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Re: Best looking motorcycle
« Reply #60 on: January 11, 2024, 11:57:33 AM »
More classics... :thumb: :bow: :cool: :boozing: :wink: :smiley:



















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Re: Best looking motorcycle
« Reply #61 on: January 11, 2024, 06:35:41 PM »
The only honest answer to that question is "It all depends on who is watching!"

Any other answer anybody gives you is a bold faced lie!

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That's too funny!
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Re: Best looking motorcycle
« Reply #62 on: January 11, 2024, 06:54:01 PM »
The only things I look at on a motorcycle are those I  see when I’m riding down the road,what anybody else thinks about my bike doesn’t pay for my gas or anything else.

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Re: Best looking motorcycle
« Reply #63 on: January 11, 2024, 08:22:59 PM »
The only things I look at on a motorcycle are those I  see when I’m riding down the road,what anybody else thinks about my bike doesn’t pay for my gas or anything else.

Well said.  I totally agree.
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Re: Best looking motorcycle
« Reply #64 on: January 14, 2024, 08:28:19 AM »
Best looking bike in my humble opinion. Built for purpose, beautiful but brutal in the same breath!
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Re: Best looking motorcycle
« Reply #65 on: January 14, 2024, 05:03:26 PM »
To me, part of the beauty of a bike is being able to see the engine.  Air-cooled v-twins don't have the radiator and all the plumbing of a water-cooled engine, so they look less cluttered.  Hard to be entirely subjective, but I think a Sport 1100 that I used to have would make this list.  It doesn't have the awful brake light and turn signals of the earlier LeMans series, and that big air-cooled v-twin is out there for all to see:




However, that being said, from a pure styling perspective, another bike that I used to have should certainly be on this list, an MV Agusta F4 750:




 

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Re: Best looking motorcycle
« Reply #66 on: January 14, 2024, 06:06:56 PM »
My concepts of beautiful looking motorcycles are primarily influenced by what was current and what I considered "someday attainable" as I was "coming of age (1967?-1987?)."











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Re: Best looking motorcycle
« Reply #67 on: January 15, 2024, 12:15:10 PM »
Second vote for the V7 sport.



You and Swanson are on to something, cause a V7 Sport just looks exactly what a motorcycle is supposed to look like.
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Re: Best looking motorcycle
« Reply #68 on: January 15, 2024, 09:09:18 PM »
My taste pretty much runs the gamut,

Older and custom




Newer and faster




Iconic




There are so many beautiful motorcycles out there.



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Re: Best looking motorcycle
« Reply #69 on: January 16, 2024, 05:53:45 AM »
Ducati 916 anyone?





Always had a thing for the Manx Norton;





And, of course;



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Re: Best looking motorcycle
« Reply #70 on: January 16, 2024, 09:45:49 AM »
As others have stated. How to choose? There are so many. These are two of my favs.





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Re: Best looking motorcycle
« Reply #71 on: January 16, 2024, 08:19:15 PM »
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Re: Best looking motorcycle
« Reply #72 on: January 17, 2024, 03:19:58 AM »
Ducati 916 anyone?





Always had a thing for the Manx Norton;





And, of course;




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The 916 was some stunning packedge for sure!  Really though, when that 900SS resurfed it just blew me away!!  So simple, so open. Faring just draped over enough. I still think its a stunning bike!! 
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Re: Best looking motorcycle
« Reply #73 on: January 17, 2024, 04:08:09 AM »
Dare I say that I never really liked the 916? In fact, I prefer the 999 over the 916, although I can live very happy without either.
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Re: Best looking motorcycle
« Reply #74 on: January 17, 2024, 10:25:11 AM »
Ducatis are beautiful motorcycles for sure. They don't really light a fire in my gut though. I have never ridden one, maybe I should give on a try then again maybe I shouldn't.  :grin:
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Re: Best looking motorcycle
« Reply #75 on: January 18, 2024, 06:22:39 AM »
Another for the MV Augusta F4

..... which is ironic as I'm not interested in sports bikes generally, but would be worth the discussion with domestic management over which wall I was going to hang it on  :wink:
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Re: Best looking motorcycle
« Reply #76 on: January 18, 2024, 03:45:41 PM »
Best looking bike in my humble opinion. Built for purpose, beautiful but brutal in the same breath!
Team Three Cross-Raceco Moto Guzzi Daytona
Regards Warrick.

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That certainly is a sexy machine!  PFM brakes.  Not to mention the front fork and wheels!  Yeow!  That's a 1990s Italian dream machine, right there!
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