What bike(s) are you actually riding?

Franz said:

Well I restored & ride several as follows:

Yamaha FJR1300A - my favourite touring bike with sidecases and topcase and loooooooooots of torque and power, never tiring while riding some 800+ kilometers in one go.
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Suzuki Step 125 - my cigarettes-7/11-Somtam bike for aforementioned purposes. Convenient with frontbasket.
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Yamaha SRX6 - restored bike. My favourite commute-to-work bike, fitted a topcase. Sweet & easy thumper.
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Suzuki DR650SE, bike for all occasions:
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Honda NT400 Bros - my partners bike, recently restored by myself.
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Luckily all my bikes are legally registered and therefor not loosing their value rapidly. No need to shy away from riding them even with a lot of BiB on the roads........ :twisted:
Cheers, Franz

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Franz said:

As I had severe health problems and am now just a shadow of my former self I had to sell all bikes (FJR1300, SRX600, DR250) and get a 'spine-friendly' one here in LOS. Now I'm riding the trusty Nouvo 135 which had a complete front rebuild and I bought a T-Max 500 from a nice Gentlemen (Dutch) in Phuket for a very good & resonable price. Nut (Pistonshop) was so nice to fly down there of course against reimbursement of costs and a 'thank you fee', get all parts and spares plus documents and had it shipped to CNX the best way possible (sinlge closed pick-up to Bkk and from there in a closed 10-wheeler truck to CNX, bubble wrapped !!!!)
Photos are with courtesy of the former owner, once I have fitted the Italian made 52 lts Trekker GIVI box, rebuilt the back end to original I will of course post my own. Akrapovich system alone gives the T-Max500 a real good sound !!!!

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Franz said:

After having made some changes to my current bikes in the garage a small foto update as to what I currently ride:

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Yamaha FZ6, Tmax500 and Suzuki DR650RE here in LOS

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Suzuki GSX750F in Austria

Actually since having gone back from the heavy 1300cc FJR I think it is really overdoing it in owning anything bigger than 750cc's if with 4 cylinders, took the GSX onto EU highways and up the twisties in the Alps fully loaded earlier this year and it is simply more than enough power and torque one gets from this light versatile motorbikes. And who really would notice a difference in 0.1 second acceleration anyway given the average age of riders and some over-self-estimated bikers here............Did and will do some blasts on the FZ6 now in December and must admit that it reminds me of the FJR but in a very positive way as it makes me smile once I have to put her on her centerstand or in the twisties, she's simply a perfect bike for me. I even gave away my Nouvo 135 as the Tmax is now my town bike and I simply love to bitchslap some bigger bikes on the twisties with it as I did on a recent run to Nan 555555555555555

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