Interesting motorcycles, not XS650

[MrBultaco]

(and for Mailman) 1960 Moto Guzzi Lodola Gran Turismo...(unrestored)

 

[Kevin Werner]

1947 FN Model 13...
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I am impressed by the lengths some designers take to make a simple concept less simple.

 

[46th Georgia]

I am impressed by the lengths some designers take to make a simple concept less simple.

Germanic engineering motto "Vy make eet simple, ven eet can be difficult"

 

[arcticXS]

Germanic engineering motto "Vy make eet simple, ven eet can be difficult"

Or Belgian, when we talk FN.

 

[arcticXS]

Found a couple more pics of Irving Vincents, at Phillip Island, January 2011.
1300 cc, 130 hp solo bike, 1600 cc, 160 hp sidecar. HUGE carbs on that sidecar rig.

 

[ThatXS650Guy]

Bistella 500

 

[Adamc]

 

[MaxPete]

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It’s hard to imagine that our elegant and delicate little XS650 was designed by the same people who came up with that….beastley looking motorcycle.

 

[Kevin Werner]

It’s hard to imagine that our elegant and delicate little XS650 was designed by the same people who came up with that….beastley looking motorcycle.

Eye of the beholder...
I would really like to ride a V6 someday.

 

[Kevin Werner]

Older brother bough a brand new disc brake CB450 "74 ish with 2 friens, one another 450 and the little brother a 360. I think the 450's were $729 and the 360 was $679. My brother had a black and magenta flame paint job, 4 inch rise Z-bars and a 2 into 1 header installed.

 

[MrBultaco]

I had a friend who bought one new...last time I saw him (1995), he had 150,000 miles on it and rode it from Ca....still had to ride it back.

 

[Jim]

Older brother bough a brand new disc brake CB450 "74 ish with 2 friens, one another 450 and the little brother a 360. I think the 450's were $729 and the 360 was $679. My brother had a black and magenta flame paint job, 4 inch rise Z-bars and a 2 into 1 header installed.View attachment 231707

Buddy of mine had the 450 scrambler. I had an R5C. Stationed in New Mexico, we traveled all over the west on those two little bikes. In the early 70's they were considered middleweights. One time we went to the Pacific and back camping. Neither bike ever had a minutes trouble on any of the cross countries we took.


Somewhere in Arizona....

 

[drgonzo]

Jim, isn't it amazing how once upon a time, one could travel all over on 350-500cc bikes (including Robert Pirsig). Now you need at least a 900 and that's a middle weight at best..lol.

 

[Jim]

Jim, isn't it amazing how once upon a time, one could travel all over on 350-500cc bikes (including Robert Persig). Now you.neef at least a 900 and that's a middle weight at best..lol.

Ain't that the truth. And Persig did it two up on a 305 SuperHawk.

 

[kshansen]

Then if anyone here follows Itchy Boots, she road from South America to the top of Alaska on a 300 and probably 70% of the time she was on dirt roads or no roads!

 

[jetmechmarty]

Then if anyone here follows Itchy Boots, she road from South America to the top of Alaska on a 300 and probably 70% of the time she was on dirt roads or no roads!

I know people who have gobbled huge miles on a KLR, even two-up and camping.

 

[Kevin Werner]

I know people who have gobbled huge miles on a KLR, even two-up and camping.

People used to run a 1000 miles in Baja on 500s and didn't stop to camp...

 

[46th Georgia]

Jim, isn't it amazing how once upon a time, one could travel all over on 350-500cc bikes (including Robert Pirsig). Now you need at least a 900 and that's a middle weight at best..lol.

Yeah, we're spoiled. I have an '05 H-D Road King and I want a Indian Chief. 23 more C.I (my first bike was a Kawi S-1, 15 C.I.) and the Indian has 4 more inches of wheelbase. Oh the horrors.

 

[Raymond]

Then if anyone here follows Itchy Boots, she road from South America to the top of Alaska on a 300 and probably 70% of the time she was on dirt roads or no roads!

Lois Pryce rode Alaska to Tierra Del Fuego on a Yamaha XT225.

 

[jetmechmarty]

Lois Pryce rode Alaska to Tierra Del Fuego on a Yamaha XT225.

We’re is that documented? I’m interested.