Previous Bikes?
 

Sorry if this has been done before, but thought it would be interesting to see what path led you to ducatiship:sing:

Here's mine starting in 1974!

H O N D A - SS50
H O N D A - CJ250T
Y A M A H A - DT125
H O N D A - CB350
H O N D A - CB900F
H O N D A - VF1000R
H O N D A - CB900F (again)
H O N D A - ST1100 Pan (eek)
B M W - K1
H O N D A - VFR750
Ducati - 750SS
T R I U M P H - Daytona 900
H O N D A - CBR1000F
Y A M A H A - YZF1000 Thunderace
BMW - R1100S
BMW - K1200LT
BMW - GS1150
H O N D A - CBR1100XX Superblackbird
B E N E L L I - Tornado TRE
DUCATI - 749 Dark

Now I review this lot, I have mad some bazzare purchaces
:lol:

What have you owned?

CR80
KX125

Then a few years later i passed my test and bought..

CBR600 which i then had an impulse moment and part exed for delilah my
748r

so pretty limited on the bike front, i went stylish as soon as i could :)

I was born in 1975 .... :frog:

Well my bike ownership started in 1994:

Suzuki Across (GSX-250 - the one with the helmet compartment in place of the tank and the fuel tank ran under the seat, with the filler above the brake light)

BSA C12

1981 Z1000

ZZR-600

VTR 1000

996 (Current)

Monster 620 (Current)

Right then...... a potted history of 25 years of bikes wot I have had.......
Honda CB125T - Bought brand new in 1980 16.5 bhp & 16000 rpm ( revved to Nippon Seiki at the bottom ofthe clocks! )
Passed my test on that in 1981 and quickly bought...
Honda CB400/4 F2 - Lovely bike - used to draw circles on the floor with the exhaust collector when you felt like it......
Triumph Bonneville T140V US spec - loved this bike till some low life nicked it...
Anyhow, I then bought a Honda CB650Z which bored me witless for 3 months so that led to
Benelli 654 Sport...what a bike! Had great fun upsetting GPZ550 Unitrack riderswho thought they were the dogs danglies till my little beastie went under them on the Stoke ring road roundabouts.
I kept this one for years, only passing it on in 1993. It had a stable mate from 1984 in the shape of a
Moto Guzzi 850 T3 Cali...this old girl built in 1977 did starship mileage over the next 14 years - although the speedo cables broke with regularity it recorded over 120,000 miles in my hands....no car you see!
Ah well,the times were a-changing & my better half asked me if I wanted a new(ish) bike....
Ducati 900ssie...9 months old when I bought it...superb bike but neck injury from work meant that the forward riding position gave me too much pain so she went to be replaced by a...
Ducati ST2 which suprised many a 748 / 916 rider!
Kept that one for 3 years but a mate mentioned he'd seen an ST4S up for sale for a good price so I bought my current ride as a 40th birthday pressie to meself.
Andy

I'm 33 and been riding big bikes scince i was 19



rm50

2x yam 80s

dt50
rd125

1987 cbr600 (first big bike)

1994 cbr 600 new

1996 cbr600 new

1996 gsxr750 new

1996 yamahahahaha thunder cat new :o

1996 cbr600 new (again)

1988 nc 30

1998 gsxr 600 srad

1997 916 bp

2001 996 bp


Think that's it lol :cool::cool::cool:

[Edited on 12-2-2005 by AGE996]

Me:
1978 - 79 Suzuki AP50 - sold
1979 - 80 Honda CB125J - seized twice
1980 (one month) Honda Superdeam 250 - crashed & totalled
1980 - 1987 Suzuki 750 & at same time had GS550 - sold both

1987 - 1998 Lay off due to 'off' keeping me in hospital for 7 months & then being on own with small child/short of dosh/too much work/no time

Then
Sept 98 - Mar 02: Kwak Zephyr 550 -sold
Mar 02 - Jan 04:Monster 750ie - traded up
Jan 04 - present: Monster 1000sie

am now banned from 'shopping' in Ducati shops:lol:

Alan says it will take all night to list what he had had, as he is quite old:lol: and has had a number of bikes, so the post would be quite long! First bike was as a 14yr old in late 1970:o
Suffice it to say: he only had his first Ducati in 2003 - when he brought the bits for the 'project'.
This was mainly done because he liked the people who he met on the Ducati's via both clubs - and had done Kwaks 'to death' as projects & dragsters.

CK :)

[Edited on 11-2-2005 by CK and AK]

Started riding in 1967!!
Bonneyville 3 years - Norton Com 4years.
Got married could not afford bike and car - bike goes:(
Back on bikes early 90 GPZ600 - L3 Ninja 750 - P1 Ninja 750 a great bike. TDM 850 - R1 - 748SPS Fan bloody tastic bike.
Now ride a lovely 996 Red Bull Replica ( one of twenty produced in UK). It's a bit of a beastie - but I do luv it.
Cheers
SPS

1. Hondo 50
2. BSA Gold Star Clubman
3. kawasaki H1E
4. 1975 Ducati 750 Sport
5. Laverdao 180 Jota
6. Ducati 998s Monoposto

1. BigRed
2. Fourtrax 450
3. DR400
:lol:
4. CBR600FX
2. 748S

Zundap 50
ajs 500 stormer
Ducati 60 (wish i had it now!!!!):o
Bsa bantam
honda 90
" " 70
"" 50
velocette le 200

then school age
yamaha ss50 sixteener special first of the fizzies
my youth
GT380 suzuki
H2 500 kwack
H1 750 tripple kwack
S1 350 kwack
RD 250 with 400 barrels on ;) would wheelie to the end of the world and back:lol::lol:

got married kids, time off !

got divorced, kids older
GPz 900
Gpz 1100

92 fire blade
95 fire blade
200 fireblade
98 R1
Hayabusa
gixxer thou
Ducati 996

mavs BLING machine

Bankrupt:lol:

Aprilia Rs125

Ducati 748E
and
Rgv 250 (trackbike)

Fsie in purple 1978
Suzuki Gt200 X5 1979
Kawasaki ZXR250ninja 1998
Ducati m900 current
Ducati S4 current

Great fun..... I see some "classics" in there!

Love the kwaks Mav, and look how many of us started with a humbe 50cc ( have you ever seen the minute size of a 50cc piston!) I think my own quest for speed eminates from those years, thrashing the nut$ off my ss50 trying in vain to keep up with the fissies. Just never grew up I s'pose:D

Some of my mates had these, the rest of us called them "purple pooftas!":lol:

ss50
ke125
cd185
cd175 benly
cb200
maliguti 50
cb250t
ts185
bsa d3 (don`t ask)
rd250 (x3)
cb550four
ft500
:D ss600
:Dss900ie
:Ds4
:Dmultistrada
:saint::D:devil::bouncy:888 (home at last)

upto the age of 16, several "field bikes" C50's, C70's, C90's, AP50, CB250G5, XL125 etc.etc.

Then at 16 MT50. Tuned to the hilt, 60-65mph everywhere and 18000 miles.
17 brought in the RD125LC.............tuned to the hilt 100mph+
19 saw me pass my test and by a 350LC.............tuned to the hilt. 130mph+ and a crank a month :o
There's a worrying tendancy developing there :devil::o:sing:

Then a forced break due to being pulverised in a car smash.

3 years went by. I had a brief spin on my mates RG500 whilst still on crutches though :D

Bought my first Ducati. and ex F2 500 Pantah racing machine. Converted that back to road trim(ish) and road her for 2 years+
Then bought a 750 Sport with 40mm Dellortos and cans on. What a sound!!
Then had a mind f**k and sold up. Only kept the helmet.....
Couldn't bear it after 4 months or so and bought a H0nda (I can say it) :frog: VFR400 NC30. Loads of fun.
Then a ZXR750J2.............one of the prettiest Jap IL4's ever imo.
Then the Ducati beckoned, i remortgaged the house and bout my 748BP which I still have.
Kind of a rolling test bed, and a bike I really never want to sell on. Should be "a bit special" this year if all goes to plan to :devil:

[Edited on 12-2-2005 by nelly]

Good fun this thread....eyes are bleeding but here goes....

Yam - FS1E

Yam - RD200E (disc brake :) )

Norton Dominator 600SS (a sign for the future ???)

Yam - XS750 Triple

Jawa 350 and Sidecar (what on earth was I thinking?)

Yam - SR500 Single

BMW R60s

Laverda RGS 1000 - (only new bike I ever owned)

BMW R100Rs (later fitted with sidecar for winter - then removed)

MZ ETZ125 (dont ask)

BMW R100Rt

Ducati 900SS

Suzuk RF600 Trackbike (hee hee).

***Will we ever learn !!! ***

BSA C15 used
Royal Enfield 250 Crusader sports used
Honda CB92 Benley Super Sport used
Suzuki TC 120 trail Cat new
Triumph TR6R Tiger (oil in frame) new
Kawasaki S2 350 tripple new
Yamaha XS-2 new
BMW R75/5 new
BMW R90/6 new (the first one sold in UK)
Suzuki TC90 used
Suzuki GT750 new
BMW R75/6 new
BMW R90/S resprayed Green/Silver smoke by BMW UK new
Honda GL1000 new
BMW R75/6 new
MZ TS150 new
Yamaha XS 750 tripple new (My biggest mistake)
Honda CB 550 Four K new
Honda CB 750 KZ (with Vetter fairing) new
Honda CX500 new
Honda XL100 new
Honda GL1100 new
Honda CB900 F2B new
Honda GL1100 with full Vetter fairing/luggage. this bike was used on Vetter stand at earls Court Show. I got all the gear 1/2 price in exchange for the loan of the bike) new
Honda GL1100 Interstate new
Honda CG 125 new
Kawasaki KH 175 used
Honda GL1100 Aspencade new
Suzuki GN400 used
BMW KRS 100 new
Honda GL1100 Interstate used
Honda XBR 500 used
Yamaha V-80 used
BMW R100/7 used
MZ TS 125 new
BMW R80 RT used
MZ 250 ETZ silver new
MZ 250ETZ Blacknew
Yamaha XS 250 used
Kawasaki Gpz 305 used
Kawasaki GTR 1000 used (EX Demo less than 1000 miles on clock)
BMW KRS 100 used ( taken on our honeymoon)
Suzuki DR BIG 750 single new
Kawasaki EX 500 (Green limited edition of 200) new
Honda CD200 Benley used
Kawasaki Gpz 305 used
Kawasaki KH100 new
Kawasaki GPX 600 resprayed in Rizzla team colours new
kawasaki Gpz 550 used
Kawasaki KE100 new
Kawasaki GT550 new
Kawasaki GPZ 500 s new (EX 500 in USA)
MZ 125 Sports Star
Kawasaki 550 Zephyr new
Triumph (Hinkley) Trident 750 used
Triumph 900 Sprint new
Triumph 900 sprint sports new
Honda VFR 800 new
Honda CG125 new
Honda CG125 new (yes a pair of them)
Aprillia Pegaso 650 Ex Demo
Kawasaki 900 ZX-9 new
kawasaki ER-5 Red new
Kawasaki ER-5 silver new
Honda Deauville new currently owned
Kawasaki W650 new
Kawasazaki ZRX 1200R new
Ducati DS1000 Multistrada new currently owned

Cars Owned None

I think thats the lot but the memory starts to go at my age:)

Hmmm, what lists!!
My humble offering is
Suzuki KH-80 (2 sprockets in back for trail riding) First bike I ever took onto Willow Springs Raceway after 2 days of desert riding!) Stolen
Matchless 500
Kawa A-1 250
Kawa A-7 350, wheelie king! 24 hours at mostly 100 mph from Texas to California!
Suzu GS400E, six speeds, 23,000 km in 1 year touring Japan.
GS 550E four, great fun, good tourer, learned how to adjust valves (special tools somewhere!!)
Yamadog XT125, DT125 both traded for DT200, a wonderful fire roader, wheelie toy, ski transport!
CB400 Houndog...enclosed disk brakes...got wobbly over 160kph due to tweaked frame from previous owner
Gilera 500 Saturno, modern version...great torquer, long range tank about 600km on fill-up!
another 500 courtesy of my buddy porking me in the back-end with his beemer
93 750SS, nasty bitch turned me on to the beauty of Ducks!!
Newly bought ST4 ABS! Lovely, awesome, civilized
Not bankrupt yet

Wow Rocker,thats an impressive list!:)
Here's mine,
Started off with the usual feild bikes then progressed to full blown competition Grass Track bikes.The road bikes are;
BSA C15 250cc-It was me dads bike and got me through the bike test in 1977.
Triumph Bonneville T140V USspec-bought it as a basket case,despite only a year old!:o:o:oPrevious owner just abused it from new.:mad:
Triumph Bonneville T140D special UKspec.Great looking bike,but did'nt have the oomph of the older one.
Suzuki X7 250cc-Great fun,.......when it went!
Yamaha RD250LC-Huge improvement on the X7,in a differant league.
Yamaha 650 XS2-I needed to get back on a big twin again.Bit of a let down as the handling was terrible.Nice motor tho.
Yamaha FZ750(new)-Just got divorced and had a pot full of cash to spend!:D
Yamaha RD400-Bought as an alternative/winter bike.Well I did'nt want to spoil my FZ now,did I??!!;):D
Yamaha FZR 1000 Genesis-Lovely bike to ride and the only bike to have at the time.
Yamaha FZR 1000 EXUP (new)-Faaaaaaasssstttt!!,but I did'nt like it as much as the older bike.
Now we come to the good stuff :D ,
900ss(new):D
851(new):D:D
916:D:D:D
996(new):D:D:D:D
998(new):D:D:D:mad::D
999:D:D:D:D:D
Multistrada(new):D:D:D:o:devil::devil:
Almost forgot the winter bikes!
:smug:
Cagiva Elefant 350-Sloooooowww,but kinda fun!:puzzled:
Cagiva Navigator 1000-Heavy with a detuned TL motor.
Ooh some memories there,great thread.:)

Got off to a slow start

MZ 50 what was I thinking
GT185
CB550 Four

CBR600 FS stolen, torched
R1 2000
R1 2003
749R 2004 :D:D

Rob


[Edited on 12-2-2005 by electricsheep]

if my memory serves me corectly
fs1e
rd 250
xs 750
cb 400-4
rd 350 lc
fzr 600
fzr 400 rrsp
buell s1 lightning never mind
speed triple
rsvr mille r
rry fireblade
ktm 620 s-moto
daytona 9551 centinial
ktm 660 smc s-moto
ktm 250 exc
996 bp
ktm 250 exc
mv agusta spr
999s
ktm 660 smc s-moto
monster 620 ie
might have missed one or two

FS1E (Yellow, only colour to have:lol::lol:)

RD 250

900SS Bevel (various engine sizes up to 1020 cc, still got it)

RD250 LC x 2

Z1R

Hon..da..da CBX + Turbocharger (+ 1 crank, 2 gearboxes, and a clutch)

Couple more RD 250'S

GSXR 750

851

916

996SPS

1000 EXUP x 2

Not many for me ...
1982 MZ TS125 Lux (cheap!) - 2nd Hnd
1975 Suzuki GT750A in blue - 2nd Hnd, money pit
198? Yakaha RS125 (for the Mrs) - 2nd Hnd
1987 Yakaha XJ900F in black - New
6-year lay off for health/crashing/domestic reasons :(
2001 Ducati 750Sport - ex-demo
2003 Ducati 999S in red - New

Once borrowed a mate's Yakaha XV535 Virago for a month - hoo hoo! Terrific fun, but a real back-breaker for folks over 3 foot tall. Pegs grounded absolutely everywhere - inc. Tescos car park :)

my list;
79 XL125K2 bestest fun bike 40,000 miles and two topend rebuilds
81 250 dream most unreliable bike ever
81 GT250a rebuilt gearbox and sold on
83 X7 stripped and rebuilt to race spec had everything argueably road legal but quicker than std LCs
84 SR 500 closest thing japan ever produced to british bike
85 RG 500 very quick -if only the front end stayed on the ground
87 KH 250 bought as a box of bits in cardboard box for £20 took 3 months to rebuild and get runnin sold two years later for £500 wish id never sold it
88 Z1B rebuilt engine after previuos owner lost interest in it sweet runnin bike then sold back to 1st owner!!
discovered cars and how to make a few bob
rode a string of mates bike for years blades, firestorms, GSXR's, CBX1000, ninja's, ZZR1100,gold wing then a Bimota with a 900SS engine -didnt care much for the bimota bodywork but loved the engine
2004 DUCATI 600SS at last a sensible bike!!
42 now been riding for 25years

[Edited on 12-2-2005 by monstermob 998]

Cagiva mito Evo
H O N D A NC30.

1 Suzuki AP50

2 Kawasaki AR80

3 Yamaha RD125LC

4 Suzuki X5

5 Suzuki X7 X2

6 Yamaha RD250 LC x2

7 Suzuki RGV250 Gamma MK3

8 Honda CBX550

9 Suzuki GSXR750 Slingshot

10 Suzuki GSXR1100 L

11 Suzuki RGV250

12 Suzuki GSXR750M

13 Yamaha 1000 EXUP

14 Yamaha YZF750

15 Kawasaki ZXR750 P2

16 Yamaha R1

17 Suzuki Hayabusa

18 Honda SP1

19 Yamaha R1

20 Honda CBR954

21 Kawasaki ZX636R(green)

22 Ducati 999S and Kawasaki ZX636R(black)

23 Ducati 999R and Honda Fireblade.

Perhaps we should add our age as well or how many years we have been riding :biaggi:

I'm game :D

I am 38 and been riding for 22 years ( since I was 16 ):sniff:

25 bikes in 22 years.... good... roughly 1 a year then !!!

I am just being a greedy bar steward now and having 2 at the same time to bump my numbers up !:lol:

[Edited on 12-2-2005 by dave w]

I'm 57 ( Well 58 if you are reading this on or after Sunday) and Ive been riding since my 16 th Birthday. As I stated I ve never held a car licence.
My wife Sue is 57 and has also ridden since she was 16 (With a break to have a child) she also has never held a car licence and currently owns a CBF 600 and a much modified Hornet called Little Insect which was recently featured in Used Bike Guide magazine

First bike BSA 175 bantam Hornchurch car adome all day every day petrol 50p a gallon
First road bike B Line fizz 74mph A127 rebuilding again this week lad
First off road bike CR125 Honda now that’s what I call a power band, or I thought it was till I got the
Maddest 2 stroke off road Yamaha air cooled YZ 400 C, still got the scares on me elbows form flipping that bas***d, then started to race it, O what fun.
Raced AMCA till the late 1980s

In 1989 I went back to road bikes with a GSXR 750K Vance and Hinds pipe, engine tuned by SST, dragons, mad Sunday now were talking, Track days steering dapper recommend from now on.

1993 Blade yoshi pipe, engine tuned SST, just gone supersonic. I loved that bike it would show
170mph on revit strait, and made a mockery of fox eyes and every thing else over the next few years

The first model R 1, I took to SST, and things just got out off hand now, I just can’t keep up with this bike, its just plain scary, 168 bhp on the RRT dyno, so I don’t need a new 1000 jap bike !

I have been very lucky on bikes but not so lucky racing windsurfers and ended up with my leg in plaster for the best part of Two years, Two smashed disks, a dislocated shoulder, crack ribs, broken ankles. 42Knots best recorded speed, was it worth it ? Foo**in right it was.

Anyway I packed all that dangerous stuff up and came back to bikes.
Doing it on a duke now and am really enjoying riding it so far, looking forward to a long warm summer meeting some of you lot,not getting nicked and having a blast on some of our best tracks.

New ground braking Model bikes are better because they are designed to capture markets, not just to maintain their market share. 916 996 998 ten years, fire blade ten years, R1 ten years? But to be honest any bike is fun even its because its so bad it makes you laugh. Rally Wisp

The bike now Honda 600 RR with a pipe and tune, sweet, sweet, sweet, handling fun, I was back at school in the girls bike sheds. If you haven’t ridden one of these bikes just treat your self to a test ride and tell me I am wrong. Lester Harrises road bike was the repsol one on his stand at ally pally, guess what he likes his to.
:frog:
My Age, same as Franky

[Edited on 12-2-2005 by ericthered40]

[Edited on 12-2-2005 by ericthered40]

hardly any by many standards...35, riding since 13...test passed at 26 after 3 attempts (to those who have seen me ride this wont be a surprise!!)


Suzi ts50
Suzi ts50 (newer model)
Suzi ts100
Kwak ar80
Yam rd125 (first proper road legal bike - 17th bday - and wheelied off the power)
mtx125


BIG BREAK! 6 years


Suzi gt550 triple
nonda 250 dream
nonda 250 dream (2 so clearly a glutton for punishment!!)
a old bag of bolts which just about ran but cant remember the mane (think early kwak with suzi bits fitted!


break....year or 2


gpx250 (passed test !!!!!)
zxr400l3 (want another one of those!!) (25k miles commutting on this baby!)


another break.....year or 2


748e
916sps (best of the lot and a dream come true;))

next.....:puzzled::puzzled:

Got you all thinking now:sing:

Rocker is by far th ewinner so far.....

BTW I'm 47, with 20 bikes over 31 years, so a poor average by some standards.

What were your best bikes ( apart from your most recent of course) Mine was the The VFR750 fantastic bike, great build quality, plenty of performance, and looks....graet. My VF1000R was also a great ride, sound, speed, looks, only let down by an inadequate frame, how did they race these?

Not forgetting my first bike SS50 in red, thought I was so cool, flat out everywhere, max about 45mph, but it was like a grown up bike i.e. 4 stroke. All my mates had 2 strokes, which all self destructed in time. Love those days. :burn:

You are never old enough to have been riding in 78 Charlotte:lol:

Velocette Li? scooter type thing
Suzuki TS 50
Lambreta 125
Serveta 150
Suzuki GT125

Big break cause girls wouldn’t get on the back of a bike!

Harley sportster
Yamaha Thunderace
Triumph T140v
Ducati 748
Triumph Speed triple
Ducati 916
Honda VFR
Honda VTR SP1
Kawasaki KLR 650
Norton Commando e/s
BSA starfire
Honda VFR vtec
Ducati 916

Mmmm what next?

passed test in 77
SUK GT185
GT380
GS550E
TRIUMPH BONNIE 69 Never agian
married=car=kids=bike break
now
GuzziLeMans IV
900SL
888ST

FANTASY LIST
NC30
SUK RG500
ORIGINAL 900 92 SL
888SPS WHO WOULDNT
KWAK 750 TRIPLE 2ST
Z900
:roll:

Here we go 24 riding 7 years,

Cb100
H100
Vfr 400 (NC24)
Hornet 600

Now 748s :D:D

Rocker, respect is due..amazing list!
Mine less so..

1986 - Honda CB100 (fell to bits)

Then lots of cars.

1998 - Vespa PX125E

1999 - Vespa PX200E

2001 - Kawasaki ZX-6R

2004 - Ducati 996S

39 years old now - overweight, grey hair, but trying to make up for all those wasted, bikeless years.:(

[Edited on 13-2-2005 by ils]

1982 - FS1E-DX, fitted big bore, Micron etc
1983 - GP100, bought with known knackered big end & rebuilt motor
1984 - RD200DX, Allspeeds, usual porting skimming, pile of pistons & cranks etc.
1985 - RD250LC, fitted 350 topend,twin brakes, Allspeeds etc: wheely good fun.
10 years without bike:puzzled:
1997 - RZV500R (ally frame ver of RD500LC V4 2stroke) - kept standard & still got it.
2001 - 748 BIP
2002 - 853 kit on in same 748 BIP
2004 - 916 motor in same 748 BIP

Too many years not enough bikes:sing:

Tiger cubs (various)

Tiger 90

Triumph Speed Twin:(

Triumph Thunderbird

Triumph TR5

Montesa Cotas x2

Vincent Comet

Velo Venom

Enfield Constellation

MZ 250

Hon unrecognised word XL185

BSA A65:(

78 Bonneville

BMW R75

BMW R100Rs

BMW K100RS

900SS

748BP

St2

748R

St4s