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Kinda goes hand in hand with the Biking History thread.

Which was the poster bike on your wall, that just passed you by?
 
King of the Endurance Races For Me

The one and only.......

The almighty RC30 :D

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18 at the time. Didn't take my bike test until a few years later.

This started the motorcycle fire for me and was actually featured in a car mag that I used to always read!
 
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For me it was around '83 or '84, I was about 13 years old. A neighbor had just bought a GPZ-900 Ninja. I was in lust with the bike, I would stare at it whenever I left the house.. I think I actually did have a poster of that bike at one time or another
 
mine was a zzr1100, when i first saw one my mate and I dreamed we were going to travel around aus on one each,i always said i was going to get one.
cheers burty
 
Back in the late 70's when I was 8/9 (I think!!) I went with my hero cousin to look at the new Suzuki GSXR1000rr. My parents never allowed me to have a bike, but when I started uni I borrowed a mates Kwak KMX 125 (with 50bhp which was breaking the law in the UK ;) and rode it to uni every day; from there went to ZXR400, Honda Fireblade, CBR600, ZXR6, ZXR10, R1, 748SP (awesome bike), MVF4, 996SP and then 996RS and ended up racing :D

Happy days indeedy :D
 
Just keep looking at RC30 pics, but I know that riding and owning one could never live up to my expectations.

I wonder when Honda will launch their next in the RC series? I would be so on that!
 
This was what was on my wall. Saw them when they were new. They still sound awesome to this day.

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Warp Racer said:
This was what was on my wall. Saw them when they were new. They still sound awesome to this day.

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Wow. What a classic. Absolutely incredible.

BTW, love your sig, really made me laugh. Twice.
 
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Just keep looking at RC30 pics....
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+1 the RC30!

I even inquired about importing one from Japan in 1989.. When they finally were released in the US and Europe, I couldn't justify the ~$15k price. At that time $15K was a lot when you could have three GSXR750s for nearly the same money. Plus, I liked the ideal of eating 3 times a day AND having a roof over my head. :)
 
I didn't let the Duc get away, I just waited 30 years...
this is mine;

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oh, almost forgot to mention, there's a zero mile RC45 for sale at the dealership that I'm buying my 1199 from.
I think the price is somewhere around $40K

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(this is not a pic of the actual bike)
 
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Geebus.

I know I'm going to get hate mail for this. :rolleyes: My poster bike was from 21 Jump Street, yes I said, the Suzuki Katana in red with gold rims.

I still like it today... ugh I'm going to pay for this I know it. :cool:

Otherwise, bike I should never have sold. VTR1000 and ZX10R. There were no bikes I should never have bought. I loved them all.
 

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