecked the thing.  Took it back and they just let me have another one no questions asked.

[Bobbito]

I want this

[HATE!]

Virtually every bike here is a crotch rocket with a few harleys scattered throughout.  They just aren't my style at all, and I don't care about going that fast.  Also-- I like the british bikes because they are kinda unique, not many people have them, especially where I live.

This is my roommates bike

Ducati Hypermotard



Not really my style, but he is able to go fast and sit upright which he has to because he broke his back a year ago and can't lean that far over anymore

[Donkey Lips]

Virtually every bike here is a crotch rocket with a few harleys scattered throughout.  They just aren't my style at all, and I don't care about going that fast.  Also-- I like the british bikes because they are kinda unique, not many people have them, especially where I live.

This is my roommates bike

Ducati Hypermotard



Not really my style, but he is able to go fast and sit upright which he has to because he broke his back a year ago and can't lean that far over anymore

where i live now, there's a kid kicking around on that same ducati.  i almost too him out a few weeks ago when he ran a 4way stop sign.

[HATE!]

They are sweet little bikes due to their maneuverability and they sound like a mean ass little pig which is cool.  I just can't get into the dirtbike look personally, but my roommate loves his.  I'll take a picture of the bike he got hit on.  When you see it, you just wonder how all he broke was his back.

[Sleazy]

i'm not into bikes at all but those british ones make me wish i was... dope shit

[rawbertson.]

BIKES ARE A FUCKING DEATHTRAP YALL NEVER GONNA CATCH ME ON ONE OF THEM SHITS
I GET PARANOID AS FUCK DRIVING A CAR THINKING SOMEONE IS GOING TO HIT ME (I HAVE BEEN HIT BEFORE ALMOST GOT WHIPLASH)
SOMEONE HITS YOU ON A BIKE YOU ARE STRAIGHT UP FUCKED

[floop]

now you've got me looking at bikes


i want this

http://tinyurl.com/yhcdtza

[lenny]

honda shadow 750.
fun bike for sure, but i think i'm going to sell it next year and get something older and more powerful.

[Sleazy]

BIKES ARE A FUCKING DEATHTRAP YALL NEVER GONNA CATCH ME ON ONE OF THEM SHITS
I GET PARANOID AS FUCK DRIVING A CAR THINKING SOMEONE IS GOING TO HIT ME (I HAVE BEEN HIT BEFORE ALMOST GOT WHIPLASH)
SOMEONE HITS YOU ON A BIKE YOU ARE STRAIGHT UP FUCKED

exactly why i'm not into them

i saw the immediate after math of a wreck on campus where a guy was just riding his bike through campus and some other guys turned without looking and hit him and the guy was lying there in the middle of the street dead when i came up. if he was in a car he would have walked away from it, infact the guys that hit him fled the scene.

but i don't want to shit on this thread, really sick bikes in here. i just don't have the balls for it.

[HATE!]

I totally understand the deathwish thing.... then again, I skateboard, I've deployed a few times in the military to hostile environments, I've jumped out of perfectly fine aircrafts, and I've gone headfirst through a windshield, so maybe I just don't learn my lesson

[All Hail Wu Welsh]

I watched a guy totally wreck his crotch rocket and eat shit directly in front of me I was so close i got hit with shrapnel from his bike, but it was completely his fault.  Around here guys that drive the type of bikes bobbito posted are always meathead guidos who don't know what the fuck they are doing, so i've learned to resent sport bikes and on top that i think they look like shit.

[kinky john]

Aforementioned acquaintance now has this bad boy up for sale, at first I thought it was ugly as sin, but its rakish charms are growing on me...

[macgruber]

hoping to get a bike in the next year. probably a honda cb750 until i get used to riding and can save up some more scratch

something like this:

[Wizard Fuck]

http://www.indianmotorcycle.com/