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Re: Nastiest hack?

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Originally Posted by -Ralph- (Post 2119393)

Nonsense! They were a great bike. Or is my recollection a bit foggy? The 125 was a lot smoother than the single cylinder competition anyway, and the wheels much easier to clean than the spoke & chrome jobs most bikes had.

The 250 Superdream was a sleeved down version of the already overweight CB400N with half the brakes up front, which meant it was even more overweight, grossly underpowered and underbraked. Suzuki had their reasonable but incredibly ugly GSX and Yamaha their awful (but still better than a Superdream) XS, but Kawasaki stole a march on the lot when they brought out their mini Z1000 lookalike Z250 in late 1979, which was a marvellous little bike that went well and handled even better. To keep a Honda CB250N moving at any respectable pace required huge amounts of tachometer abuse, and they still delivered little in the way of fun - I hated them, but loved the Zs

People who owned Superdreams in their youth went on to buy a BMW R1200RT for polishing on a Sunday in betweeen break downs, and a sh1tty old BSA Bantam as a classic bike to talk about at the Golf Club. They wear leather patches on their cardigan elbows and drink real ale in pubs that play folk music; they have a wife whose name is never any more exotic than Ruth and kids named Mary and John. In short, they don't know what the word 'fun' really means.

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you think that's bad - my first bike was a CB100N

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Originally Posted by 5hort5 (Post 2121277)

you think that's bad - my first bike was a CB100N

You have my sympathy, in bucketloads.

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AND, not just that AND I had a GSX 250 - the ugly one you referred to lol - good bike though just damned ugly

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Originally Posted by Lozzo (Post 2121268)

People who owned Superdreams in their youth went on to buy a BMW R1200RT for polishing on a Sunday in betweeen break downs, and a sh1tty old BSA Bantam as a classic bike to talk about at the Golf Club. They wear leather patches on their cardigan elbows and drink real ale in pubs that play folk music; they have a wife whose name is never any more exotic than Ruth and kids named Mary and John. In short, they don't know what the word 'fun' really means.

Sheeesh, he's got my number!

At least I now know what to call my kids (if ever I have any).

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Originally Posted by 5hort5 (Post 2121277)

you think that's bad - my first bike was a CB100N

Leave off, the CB100N was an excellent first bike-I still have very fond memories of my first taste of freedom on mine.

http://motorbike-search-engine.co.uk...nda_cb100n.jpg

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erm - well - mmmmm yes - mmmm - cough

this is me a long time ago in a galaxy far away - commonly known as Devon

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q37/5hort5/old.jpg

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and if I post the first then I may as well post the third

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q37/5hort5/suz.jpg

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These photies are giving me the boak.

"Nasty" just about covers it.

Keep'em coming!;)

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My first bike was a GSX250, a silver one. Yep, it was ugly but it went everywhere and never gave me any trouble :D