Author Topic: What will you be riding in five years time? (Read 8507 times)

Chris Graves · « **Reply #20 on:** February 16, 2014, 17:02:07 »

I don't mind what it is I'll just be happy to be fit enough to ride!!

kissofdeath · « **Reply #21 on:** February 16, 2014, 18:13:32 »

probably my 08 vee, unless I win the lotto

Brockett · « **Reply #22 on:** February 16, 2014, 20:50:57 »

Anything with an engine and two wheels is good for me

or if it keeps raining
Anything with an engine, two wheels, a shaft drive to a propeller and two big side rigger floats

and if I'm really unlucky
A cloud

MartinW · « **Reply #23 on:** February 16, 2014, 21:20:09 »

Quote from: "Brockett"

and if I'm really unlucky
A cloud

PHIL FAT · « **Reply #24 on:** February 17, 2014, 00:21:46 »

probably a zimmer frame

mr_diver · « **Reply #25 on:** February 17, 2014, 07:43:29 »

Brockett, like this you mean?

Frankenstrom · « **Reply #26 on:** February 19, 2014, 12:31:35 »

Ha, if my numbers were to come up a fully loaded Motto Guzzi 1400 California Touring.

However I suspect I'll still be running the DL650. Could be tempted with the DL1000 but it would need to be a 'deal of the century'...

loggamatt · « **Reply #27 on:** February 19, 2014, 17:42:09 »

Prices of Californias seem to be coming down now... Maybe not such a pipe dream forever! I reckon you could probably get a low mileage nearly new one for not much more than the new Vee soon.

Frankenstrom · « **Reply #28 on:** February 19, 2014, 21:22:54 »

Ha, I'm at least a year (if not two) of even thinking of changing my bike. Need to learn how to ride the one I've got properly first!

Mind you, Your the second person trying to persuade me to get one today. Are you all ganging up?

MartinW · « **Reply #29 on:** March 20, 2019, 08:47:19 »

I just found this thread, coincidentally 5 years and a month after I started it. I walked around Blade Swindon yesterday and remembered their Victory section from a few years ago. I then remembered I liked the look of the Matt Black Victory Hammer and searched for this thread.

Some of these predictions from 5 years ago seem to be quite accurate. Fortunately Mr Brockett's last one wasn't.

So, here I am with no FJR, no GTR, no Victory Hammer and a near 15 year old Strom. Just like I said I would be.

tallpaul · « **Reply #30 on:** March 20, 2019, 09:03:21 »

Make a plan. Stick to it!

Chris H · « **Reply #31 on:** March 20, 2019, 09:35:38 »

Nice question and got me thinking.

9 years ago I was riding around on an Aprilia Tuono 1000, at the time I never considered I would ride anything else other than sports bikes and bonkers naked power bikes. The Aprilia was the last in the line of bikes I had over a 15 year period, and one of my earliest bikes was a brand new SV650S the year they came out, in fact I had the first one in Scotland.

After a break of 9 years (for no reason other than I wasn't using the Tuono much and mountain biking took over), I decided to get another bike. Enter my 2011 wee in January this year, with the same engine(ish) as my SV had in it 20 years earlier. I took this as a good sign and possibly fate.

I never thought 9 years ago that I'd be content with a comfortable touring 650 either in performance or looks, but I couldn't be happier with it. Possibly my slightly mature years were the main influence in this decision.

So onto the question of which bike in 5 years...... probably a ZX-10 or something bonkers

Ridaz · « **Reply #32 on:** March 20, 2019, 09:55:32 »

A 1983 VF 750D Interceptor

Current look Vs what they used to look like... I have some work to do!

tallpaul · « **Reply #33 on:** March 20, 2019, 12:48:08 »

Aww Ridaz, that is one of my favourite bikes! Looking forward to the rebuild thread...

TLPower · « **Reply #34 on:** March 20, 2019, 13:15:12 »

Rebuild (stripped) thread(s).

TLPower · « **Reply #35 on:** March 20, 2019, 13:17:30 »

An excellent thread revival Martin, where are all the electric bikes and the XTZ 900?

No one predicted the Africa Twin or brexit.

old git · « **Reply #36 on:** March 20, 2019, 18:03:41 »

After a pleasant run through Deeside, Glenshee, the Angus glens and home via Edzell and Cairn o Mount I think the V-STROM will still be in the stable. The new R1250RT was a stupidly expensive replacement for my long term FJR and I'm hoping that this will be a keeper. So no change in 5 years. What's the chances? 🤪

Mr Nick · « **Reply #37 on:** March 20, 2019, 18:44:37 »

Even though I didn't express an opinion back then, I suspect that I would have guessed right about half of my current garage still being here: I'd only had the 990 for about 4 months and the finished the first stage of the TS restoration another couple of months more so I reckon I would have gone with them. The TS is probably going to be around for as long as I can keep her, and the 990 has survived a few of my expressions of interest in a newer model.

I don't think I had the remotest inkling about owning a Guzzi, let alone 2 of them: they were just exotic fancies from my childhood.
The Bandit & SV were left field additions as well, but you can't choose what fate throws at you....

wurzel · « **Reply #38 on:** March 20, 2019, 18:49:17 »

A big light KTM, if they improve on what I have already, and a vintage big single, I have an sp370, and XR 400, but fancy a big soft plonker to show off.

tallpaul · « **Reply #39 on:** March 20, 2019, 19:48:49 »

Quote from: old git on March 20, 2019, 18:03:41

After a pleasant run through Deeside, Glenshee, the Angus glens and home via Edzell and Cairn o Mount I think the V-STROM will still be in the stable. The new R1250RT was a stupidly expensive replacement for my long term FJR and I'm hoping that this will be a keeper. So no change in 5 years. What's the chances? 🤪

Some familiar places mentioned there. We used to go to Fettercairn for a holiday every year when I was a kid.

In 5 years time I think I will still have the Super Tenere. It may have been joined by a ThinStrom project by then.