Motorbike photos

Whats a berlina?

Not a name I recognise 

Lancia 2000 Berlina.

Ok

Have heard of the beta, bertone and berlineta but not the berlina

So many models !

I'm an old man. I suspected as much but now I know. I'm looking at the later version of that very bike or as an alternative the GS. Beautiful. These are motorcycles that get ridden. Used ones on the lot can have huge mileages and still look great.

Just a thought, anyone here ever owner a bimoto, or similar exotica ?

Off topic but on BBC2 tonight at 10.00 is part 2 of a programme called 'Speed Dreams'. Part 1 last week was excellent, so maybe catch both through iplayer?

Basically several groups of Brits, build bikes in sheds of varying states of disrepair and head out to Speed Week at Bonneville. Sometimes the BBC makes very fine programmes with excellent photography. This is one of them!

Thanks for reminding me Jamie. I watched part 1 and almost forgot Part 2 was on tonight.

Recommended.

Cheers

Steve

Thanks Jamie, will have a peak. That reminds me of the movie the fastest Indian, which I enjoyed on a similar theme

There is a chap (with 'light' mental health issues) who has restored his own Indian and taken it out there. Not a New Zealander though...

That's what BBC iPlayer is for.

Excellent programmes. I take my hat off to them all for getting out there and doing it. Pity the blower went on the home built special's first run.

Anyway, here's my 2nd and 3rd bikes (not mine pictured but exact models & colours). My last 2 stroke before moving on to the obligatory Honda 250. I passed my test on the Honda. This was in the early 80's when passing your test meant riding round the block and looking out for the man holding his clipboard out. I remember the insurance costing me £160/year for TPFT (third party fire and theft) over 30 years ago. These days it costs me half that for fully comp.

Yamaha RD200

Honda CJ250T

This wasn’t the first or last murdersickle I owned, but probably the coolest, the snap above taken in the year nineteen hundred and frozen to death.

I didn’t go out on it that day : )

Debs

But what is it ?

Those wheels and pipes look like they belong to a Yamaha RD LC. 250 or 350 ????

I didn't own a car till my mid twenties so I was a year round rider. That lovely feeling of sitting on a rock hard frozen seat and slowly sinking into it as your bum became numb. I don't miss it at all....

They weathered the weather whatever the weather whether they liked it or not,

because they were daft!

Debs

Excellent programmes. I take my hat off to them all for getting out there and doing it. Pity the blower went on the home built special's first run.

 

Anyway, here's my 2nd and 3rd bikes (not mine pictured but exact models & colours). My last 2 stroke before moving on to the obligatory Honda 250. I passed my test on the Honda. This was in the early 80's when passing your test meant riding round the block and looking out for the man holding his clipboard out. I remember the insurance costing me £160/year for TPFT (third party fire and theft) over 30 years ago. These days it costs me half that for fully comp.

 

Yamaha RD200

 

 

Honda CJ250T

 

 

Hi Redmires,

i like the RD200, a real nice bike in its day. The reed valves were an inspiration when they appeared on the scene. Not too fussy about the honda though

Picture looks like it might have a little bikini fairing on it, which is ironic considering the weather !

...or it was their only means of private transport.

It would never occur NOT to go out on our scooters regardless, although the winter of '64 was a bit of a struggle.

Redmires: you are an expert! : )

I'd placed a old carpet over the bike the evening before it snowed,

which is why the shape looks a little strange!

It was unusual for me not to park it in the garage, can't remember why...

and strangely enough, after previously owning an air cooled RD 250 with the painful experience of half a dozen or so 'lob-offs' within the couple of years of ownership, some people said it was probably not my best bet getting another [even faster] one, although despite taking liberties i never pranged the LC.

However,after a couple of years of fun and frollocks i was glad to sell the LC, things in my life changed to include moving out of my parents house to buy my [first] home, which meant no spare cash for motorcycling, so my next bike was a custom made 531c framed bicycle that i put more miles into than all the motorbikes i'd owned put together, and was jolly fit in those days.

I have owned motorbikes since the LC, but never another two-stoke. It has to be said that the two-stroke engine is an environmental nasty, and should be confined to history.

Debs

It's not my old Bloop either...

Purchased a ratty-tatty looking one in 1979, but it ran really well, a great winter bike, should never have parted with it.

I think it was called the bloop because it was a Suzuki B120P ??

Debs

Debs,

   the LC was a really tasty bike, i am well impressed. They may be a disaster environmentally, but boy were they good fun to ride. Mush better that the suzuki RAM air bikes at the same time.

paul

Now that's a bike !

Anyone else into older bikes? This my oldest one (1912 Rudge):

Have a few other proper vintage ones and a modern BMW R1200RT for touring but that's just an appliance.