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Lots of bikes to ride
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Ted,
Are you mentally buying a bike for different continents or what?
Why would you be afraid of putting miles in the Yammy you've chosen?
Do you believe that 2 bikes will be enough, really?
I hope you've solved your wet tent problem...
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Lone Rider,
It's a Brit thing to have multiple bikes available in the garage, or where-ever. I have 3 in my garage at present - used to have upto 5.
I thought you guys do things the same, perhaps not quite so many at one time?
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Dave
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I own a 99 1100gs used it in Jan this year for 8500m trip round N/W Africa & was amazed at the abuse it took off road
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Why is it a Brit thing to have more bikes ? :-)
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Dunno, I guess we got the idea from the Netherlands!?
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And Kiwi thing
Brit? Netherlands? I have about 35 bikes!!..... There's room to expand in New Zealand!! But I had to buy an ex-industrial building to convert to a house and garage to fit them all in.
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Rather excessive?
An OTT Kiwi! - you can't have any time for playing Rugby then!?
How do you manage to maintain and ride them all?
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Too many? Too right!
The maintenance on most is of the most basic kind. About 20 get kicked over regularly and the rest get used. You are right, it IS excessive and plans are underway to reduce numbers. I was collecting Suzukis at first but some "foreigners" have snuck into the collection. I have a passion for small bikes, so have about 8-9 road legal Suzuki 50cc motorbikes that groups of friends and I ride on sunny days and for a weekend away each year. Most are registered as mopeds, which allows friends without bike licenses to ride too. I race in three classes and my daughter is starting racing soon too, so there are race bikes included in the list.
Most of my riding is done on my F650GS, but the other main riders are a K100LT, VFR750 Honda, and a RG50 Suzuki. I have a GS550 with sidecar for fun/kids/dog. The two Velo-Solexs are eye-catchers, but the bikes that get the most comments are the Suzuki AC50 Mavericks, T90 Wolf twin, T125 Stinger twin and the '66 Kawasaki B1L.
At present, my brother-in-law and I about to fit 2 80cc Chinese clip-on bicycle motors to both his tandems so we can all go for Sunday rides!
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Quote:
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Lone Rider,
It's a Brit thing to have multiple bikes available in the garage, or where-ever. I have 3 in my garage at present - used to have upto 5.
I thought you guys do things the same, perhaps not quite so many at one time?
Cheers,
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Sure, we're all different to many degrees, but this is the first time I've heard nationality being one regarding multi bikes.
If you travel far on a bike, it's one bike you're on at a time, and the others are sitting still. Not traveling far and returning to home often, then yes, dial up the remote bike control.
It surprises me that a rider wouldn't want to put-on miles for their planned 'big trip' bike. There's no better way to know that bike.
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