Author Topic: The cool bike thread...... (Read 73245 times)

Anquetil · « **Reply #75 on:** 14 August 2019, 07:14:57 am »

The bike on the left looks like it may be a Norton, comparing it with the attached photo.

robbo · « **Reply #76 on:** 14 August 2019, 08:37:36 am »

Mr.Red. If you like those old flat tanker, total loss oil type bikes, then you must try and get to next years Pioneer Run from Epsom Downs. It would be an early start for you to get there, as they start to leave at 8am, going from memory. I always go, but more for the social, as always regard that meeting as the first event in a new biking year. It's usually the 3rd or 4th Sunday in March. See you at the tea hut, next year

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BMCfaz · « **Reply #77 on:** 14 August 2019, 03:27:16 pm »

There's a bit of a smell of beard oil, with all the hipster-cool bikes on the thread, but I guess cool is in the opinion of the individual. IMO, for example, BMW haven't produced a cool bike since the R90S!

Almost any bike can look cool with a bit of work, take Italian firm RossoChromo's CB1000R-based XESS, Velocity-moto's MT09-based 900LC or anything by Japanese firm AC Sanctuary, but the bike that was cool for me straight out of the crate was the Benelli TNT. Probably totally unreliable, but it looked something else!

red98 · « **Reply #78 on:** 14 August 2019, 06:52:59 pm »

Quote from: robbo on 14 August 2019, 08:37:36 am

Mr.Red. If you like those old flat tanker, total loss oil type bikes, then you must try and get to next years Pioneer Run from Epsom Downs. It would be an early start for you to get there, as they start to leave at 8am, going from memory. I always go, but more for the social, as always regard that meeting as the first event in a new biking year. It's usually the 3rd or 4th Sunday in March. See you at the tea hut, next year .

hi mr Robbo , had plans to go this year but something else got in the way .....yep,i do like the flat tanked bikes and who knows next years event might see me on one of my own.....i`ll look out for you on your zenith

VNA - BMW Wank · « **Reply #79 on:** 14 August 2019, 07:11:40 pm »

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but it looked something else!

My god, it certainly does. That thing is almost the definition, for me, in my opinion, and all that, of uncool.

VNA - BMW Wank · « **Reply #80 on:** 14 August 2019, 07:20:54 pm »

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or anything by Japanese firm AC Sanctuary

I like Sanctuary stuff, but it’s usually on the warm side of cool. They don’t ooze universal coolness.

I love Katana’s, but I’m not sure if they are really cool. They are desirable because they look so wonderfully weird, and I am pretty sure they will get attention from both bikers and non-bikers.

So here’s a Katana from Sanctuary. The front discs with those red bobbins are a little uncool and the exhaust is a little busy, but it’s still reasonable cool.

VNA - BMW Wank · « **Reply #81 on:** 14 August 2019, 07:21:43 pm »

Here we go;

VNA - BMW Wank · « **Reply #82 on:** 14 August 2019, 07:25:27 pm »

BMW haven't produced a cool bike since the R90S!

Really! R Nine T's are probably the coolest things they have ever done. And currently the coolest off the shelf cool retro bikes on the market.

ogri48 · « **Reply #83 on:** 14 August 2019, 07:51:01 pm »

I do love them new bonnies, but its very uncool you cant have 'made in great Britain' on the buggers anymore.

Dudeofrude · « **Reply #84 on:** 15 August 2019, 06:21:24 pm »

Looking at this chart I think I like trackers the best

Dudeofrude · « **Reply #85 on:** 15 August 2019, 07:03:23 pm »

Although this scrambler is pretty cool

VNA - BMW Wank · « **Reply #86 on:** 15 August 2019, 07:32:36 pm »

Not sure about the way oversize tyres.
And painting Honda Scrambler on them in huge letters is a bit silly never mind uncool.

coffee · « **Reply #87 on:** 15 August 2019, 11:58:15 pm »

Just shows you ,different opinions, I think it looks a treat.

Dudeofrude · « **Reply #88 on:** 17 August 2019, 06:21:53 pm »

A little something for the Ladies

coffee · « **Reply #89 on:** 18 August 2019, 12:27:19 am »

Gorgeous,but I think the front mudguard and stays look like they came out of a Meccano set.

VNA - BMW Wank · « **Reply #90 on:** 18 August 2019, 12:56:11 pm »

RD350;

His Dudeness · « **Reply #91 on:** 18 August 2019, 01:29:27 pm »

electric fazer??

VNA - BMW Wank · « **Reply #92 on:** 18 August 2019, 03:07:42 pm »

Cool

Dudeofrude · « **Reply #93 on:** 18 August 2019, 06:57:00 pm »

Not so much bike on it's own but the image as a whole

coffee · « **Reply #94 on:** 19 August 2019, 12:07:24 am »

Says pretty much everything about biking.

VNA - BMW Wank · « **Reply #95 on:** 20 August 2019, 09:14:37 pm »

coffee · « **Reply #96 on:** 20 August 2019, 10:03:10 pm »

'nuf said.

VNA - BMW Wank · « **Reply #97 on:** 20 August 2019, 10:10:36 pm »

It's cool, very cool.

coffee · « **Reply #98 on:** 22 August 2019, 12:17:18 am »

Cool Hand Luke cool

Dudeofrude · « **Reply #99 on:** 22 August 2019, 05:37:35 pm »

Old school cool