Ooh, you should see some of them…
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It’s a 1930’s Douglas btw…
How could anyone guess that from the photo 
2002 VTX 1800 S
My other motorcycle which I sold a few years ago was a Honda 919 which was my city bike, the VTX was for cruising down the back roads of the Pacific North West.
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A lovely collection of bikes and some absolute stunners. I’m on my second VFR - my history is CG125, Transalp, VFR 750, Bandit 12, GS1150 and the current VFR800 - loved each and everyone of them!
Being recovered because of a faulty Datatool Red 4 immobiliser. That’s the recovery driver in shot. It took 5 hours for the RAC to get this far. 3 1/2 for the patrol to arrive and another 1 1/2 for the recovery contractor to turn up.
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My R1200 GSA on the B862 above Loch Ness a couple of year’s ago with a friend’s borrowed K1600 - he decided touring on is Fireblade was not a good idea and borrowed this bike. A bit of a change for him. 
I don’t do the miles I used to but should get 50k up this year on this bike. First time I have never wanted to change a bike.
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Yes - Royal Enfield Himalayan.
Speed cameras (France has ramped up use and effectiveness), 3rd World condition of English roads and general congestion - combined with changing personal priorities made it easy enough to detune from previous quite fast bikes to this lovely bicycle-with-a-motor.
I haven’t had so much fun on a bike since my Tiger Cub (possibly more down to my age, 16, than any choice of bike). I’m not sure I could easily break any speed limit and I now set my TomTom to eschew motorways and favour D roads and the odd single track.
A trip down to SW France last autumn was contemplative and fun - countryside savoured and not glimpsed at sphincter-tightening pace. Twisty roads along river courses were taken at full speed (60-70) accompanied by uncharacteristic whoops of innocent joy.
Downside - TOTAL inability to overtake anyone pootling along at 50 - early attempts proved overextended, embarrassing and usually aborted.
You learn to pootle too.
And - it cost £4,000 new.
Two roads diverged in a wood,
and I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Stock Shot.
The sort of thing I rode when 20. A quite fast Dresda Kawasaki 900.
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. . . . nice one CBR600
Looks a bit like a Dnepr from the Ukraine. I think the engine was a pre WW2 BMW design and still making them (badly) until a few years ago.I owned one of these once with a sidecar. It had a chair, on the wrong side of course for British roads. My one was only 5yrs old, but the engine had some serious end float. I had to add a bit of shim in the front end to stop it knocking itself to bits. Took it across Germany, Austria, Poland and it eventually died in the Czech republic. Great fun with a big grin factor. If I find a picture, I’ll post it. In the meantime, here is a wiki for you:
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Wonderful!
Is your Rudge a registered Pioneer?
First time I have seen a red Indian.
Nice motor
Great photo.
Sadly I could not get on with my R1200GS, it always felt like a top heavy tractor. Couldn’t live with the torque twist either, but each to their own.
Urals are still made and indeed sold worldwide, including the UK: http://ww.f2motorcycles.ltd.uk/uralcombo.html
Great set of words there
“A trip down to SW France last autumn was contemplative and fun - countryside savoured and not glimpsed at sphincter-tightening pace. Twisty roads along river courses were taken at full speed (60-70) accompanied by uncharacteristic whoops of innocent joy.”.
The dresda looks well, I certainly remember them from my youth. Looks a bit like a featherbed frame?