Come on let's see those beautiful bikes

[Timbo]

The DT looks sweet ! I cut my teeth on a 79 DT175mx as a field bike before I started racing . bulletproof bikes ! The B king looks sweet , what are those pipes ? Did you do any mods ? Mine is currently in bits , having the ECU refreshed and just about to dump the cat and remove the SET valve . any experience of this ? The bike is new to me and having owned a gen1 Busa it's occurred to me just how stifled the b king is . Also in the process of nodding the air box with larger inlets !

My first bike was a DT125 twin shock! then had the 175 when I turned 17, they are in my blood!

The pipes on the B-King were Laser Exhausts, looked great but were a little quiet even with the baffle plates removed.

Only mods I did were cosmetic, all the carbon fibre bits were after I binned it, cheaper to go carbon than pay suyzuki prices, the tank pods were £700 each from suzuki or two for £350 from Powerbronze.

Mate of mine dumped the SET valve, used a bypass pipe and got rid of the cat too, didnt make a huge difference but worth doing. The B-King has a much softer tune than the Hayabusa for some reason but is still lightning fast!! Fastest I have ever been on a bike was on the M6 between Carlisle and Penrith, no bridges, no junctions and nowhere for the police to hide

I do miss my B-King but it made me ride like a hooligan!! I know!! It's me not the bike, but.....

 

[Timbo]

Timbo , that is a sweet Audi you have !

The TT? that is the wife's car and I am not allowed to drive it I have bikes, she has the TT!

 

[Timbo]

...old cobber of mine...known him maybe 30 yrs now..said yesterday that i've got him to thinking about bikes again...he used to ride...had a beemer...
Said he was toying with getting another one...trouble is, his knees are buggered...he has had heart surgery...backs knackered and he struggles to walk.....and....he's 80!!....

Tell him to go for it!! My Dad is 80 and rides a 1960 BSA A10, and for when he is taking my mum out, a Honda NC750X, she is 78! Told you it is in my blood.

 

[Tal]

Tell him to go for it

Trouble is, Max gets around like a half shut pocket knife!...

 

[Timbo]

Trouble is, Max gets around like a half shut pocket knife!...

My dad has had both his knees replaced which apparently stuffed up his golf game and kick starting the BSA, but he is all over that now. Noted that, half shut pocket knife

 

[Tripps]

My uncle is 92, still runs crab traps and scuba dives. Changed his motor in his boat because he wasn't going to pay the dealer $1500, lol. Cut his arm good and got stitches doing it, told all the rubes at my daughter's wedding that it was a shark bite.

 

[Starmanut]

Oh mercy that’s not good. You might need to be straight with him. If he has to have something you might suggest a trike build. A Rocket trike would be a bad azz toy.

+1 on that! My wife would go touring on a trike (she likes that red one that has been on ebay...). Since she got hit with a car on her bicycle she won't get on the Rocket for more than a block. Bummer.
8 years ago took her for a ride on my Kawasaki VN1500. "First date, sort of", and here we are.

 

[Boog]

Back when Brahma was still somewhat shiny.

 

[Frosty Rider]

 

[caddydaddy]