What's your favorite bike that you have owned?

[MisterSmooth]

The Pork Chop! Always puts a smile on my face.

Yep, that's what I'm talking about.    One's favorite bike is often not the most practical.   Or practical at all.   Or the one you have in the garage right now.

Bad Dad, that RC51 makes you happy every time ride it.    OK, it gets crap gas mileage (for a bike) and is "uncomfortable."   Who cares?   It gets your pulse up.  

My Mille R is the same kind of thing.  It doesn't "make sense," even for a motorbike.   But you carry a beer out to the garage for a midnight eyeball tryst.  

[Nodaclu]

My next one. It's always my next one. I think that's part of the problem....          

[karlfitt]

My next one. It's always my next one. I think that's part of the problem....          

I have a simlar problem.

I love my ST4s, but did not ride it much this year due to the impending 12000 mile service.

So thinking of selling it, even though I do love it, and getting a different scoot.

[MisterSmooth]

My next one. It's always my next one. I think that's part of the problem....          

    Well said, well said indeed.  

[nevinfs327]

Yep, that's what I'm talking about.    One's favorite bike is often not the most practical.   Or practical at all.   Or the one you have in the garage right now.

Bad Dad, that RC51 makes you happy every time ride it.    OK, it gets crap gas mileage (for a bike) and is "uncomfortable."   Who cares?   It gets your pulse up.  

My Mille R is the same kind of thing.  It doesn't "make sense," even for a motorbike.   But you carry a beer out to the garage for a midnight eyeball tryst.  

Similar to this, for me it is my old super hawk.  Far from the most practical, and plagued with a series of electrical issues at the end of our time together, but a bike I still miss when riding better machines.

[sagerat]

My Ural.  It's outlasted countless garage mates.

[TheRedOnesAreFaster]

I've had better handling motorcycles, quicker motorcycles, faster motorcycles, and motorcycles that fit what I like to do better, but my favorite bike I've ever owned was my 1985 Honda V65 Sabre with the Honda fairing.  Back when I owned that bike (1989-1999), oddly enough, the blue ones were faster.....

Man, I miss that bike.

[hhhch45]

Two bikes I wish I had back, a 1972 Bultaco Pursang I had as a kid and a 2002 Buell M2. Both bikes were just fun to ride.
Jim

[CLAY]

I think my current Bandit.  It has enough plastic to make a decent touring mount, yet enough engine and "rawness" to let me know I'm still on a motorcycle.  

[jnor]

 My favorite in 40 years of riding is still my Versys.....

 

[Dave the slave]

That's a tough question!  I've had 20+ bikes and there was only ONE I regretted buying… every other bike was a fun love affair for some period of time.  However there are 3 that stick out in some special way or another.  

The bike that I just seemed to pile on the mileage and always seemed to be my good buddy was my 2002 VFR800.

The other two were are tied for the best "love affairs".  My 2000 R1 and my 2004 RC51!  God, I STILL love those bikes and wish we'd never parted ways!

Although all the bikes before (with the afore mentioned one) and after those 3 has been great and brought lots of smiles, those 3 stand out and still make me smile to this day

[coho]

While far from the best bike I ever had, my naked 'wing is the one I have the most nostalgia for. It really made a sport tourer of me. It was remarkably agile for its portliness (almost as heavy as an FJR! ) but the flat four was real low and the power delivery was best descibed as inexorable.

[timdow]

Here  is a pict of my beloved Sprint ST:

I miss her.  She was not as built as the FJR, but man was she a good ride!

[kebrider]

1997 CBR1100XX

Most incredible mechanical device I have ever owned. Used to wonder if aliens dropped them off on earth just to enjoy our reaction.

KEB

[CBRXXBLACKBIRD]

My 1986 Vmax I still miss that bike

[hexkopf]

When I got to Pearl Harbor, my first duty station in the Navy, I bought my first bike. 1979 Honda CB750. Used to ride that thing all over the Island. Just me and my bike. Miss those days.  

[veefer800canuck]

The one I have now, of course!  

Hurry spring!

[sprint_st]

Most of us probably think its the bike we're on now, but IMO it changes with time.  The first bike I truly loved was a Kawasaki Z1B back in 1975.  I had taken chit from XLCH riders on three previous Honda's about them not being "real" motorcycles.  When I got the Z1 I'd go hunting XLCH's and blow them in the weeds.  The next bike I loved was a 955i Sprint ST.  Just a great all around bike. I dreamed of a Concours from 1986? when they first came out until 2002 when I bought a new one.  Surely it was going to be my favorite.  I hated that bike     Now I have the bike I drooled over for the last 15 or 20 years.  It has and is living up to and exceeding all my expectations.

[Heath3n]

My 2003 FZ1 has been my favorite to date. Sadly, the bee became a victim to an inattentive cager and was put to rest.

[Need For Speed]

1997 CBR1100XX

Most incredible mechanical device I have ever owned. Used to wonder if aliens dropped them off on earth just to enjoy our reaction.

KEB

I had a '97, she gave her life so I could continue to ride  

I now have a '99 XX and it is the favorite of my stable - so smooth and powerful, fairly comfortable too.

In Sport-Touring mode: