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Vincent Black Shadow.
Will cleanout your wallet, but what the heck.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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awesome bike, but I'd never find one here. Not sure if they ever made to New Zealand. That and the Lamborghini will just have to stay in the dreams.
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An old friend of mine recently tried to do Route 66 on his Vincent HRD Rapide Series A. He broke a conrod about half way and the bike is now in a friend's workshop somewhere near Toronto.
He paid a little over a million dollars for it.
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Now that's about a million more then I can afford
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He bought it because he brother was p!ssing him off since he'd bought a Series C. 
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CB750F1? It's a classic (if not a lot of fun to ride in modern traffic, the brakes are ... um ... poor).
Honda Black Bomber?
Kwak H2? (Lobotomy required)
Yamaha LC250?
Or if you are feeling adventurous, an SS900 Ducati? You'll need good mechanical sensibilities and aptitude!
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Id have to admit a Honda cb750 k2 or similar is very high on my list, even the cb550, however I hear they have a neutral between every gear when they were new. Would love a six cylinder CBX but hard to find a original one now and getting pricey
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I got "stuck" on CB550's for a while - every time I changed bikes I seemed to end up with another one - must have had half a dozen or more.
Stiff suspension, so with good tires (I used H-rated Pirelli Phantoms) they went round corners pretty well - particularly without the stock exhaust which grounded out far too quickly and weighed a ton!
Can't remember that many false neutrals, not until the mileage started to get over 75K and things got a bit sloppy (when one of mine would change down for you if you closed the throttle going up hill  )
Front brake needs frequent attention - stupid sliding caliper which seizes far to easily - and the oil filter bolt rounds off often (typical Honda of the era: all screws and bolts are made of an adamantium core with a cream-cheese outside for the tool to grip)
Oh, and the camchain needs to be cared for - it gets expensive if you ignore a rattle!
Other than that, good solid bikes!
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Good info. Thanks. I more interested in doing something up then doing high mileage and hence just be used for the occasional pottering round. It probably take me a few years just to do that!
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GSX1300R
Don't die please 
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A bit new for me. More interested in a classic between 1960 to 80s.. I've had my days of fast bikes. When I sold my last one I was a bit relieved to had survived that faze. To old and scared of my abilities to go back now.
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Norton something or another.......
I can't remember which exact model, all I remember was it was a Norton and it was black with lots of chrome, one of my pals at work restored one, and it did look 'classic'.
I'm not a biker so couldn't tell you the specifics, that's why I can't remember what model it was.
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Many, many Nortons were black, and even more had chrome...does "Commando" ring any bells?
When the engine was running on the centre stand, did (most) of the bike stay still and the engine bounce up and down like a mad thing? If so, it was probably a Commando of some variety. (Good bikes, I had a few of those: 850 MkIIIs)
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OriginalGriff wrote: ring any bells
Pass - can't ask him either as he died of a heart attack about 10 years ago.
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Ooh! Sorry to hear that - he must have been quite young, and you don't expect a heart attack then...
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Yeh, think he early 40's. He was a non-smoker, didn't really drink, fitness fanatic and his ticker just gave up one day at home. Just goes to show, you just don't know when your numbers up, (just like the other guys I worked with lately!)
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DaveAuld wrote: a non-smoker, didn't really drink, fitness fanatic
That's probably what killed him...
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I know, we kept telling him to ligthen up!
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There's still quite a few around and parts are relatively easy to come by. Most of my youth was jap bike as Triumps and Norton were all locked up by the 80s bikie gangs era. Although British bike make great classics I'm leaning to jap this time...
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Not a joke.
How about Royal Enfield[^]?
They never stopped making them, they kept on building them in India and have kept on refining the old construction for daily use in India, and nowadays they just work.
Well, that was at least true fifteen years ago. I had a friend in my hometown that had one that he used everyday no matter the weather, and it simply just worked.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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Ask Nagy: I know he was thinking of getting one around March this year - don't know if he did in the end though.
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I like the look of the Royal Enfields too, but then Harley came out with some small cafe-raceresque bikes this year.
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I find the rear lights quite ugly, but on the battle green version I can live with that.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: rear lights
No one ever sees them anyway.
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In some sad way getting a classic is about reliving your youth dreams. I agree with you on royal enfields and indeed any British bike, my poster on my wall when I was a kid was a Lamborghini Countach. But if was a bike it would have been a honda cb 750.
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