Well I'm close to buying a monster but it had to compete with 2 other bikes on my short list, so; it got me thinking.  Whats on your motorcycle short list?   

Mine:  Monster 696
          Triumph Scrambler
          Drz 400sm with S wheels to swap out

I'll most likely buy the 696 and trade my current DP bike in for the DRZ.  So.....all I'll need to do is talk my GF into thinking the Scrambler is the best motorcycle ever built so she can buy it.   

i love the look of that scambler (as well as the bonnie and thruxton) but the numbers just don't add up.
the thing's like 450lbs dry!  for a scrambler.

at any rate, when they first introduced that new bonnie lineup, i was all about the thruxton for a while. 
glad i waited.

BMW HP2 Sport
Ducati 848
Triumph Speed Triple

ZX-10
CBR1000RR
HD 1200

BMW 800GS
Ducati 848  (What the hell, make that a 1098S)
Ducati ST3 (I know where there is brand new one just waiting)
1980 Suzuki GS750 preferably with a dented gas tank and an oil leak. 

Billy Barty
my memory
and.....uhhh


I forgot

998
'00-01 900 monster

Bimota Tesi 3D 
Confederate Wraith 
Ducati 1000 Sport 

Quote from: cmorgan47 on August 13, 2008, 07:42:41 AM
i love the look of that scambler (as well as the bonnie and thruxton) but the numbers just don't add up.
the thing's like 450lbs dry!  for a scrambler.

at any rate, when they first introduced that new bonnie lineup, i was all about the thruxton for a while. 
glad i waited.

I know what you mean, but I still can not take it off my short list.  It keeps making its way back to the top.  That and the TW200! 

Also want a BMW 800GS but if I was riding around the world, I would prefer to look more like a vagabond on a DRZ (with a seat and a pillow under my bum) than a rich man waiting to get picked off by some low life asshat. 

Realistically and what i can afford, its

DRZ-400SM
197x CB-750F or 360T
Honda CRF-150

WR450f (dune duty)
GS800 (commuter)
GSXR600 (track only)

Used Honda Cub.....  or a Puch Moped

KLR 650
HyperMotard
916
GS1200
/reserve space for the next gen. multistrada...maybe/

QuoteAlso want a BMW 800GS but if I was riding around the world, I would prefer to look more like a vagabond on a DRZ (with a seat and a pillow under my bum) than a rich man waiting to get picked off by some low life asshat.

You got a point there.  But I think that if you take off the BMW badges the scum bags would think anything that ugly has to be a cheap ass bike.
Maybe it would be safer to ride a 70s yamaha 350 single enduro with some dents and rust around the world . 

Quote from: bulldogs2k on August 13, 2008, 07:31:10 AM

Drz 400sm with S wheels to swap out

+1
and a CB750 to cafe