**Evolution** - Pics Of Your Previous or Other Bikes

[JoDuc]

What other bikes do you currently or did you have?

All these are gone now and I just have the Monster, but in chronological order here they are...

With a few dirt bikes here and there;

74 Honda CB550 - didn't feel safe, but I was cool...



92 BMW K75 - Loved this bike, but lacked power...



02 Yamaha R6 - really fun toy, not too comfortable though...



07 S2R1K - ahhhhh, just right, love it...

[ROBsS4R]

EX 500 Sold : I had for a about a year
03 620 Sold : I had for about 3 years
05 S4R : I have had for about 1.5 years now

[lazarus7]

my babies....
still have them all
1969 triumph bonneville (red/ silver)
1971 triumph trophy (black)
2006 speed triple....

sold a 1967 BSA victor 441 shooting star a couple months ago...
and have a vintage AEE hardtail project in boxes....

restored the antiques myself over a couple years each....
tricked out the speedy quite a bit as well....
but im LOVING my italian beauty....!

[Scottish]

'73 Honda XL250-Basketcase
'86 Yamaha 650-Gone
'94 Suzuki DR250-Sold
'83 Suzuki GS1100e-Dead
'78 Honda CB750-Awaiting restoration/cafe converstion
'84 Honda CR125-Also needs a little TLC
'07 Ducati M695-Almost completed
[moto]

[silentbob]

What other bikes do you currently or did you have?

92 BMW K75 - Loved this bike, but lacked power...

I'll have to scan some pics of mine.  I had a 1986 K75c.  I notice you parked yours on the center stand like all K bike owners so you don't have that embarrassing 60 seconds of blue smoke pouring out of the tail pipe the next time you start it.  Hard to believe the Germans would build a bike with the cylinder head on the same side as the kick stand and the oil sump on the opposite side.  But it did have that awesome self retracting side stand that popped up when you pulled in the clutch.  Pretty cool even though you never got to use the side stand.

[ptam]

03 620ie Dark - 1 year and three months ... Sausage Creature ate it...
06 S2R1K - 1 year and three months ... Sold
07 S4Rs - So far about 9 months and lovin' it. 

[Triple J]

My old '01 M900 Cromo.  Sweet bike.  Would have been nice to keep it, but...

[somegirl]

My first bike was a 2004 GS500F.

[KaliDuke1]

1st  Long gone. '86 Honda Elite 80

2nd. '99 M900

3rd. '69 Ducati 350 WC

[Big Troubled Bear]

My track bike 2004 R1 .

My Bella.

Previous bikes include:
Yamaha RZ 350 YPVS
Suzuki RGV 250 VJ 22
Suzuki TL 1000 S
Ducati 748

[optiato]

Only ones I have pictures of... (never used to upload them and my hard drive got surged)

2007 Kawasaki Vulcan 900



And the 2007 Monster 695

[eyeboy]

sadly i don't have any photo's of the old bikes, but these are pretty close... except for the RD, mine was spray-painted light grey by the previous owner.

but here we go...

'74 Yamaha RD350... mine had these crazy clip-ons... still couldn't keep the front wheel down! the right baffle kept blowing out of the end of the pipe as well... i used to unplug the sparkplug in the driveway and reconnect it a few blocks away, got a nice shock each time!




then after the RD's motor developed a nice piston-slap because someone forgot it had synthetic oil in...  i got myself a 75 CB550 Supersport!! the swingarm bushings weren't installed correctly so the swingarm had a nasty habit of sliding back and forth when you changed direction...




this bike i rode into the back of a car (long story, road work un-marked, at night, class-action lawsuit etc etc) and totalled it. i must have a picture of that somewhere... but then my roomate sold me this....

an 81 Suzuki GS1100E. what a monster, it was a week before i could give it full-stick. I think i did 140mph on this bike. ONCE. Sold it when i left vancouver. what a drag. it was a beaut.




unbelievably, a coup[le years later my fiance got tired of hearing me complain about not having a bike so she said 'just go and buy one already!'

so i did. this 86 Nighthawk 750S (in canada we got a 750, in the US it was only 700 for some reason.)



and now of course i have Gloria.



I am happy i made a progression from crap to gold in my biking career... it was a character builder... but i think my GF will get a monster for her second bike... thinking a CB125 for her first once she finishes with her vespa.

whatever, two wheels good!!!

[IowaS4r]

1980 Suzuki TS 125 Enduro.  Got my motorcycle license when I was 16 and drove it to school, as well as everywhere else I could. 
1989 Kawasaki EX500.  Bought it used in '90, kept it until 2003.  Went through 4 kids, two houses, and two marriages. 
2003 Ducati SS800.  Fully faired Red beauty; ergos did not agree with me.  While I was test riding the S4r a guy came in and bought it.
2004 Ducati S4r Monster.  Bought new as a left over in 2005.  I saw the blue'white in '04 and loved it.  Finally, the next year I got it.  Still have it.
2008 Ducati 1098s.  Black/Red.  I always wanted a SBK, got an cash windfall and ordered this color combination as the black is beautiful.
2008 KTM 200 xcw.  Rediscovered the joy of dirt riding.  A friend borrowed it and it collided with my brother.  Long story short, brother has brain damage, his ATV wrecked, and my bike is in two pieces.  Rediscovered reason to never let another person drive anything I own.

[hydra]

awesome thread. i started one of these on the ADV forum called "your bike history from the past to the present" and it's amazing to see the multitude of motorcycles and people's personalities...

here's my first. never took a picture of it but this is a pic i found on the net: '76 350 special




my 2nd bike- '80 KZ 1000 Mk ll (still have her but she's been sitting for a few years. i might have to get rid of her soon




3rd- '73 harley stroker- S&S stroker kit from 1000cc to 1200cc. 12:1 pistons, port/polish, thunder header pipes, barnett racing clutch components, all new ignition, etc, etc. still not complete.

here's an old shot in it's early stages with straight pipes... i pulled up to a light one day and noticed a whif of smoke coming from below. the bob tank i had on it developed a small leak and was dripping (very slowly) onto the heads . so that's a tank i threw on temporarily so i can still ride it. fixed the tank and developed another leak!




my 4th: '94 BMW R1100GS. bought her with cash and my first new vehicle i ever bought. sold her last year...




my 5th: '04 BMW Boxer Cup Replika (R1100S). limited edition. sold my GS shortly after i bought her. this one's a keeper 




my 6th: '04 BMW Rockster (R1150R) BMW's decent attempt at the naked bike niche. a full 100lbs heavier than my Foggy but still a blast in the canyons and a great touring bike. sadly i crashed her about 4 months ago...
ins co salvaged her and i picked up my 1st ducati with the money    the duc would be lucky #7

[Jaman]

1st bike, '74 CL360, no brakes, expired temporary tags from someone else's bike, but she was all mine, and carried me & all my stuff for a few months after I left home...


2nd bike, 650 Special, a little better in the stopping dept, AND she was legal!


3rd bike, FZ600, NOW we're talkin'!!  This bike helped me to get myself into SOOO much trouble...


4th bike, KZ650, staight bars, supertrapp, pods, rattlecanned black - my neighbors hated me.


#5 XS1100 Special II - sweet bike, outside of the shaft drive...


#6 '97 Triumph Daytona, my 1st brand spankin' new bike - all kinds of stuff done - Dymags, Yosh race headers, Attack rear sets, triple clamps, Tokiko 6 pots, Ohlins rear shock, Race Tech up front, carbon bits here & there...


#7 KTM 400 EXC -  currently waiting for me to get off my a$$ & get the new triples on (had a little accident, in which I broke the old ones (along with my wrist...) not a good pic (of the bike or me!)...