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OneSickPsycho 07-01-2010 03:40 PM
I liked 'em all until I saw this:
http://vne-resource.iol.co.za/30/pic...cle0/3/8/18294

Trip 07-01-2010 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho (Post 388958)
didn't that royally fuck you?

OneSickPsycho 07-01-2010 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Trip (Post 388966)
didn't that royally fuck you?
No, this did:
http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/photog...2S_Long_07.jpg

My opinion of them hasn't changed... I still think it was most likely something I fucked up putting it back together than anything... However, it was everything I ever liked about motorcycles in one package.

Gas Man 07-01-2010 07:46 PM
Honestly I was hooked from the sound go.

I was 8yrs old on my Uncle's 1984 honda shadow V 700
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l3...mchrisbike.jpg

Taken at a KOA camp ground in Monroe, MI

I remembered holding on for dear life, the roaring sound of the motor, the vibration, the wind. Thinking WOW, we must be going a million miles an hour!!!

It wasn't till later after I was 18 that I was able to look at my own. Then much like the other people here... the F4i was my dream bike. But I got my used 97 EX500. Same uncle went and looked at it and test rode it for me. Then showed me how to ride it in a parking lot.

Porkchop 07-01-2010 07:46 PM
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Originally Posted by goof2 (Post 388911)
You sure that isn't Alex Barros on the 500?

Edited to add: I first noticed bikes around 1985 when Honda was advertising the Interceptor and Suzuki was doing the same with the GSX-R, but at that point I just thought they looked cool. I took notice again around 90 or 91 when one of the bike mags put out an article with tuner bikes. If I remember there was a turbo Hurricane, a turbo ZX-11, and a few other bikes. Again if I remember correctly they were running around 190+ top speeds and it really caught my attention. All that stuff was nibbles though. Seeing, and more importantly hearing, a Ducati 851 with an exhaust on it really set the hook. That was almost 20 years ago and I can still recall the "What the fuck is that thing!" feeling.
Which interceptor? The 500, 700, or 1000?

derf 07-01-2010 07:55 PM
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Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho (Post 388958)
Did It Make You Go Bling And Not LikeBikes Any More?

dReWpY 07-01-2010 08:11 PM
For me it was the card board cut out of the rc51 when I worked @ honda of troy and was currently racing quads in harescrambles and had never really seen a bike that looked so fast

Tsunami 07-01-2010 08:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Particle Man (Post 388412)
95 GSX-r 750

then later I got into being able to see the power plant and switched to drooling over nekkid bikes.

When the SV came out in '99 I darned near crapped myself :lol:
My experience is similar. I grew up watching chinese tv that had girls riding motorcycles and I knew as soon as I was able I would be riding. My cousin's boyfriend took me riding on the back of his GSXR1000 when I was 14 and since then I always loved the GSXR's, any size, I just loved the blue and white paint scheme.

Not exactly sure how it happened, but I started liking the naked bikes. First one I really drooled over was the BMW Dakar. I saw a Z1000 at the dealership and also drooled over that. After I got licensed, I saw a 2nd gen SVS and fell in love with it. The SV650S became my 2nd bike and the SV650 naked became my 4th. :lol:

goof2 07-01-2010 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Porkchop (Post 389050)
Which interceptor? The 500, 700, or 1000?
It was probably the 500 but it was 25 years ago and my memory isn't quite that good.

Smittie61984 07-01-2010 09:22 PM
When I was 12 (around 1996) my neighbor got a CBR600 F2 that was like this one.
http://second-look.com/store/media/9...edWht_seat.jpg
(best pick of it I could find)
I fell in love with street bikes while everyone at my school wanted dirtbikes or ATVs. I lost interest about highschool but regained interest around 21 or so.

Funny part is I may have looked at my bike when I was 12 while walking the Honda dealerships lusting after them.


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