Thanks for the slap nick..
The harley has gone, my son has it. The cb didn't sell, I then bought a taller screen for it, used it to to go see my grandson on his birthday and realised I loved it and can't let it go. The Bonnie is great for retro kicks, but the old suzook would give me that. And the fz1.. It's a strange bike. It's probably the best bike I've ever owned, but I'm simply not attached to it.
I've been looking at seventies bikes for years to do a bit of the reliving my youth/ nostalgia thing, and every year they get sillier money. So I thought ok I've gotta bite the bullet, once I've got one it's done and they either stay at the same value or increase as time goes on. Biggest I had was air cooled rd350b, rd400, then 350 ypvs. Out of those I'd prefer the 350b, but I'm a lot heavier than I was then, and a lot of my riding is two up. So, a stroker, but a bigger one. Remember riding a gt380 and thinking it was great, so a bigger version of that should suit the bill. The 750 kettles are way out of my price range, and I never liked the look of the water cooled lump, so the 550 is a natural contender. There's a minter on the bay going for five grand, he will take four and a half, it's had a nut and bolt rebuild and is as good as new.im thinking get that, flog the fz1 and the Bonnie, just have the two. And if I do need summat a bit sportier than the cb there's always gonna be a gen 1 with about 40k on the clock going somewhere for £1200-£1500. As you and I know, That's the beauty of those early fazers and their massive trump card over the gen 2, such a good bike for so little money.
Anyhoo, I'll give this some serious thought before I pull the trigger. Whilst the fz1 doesn't tug at my heart strings, I've never had a bike I can ride so fast on crappy fen roads or in shite weather, which is the reality of being a uk biker in this region, as opposed to my rosy eyed memories of two stroke fumes mixing with the heat haze from blistering hot smooth black Tarmac in the permanent sunshine of my youth...