Triumphrat

sprouty115 · 11-04-2012, 10:21 PM

Sorry, weak attempt at humor. Yes it does, but it's got everything else right.

leftarmlogan · 11-04-2012, 10:24 PM

The Aermacchi more than makes up for the Firestones. I love that bike.

UnklFungus · 11-05-2012, 01:39 AM

http://www.bikeexif.com/custom-kawas...000#more-14601

There are more pictures in the link, but I want to conserve bandwidth here. The engine was bumped from 998 to an 1135!

Mark Savage · 11-05-2012, 01:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HAP

I had a red and black, like this one, 1979 GS1000s (same as the GS1000G with out the shaft drive). 90 hp of mean straight line grunt. Crashed a couple times on that one.

i had an 81 model , GS1000 E ,bloody good bike and sounded Awesome with homemade 4 into 2

DaveM · 11-05-2012, 05:02 AM

My own little Gixxer 600 rocket of a just few years ago (about 8), which I still had it as it would make a perfect trackie.

Although that Kerker exhaust would split your ear drums at 50 paces

Boldor · 11-05-2012, 05:29 AM

Cool Shot.

DaveM · 11-05-2012, 05:33 AM

Thanks Bo.

Before anyone says it I was not about to ride in that get up without a,lid, gloves boots etc I was just getting a happy snap

dogtired · 11-05-2012, 06:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leftarmlogan

I like the big Jap fours from the '70s and '80s.

They had this Big Hammer approach to speed that was so damn cool. It was the motorcycling equivalent of the muscle car era where big engines and speed ruled and things like handling, braking and refinement were secondary.

I just had to quote this for truth.

BKK Jack · 11-05-2012, 09:37 AM

While we are reminiscing, this was my very first bike (not this one, just grabbed a pic of the webzes). Bought it in 1981 of a guy who was getting divorced and unloading all his worldly possessions before the litigation started.

sprouty115 · 11-05-2012, 11:38 AM

OK, here are a few more that I've collected on my hard-drive:

These first few are cafed Bonnies that, well, for me anyway, get all the styling cues right.

This one just sort of resonates with me. It just seems so completely like what a great standard should look like. It just looks like a bike that would fit in with any crowd.

And this was my first bike. It was three times more powerful than anything my friends or I ever rode, it would pull a wheelie at will and it had the enormously entertaining habit of occasioanlly starting up backwards (yes, a weak kick would fire the plug but send the cylinder backwards. And while it may seem an odd choice, it absolutley blew my hair back.