Show us your bikes past and present....

Heck - I'm confused, I just posted my list in another thread....duhhhhh.
 
My 1979 XS 750, photo is my brother in law on it shortly after I got it.
Second photo is the bike I will be buying as soon as I can arrange a ride to Iowa! I’m going to remove the fairing and get an original seat. My wife says that I’m living in the past. I say so what!
 

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My 1979 XS 750, photo is my brother in law on it shortly after I got it.
Second photo is the bike I will be buying as soon as I can arrange a ride to Iowa! I’m going to remove the fairing and get an original seat. My wife says that I’m living in the past. I say so what!

Very nice! I look for old XS750’s pretty often and they are hard to find in good original condition. Good for you!
And by the way, keep living in the past, it’s a better place to be!
 
Only other bike with a motor I ever owned, SR250 "Exciter". GREAT FUN! Really cool thumper sound and ride, just a bit too small for my purposes. I think same era XT250 has the same engine but with kick instead of electric. Similar to XS650S in lots of ways. Sold it to a guy who picked it up and put it in a truck. I'm not kidding. I couldn't lift it an inch.
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P.S. Oh, and 80 miles per gallon. How's that sound?
 
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I don't have any pics of my first two bikes, a Honda C90 and a BSA Starfire, but here's the third, a 1970 T100S, pic from student days around 1977:
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I spent so much money rebuilding it I had to sell it, to a lecturer whose cheque kept bouncing. I was close to asking some large friends to have a word with him when it finally cleared.

Then I bought this GS400 from my brother, here it is with my then girlfriend, 1980 I think:
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The GS was part-exchanged for the (new!!!) T140ES in 1981:
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Then I had to sell that to clear the debt when the work ran out. I moved to Wiltshire, got married, had 2 kids but HAD to have another bike, so bought the 1972 750 Commando from an old school friend. Here's the before and after:
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I had that for 13 years and then I went modern, a bike only 20 years old! A Laverda RGS I kept for 2 years:
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That needed some changes to the brakes to give it any hope of stopping within a mile or so, but I enjoyed it and then traded it in for the ZX12R, an A1 model. This is it in France, near the source of the Loire:
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The ZX got traded in, after 8 years, for the new (!!!!) Multistrada in 2011, and I still have it. And the XS, and a DRZ400, and here they are after today's wash and brush-up:
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I love them all. They are SO different, but each, in its own way, loadsa fun.
Cheers all -
Cliff

PS - around the Commando years I also had a Beamish Suzuki 250 trials iron for a couple of years. I gave up my trials attempts because I couldn't find anywhere to practise, and decided the money would be better spent elsewhere. At least I gave it a go. No pics, I'm afraid.
 
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Oh wow. Umm lets see, lots with no picture. Z50(never ran), ke100(came in a box), a honda cub(traded a gameboy for it) 1st real bike honda rebel 250, cb350(shed find, too far gone to fix at 15), cb350f(ran for 20min), ducati 748(blew engine and rebuilt as an 853), yzf600r(bought for engine), fzr400(got yzf engine), cb175(never did finish it), sl90(2 of them, still in pieces), xs650( 1 sorta working, 1 on the lift), cb400f(free from friend), and finally the triumph tiger 800xc. I might have missed a few. I Just remembered a few more. MZ Skorpion(bought and rode for a while), XR200(bought cheap and rebuilt), xl125(bought then sold to my dad), xr100(beater)
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First new bike I ever owned, 1971 Yamaha RT360. One of several I wish I had back.

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Kawasaki 650W1. Sexy as all get out, but a beeyotch to start and the brakes were more of a concept than a reality.

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1974 TX650A, straddled by a 1974 Downeaster. Kept that bike longer than I've ever kept any bike and probably should've never let it go.

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198? Honda XL500. Put some serious miles on that bike in the piney woods of Northwest Florida while stationed in Pensacola. Got snookered into swapping it for a 1978 nekkid Goldwing. Had a bad alternator on it, easier to sell than to fix, but was a great cruiser as long as you kept the battery topped up.

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1979 Special, the bike I bought to relive my yoof. Kept it quite a while too, but the new bike urge bit me, so...

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My current ride is a 2016 Yamaha FJ09. 115 HP. Fuel Injection. ABS. Traction Control. Real brakes. Real suspension. 115 HP. Horry Sheet!
 
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