The cool bike thread......

[unfazed]

You have to wonder why they'd bother to fit pillion footrests. 

My thoughts exactly, definitely different for an MV I give them that

[VNA - BMW Wank]

 I think the key to cool, I mean real cool, is near universal appreciation.
I mean a person who is genuinely cool, doesn’t appear cool to only a small number of people, but is cool to many because they just naturally ooze universal cool.
So, a cool bike, has to turn heads of non-bikers and make em think – boy that’s cool.
The mess above, well never mind non bikers, I'm not sure it would appeal to many bikers.
It’s never in a million fuckin years ever gonna win a cool competition. 
 

[vinnyb]

 But just fitting wide bars and knobblies or clip ons and a seat hump to any old bag of shit doesn't automatically make it cool. You can polish a turd but you just end up with a shiny turd.

[VNA - BMW Wank]

[coffee]

I've just cum.

[Gnasher]

Looks like a Norton Dominator engine probably a 500, nice cafe racer. 

[VNA - BMW Wank]

 Vincent Black Lightning by Jeff Decker


 

[coffee]

Defo a norton lump,not sure what size but have you ever seen a bike which you just couldn't better no matter what you did to it.?

[Gnasher]

but have you ever seen a bike which you just couldn't better no matter what you did to it.?

The bike is nothing more really than a piece of art and as art I would agree very hard to improve on.   That said as a bike you could ride more than just onto the set of a photo shoot, or up a nice flat driveway it certainly could be.  It's looks to me to have a hard tail i.e. no rear suspension, not unusual in it's self but all hard tails have sprung seats, this looks not to have one.  If it hasn't, I would have included a cantilever rear along the lines of Vincent, HRD or at the very least a sprung seat.    

[VNA - BMW Wank]

[Dudeofrude]

I love this 😍

Having ridden one I know it's a pile of shite but looks great

[coffee]

I've never ridden one why a pile of shite? looks great to me, don't they perform to well?

[Dudeofrude]

I've never ridden one why a pile of shite? looks great to me, don't they perform to well?

Pile of shite may be a tad harsh I suppose but yeah I would describe the ride as... underwhelming.
Well actually I would go as far as to say it's the first time I've ever been 'bored' while riding a bike 😔
Maybe if your coming from an underpowered twin (er6, cb500 etc) then it might have seemed a lot better but certainly not a bike for me

[Dudeofrude]

Heres something different for ya. A bit futuristic and weird but arguably quite interesting.
The Aston Martin Bike 001

[Dudeofrude]

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[vinnyb]

 Well... errr… it's totally impractical, it's got clip-ons and rearsets and a brown saddle. Somebody's gonna give their seal of approval I would think. Not for me though, I think I like my bike a bit more 'normal' looking. Would love to be able to afford one though.

[Oldgit]

looks a bit like a squashed Ducati, rounded off at the edges.

[coffee]

I wonder if that's their own engine or a modded American V twin ?

[ogri48]

Riding back from visiting dads grave today, early evening in the fens under a sky full of dark clouds. Then the sun broke through a gap. That 1996 evo Fatboy Looks as good as the day it was built imho

[fazersharp]

What a great picture, well done

[ogri48]

Cheers mate just got lucky with the lighting I think the rest was down to the iPhone (6) and a very photogenic bike 

[Dudeofrude]

Riding back from visiting dads grave today, early evening in the fens under a sky full of dark clouds. Then the sun broke through a gap. That 1996 evo Fatboy Looks as good as the day it was built imho

Great pic! (And from on old potato phone too 😜) looks like it belongs on a poster on an investment bankers office wall 😅

I don't think anyone could argue that isnt a universally cool bike 😎

I find most Harleys to have that cool vibe to them, its usually the riders than ruin the image of them 🤣🤣

[Oldgit]

nice--I had a Softail Heritage but my kidneys were still vibrating half an hour after I got off the bike--so it had to go.
But this looks cool, but I suspect the same vibe problem, still looks the part tho.

[ogri48]

yup. no rubber engine mounts for this old bugger. And a big ol 42mm flatslide to really up the ante on lumpy low down. I stopped at a burger bar last summer, and a bloke with a mahoosive KTm told me all the mods he had done to get it to nearly 200bhp. I said 'I know just what you mean, ive got open slash cuts, 42mm mikuni, stage two coil and leads, performance lumpy cam and its nearly double the horsepower of the stock motor!!'
Sadly, bone stock and strangled as they were for the uk market back in the nineties, it made 38bhp. Thats quite the achievement for 1340 cc dontcha think?  

[Oldgit]

Aye pretty good Ogri.