Unaugural 6.1...

It is to puke...


Onya bike...

Gerry

 

Why do they always seem to let the work experience kid go into the
design office?

Moike

 

Clem wrote -

Funny how some really good bikes have had such a thorough lashing with the
the ugly stick.

Love the wee strom to death in those fire trails from Bungendore and
Braidwood up and down the escarpment to the coast - but pretty she ain't.

CX 500 would still have to be the front runner in the Personality before
Beauty stakes.

Best, Andrew

 

Isn't that what people say about the 'Busa as well? I think there are
bikes that look a lot better, but I wouldn't be going so far as to say
it was hideous.

 

In aus.motorcycles on Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:27:00 GMT

reminds me of the ER-6 I saw the other day.

Similar sort of squashed look with added angles and gratutious
pipework.
http://www.kawasaki.com.au/index.php?category=motorcycles&sub_category=5&product=76
except I'm sure the one I saw had extra silly bits on it.

Funny to see it next to a Griso. The Griso was very obviously a motor
and drivetrain with a seat hanging off it, the ER-5 was very
obviously a messy styling exercise.

Zebee

 

In aus.motorcycles on Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:56:53 +1100

THe obvious answer is to buy another one now. Swap between them or
mothball one to use when the other wears out.

This single bike ownership thing is not natural!

Zebee

 

In aus.motorcycles on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:37:33 +1100

I think the Ghezzi Guzzis are both...

http://www.twowheelsblog.com/post/46/ghezzi-brian-v11-monza

http://forum.motonline.pt/forum_posts.asp?TID=21911

(and check the "vyrus" on that page.... I don't know what it is, but
*someone* should be hospitalised!)

Zebee

 

I like the way you think!

betty, looking for a bank to rob <snigger>

 

Yeah they've done the the same thing with the FZ6 Yam:
http://www.personalisedmugs4u.com/2005_fz6_ebay.JPG

Someone made the mistake of leaving a piccie of a Brutale at Tokyo
airport...
http://www.parts-world.ch/MV Agusta Brutale tot_0.JPG

 

That's either some very strange camera work or its not a vyrus....

JL
(it does have the FFE but they don't normally look like that)

 

My Portuguese is a bit non-existent, but I think the're saying that's a
Vyrus *minimoto*.

This is the full-size versh,

http://www.vyrus.it/images/984/Image07.jpg

or the one powered by a two-valve Ducati engine, at any rate. This is
the four-valver,

http://www.vyrus.it/images/985/Image03.jpg

Pardon the pun, but, in the parlance of the younger generation, that
thing looks "sick"... for completeness' sake, it's, essentially a Bimota
Tesi with more motor, more bad-trip styling and a
briefcase-of-kilo-bags-of-cocaine pricetag (kinda surprised Zebee, given
her appreciation of oddball engineering, seems to have been unaware of it).

 

In aus.motorcycles on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:38:51 +1100

I'm getting old. I tend to go for (and be aware of) motorcycles that
look like motorcycles....

I have no doubt it's cutting edge and modern and all that, but like I
say I'm getting old.

I'll need slippers and a bloody labrador soon.

Zebee

 

Got the slippers, a sidecar, 2 trips a week to the Chiropractor, and a head
full of grey hair.

Boxer

 

<sigh> Yeah I so want one of those.

JL
but a $100K for a bike just ain't justifiable

 

And a BMW

JL
(or is that redundant given the preceding list ?)

 

Wot happened to the Labrador?

 

Not redundant, compulsory!

And that is 5 BMW's thank you.

Boxer

 

That much cash cheap gold plating and cut glass decorations on a bike
with bits missing? (note front forks have provision for caliper brake
mounts)

There's one born every minute.

Moike

 

"Funky", "neat looks"? Surely the scribe was choking when s/he wrote
those words.


Theo

 

At least that money buys you a unique headlight... except for the new
DB7, all the current Bimotas, including the Tesi 3D, use the same
headlight... straight off the Suzuki GSX-R1000K3.