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kiggles
05-01-11, 08:23 PM
Does anyone remember when before they got a motorbike how cool they were (and still are). but before you got into makes and models you always had an idea what your ideal bike would look like weather it be styled sports/monster/supersport/harley . for instance here are a few examples of mine:
- a dark rider with a black suit and black helmet and shine visor so you cant see his face, and he would drive a cool looking sports bike in black grey and sliver
- stereo type green bike with matching leathers and helmit
- or a icey blue bike with two big exhausts with sharp dynamics and justs looks mean
anyone got any others? just a thought
husky03
05-01-11, 08:34 PM
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb37/freezercharlie/svrider/donblattertvillage.jpg
I don't have any pics of my first bike but it was one of these. The same colour as well.
http://classic-motorbikes.net/images/gallery/suzuki-ts90.jpg
Bluefish
05-01-11, 09:06 PM
Lol, mine was way more modern than that a d reg gp 100
Whyte25
05-01-11, 09:30 PM
yeah.... a classic Streetfighter, polished gsxr frame / renthals / twin headlights / polished rims, u know the deal... one day....one day.. :-)
\m/
Hey Huskey - where'd you find that picture of me?:smt103
Bluefish
05-01-11, 10:03 PM
Remember streethawk, that's me ;)
Whyte25
05-01-11, 10:11 PM
Remember streethawk, that's me ;)
Have you google imaged the bike...? oh dear. :rolleyes:
ok..
as seen on Face Book..
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs749.ash1/164030_484237339676_533794676_6211264_4625307_n.jp g
followed by
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs034.snc6/166424_484237299676_533794676_6211262_5923527_n.jp g
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs367.snc3/23641_349375404676_533794676_3903064_6319679_n.jpg
and then...
http://l17.sphotos.l3.fbcdn.net/hphotos-l3-snc4/hs785.snc4/66544_442828984676_533794676_5551800_454677_n.jpg
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs427.ash1/23641_349375409676_533794676_3903065_7647815_n.jpg
speedplay
05-01-11, 10:21 PM
Have you google imaged the bike...? oh dear. :rolleyes:
http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/Custom%20Bikes/Street%20Hawk%20%201.jpg
Whyte25
05-01-11, 10:24 PM
http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/Custom%20Bikes/Street%20Hawk%20%201.jpg
Exactly.... i couldn`t figure out how to attach an image (my IT skills are *ahem* lacking :-)
http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/Custom%20Bikes/Street%20Hawk%20%201.jpg
street Hawk... :0)
speedplay
05-01-11, 10:26 PM
time has not been kind to streethawk....
Whyte25
05-01-11, 10:29 PM
Nah i know... but HE WAS the T1ts back in the day...
speedplay
05-01-11, 10:32 PM
Nah i know... but HE WAS the T1ts back in the day...
odd really that he should end up looking a d!ck now then....:rolleyes:
Isnt it based on an old xt?
Whyte25
05-01-11, 10:37 PM
odd really that he should end up looking a d!ck now then....:rolleyes:
Isnt it based on an old xt?
It`s amazing how thing`s go full circle :-)
Looks like it is...
Apparently (http://www.bikervoodoo.com/2008/01/11/streethawk/)the 2-hour pilot episode Streethawk was based on a 1983 Honda XL500 and the series used a different bike, based on a 1984 Honda XR500. For stunts they used bikes based on Honda CR250s.
I never liked Streethawk, never really like bikes much at all until a few years ago when I had a ride on my mates.
speedplay
05-01-11, 11:04 PM
http://www.streethawkonline.com/bikeinfo.php
hongman
05-01-11, 11:07 PM
My first bike, aged 14, cost me £50 off a stranger I met in KFC.
http://p1.bikepics.com/pics/2007%5C01%5C04%5Cbikepics-763141-320.jpg
Had spanners as wheel spacers and such like!
Jayneflakes
05-01-11, 11:28 PM
I always thought that I would have a red VTR, with matching leathers and lid. I imagined that my hair would hang outside of my helmet and flutter in the 150MPH wind. Then one day I went down the motorway at fifty and my hair got caught in the wind. It took me hours to brush out the knots!
I had this vision of a cool biker lass, thin, sporty and athletic. Here I am, dressed in cordura, over weight and worn out from a day at work... I really do not feel very cool, but then I ride my bike because I enjoy it and I do not give a feck what I look like to anyone. :twisted:
When I was 18-19 I so wanted a Suzy X7 with a black leather jacket with an extra layer of diamond-stitched leather on the shoulders. Good as well I didn't, I'm sure I wouldn't be here now.
When eventually I did start to learn - a little bit older than most:rolleyes: - all I knew was that I wanted a Triumph cos they're so damn cool. Didn't think about bike gear etc. Took slightly longer than expected due to an unfortunate accident:rolleyes: but I got there with my previous bike:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/IMG_0784-1.jpg
and then my present bike:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/IMG_0883.jpg
Drumming_Animal
05-01-11, 11:53 PM
As a kid Carl Fogarty was my idol so naturally I wanted THAT bike with THOSE leathers and THAT helmet. Hence why I made a beeline for Shark lids when I actually got into riding. Still got posters of him on my wall and my shirts and hats from when I was 7 or 8. I remember being so gutted when he retired.
BanannaMan
06-01-11, 05:24 AM
At the age of thirteen I started riding on the road (illegally of course)
on a 1968 BSA Lightning exactly like the one pictured below.
Cool isn't something you aquire, it's something you're born with. :cool:
http://blues.jpj.net/~jespo/jespo_cycles/1968_BSA_Lightning/z68p3.jpg
OK, OK , so it belonged to the car dealership where my dad was a salesman. I still consider it my first bike.
Got a job there washing cars, sweeping floors, etc. after school.
They would let me ride it on the road (things were different back when dinosaurs roamed the earth) or
clean it up, etc. whenever I got my work caught up.
Lasted for about a year. Then they sold it. :(
So much for being born cool. :rolleyes:
davepreston
06-01-11, 06:58 AM
mate im from N.I
joey dunlop was a god amongest men,
and i justed to walk the long way to school to look at a srad 750
which im happy to say i did own ,even if i did swap it with paul the 6th soon after
My first bike, aged 14, cost me £50 off a stranger I met in KFC.
http://p1.bikepics.com/pics/2007%5C01%5C04%5Cbikepics-763141-320.jpg
Had spanners as wheel spacers and such like!
Didn't your Mum talk to you about stranger danger? Lucky he didn't take you into the woods to find his lost puppy :smt103
Brought up at the racetracks so always knew most things with an engine were going to be cool, especially bikes as daddy raced them :lol:
It was my "cool" years (or not looking back) that made me miss my own opportunities to get into it properly myself.
Then I got cool with my cars...
Then I got into bikes as its faster, and cheaper, but im no-where near the fly boy i once was :( Still, luckily one of my bikes still keeps me on the edge of epic coolness and internet E points.
Mind you, when I got my first bike, I thought it was awesome. Until a young lad on a MotoX bike used to absolutly hammer me performance wise, also on an 80cc bike. :(
http://images.clickedit.co.uk/5731/car_id_61_1.jpg
hongman
06-01-11, 05:57 PM
Didn't your Mum talk to you about stranger danger? Lucky he didn't take you into the woods to find his lost puppy :smt103
Yeah...worse bit? I said I'd buy it in a week, we met up again at KFC and he took us in his car to his house (in Ongar, few towns away) to look at the bike, and dropped it back to Harlow for us. Never seen the bloke before that, he'd overheard us talking about another mate who had acquired a DT125 recently and how I wanted one.
I was with a mate but there's not a lot 2 14yr olds could have done should things have turned nasty. Scary when I think back.
So I'm grateful that the worse thing that happened was I got sold a complete death trap :D It got me hooked as my first taste of bikes though hehe!
I know there was/is a KFC at Staple Tye. Down the quite country roads to Ongar through Epping Forest. Well bugger me! You were lucky.
Got my first one at Johns of Romford in Rush Green.
hongman
06-01-11, 06:07 PM
The very same one. It's still there :) Staple Tye used to be our little gathering spot...ah, those were the days...
Sorry, I'll stop derailing!
xXBADGERXx
06-01-11, 07:35 PM
I remember a Harley Dealers opening near me in the 70`s and thinking "if motorbikes looked a lot better I would have one" .... this was at the age of 7 or something . Back in those days it really did look like the Ogri cartoon strip , bikes leaking oil all over the place and fusty looking guys with tassled jackets and beards . Then one day , in the 80`s , I heard a crackle and rasp and turned around to see a local lad with his tart on the back of an RD500 , and I knew from that moment on that this was a one way ticket . I eventually got my first bike which was a TZR125 , which was then replaced with a newer one with a Stan Stephens Stage III tune and Swarbricks exhaust ....... I am so glad I grew up when I did , 2 stroke bikes were an absolute pain in the butt to be honest but fond memories , and they taught me a thing or Two about home maintenance .
I always wanted a Simpson lid as well , I eventually had 2 or 3 then some stupid Car program came along and ruined it all
I always wanted a Simpson lid as well , I eventually had 2 or 3 then some stupid Car program came along and ruined it all
Up in the loft I've still got my original Simpson RX-1 that I bought for £430 in 1984 when I was a 350LC-hooli and regular at Chelsea Bridge and Heston Services. It's been kept purely because it cost me so much and I hate throwing things out if they've cost me a small fortune.
hardhat_harry
07-01-11, 12:41 AM
Steve McQueen - Great Escape - Triumph Trophy I believe
Ducati 916
for some reason original CBR1000 in red and white
xXBADGERXx
07-01-11, 07:23 AM
Up in the loft I've still got my original Simpson RX-1 that I bought for £430 in 1984 when I was a 350LC-hooli and regular at Chelsea Bridge and Heston Services. It's been kept purely because it cost me so much and I hate throwing things out if they've cost me a small fortune.
Is that the one where the visor used to button down in the corners ? As worn by James Hunt
my first proper bike was one of these
http://motoprofi.com/bikephoto/1789/suzuki_gsx_750_1980_2.jpg
but i really, really wanted a katana!
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/1983-suzuki-katana-1100-01.jpg
The CBR600RR is the bike that made me want to get into biking.
So the sports bike look. The 600RR (in my opinion obviously) had perfect proportions, nose down, tails up, underseat exhaust. Perfect.
I bought one new and wasn't dissapointed. I loved every minute with it, and if it was still in perfect condition I probably would still have it. I'll probably have another one too at some point.
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-ash1/v207/143/110/502519836/n502519836_562219_7646.jpg
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