If I could turn back time,....
 

Have you ever said,"I wish I had never sold that bike"?Well I have on numerous occasions.Every time I see a nice Triumph Bonneville I get all dewy eyed over the last one I owned.It was a 1979 T140D a limited edition with mag wheels.Just recently I had the urge to buy another one,...mebbe its summat to to with the Bonneville series being 50 years old this year,mebbe its to much chemo that has addled my brain or mebbe its talking too long with old giffers like Marko;) :D ,....whatever,I had to have one.A nice one popped up recently and after a bit of haggling a sensible sale price was agreed.I picked it up yesterday and I'm chuffed to bits with it.Its an American export model,hence the smaller tank,excellent condition,....just needs a few bits and bobs to finish it off.Just the job for cruising down to the pub for a spot of sunday lunch.:)
Photo's are of a skinny old me in '79 on my origional bike and then my latest plaything.

Nice one Keif
You've hardly changed at all!
Enjoy.

Nice one KeefyB, Looks a goodun.
And yes I have that "Wish I had never sold it", but on a more modern bike.

If you love strokers, then the Yamaha 250 3XV comes near the top of the wish list.

The pic is from 1998, Cadwell track day.



Chris:burn:

Nice one mate, enjoy it!

Wish I'd never sold the first C15 I had...I do like a nice single.

That looks a really nice find Keefy-and Chris, don't even go there-we had THAT conversation last weekend at Donny. I was at Goodwood on Friday and all the old Yamaha's got my TZ juices flowing again-dangerous stuff nostalgia.

John

If you had one mate you'd need a bigger tool kit and plenty of oil not to mention strong fillings:lol: but you did make starting monty's single look easy:lol:

Lovely bike Keith you've got me all green eyed, if fact it's bloody smashing:frog:

superb, I want one, and you don't look a day older mate......... ok maybe a couple of days. Enjoy....you got open helmet and goggles then?

WeeJohnyB

Nah,I will wear my black Shoei.I never used an open faced lid in the '70's,.....I wore a Bell Star my dad bought me for my birthday.(They were the lid to have at the time.)

I had a Bell star too real Darf Vada, still in the loft:D

If i could turn back time apart from the obvious I would have kept every motorbike I ever owned with the possibhle exception of a Honda VT250, we all make mistakes.

if I could turn back time I certainly would not have kept my Superdream 250, if fact, better, I never would have bought it

WeeJohnyB

See there's one mistake I avoided \nd not buying a Superdream means I avoided another mistake :)

30 years later I'm still trying to work out if the H1F was a mistake or not, loads of Fun but scared the cr4p out of me at times :o

As for the Brit bike thing
I'm to young :)

I had to look up H1F on google:lol:

http://www.cyclechaos.com/wiki/image...own-6063-0.jpg

Just add the spannies

They didn't need spanies mate-they could scare the **** out of you standard-awesome engine, **** frame, **** brakes.

John

Hey Nice one, I love Bonnies, my biggest wish I'd never sold is my old GPz 750turbo, they were **** really but back in 1986 a hell of a pose outside the local bikers pub. Ironing board with a turbo on it :lol:

an excellent choice Keith............. the perfect addition to the garage

Enjoy........................... :)

I feel the same way about a black Norton Commando 850 that I used to drool over every day at Bob King Motorcycles in Bedford. They were just over the road from college so I used to press my spotty nose up against the glass and dream about tipping it into my favourite corner.

I could never afford it, and never bought one...ever. I've got a feeling that I might have regretted buying one if I'd actually had one - sometimes dreams are best left as dreams.

Although....if Nigella is reading this....

A real immaculate Mach 3 at Ludgershall last night, parked a bike away from Injected's Paso
Again some lovely classics out last night, 2 & 4 Stroke Jap classics along with lots of Brit stuff including Bonnies, Commando's etc
And even a 1995 TZ250

To be honest, I've had some really ****e bikes in the past and I'm glad I got rid of them all!

I have fond memories of learning to ride (or should that be "not kill myself"?) on a FS1E-DX but it was a heap. The threaded exhaust collar in the barrel had gone at some point and so the exhaust had to be held in place by putting the exhaust on and then wedging a screwdriver in the gap before cutting it flush so it couldn't be seen. My dad must have wondered where his screwdrivers kept disappearing to.

Then there was the AR125 that was a shed. We painted it metallic green and got it back on the road but it had a coolant leak somewhere and used to squirt "green mayonnaise" out of the back of the engine and onto whoever was behind. Nobody ever used to follow me for long in those days.

The RGV250 I had was nice. I crashed it a few times though and it went BANG quite often as well. No wonder Stan Stephens is a rich man. It actually came up for sale again not so long ago on the rgv250.co.uk forum, but I wouldn't have touched it as I could still see some of my bodges in the pics a good ten years later.

The one I would have kept was the RVF400RR, the NC35. That was a lovely bike. It looked great but just didn't have much go. Jumping off that and onto the 748 was an eye opener!

yes i soled a honda vtr 1000 i had for 12 years 'it had loads done one off paint job ;lots spent looked like new and i got a monster s4r and i hate myself ;what a load of rubbish i wish so much to get rid of it if it means i never have a bike again then good