I want an old boxer!

Steve1200S · Post by **Steve1200S** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 9:43 am

Not sure about the always present weaving in this video, but I thought it was really cool overall! -

http://www.visordown.com/snippets/long- ... 21442.html

And I want a black R65 or R80 with big bars!

Dai wiskers · Post by **Dai wiskers** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 10:10 am

Shame it says in the write up two BMW's and a Honda takes the credibility away for me
Nice bikes just my type of thing

el-nicko · Post by **el-nicko** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 3:51 pm

Dai wiskers wrote:Shame it says in the write up two BMW's and a Honda takes the credibility away for me
Nice bikes just my type of thing

Yeah, Where was the Honda? I never saw one

Dai wiskers · Post by **Dai wiskers** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 3:57 pm

I did see a Honda tank

cornishflat · Post by **cornishflat** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 6:28 pm

Great bikes in a feel good video......very nice as the rain hits the glass. Trouble is, the airheads have become the Harley / Triumph for the less affluent keen on doing their thing for not much money. Hence the prices are on the rise......and i need one too....got a hankering for a cafe style ripper.

r550s · Post by **r550s** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 6:37 pm

A mate has just picked up a 1976 R100 56K miles & we're off to Scotland on friday. Envious, cos' that'll be just about the best bike in the rain. Easy, forgiving bike, brilliant sound, fix 'em and run 'em forever.
Like the look of those in the video...

cornishflat · Post by **cornishflat** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 6:40 pm

r550s wrote:A mate has just picked up a 1976 R100 56K miles & we're off to Scotland on friday. Envious, cos' that'll be just about the best bike in the rain. Easy, forgiving bike, brilliant sound, fix 'em and run 'em forever.
Like the look of those in the video...

Any idea what he paid for it?

Twinspark · Post by **Twinspark** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 6:49 pm

I sold my R100RT for £1800 earlier this year.

I'd only ever buy another airhead as a sunny day toy to blat down to the seaside and back - they feel really agricultural these days.

More museum piece than usable bike.

r550s · Post by **r550s** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:38 pm

£1200
we're all thinking he got a bargain, lots of spares, MOTs, something daft like 10k miles in last twenty years
when I grow up, that bike is top of my list
(I'm only fifty)

cornishflat · Post by **cornishflat** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 8:18 pm

r550s wrote:£1200
we're all thinking he got a bargain, lots of spares, MOTs, something daft like 10k miles in last twenty years
when I grow up, that bike is top of my list
(I'm only fifty)

I think you,re right, indeed it sounds a bargain......I,m seeing the cutting disc, mig welder.....mmmm

StreetFlatTwin · Post by **StreetFlatTwin** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 10:49 pm

This clip doesnt work on the iphone

but i fired up the old laptop and yeah its a cool film with cool bikes.

For the thick amoungst us what model (and approx year) were the 2 boxer bikes?

They look pretty old but real cool!!! MUCH cooler than a Triumph Scrambler!!!

Dai wiskers · Post by **Dai wiskers** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 11:09 pm

3 boxers

At a guess i would say early 80's R80's posibly earlier R90's

Mike B · Post by **Mike B** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:58 am

http://www.blitz-motorcycles.com/

r550s · Post by **r550s** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 6:28 am

"More museum piece than usable....."

You talkin about me....?

Dai wiskers · Post by **Dai wiskers** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 10:00 am

Mike B wrote:http://www.blitz-motorcycles.com/

They are doing some nice work there taking a "classic" and making it suitable for work on the roads of today

Myself i have never understood the "classic" let's take it to a show on a trailer put a mirror under it brigade [it was made to be ridden bl00dy well ride it]

Same with some of the RAT bike lot i have seen a brand new GS1200 sprayed matt black and entered in the RAT & SURVIVAL show it had less than a thousand miles on it the owner didn't like it when i told him "thats not a rat bike you can't make a rat bike they evolve over years"

I would be proud to own any of the BM's on the Blitz website they all look like very usable transport

Little rant over Dai