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Title: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: grog on Saturday, 07 July 2018, 06:25 PM
your 3 best looking motorcycles, ones that just do it for you. so many to choose. 3 is very difficult. my all time fave is 900ss. has been for ever.
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: gsxbarmy on Saturday, 07 July 2018, 06:31 PM
Ducati 900SS - absolutely. Always regretting not getting one of those when I was younger, Ducati reliability on the electrics front put me off then. Worth a fortune now.

My second choice would be the Benelli Sei 900.

Third choice would be the Kawasaki Z900 A1
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: lil4399 on Saturday, 07 July 2018, 07:35 PM
My uncle bought the 900ss Mike Hailwood Replica when they came out.

Still has it in the garage with a fleet of BSA A10s.
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: lil4399 on Saturday, 07 July 2018, 07:52 PM
CBX 1000 fell in love first time I saw it

GS1000E the one I wanted but never had

R51 the absolute style icon
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: ARH on Saturday, 07 July 2018, 08:14 PM
Ducati 916 .. has to be in red of course!
Honda CBX also red...
Kawasaki Z1.


Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: grog on Saturday, 07 July 2018, 08:57 PM
Lil, neighbour just up the road. Has cbx with 84 ks on clock, its been built into a coffee table. 84, not 84 th. He has 13 ss ducati. Has a green frame 750 ss, offered lots for it. 1996 jap buyer offered 55 g, today, who knows.
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: shanered6 on Saturday, 07 July 2018, 09:13 PM
well i cant believe its not been said yet !!  gsx1400 , ducati916 , triumph speed triple 1050 , but damn i could pick 50  :)
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: seth on Saturday, 07 July 2018, 09:31 PM
Blue and white gsx1400 k6
Red and black gsx1400 k6
Blue and white gs1000 s

Just need the gs1000s and sorted .
:cheers:
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: lil4399 on Sunday, 08 July 2018, 01:39 AM
Quote from: grog on Saturday, 07 July  2018, 08:57 PM
Lil, neighbour just up the road. Has cbx with 84 ks on clock, its been built into a coffee table. 84, not 84 th. He has 13 ss ducati. Has a green frame 750 ss, offered lots for it. 1996 jap buyer offered 55 g, today, who knows.


:shocked: :shocked: :shocked:

Think he would be my bestest buddie!
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: Del on Sunday, 08 July 2018, 03:55 AM
For me it would be

RD350LC
Z1300
ZRX1200 DAEG

Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: seth on Sunday, 08 July 2018, 03:59 AM
I had a 350lc 2 pre-powervalve model
it was reversed colours from that mainly being blue .best bike I ever had turned to within an inch of its life (7mpg).
It was stolen from outside me work on a Friday afternoon. I was 18 at the time .
:cheers:
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: Tony Nitrous on Sunday, 08 July 2018, 07:17 AM
My 3 would probably change day to day, but possibles would be....

A Craig Vetter Hurricane.

The boxy brutal GSX1100ET with the larger square tank.

A Z(Gpz) 750 Turbo.

A Green Z1100R Lawson Rep.

A 6 spoke / black engine model GSX1100SD Katana.

A Z1R-TC (in black and yellow not the ice blue one)

A well put together Harris Magnum.
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: grog on Sunday, 08 July 2018, 07:08 PM
a very stupid post by me, 3 only. agree it changes everyday and i prob. have hundreds i really like. seemed a good idea.
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: Tug on Sunday, 08 July 2018, 09:26 PM
As many has already said it changes but my first 3 i could think of
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: Kiwifruit on Monday, 09 July 2018, 06:50 AM
Good to see the H2Tug. Back in the day those things were the open production class must have bike. 30 odd would line up at Pukekohe, then at the end of the day would remove their number boards, put the headlight back in and ride home. Same applied to the RD350 except they had odds and evens races because they had so many entries in the up to 350 proddy class.
Too many to list just 3 but as Tony mentioned the Hurricane. Remember seeing one when l was about 15 and thinking how sharp it looked.
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: Irish in Oz on Monday, 09 July 2018, 07:43 AM
I'm happy with these 3
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: VladTepes on Monday, 09 July 2018, 09:50 AM
Yeah the H2's were great. A former boss owned one, then he lost interest in riding and sold it. But didn't tell me first, dammit.
And someone mentioned the Benelli Sei. They are great, better I think that the Honda CBX,  and the sound.. ah yes !


As Tony says, it's impossible to narrow it down to 3 really, but it's something worth considering at any rate.
A great selection there too Tony.

For me -

First was the iconic green frame Ducati 750SS.
(https://gsx1400owners.org/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2F736x%2Fd6%2F4f%2F20%2Fd64f206fc78b7aa071b1d474e8429157.jpg&hash=f2bd7621c04ce9e2ce5a4f160e67e384ab70e857)

Secondly, released when other fellas had posters of the Lamborghini Diablo on their walls, was the devastatingly gorgeous Ducati 916, which set the style for years to come - not just for a Ducati but a lead that other manufacturers quickly followed.
(https://gsx1400owners.org/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.motorcyclespecs.co.za%2FGallery%2FDucati%2520916%252094%2520%25201.jpg&hash=aff7ee8f1ecbf7967a85215c36537364f36e3fdc)
I hasten to add, though, that it was the proper design which every wanted, not the abortion of a front fairing that was originally forced on the bike by Australian Design Rules pertaining to headlights. Picture, if you dare, a 916 or 748 with a single rectangular headlight. or actually see it here: http://www.omnimoto.it/foto/5265/ducati-916-748-australia/104501
Fortunately the ADRs were subsequently changed and most (if not every) 916 was converted by their owners to the proper fairing.


But as to the MOST beautiful well, that's a toughie. It would probably be a hayabu  nah, just kidding :)

Nah actually it's not hard at all, Definitely the MV Agusta F4CC (Senna version)

(https://gsx1400owners.org/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.motorcyclespecs.co.za%2FGallery%2520%2520A%2FMV%2520Agusta%2520F4%25201000%2520Senna%2520%2520%25204.jpg&hash=8a5528c4a627cd2fca940b1d90c10a552d27f7b3)

Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: V_i_c_i on Monday, 09 July 2018, 07:00 PM
Very hard to choose just 3. But for me probably this.

BMW R75
(https://motos-of-war.ru/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/bmw-r75-201502-web-06.jpg)

Crocker
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/88/9d/1f/889d1f7ffc8fcc7c245f32d63fc1fc08.png)

Ducati MH900e
(https://gsx1400owners.org/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.katalog-motocyklu.cz%2Ffiles%2Fmotocykly%2Farticle%2F2383%2F576x360_cs_CZ%2F222.jpg&hash=b07cae9327c73271e0ebfebeb6303f54060538a6)
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: Tony Nitrous on Monday, 09 July 2018, 07:29 PM
V_I_C_I ...... if you like the older bikes....

Left hand throttle, shaft drive, across the frame V-twin...

(https://gsx1400owners.org/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi63.tinypic.com%2Fjf8apc.jpg&hash=dea6b15971390dbffa1ee4ce3842f33df312b822)
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: V_i_c_i on Monday, 09 July 2018, 08:06 PM
Awesome Tony  :onya:
My stable have more bikes too  :onya: For example...

(https://img9.rajce.idnes.cz/d0902/12/12376/12376255_51d35d1dbc2a724d53552b71d6ac8923/images/3580771.jpg?ver=0)

We can go to war together  :rofl2:

BTW: All season bike  :onya:

(https://gsx1400owners.org/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mototrempi.cz%2Fimg%2Foriginal%2F7135%2F14-jde-to-i-bez-vykonu-a-zaverky.jpg&hash=0acd2c576aa928c0531440db9a6df766fd274f5f)
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: Tony Nitrous on Monday, 09 July 2018, 08:09 PM
Sadly the Indian isn't mine.

I do fancy an M20 / M21 though.
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: V_i_c_i on Monday, 09 July 2018, 08:11 PM
Quote from: Tony Nitrous on Monday, 09 July  2018, 08:09 PM
Sadly the Indian isn't mine.

I do fancy an M20 / M21 though.

Pity, it would go to your skin  :onya:
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: Tony Nitrous on Monday, 09 July 2018, 08:27 PM
Quote from: V_i_c_i on Monday, 09 July  2018, 08:11 PM
Quote from: Tony Nitrous on Monday, 09 July  2018, 08:09 PM
Sadly the Indian isn't mine.

I do fancy an M20 / M21 though.

Pity, it would go to your skin  :onya:

That Indian 841 is a bit rare here.
They only ever made just over 1000 of them and that was 75 years ago.
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: VladTepes on Tuesday, 10 July 2018, 09:19 AM
Quote from: Tony Nitrous on Monday, 09 July  2018, 08:27 PM
and that was 75 years ago.

When you were just a little tacker!  :stir:
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: Tug on Tuesday, 10 July 2018, 04:47 PM
I know everybody's different, and to prove that i did buy this because of the looks, as it turns out its a blast to ride.
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: grog on Tuesday, 10 July 2018, 07:38 PM
Tug, beautiful. Bobber? think now they have dual seat version. i love them. as you said, were all different. when i get a bit older, a bonnie will be my bike. parked next to a mobility scooter, my last bike i reckon.
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: grog on Tuesday, 10 July 2018, 09:23 PM
forgot the best, mine.
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: V_i_c_i on Tuesday, 10 July 2018, 09:26 PM
Quote from: grog on Tuesday, 10 July  2018, 09:23 PM
forgot the best, mine.

Nice seat Grog. Can you post better photo of them?
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: grog on Tuesday, 10 July 2018, 09:47 PM
Vici, will tomorrow. Most comfy ive had ever. Search seats by Guzzler, Brisbane, Australia.
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: Latty66 on Wednesday, 08 August 2018, 05:03 AM
Seen this knocking about round our way a few times now very nice
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: Globalrider on Friday, 10 August 2018, 11:18 PM
Quote from: grog on Saturday, 07 July  2018, 06:25 PM
your 3 best looking motorcycles, ones that just do it for you. so many to choose. 3 is very difficult. my all time fave is 900ss. has been for ever.
I have the same '73 Honda in Sunburst Orange - Great bike!
:hat:
Stan
Title: Re: Your 3 Best Lookers
Post by: seth on Friday, 10 August 2018, 11:36 PM
Apart from the gsx1400's I've owned.
Mine are Yamaha 350LC
blue with white decals .

SUZUKI GS1000E
(Mine was Ford signal yellow)

Kawasaki GPZ900R in green/white/blue Kawasaki racing colours.

:cheers: