First...

[Dark Angel]

• First 'Bird in 2000 - Branny - Candy Red - it had a faulty gearbox.
• Second 'Bird in 2001 - exchanged by "Motorcycle City" for another Candy Red - Branny
• Third 'Bird in 2004 - "Special Edition" Matt Black/Silver - Branny from KJM Superbikes
• Fourth 'Bird in 2007 from Hunts in Manchester - Used - 2-tone Grey
• Fifth 'Bird (current) in 2015 - Used - 2-tone Grey

• First job I ever did on a 'Bird - 6mm JAWS rear shock/ride height spacer
• Most recent job - fit Armstrong discs (front) and disc pads.
• Biggest job I've done meself - HID headlamp/running lights/tail cluster upgrades
• Next job - oil and filters

Other bikes

• 2007-2014 GSXR750
• ZZR1400 2011-2013
  
• 2015- Yamaha R1

 

[bigearmuffs]

First Bird in 2020 (carb one), to power a Reliant Kitten Van
Jobs - Too many to list

Other Bikes

• None

Other Cars

• Golf R MK7 DSG 300BHP (track car)
• RS Focus MK3 380BHP Mountune
• ST Fiesta MK7 215BHP
• MG Sebring replica
• Skoda Karoq (work horse)
• Reliant Super Kitten Van

 

[slim63]

First & last bird a while ago 98 carbie (proper one)

Previous bikes 12o+ then I lost interest in counting

Current bike none

Previous cars 50+ & some of them were even quite interesting

Current car a mighty 1L Yaris

 

[Dark Angel]

No-no-no-no-no-no-NO!

Shoulda made meself a bit clearer...

IT's a fookin' BIKE thread.

NOT fer cars.

MOTOR-FOOKIN-BIKES



Remember?

 

[Nige F]

First Bird in 2006... Candy blue 2000 injection bought from a really nice bloke in London... Sold it due to divorce in 2009.

Second Bird another blue one but a 1999 model. Got it from a bloke in South Wales. He "really looked after my bikes".....clearly not as I found out on the ride home... Tyres like Toblerone and brakes pads thinner than a witches tit. Never really liked that one and had loads of trouble with it...leaking forks... Oil cooler pipes split usual electrical problems etc etc

2015 I then saw a 2006 two tone grey one in a dealers.....went to look with a view to trading the other one in. Got offered a great deal as it was the week before xmas. Rode it home that day and the difference was amazing. Turns out it belonged to someone from work who had swapped it for a VFR 1200.

He had done loads to it...rear spacer Jaws front springs and risers...the list goes on. Still got that and really right now don't see me changing it for anything else.

 

[DanBow]

First and current Bird '97 in 2009.

End.

 

[andyBeaker]

Gilera Runner SP125in 2000
BMW F650
Facer 600
98 Blackbird
03 Blackbird

Completely cured in 2015.

Well, almost.....

 

[ChildoftheJago]

1st bike: Candy blue 2000 Blackbird bought in 2014-still have it.
1st job on Bird: Replace CCT, loom fix
1st bike dropped: Victory Cross Country
1st 2nd bike: 2014 Tiger 800-still have it

 

[Bluelagoona]

First and last bird 96 carbie in black .
Traded in my old 1000f for it.
Still miss the 1000f . ...... but it aint a bird !

 

[Dark Angel]

.. Tyres like Toblerone and brakes pads thinner than a witches tit.

What a lovely turn of phrase that is!

2015 I then saw a 2006 two tone grey one in a dealers.....went to look with a view to trading the other one in. Got offered a great deal as it was the week before xmas. Rode it home that day and the difference was amazing. Turns out it belonged to someone from work who had swapped it for a VFR 1200.

VFR1200!! (Just tying to keep calm, here.)

Gilera Runner SP125in 2000
BMW F650
Facer 600
98 Blackbird
03 Blackbird

Completely cured in 2015.

Well, almost.....

Well done, Beaker... Well, almost.

1st bike: Candy blue 2000 Blackbird bought in 2014-still have it.
1st job on Bird: Replace CCT, loom fix
1st bike dropped: Victory Cross Country
1st 2nd bike: 2014 Tiger 800-still have it

Cheers, CoJ.
You and Nige F seem to have had a preference for Blue. My initial preference was Red. Used to be some outrageous banter on here in the old days about which was "faster". Thanks fer bringin' back a few memories, pal!

Any comment on colour, Beaker? Don't worry; no need ter be politically correct, lad, so ledder rip!!

 

[Dark Angel]

First and last bird 96 carbie in black .
Traded in my old 1000f for it. Still miss the 1000f . ...... but it aint a bird !

Yeah-heh-heh! I reckon everyone's got memories of a bike they once had. Me too! (sob!)
Don't worry, Chuck - yer'll geddoverit!

Still got the Bird? If so, any tinkerin' done?

 

[Bluelagoona]

Yeah-heh-heh! I reckon everyone's got memories of a bike they once had. Me too! (sob!)
Don't worry, Chuck - yer'll geddoverit!

Still got the Bird? If so, any tinkerin' done?

Oh yes still have the bird.... sitting and waiting in the workshop for lockdown to end.
Tinkering.... hmmmm. Lets see.
Delinked brakes with 19mm radial master cylinder
Lowered suspension tuned by jaws
Custom seat by Digger
Risers fitted
Hydraulic rear brake light
Was running HID headlights but was advised at the last MOT that they are now illegal on motorcycles.... so have reverted to std for upcoming MOT.
Petrol could go to £25 a litre and I would still keep her.

 

[Jaws]

First Bird, a black 1996 one, ex demo bike eventually sold to John ( @Nutter )
Next was a 2000 model in blue
Then it got silly and I had at least one of every colour and model
Currently 1998 ex red one ex garden ornament ....

First job was replace the brake pads with a set of EBC HH sintered.. Done in the dinner time whilst working over at Cambridge

 

[andyBeaker]

What a lovely turn of phrase that is!


VFR1200!! (Just tying to keep calm, here.)


Well done, Beaker... Well, almost.


Cheers, CoJ.
You and Nige F seem to have had a preference for Blue. My initial preference was Red. Used to be some outrageous banter on here in the old days about which was "faster". Thanks fer bringin' back a few memories, pal!

Any comment on colour, Beaker? Don't worry; no need ter be politically correct, lad, so ledder rip!!

Carb one was black underneath the dirt. Got washed once a year or every fifteen thousand miles, whichever cam efirsr, whether it needed it or not.

FI was Candy Tahitian Blue under the dirt .wuite a nice colour that.

Main colour I remember Is the colour of the boxes that the reg/recs and generators came in, and the colour of the Mercedes that @Jaws bought from my purchases.

 

[Dark Angel]

Delinked brakes with 19mm radial master cylinder
Custom seat by Digger
Was running HID headlights but was advised at the last MOT that they are now illegal on motorcycles.... so have reverted to std for upcoming MOT.

Cheers, fella!

We do (did) an awful lot of touring before CV-19 and I was always happy with the linked setup. I used to do trackdays on my 'Bird before I got my Gixxer - never had any problems stopping 'cos I never went fast enough to be concerned with braking. (over the years, half-a-dozen on-track crashes taught me a bit more about stopping a bike, though. )

I'm needing a new comfort seat - any recommendations? I'm in Lancashire and the bloke I used to use disappeared a while back. And, yeah - looks like I'm gonna have to return to standard headlights before MoT time. Six months or thereabouts to do that, though, eh?!

First Bird, a black 1996 one, ex demo bike eventually sold to John ( @Nutter )
Next was a 2000 model in blue
Then it got silly and I had at least one of every colour and model
Currently 1998 ex red one ex garden ornament ....
First job was replace the brake pads with a set of EBC HH sintered.. Done in the dinner time whilst working over at Cambridge

Well - I was expecting at least three pages from you, John-boy!

Yer've just lived up to the old saying: "Those who have done the most usually say the least". Bloody typical!

EBC sintered! I imagined I was a riding god when I bought me first set of those! Sad, innit?

 

[Dark Angel]

Carb one was black underneath the dirt. Got washed once a year or every fifteen thousand miles, whichever cam efirsr, whether it needed it or not.
FI was Candy Tahitian Blue under the dirt .wuite a nice colour that.

Main colour I remember Is the colour of the boxes that the reg/recs and generators came in, and the colour of the Mercedes that @Jaws bought from my purchases.

Nice one!

"Whether it needed it or not" - from "Annie Get Your Gun" - Doris Day??

 

[andyBeaker]

Another first for me was with Dazed and Confused (the long live version) playing in the background on my Garrard turntable.

Ahem....

 

[sr71caspar]

I'm needing a new comfort seat - any recommendations? I'm in Lancashire and the bloke I used to use disappeared a while back. And, yeah - looks like I'm gonna have to return to standard headlights before MoT time. Six months or thereabouts to do that, though, eh?!

I've got a Tony Archer seat with gel pads in it, second hand from flea-Bay (a few weeks old, poor sod had crashed and managed to salvage the seat) and only a few miles away.
Highly recommended.

I've got LED lamps in mine- not had any problem for the last few years at MOT time.

 

[slim63]

No-no-no-no-no-no-NO!

Shoulda made meself a bit clearer...

IT's a fookin' BIKE thread.

NOT fer cars.

MOTOR-FOOKIN-BIKES

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Remember?

You really want me to list 120+ bikes the colour of each the good & bad points length of ownership etc? that's going to take a foooooooooooooooookin looooooooooooooooooooooooooong time

 

[andyBeaker]

You really want me to list 120+ bikes the colour of each the good & bad points length of ownership etc? that's going to take a foooooooooooooooookin looooooooooooooooooooooooooong time

Yes please.