The Ducati 750ss remains today the very epitome of perfect aesthetic motorcycle design. It’s simply the most gorgeous bike ever made imho. I had the 900 ss Desmo Darmah in black and gold with the knee cut outs on the tank. Stunning bike.
When I was a teenager I lived just around the corner from mick Walker motorcycles in wisbech. Apart from harleys they sold every superbike out there, le mans, jota, ducati as well as the Japanese bikes. Wet dream for a 14 year old boy!
Love my Guzzi. Solid list. For once all bikes I am familiar with. You usually find one that we just didn't get here. Put a bunch of miles on a '78 R100RS - quite a machine. I doubt most riders appreciate how much of a premium priced bike they were new, however.
Well true of all the European bikes on the list here, the Italian bikes still attract premium prices of course, the RS can be a bargain as everyone wants the R90
When I was looking for a new bike, the local Ducati dealer let me test every model except the beautiful Mike Hailwood replica they had on the floor; bloody spoilsports. My heart still misses a beat when I look at the supersport; what a machine. The sound and the handling were just fantastic. I didn't end up buying one though; I just felt too cramped up on the bike. Gutted. The same dealer also carried Laverda and Moto Guzzi, you couldn't move in there without tripping overt brand new Jotas, Mirages and Le Mans; where's the nearest time machine, I want to go back! I ended up with a Yamaha XS eleven, (1.1), which in no way do I regret. Great programme.
Nothing beats an Italian sportsbike of the 70’s. The MHR or SFC for the mantle piece, the Le Mans 850 for the back roads and the R100RS for the quickest way out of the country 😂
One of my favorite things about these bikes is I would not see them if you didn't show them to me . I saw my 1st real life Royal Enfield last week . The owner twisted it into a Cafe racer . Even though it was not my style I circled it many times in admiration. It captivated me sitting still .
They say great styling makes a bike look like. It’s doing a 100 at standstill The Laverdas shown were filmed by me at a coffee shop last week, you can see the Mrs chatting to one of the owners in the background. Sometimes things just drop onto your lap
So glad to see an R100RS in your video! Looking forward to getting one and stuffing my ultralight backpacking gear in the factory Krausers and touring the U.S. west coast SF to the Canada border and back. Camping wherever possible, and splurging for state park campsites for showers during the trip. The "Gentleman's Express" is the perfect bike for lightweight camping, coastal Cal/Oregon/Washington pavement-only touring.
I have had two commandos 750 mk2 roadster mk3 interstate and if it wasn’t for a back injury that prevented me starting them id still be riding one awesome motorsickles .I’ve allways want a lav 750 [or 1000] rare here in New Zealand tho.great video really enjoyed it.hi from New Zealand 🇳🇿
I really liked your presentation and being a onetime owner of a 1975 Ducati gs as well a 1968,69 and 1971 Triumph Bonnevilles I appreciate your selection. Growing up in the 1960s and being in my twenties in the 1970s, I feel you left out an iconic Superbike of the early seventies. That is the Harley Davidson XLCH Sportster, here in the States the "CH" won many a impromptu drag race beating Bonnevilles as well as Norton Comandos. This of course depended on the skill of the riders, many times the Triumphs or Nortons would win. The point being is that the Sportster was still viewed as a Superbike at least till mid to late seventies.
Corners are a problem however I can say this because we owned one at one time , ground clearance was crap compared to a Bonnie or a Norton In fairness stupidly the best HD
I had a Mk1 Le Mans. It would skate round corners like it was on rails. Everything I know about electrics I learned from the Guzzi. It would fall off the sidestand if touched by a breeze. The Fuel filters and unions were soluable in petrol and the seat was only a piece of expanded foam. I rode to Portugal on it and hand to stand every 30mins to let some blood into my legs.. Spares, at that time, were a joke. I ordered throttle cables as a pair just to get 2 with the same free length. In the end I just could not live with its "Character". It was a joy to ride but a pain to own.
I learned never to leave home without a roll of isulating tape, spare fuses and a length or two of wire,,, I rewired it with Jap switches over my first winter. The original was just a mass of rotting black wire with coloured bands on the end to tell you what it did,,, Ah! The good old days ;o) Whenever I went through a tunnel I'd drop a cog and wind it up to listen to the music,,,
I owned a 1976 900SS and it was NEVER hard to start. 1 kick and at the most 2. It was always about the technique. Wish I still owned that sweet piece of machinery.
A lovely little video, although I have no experience of most of these. I rode quite a few of their cousins and siblings, but not the exact models featured here. On the tall gearing of the 850 Lemon, you are quite right. But a tall first was a common feature of bikes with a track bias or designed with high-speed touring in mind. The lust for a low 0-60 time is a very "car" thing and is largely irrelevant on a motorcycle - unless you have a point to prove at a traffic light. The joy of a tall first fear is that it is usable at rolling speeds. Perfect for a hairpin on a track. And as the Lemon was harder to stall than a Perkins diesel, the tall gearing was never an issue. The BMW was a marvel. It was the first true 2-wheeled international GT. The strange bars made limited sense on a city, but they weren't designed for that. Excellent video. As usual. Chapeau.
I've owned two Le Mans, 1984 Le Mans MkIII and 1990 Le Mans MkV. The Mk in top gear was geared 30kph for 1000rpm. Eg, 4000rpm equated to 120kph. I wouldn't change into top gear until I hit 4000rpm. Le Mans engines liked to rev. At 6000rpm was when maximum torque came in. That equated to 180kph in top gear, where the engine felt like it would burst through brick walls. Incredibly strong. Redline was 7500rpm and maximum power at 7000rpm. Cruising speed between 150kph and 180kph. First and top gears were tall, while 2nd, 3rd and 4th were closely spaced. City riding, I wouldn't get out of 3rd gear, occasionally 4th gear.
When it comes to big twins of the 1970s, I would happily take the Kawasaki Z750 parked next to the Ducati MHR. As a Guzzista, I would love to choose the LeMans Mark I, but my body no longer comfortably bends that way. There's an irony that I really love: in the 1970s my friends and relatives in Italy would go on and on about how the Japanese did not create anything, but copied everyone else, meanwhile both Laverda and Benelli went on to copy Honda. Slavishly in the case of the Benelli 350/4 and 500/4. Even the 750/6 has parts that interchange with the Honda 500 Four.
I’ve been fortunate enough to have owned three of the bikes featured…the First Incarnation of the LeMans 850 Guzzi, a BMW R100RS and a Ducati bevel drive 900 SS….the Guzzi was a lovely bike, uncompromising in cafe racer/road racer design. The same applies for the Ducati….just look at what the Japanese were producing at the same period, nothing to compare to those Italian Stallions…Likewise the Beemer was in a class of its own for built quality, reliability and just plain mile munching….l remember that period of my motorcycle journey with great fondness….
The Commando frame had a very short lived early version with a conventional frame mounted swingarm, as far as I can tell Bernard Hooper re-designed Bauer's rear isolastic mount to include the swingarm and rear wheel, if you look the swingarm spindle doesn't go beyond the gearbox cradle plates.
I would love to see a review of the Japanese 400 import bikes, I had a VFR400 (which did over 100,000 miles) and it wonderful, I also rode CBR400, Kawasaki 400 and they all really good machines
Another "jolly good show," but I'm baffled as to why you chose the BMW R100RS over the R90S (or an R100S) for this particular comparison. I had the "pleasure" of racing my lightly-modified BMW R75/5 at PBIR (FL) in 1976. That was the age of Reg Pridmore racing, and winning, on an R90S in the Superbike Series here in the United States. I don't recall him racing the RS model, which, as you noted, was BMW's outstanding sport-tourer. The shop I worked at (441 Cycle/BMW) took a 1974 Ducati 750 in trade and it sat on the showroom floor so long the rings got "sticky" causing it to smoke. One evening, the boss told me to ride it home and put some miles on it that night. When I pulled up to my Pop's house he came out to see what that cool sound was. I let him take a spin on it and he came back grinning like a schoolboy! (He had cut his teeth on Indians and Harleys.) The next morning, after a nice long evening ride, that Ducati no longer smoked and ran great. It sold shortly thereafter. (My best finishes on my R75/5 were a pair of 5th place trophies running against 1000cc machines. No wins but it was a blast!)
You'd be hard put to find one, but they really do go like stink. A mate of mine campaigned one very successfully in Scandinavian road racing....@@bikerdood1100
Great mixture, the only one I have riden is the Norton, which was a press bike which I had to collect for Which Bike (1970's Mag) It broke down twice from the factory to the Mags office, the 2nd break down was the exhaust system fell off! The editor was not very happy over the phone and Norton had to send out a recovery van, that was the only Norton I ever rode. The other four bikes were on my wish list as a young 20 year old 🤣
Never mind MrVinnyh, I have never ridden a Commando either but I would love to try a good one. For now I just have to put up with that silver Ducati you see immortalised in this video. I have to say every bike shown here goes on my never ending wish list. Well done Biker Dood.
Great bikes..would have loved to have a Le Man's. I can attest to how hard the Ducati bevels can be to start... but it it's not hard once you realise you've gotta take it just past the back cylinder, otherwise you're kicking against it. It's also got a very short kick lever which nicely goes under the footpeg to get maximum pain if it kicks back, trapping yr foot under it 😅
Another good video, thanks for making it. Personally I would love to see a video on the gpz900rr and the bikes it spawned such as the zx10 tomcat and zzr's. Keep up the good work👍👍🏍🏍
Aaaaah....way too much 🙂 Having had a Spada , that and a R100RS were just the tops for long distance mile munching........ but there's not one "unlustful" machine there...just gorgeous!
Definitely not 1 it’s Harley 2 expensive 3 inferior motorcycle And I’ve owned both incidentally I do consider the sportster as Harleys best bike by the way
@@bikerdood1100 if you'll read my post again, it says that I would put the Harley in the list, it doesn't say that you would include it. I have an opinion, just like you…
@@Mbartel500 true but I am coming from a point of view of ownership of both Incidentally 883s are often quite expensive in Europe We liked The sportster but in our long term experience we would have to place it some way behind The Italian stallion Not least because of crap gas tank range which was a pain in the ass wen touring, unforgivable when. Bike is all day comfortable. Well unless it’s an early pre rubber mount bike with added shimy shakes
Not sure if I should love or hate you. I want them all (some again). To imagine I sold my Jota to help fund a cot, pram and nappies . Love your videos really .Although it does cause a heartache or two. Not to mention having to clean the TV screen as I salivate over some of those bikes. Have you considered tractors. I have no interest in those.
I've been through them all, passed my test on an awful Piatti scooter , my first was an old Bza Gold Flash , had a test ride on Guzzi le Man , the torque effect really scared me , in 1974 bought a Vincent Rapide £80 , my ex said can't afford that so sold her for £140 , & bugger me we had a free 6 week holiday in P,A a via a rich mate has shares in I.B.M . Has a Norton 650 ss so comfy , an early Gold Star , my last was a Norton 600 single , sold her for £15 , why I didn't bring her to Spain , twatt me , I now have a Suzuki gsx 600f & being a bit creaky the now retired garage owner Henrique is going to swap with a 250 . Never has one accident & my bikes well maintained never let me down , 😮, in the next village east Beniarres on dry Sudays we drive in my 2004 Suzuki Alto car for coffees ! To see the bikers .blimey the speeds the pass at in a 60kph limit , never accidents . Keep on biking & stay safe
The tank of that Le Mans does not have the original paintjob. Plus the exhausts should be black. I suspect it’s not a real one but converted from another 850. One should always beware of those, though this one is different enough to be a honest bike.
So what It looks good. Does it ride good And does anything else actually matter unless you paying through the nose. My Goldenflash has a later tank, so I care, nope it rides well either way Ewan McGreggors first bike was like that, a Spada originally I fought he cared Also by now a lot of original tanks have rotted in fairness
Bus’s ain’t exactly a looker though Not that I’d buy a Harley or most modern bikes for that matter, some truly hideous bikes being made these days 🤔there’s a an idea for a video
Not all of em Or maybe I should have left it out to keep the pedantic people happy but then rob the rest of us of a gorgeous inclusion What do you think 🤔
Is there a genuine the U.S..A that makes 75% of new riders choice a Hardly worthit. Look at the accident rate especially among women, how can a 65 kg woman expect to control a 300 plus kg bike ! Don't want to offend you HD riders !
@@simonsadler9360 a 65kg women can of course control a big bike But are these things pointlessly big. The real problem with big bikes is slow manoeuvres if you lose your balance it doesn’t matter how strong you are they are gone Watched a guy asking for help to back is massive cruiser into a parking space on flat ground. Totally stupid situation. Bikes weren’t such crazy sizes years ago and everyone seemed to cope just fine. The point really is that 300kg bikes are completely pointless I suppose
The Ducati 750ss remains today the very epitome of perfect aesthetic motorcycle design. It’s simply the most gorgeous bike ever made imho. I had the 900 ss Desmo Darmah in black and gold with the knee cut outs on the tank. Stunning bike.
Naaaaa
It’s nice but not that nice 😂😂
As a teenager in the late 70’s, just starting out on my biking career, all those bikes were on my dream wish list.
Same for most of us
Some of them will unfortunately have to stay on my dream list to
Very nice collection of bikes. Thanks for sharing. Take care and ride safe. Cheers
Thanks 👍
Nice to see these old bikes again thanks for sharing 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
When I was a teenager I lived just around the corner from mick Walker motorcycles in wisbech. Apart from harleys they sold every superbike out there, le mans, jota, ducati as well as the Japanese bikes. Wet dream for a 14 year old boy!
Probably too much information 😂
@@bikerdood1100 yeah but black and gold ducati 900 desmo 😚
I don't know how you keep coming up with these gems but more power to your elbow. Cheers mate.
Bloody hard work in all honesty
I carry a notebook for ideas too which helps
Love my Guzzi. Solid list. For once all bikes I am familiar with. You usually find one that we just didn't get here. Put a bunch of miles on a '78 R100RS - quite a machine. I doubt most riders appreciate how much of a premium priced bike they were new, however.
Well true of all the European bikes on the list here, the Italian bikes still attract premium prices of course, the RS can be a bargain as everyone wants the R90
This is a fantastic series. Thanks so much.
Glad you’re enjoying them
When I was looking for a new bike, the local Ducati dealer let me test every model except the beautiful Mike Hailwood replica they had on the floor; bloody spoilsports. My heart still misses a beat when I look at the supersport; what a machine. The sound and the handling were just fantastic. I didn't end up buying one though; I just felt too cramped up on the bike. Gutted. The same dealer also carried Laverda and Moto Guzzi, you couldn't move in there without tripping overt brand new Jotas, Mirages and Le Mans; where's the nearest time machine, I want to go back! I ended up with a Yamaha XS eleven, (1.1), which in no way do I regret. Great programme.
More of a Guzzi Laverda man myself Dukes are a bit fussy
Fundamentally though I live pretty much all things Italian
Nothing beats an Italian sportsbike of the 70’s.
The MHR or SFC for the mantle piece, the Le Mans 850 for the back roads and the R100RS for the quickest way out of the country 😂
True indeed
The Jap bikes are best Suzuki Yamaha etc.
I like all of them!
Me too
I need a bigger garage
One of my favorite things about these bikes is I would not see them if you didn't show them to me .
I saw my 1st real life Royal Enfield last week . The owner twisted it into a Cafe racer . Even though it was not my style I circled it many times in admiration. It captivated me sitting still .
They say great styling makes a bike look like. It’s doing a 100 at standstill
The Laverdas shown were filmed by me at a coffee shop last week, you can see the Mrs chatting to one of the owners in the background. Sometimes things just drop onto your lap
So glad to see an R100RS in your video! Looking forward to getting one and stuffing my ultralight backpacking gear in the factory Krausers and touring the U.S. west coast SF to the Canada border and back. Camping wherever possible, and splurging for state park campsites for showers during the trip. The "Gentleman's Express" is the perfect bike for lightweight camping, coastal Cal/Oregon/Washington pavement-only touring.
Sounds like a good plan
I have had two commandos 750 mk2 roadster mk3 interstate and if it wasn’t for a back injury that prevented me starting them id still be riding one awesome motorsickles .I’ve allways want a lav 750 [or 1000] rare here in New Zealand tho.great video really enjoyed it.hi from New Zealand 🇳🇿
Glad you enjoyed it
I really liked your presentation and being a onetime owner of a 1975 Ducati gs as well a 1968,69 and 1971 Triumph Bonnevilles I appreciate your selection. Growing up in the 1960s and being in my twenties in the 1970s, I feel you left out an iconic Superbike of the early seventies. That is the Harley Davidson XLCH Sportster, here in the States the "CH" won many a impromptu drag race beating Bonnevilles as well as Norton Comandos. This of course depended on the skill of the riders, many times the Triumphs or Nortons would win. The point being is that the Sportster was still viewed as a Superbike at least till mid to late seventies.
Corners are a problem however
I can say this because we owned one at one time , ground clearance was crap compared to a Bonnie or a Norton
In fairness stupidly the best HD
Wow! Some great looking machines, perhaps even the beemers😂 though surely the most handsome being the Commando 👍👏👌
🤔hmm
Hard to say
@@bikerdood1100😂
I had a Mk1 Le Mans. It would skate round corners like it was on rails. Everything I know about electrics I learned from the Guzzi. It would fall off the sidestand if touched by a breeze. The Fuel filters and unions were soluable in petrol and the seat was only a piece of expanded foam. I rode to Portugal on it and hand to stand every 30mins to let some blood into my legs.. Spares, at that time, were a joke. I ordered throttle cables as a pair just to get 2 with the same free length. In the end I just could not live with its "Character". It was a joy to ride but a pain to own.
Oh I quickly learned never to trust Guzzi centre stands
I learned never to leave home without a roll of isulating tape, spare fuses and a length or two of wire,,, I rewired it with Jap switches over my first winter. The original was just a mass of rotting black wire with coloured bands on the end to tell you what it did,,, Ah! The good old days ;o) Whenever I went through a tunnel I'd drop a cog and wind it up to listen to the music,,,
Cracking video as ever 😊
Thank you
I owned a 1976 900SS and it was NEVER hard to start. 1 kick and at the most 2. It was always about the technique.
Wish I still owned that sweet piece of machinery.
Well you will need no small amount of cash these days
Bloody collectors 😂
A lovely little video, although I have no experience of most of these. I rode quite a few of their cousins and siblings, but not the exact models featured here.
On the tall gearing of the 850 Lemon, you are quite right. But a tall first was a common feature of bikes with a track bias or designed with high-speed touring in mind. The lust for a low 0-60 time is a very "car" thing and is largely irrelevant on a motorcycle - unless you have a point to prove at a traffic light.
The joy of a tall first fear is that it is usable at rolling speeds. Perfect for a hairpin on a track. And as the Lemon was harder to stall than a Perkins diesel, the tall gearing was never an issue.
The BMW was a marvel. It was the first true 2-wheeled international GT. The strange bars made limited sense on a city, but they weren't designed for that.
Excellent video. As usual. Chapeau.
True about the gearing
Better that a Goldstar I’d think their gearing is legendary
True about the gearing
Better that a Goldstar I’d think their gearing is legendary
I've owned two Le Mans, 1984 Le Mans MkIII and 1990 Le Mans MkV. The Mk in top gear was geared 30kph for 1000rpm. Eg, 4000rpm equated to 120kph. I wouldn't change into top gear until I hit 4000rpm. Le Mans engines liked to rev. At 6000rpm was when maximum torque came in. That equated to 180kph in top gear, where the engine felt like it would burst through brick walls. Incredibly strong. Redline was 7500rpm and maximum power at 7000rpm. Cruising speed between 150kph and 180kph.
First and top gears were tall, while 2nd, 3rd and 4th were closely spaced. City riding, I wouldn't get out of 3rd gear, occasionally 4th gear.
When it comes to big twins of the 1970s, I would happily take the Kawasaki Z750 parked next to the Ducati MHR. As a Guzzista, I would love to choose the LeMans Mark I, but my body no longer comfortably bends that way. There's an irony that I really love: in the 1970s my friends and relatives in Italy would go on and on about how the Japanese did not create anything, but copied everyone else, meanwhile both Laverda and Benelli went on to copy Honda. Slavishly in the case of the Benelli 350/4 and 500/4. Even the 750/6 has parts that interchange with the Honda 500 Four.
With my lack of flexibility it would be 850T3 for me
Nice content again
Thanks
I’ve been fortunate enough to have owned three of the bikes featured…the First Incarnation of the LeMans 850 Guzzi, a BMW R100RS and a Ducati bevel drive 900 SS….the Guzzi was a lovely bike, uncompromising in cafe racer/road racer design. The same applies for the Ducati….just look at what the Japanese were producing at the same period, nothing to compare to those Italian Stallions…Likewise the Beemer was in a class of its own for built quality, reliability and just plain mile munching….l remember that period of my motorcycle journey with great fondness….
Nice
The Commando frame had a very short lived early version with a conventional frame mounted swingarm, as far as I can tell Bernard Hooper re-designed Bauer's rear isolastic mount to include the swingarm and rear wheel, if you look the swingarm spindle doesn't go beyond the gearbox cradle plates.
Interesting 🤔
I would love to see a review of the Japanese 400 import bikes, I had a VFR400 (which did over 100,000 miles) and it wonderful, I also rode CBR400, Kawasaki 400 and they all really good machines
Nice idea 💡
Another "jolly good show," but I'm baffled as to why you chose the BMW R100RS over the R90S (or an R100S) for this particular comparison. I had the "pleasure" of racing my lightly-modified BMW R75/5 at PBIR (FL) in 1976. That was the age of Reg Pridmore racing, and winning, on an R90S in the Superbike Series here in the United States. I don't recall him racing the RS model, which, as you noted, was BMW's outstanding sport-tourer. The shop I worked at (441 Cycle/BMW) took a 1974 Ducati 750 in trade and it sat on the showroom floor so long the rings got "sticky" causing it to smoke. One evening, the boss told me to ride it home and put some miles on it that night. When I pulled up to my Pop's house he came out to see what that cool sound was. I let him take a spin on it and he came back grinning like a schoolboy! (He had cut his teeth on Indians and Harleys.) The next morning, after a nice long evening ride, that Ducati no longer smoked and ran great. It sold shortly thereafter.
(My best finishes on my R75/5 were a pair of 5th place trophies running against 1000cc machines. No wins but it was a blast!)
Ground breaking fairing
Also I personally prefer it, it was sold for longer than the 90 and in greater numbers so a no brainier for me
BSA A. 70 might have stood a mention... rare, but savage....
Well yes but only 200 homologation specials made and not sold here in the uk so
Noooo
You'd be hard put to find one, but they really do go like stink. A mate of mine campaigned one very successfully in Scandinavian road racing....@@bikerdood1100
Great mixture, the only one I have riden is the Norton, which was a press bike which I had to collect for Which Bike (1970's Mag) It broke down twice from the factory to the Mags office, the 2nd break down was the exhaust system fell off! The editor was not very happy over the phone and Norton had to send out a recovery van, that was the only Norton I ever rode. The other four bikes were on my wish list as a young 20 year old 🤣
I think they are on a lot of bikes that would be on most people’s wish list
By the sound of you must have recieved one of the better Nortons 😂
Never mind MrVinnyh, I have never ridden a Commando either but I would love to try a good one. For now I just have to put up with that silver Ducati you see immortalised in this video. I have to say every bike shown here goes on my never ending wish list. Well done Biker Dood.
Great bikes..would have loved to have a Le Man's.
I can attest to how hard the Ducati bevels can be to start... but it it's not hard once you realise you've gotta take it just past the back cylinder, otherwise you're kicking against it. It's also got a very short kick lever which nicely goes under the footpeg to get maximum pain if it kicks back, trapping yr foot under it 😅
Most of these things are about technique
Very much like a big single
@@bikerdood1100yup. I learned the hard way 😁
Another good video, thanks for making it.
Personally I would love to see a video on the gpz900rr and the bikes it spawned such as the zx10 tomcat and zzr's.
Keep up the good work👍👍🏍🏍
I will get to those 80s bikes at some point
@bikerdood1100 Grear stuff!👍👍I do personally love the 80's and 90's as a bike era.
Another great video. I know you’re a Guzzi guy I’d love to see your top 5 Guzzi’s
@@worgoose nice idea
How to pick a favourite though 🤔
Aaaaah....way too much 🙂 Having had a Spada , that and a R100RS were just the tops for long distance mile munching........ but there's not one "unlustful" machine there...just gorgeous!
That’s why I chose them
Hmm lust 😂
The boy done good, but then you do have a Breva.........@@bikerdood1100
Interesting list, but I would have replaced the Guzzi, with the Harley Davidson 883cc XLCH.
Definitely not
1 it’s Harley
2 expensive
3 inferior motorcycle
And I’ve owned both incidentally
I do consider the sportster as Harleys best bike by the way
@@bikerdood1100 if you'll read my post again, it says that I would put the Harley in the list, it doesn't say that you would include it. I have an opinion, just like you…
@@Mbartel500 true but I am coming from a point of view of ownership of both
Incidentally 883s are often quite expensive in Europe
We liked The sportster but in our long term experience we would have to place it some way behind The Italian stallion
Not least because of crap gas tank range which was a pain in the ass wen touring, unforgivable when. Bike is all day comfortable.
Well unless it’s an early pre rubber mount bike with added shimy shakes
Not sure if I should love or hate you. I want them all (some again). To imagine I sold my Jota to help fund a cot, pram and nappies . Love your videos really .Although it does cause a heartache or two. Not to mention having to clean the TV screen as I salivate over some of those bikes. Have you considered tractors. I have no interest in those.
That’s painful indeed 🥲
There isn't a single bike I don't regret selling. Especially the ones when I was young and stupid.
@@borderlands6606 I look at at this way
You can’t keep em all
Unless your loaded of course 😂
😎
👍🏻😎
I've been through them all, passed my test on an awful Piatti scooter , my first was an old Bza Gold Flash , had a test ride on Guzzi le Man , the torque effect really scared me , in 1974 bought a Vincent Rapide £80 , my ex said can't afford that so sold her for £140 , & bugger me we had a free 6 week holiday in P,A a via a rich mate has shares in I.B.M . Has a Norton 650 ss so comfy , an early Gold Star , my last was a Norton 600 single , sold her for £15 , why I didn't bring her to Spain , twatt me , I now have a Suzuki gsx 600f & being a bit creaky the now retired garage owner Henrique is going to swap with a 250 . Never has one accident & my bikes well maintained never let me down , 😮, in the next village east Beniarres on dry Sudays we drive in my 2004 Suzuki Alto car for coffees ! To see the bikers .blimey the speeds the pass at in a 60kph limit , never accidents .
Keep on biking & stay safe
Been riding Guzzi’s since the 80s and to be honest only ever noticed the Torque effect at stand still ?
What, you sold the ex for 140 quid? Bargain! 😁
@@chrisweeks6973 things have changed a lot since then
The tank of that Le Mans does not have the original paintjob. Plus the exhausts should be black. I suspect it’s not a real one but converted from another 850. One should always beware of those, though this one is different enough to be a honest bike.
So what
It looks good. Does it ride good
And does anything else actually matter unless you paying through the nose. My Goldenflash has a later tank, so I care, nope it rides well either way
Ewan McGreggors first bike was like that, a Spada originally
I fought he cared
Also by now a lot of original tanks have rotted in fairness
Can't resist this , a Suzuki Hayabusa the fastestin the world is cheaper than the latest 400 kg Hardly worthit!
Bus’s ain’t exactly a looker though
Not that I’d buy a Harley or most modern bikes for that matter, some truly hideous bikes being made these days
🤔there’s a an idea for a video
The mhr beautie is an 80s bike. .😂
Not all of em
Or maybe I should have left it out to keep the pedantic people happy but then rob the rest of us of a gorgeous inclusion
What do you think 🤔
I don't know but I'm having a hard time hearing what you're saying. Accent ?
Welcome to the English Midlands 😂😂
Is there a genuine the U.S..A that makes 75% of new riders choice a Hardly worthit. Look at the accident rate especially among women, how can a 65 kg woman expect to control a 300 plus kg bike ! Don't want to offend you HD riders !
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@@simonsadler9360 a 65kg women can of course control a big bike
But are these things pointlessly big. The real problem with big bikes is slow manoeuvres if you lose your balance it doesn’t matter how strong you are they are gone
Watched a guy asking for help to back is massive cruiser into a parking space on flat ground. Totally stupid situation. Bikes weren’t such crazy sizes years ago and everyone seemed to cope just fine.
The point really is that 300kg bikes are completely pointless I suppose