Future classics - what do you reckon ?

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by ThEGr33k

He isnt talking wet mate. On the road it was very poor! It only got anywhere near powerful after you got a race kit on it.

Just a complete balls up of the job then!

The oil cooled 750 engines were amazing in their day, still are quite interesting. There's one in a recent streetfighters built by a guy who makes custom frames near me (TPE), he's got an OC 750 engine that's reckoned to be 140bhp or so.

lol the r7 has 107bhp standard 139bhp with the injector kit (activation kit to activate the second bank of injectors) and 162bhp in race trim and there was only 500 made and weighed in at 162kg

plus it looks the dogs b**s

classic ...

NR750 for me is one, its just a classic, the engineering is very interesting imo

The NR already is a classic, no doubt about that!

[Bri w]

Bought a Honda 400-4 in 1978. Put Girling gas shocks on it, and a Cibie headlight. It stuck to the road like glue, and was brilliant thro' the twistie's. A bit ugly, and like many Jap bikes back then it was a rust magnet.

Always wanted a Kawasaki Z650, and bought a '77 model in '92. Huge disappointment, slow and heavy without the ability to stop. Had a blast on the original Z1. Amazing ability it had for the frame hinging left and right as you flipped thro' corner - guaranteed to finish a journey thanking God you'd survived. Fancied a Kawasaki 3-cylinder 750 two stroke but saw too many with blown engines.

Went across to Classic Bikes near Shrewsbury in the summer to look at a 6 cylinder Honda CBX 1000. Would still like one but would prefer the original twin shock, not the Pro-Link one.

[fastdruid]

Originally Posted by Alpinestarhero

The R7 is already a kind of classic, more of a myth and a legend though. In reality, who would shell out £25,000 for a <100 bhp 750, with a super peaky engine that has no bottom end?

When I got my SV jetted this was sat round in the workshop



Druid

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

One that caused the big legal shuffle was the suzuki X7, it would do nearly 100mph on L plates with minor mods.

The bike that sparked the 125cc learner limit was the 1980 RD250LC, which did a genune 106mph. The fact that MCN sensationalised the "106mph learner legal 250" in big black letters on the front page didn't help. Thosands of parents saw it and wouldn't let their little Johnny buy one and it soon came to the attention of the DoT, who rushed through ill thought out legislation to outlaw 250 learner bikes.

The X7 wasn't even up to late model aircooled RD standards in standard trim - both bikes were as tuneable as each other, but the RD would hold itself together for longer.

Originally Posted by Richie

petevtwin650 is riding my classic bike, but I want it in British Racing Green.

You mean the Ducati 998 Matrix Reloaded Replica?

[rictus01]

Hmmmmm, interesting, I had a new X7 at the time an although close (and with enough bravery pills), it would beat off the RD250LC, granted there wasn't much in it, and to be honest the yam handled better.

Cheers Mark.

[Lissa]

Originally Posted by Lozzo

You mean the Ducati 998 Matrix Reloaded Replica?

I think he means the 996, Lozzo, which is what the bike in The Matrix was. The 998 has the horrible slabby fairings!