Now the price of classic bikes seems to be taking off too

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This is a beautiful restored machine but £20K :scream: Also they (and the H1) had the sobriquet “Widow maker” in their day, and I doubt the handling has got any better with time. If I remember the frame used to flex due to the power of the engine pulling one side of the swinging arm. A problem with the reflexes of a twenty year old, a killer at my age :slightly_smiling_face:

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Thank god for that our small barn is full of bloody old bikes that my dh has assured me will be part of retirement funds. Get the damn things out I say :rofl:

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Or should I put this in songs…

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Any two strokes? I love two strokes :slightly_smiling_face:

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Dunno (added - Aussie saying - diminutive of ‘I do not know’ just in case you lot can’t work it out :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:) , I’ll ask himself, I guess considering the number of bikes we may well have some two strokes!

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I’d want to hear it running after being started from cold to ensure the middle conrod has a piston attached to it and not a tennis ball.

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They sound like a few stones rattling around in an empty can when ticking over. Then they sound like a wailing banshee when on full throttle. A sound from my youf… :grinning:

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If it rattles, it’s correct. I’ve owned and ridden a number of 1980s two stroke bikes and they aren’t quiet.

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Just sold my DTR125 Year 2000. Nickel. Here it is in my workshop where it’s spent most of it’s time. Needs ridden.

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In a similar vein I spend more time flushing dead petrol out of my XR250R than I do riding it.
2,500 greenlane and private track miles in 2004-5 then barely an annual fire-up and ride around the block a few laps since.
PS love the workshop

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I had 4 people call me about the DTR. So it will be gone as soon as confinement is over. Then I’m buying a Skyteam Dax 125 (can put it in the van). PS That is a very rare view of the workshop in a reasonably tidy state.

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My Kawazaki Z1B had very frightening handling and braking. It was an attractive machine though. My move to Ducati probably saved me from a close relationship with tarmac or worse.

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Ahh, if I was 10 (maybe 15 :anguished:) years younger I’d buy a Multistrada. Surprisingly, my GP who’s a biker has been encouraging me to do so. That’s what I call good medical advice.

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