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Offline 2112

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Longest ownership
« on: March 23, 2011, 16:20:52 »
Straightforward enough - who's owned their bike the longest ??? I was spurred on to launch this quest by our recent new member BioMech who's had 'is Vee since 2003. Anyone got a bike they've owned longer than that ??? I'm a very poor 6 months for the Guzzi and a year for my XS850, there must be some long term owners out there  :shrug:
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Offline Lonely Nodder

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Re: Longest ownership
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2011, 21:45:23 »
I did have a Suzuki GS425E for seventeen yes 17 years but that might not count as most of those years were spent in different boxes in my garage.  :old:
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Re: Longest ownership
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2011, 22:02:23 »
No, I think boxed bikes count for the purpose of this informal poll, therefore you are in the lead   :thumb:
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Re: Longest ownership
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2011, 22:15:38 »
Longest for one bike for me was 12 years (VFR 750 FJ) - at least it hadn't been inside a box since on the boat from Nippon!

My mate has his yellow Honda 400/4 f2 in boxes in his cellar in Consett. It was consigned there as a 'project' in 1988 !  :fix:  :crazy:

However - he doesn't use this forum; and I don't have the viffer, so doesn't count!
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Offline 2112

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Re: Longest ownership
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2011, 07:05:47 »
Good point, my brother in law has had a 1960 350 Triumph in boxes in his garage since 1979 when it put a rod through the block. It's never moved, will never move and will slowly rot away despite his protests it'll be on the road next year...
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Offline Countrysailor

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Re: Longest ownership
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2011, 08:39:32 »
Somewhere at the back of my mothers shed is the remains of a 98cc Villiers engine BOWN. ( don't ask, I never heard of them before or since ). It had a two speed handlebar gearchange. I was always taking it to bits, polishing ports or trying to shave a bit off the head with emery paper.Finally it stayed in bits and over the years she moved and some bits got lost so it never went back together. I bought a Norman before then an Ariel Arrow Supersports. Great bikes, smoked like hell, If you got away from the lights first nobody could see to get past Your.  I bought the BOWN  for a fiver if I remember right but that was when I was 14 and I'm 64 now so if bits in a box count its Got to be 50 years. Now wheres that logbook?  :shrug:
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Offline Firestorm

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Re: Longest ownership
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2011, 08:52:03 »
Suzuki GS1000G Bought new in 1982 - sold still running well in 2003 with 95,000 miles on the clock.
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Offline Iggy

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Re: Longest ownership
« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2011, 09:12:08 »
Well, in my modest little collection, I have two bikes owned more than twenty years and a further three that I've had for at least fifteen years.... just don't like to part with 'em really... and the tinkering keeps me out of mischief (so the wife says).....   :shy:


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Offline Abercol

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Re: Longest ownership
« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2011, 10:58:22 »
I used to have several bikes  - a '79 CB900F that I'd had since 1985 (sold with 80k smiles on the clock) & a Gilera 180 Scooter from new in 1999, a 600 Bandit from RiDE magazine for two years & a BMW R1100RT for three years when my current missus made me sell them all in 2008 - now I'm down to just one bike - the Strom, on my third year now & 15k miles. She made me do it I tells you!!!!  :bawl:

Actually she was right, it was "get rid of all these old nails and go treat yourself to a new bike" Who am I to argue!

I miss the CB900. The Gilera was fun around town. The Bandit was OK, the BMW a bag of sh*te (lovely to ride... when (if) it worked).
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Re: Longest ownership
« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2011, 13:13:55 »
Hi

As a sad bu***r, I have great difficulty in letting bikes go, but it has been known. The bike I have had longest is 1966 Honda C95 (154cc twin), owned from 1974. The other one is a 1957 BMW R60 owned since 1980.
Its all very sad, as they are only bits of metal, but they get under your skin.

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