Mid-week topic

[guest7]

Here's a question for you, what bike do you most regret selling?

I haven't owned anything outstandingly valuable or attractive, but I had a real pang when I sold my first BMW R80 and my wife even gave a little sigh when it rode away. I can't explain what it was about the bike that had got under my skin, but I did miss it.

As horrible as they were, I shouldn't have sold a job lot of two complete Starfires and one scrap one for £495!

I miss my DR350, not because I liked it that much but because I really miss dirt-biking. The DR was ok, but a bit too road-oriented for the dirt and amazingly uncomfortable (and gutless) on the road.

GC

[Mark]

With nearly 30 years of motorcycle ownership under my belt you can guess I've let some goods ones go(maybe not so good in some eyes), memories of good times with some probably outweigh the actual bike.

I am left with a shed full of sh1t whilst I got rid of these;
Jawa 350 combo
Cossack combo
My T140V 
Triumph pre unit chop
SR500 spoked wheel, minter
CBX1000 twin shocker, well sorted
Z1000A1
Harris Magnum 2 with tuned GS1000 motor
S1 White Lightning

[guest27]

Sell a bike - I thought you were supposed to take them apart and leave them in the shed...

Sold a GS750 for a KH250 and cash to help get the Triton running - GS was a lovely bike the KH was a pile of pooh, but the Triton was my daily ride for about 5 years.

Sold that to my best mate - well swapped it for a running Jawa 500R, he bought loads of stainless goodies for the Triton and then sold it to my wife as a box of bits - she was expecting a running Triton.

So not many regrets - oh got riped off on a CD175 - a non runner that I pushed across Milton Keynes to swap for a set of metal profiles front forks for the T500, the guy (Biggles you know who you are) then welched on his side of the deal knowing full well I would not push it all the way back again.  Oh Well I do have "mug" stenciled across my head....

R

[Richard]

Throwing out my old Belstaff as it didn't fit and was beginning to smell a bit weird.  Could have sold it and bought another one - out of my price range now....

Richard

[KirriePete]

XS750 - very clean, had only done 6000 miles in 14 years - I spent a few quid sorting the stuff that should have been done under warranty by the PO (rings, primary chain etc.) and it was lovely.  SWMBO seemed to like it in spite of (or maybe because of) the vibration that cropped up at about 70-75, in all it was a lovely bike.  Then I got stricken by Meniere's Disease (look it up if you're interested) and it sat in the garage, unridden for 3 years before I admitted I would probably never ride again and sold it.

6 months later I had an op that cured me - AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!

There's an XS850 near me I'm casting sideways glances at now ... who knows?

[Steve H]

Fantic 240, made me look as if I could ride off road.

[SteveC#222]

My old Suzuki SP370 - apart from the crap lights, a wonderful little thumper.  I had fitted mine with a lower front mudguard, road tyres and gold (painted) rims - this was in 1985 ish, well before Supermoto was born.  Eventually traded it in against a BMW R45 after replacing all the bits I'd fitted.  Sadly the old SP was burnt out a few weeks later after the new owner got it stuck in mud on private land - I think the landowner found it first.  Bugger 

[Ian]

I think just about every bike I have owned I regret selling 
I will include some of the list

1970 Honda SS125 (passed my test on this bike)
1964 Sports Cub T20SH (1 of many) including a "Super Cub"
1971 Honda CB175
1999 Bandit 600
2001 Bandit 600 Naked (...Wicked)
2005 Bandit 650
1978 SR500 Spoked Wheel restored (photo recently added on here)
1979 Honda CB650 Custom...lovely and comfortable
1997 SR400 Class Winner at Stafford Show
1988 SRX 400....now this one does make me cry ..letting this one go...but the kickstarts arent kind to my hip

I think these are the ones I regret most.... (I still have a photo of me on my Honda SS125 just after passing my test...I will dig it out and post in on here)

Ian 

[guest18]

Honda 400/4
It sounded just lovely through tunnels/between high walls etc

[guest7]

Fantic 240, made me look as if I could ride off road.

From what I know about the Fantic it was a stand-out model, being very close indeed to what the works boys were riding at the time.

Honda 400/4
It sounded just lovely through tunnels/between high walls etc

My first 400/4 had such a worn brake calliper pivot bolt that on bumpy roads the calliper could clout the disk making a noise like the bells of Notre Dame.  
Agreed, a marvellous bike, although I've sold two and given away two.

Did I mention the absolutely pristine VF1000F that I sold? I had no real regrets about that one as it was one of only two motorcycles I've made a profit on!

GC

[squirrelciv]

My XL100. Second Bike I owned and saw me through my 6th form days when I only had money from odd jobs and smoked. Ran for ever on a tank full and was the ideal bike for the single track country lanes around mum amd dads.

[Bruce]

Years ago I had a Goldwing 1000cc it was brilliant took me down the coast of what was Yugoslavia around Albania to northern Greece then over to Corfu then onwards to Italy I wished I still had it

[robG]

Has to be my 1976 KH400. Very nice and so easy to live with.

As to which bike I wish I still owned, this has to be my 1980 XS1100E, stolen by pondlife in '93.

Hang on , there's also my 1974 500/4, first big bike on passing my test.

Blimey the list goes on..............

Misty eyed, 

 Rob .

[Andy M]

I don't think I could go round regretting things, it's the way you learn. There are a couple of obvious bad decisions of course. For example I had a '94 F650, a proper one built by Rotax. Decided I needed more power and bought an R1100R that was a pointless badly made piece of junk. I was then offered about the last R80GS ever made, but like the idiot I was back then, believing the adverts, I thought I'd have another new F650 instead. That had been got at by the Tractor Company's cost cutters and promptly died in the desert due to the famous load bearing lip seal in the water pump. While I regret not getting the R80, it would honestly have been a waste, I'd have got bored with the oil changes or fiddled with something and wrecked it and sold it on, so I can't really say I regret it that much. Now if I was offered that bike in that condition now.....

I think people need to go through the stage of not knowing what they really want, or is that heading towards Zen or something. For me, I've settled on Bonnevilles and MZ's. Only addition I really fancy is either a Rotax-zed or a Scrambler.

Andy

[guest40]

Now why the F did somebody have to ask this? The voices in my head are back!!! Thanks a lot!

T500P,
OSSA 250 Enduro,
Watsonian Bambini on aforesaid T500P.

Many other great bikes came and went but those were irreplaceable.