The One Bike You'd get right now if $$$ were no object

[Huzo]

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One only…?
Then #1

[DoubleGuzzi]

#2

A Kettle on its side will leak water! 

[rschrum]

[Turin]

Mopartnut - here you go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k8hJWKIVNs

[Huzo]

A Kettle on its side will leak water! 

That SL70 was the first bike I ever had and the GT 750 was when life was closest to perfect.

[AJ Huff]

I think in order to have one fully restored and reliable would cost a lot of money, so I'd say the Sunbeam S7.

Or the money to fly back and forth across the pond, the new Norton Commando.

-AJ

[JJ]

Difficult decision...as there are SO MANY fine machines out there...but I think a nice Colorado Norton Works Commando ...like this one...would fit the bill nicely for me!!

[Stretch]

Maybe a Vincent Black Shadow.

Something that will keep up on modern roads.

                                 -Stretch

[Oca Grassa]

Taken at the Intenational Bike Show, Alexandra Palace in London in early 1994.

Quoting myself here….the Magni Guzzi Australia in the pic I started this thread with was shown at the Alexandra Palace show in 1994 with a price tag of £28,000. The dollar to pound exchange was roughly $1.50 to a GBP. That put that bike at $42,000 USD in 1994 money.

To put that into perspective, according to Amortization dot com, $42,000 in 1994 = $90,915.02 in 2025. That’s more than my annual salary now, just like it was more than my 1994 annual salary then.

[Old Jock]

Here's a video from the shop that sold on a buddy's Australia

There were two batches built in 94 and 98 as I recall and there are significant differences, although externally they look almost identical

The bike in the video is from the batch built in 94

https://youtu.be/-0dCVpw2bkE?si=5YxnZkeSZrRsGszk

[DoubleGuzzi]

That’s more than my annual salary now, just like it was more than my 1994 annual salary then.

.. and about double mine at the time. See, you are/were rich! 

[Turin]

[LowRyter]

not sure I'll be able to still afford it when it's out of the shop.

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

As much as I loved my '77 XT500, it had a few shortcomings that lead to me selling it. This Motorieep 670 XTE would likely solve all of them, while retaining the things I liked about the original.

[Chuck in Indiana]

I'm an analog guy in a digital world, so most of the new bikes today don't do a thing for me, especially the expensive ones.  If it had to be a new bike, I'd probably choose a 2025 Triumph Speed Twin 1200 RS, in orange and black, MSRP is $16K...

The local Triumph dealer had the demo fleet in this weekend. Naturally, I had to ride the 1200 Speed twin. Very nice. Handles well, brakes well, comfortable, sounds bitchin' and super easy to ride. Looks right, too. Comma but. That instrument cluster is a cluster all right.  You can't even read it in bright sun. Gimme 2 clocks and I'll go on down the road.

[dguzzi]

   For me please!

[John Warner]

Such an 'impossible' question for me to answer, there are so many . . .

The 'silly' answer would probably be a road-legal Suter 500.
I don't think any four-stroke Bike could even come close to the sheer exhilaration something like that would give me.
130kg with 190 BHP . . .
Would likely only get used for Trackdays though.






For the 'sensible' choice, something practical that would get a lot of use day-to-day, and give me huge grins every time . . .



EDIT By the way, I already have my perfect Guzzi, nothing could replace that for me . . .

[rocker59]

  That instrument cluster is a cluster all right.  You can't even read it in bright sun. Gimme 2 clocks and I'll go on down the road.

That's Triumph's new dial for everything.  The Scrambler 1200x, the Speed Twin 900, Speed Twin 1200, Trident 660, etc.

I tested a Scrambler 1200x and a Bonneville T120 last weekend.  Loved the 1200x, EXCEPT for the wonky digital dash.  This isn't 1985!  I really love the Bonneville T100 / T120 clocks and wonder if there is any economical way to convert the digital dash bikes back to the twin dials.  The 2024 Speed Twin 1200 had twin dials.  For 2025 they've gone to the digital dial.

[rocker59]

I wonder if there is any economical way to convert the digital dash bikes back to the twin dials.   

[TOMB]

I would buy back every bike that I sold in the past.

See list of the bikes in my signature.

TOMB