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Most of my motor biking is an Electric Brompton these days! I lack a reason to ride the R80 at the moment and I've got too many hobbies to spend my time riding to the coast on the weekend. I'll be very happy to start the R80 in May though.
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Stay safe and good luck. I’m still looking at mad two strokes but we are in lottery win territory again! I saw a mint YZR 1000 tonight - dreaming on.
I also saw a CBX with six pipes - £14,000. Dreams are good, reality not so much.
£2000 FireBlade with low (ish) miles is affordable and there are a few about but I have to think about family! Saw a nice RF900 - higher miles but nice - that could be a sensible option except my bloody legs are too long.
TGR
I’d guess 100mph into a bank of fog. Black visor (it’s cool!). Brakes on. And the bike had luggage on it. Left hand bend - luckily a good surface. Brakes on - hard. Stopped with the front wheel on the grass on the wrong side of the road. Seems like yesterday but it was 1991. Brown stains on the inside of the leathers.
Novelty - OH YEAH! 😁
Close calls are part of it, but luck doesn’t last - and, that day, was luck. As previously mentioned, 130 into a wall was the end of the luck but not the novelty. Family responsibilities took over and bikes were forgotten about. Today my wife is fine with me buying another one. She didn’t know me when I had the last one!
Novelty is a good word for the madness but you could substitute ‘experience’ or ‘sense’ for it. I worry that I don’t have the sense and I know I now don’t have the experience but I still want the novelty!
Hope that makes some sense.