Buying the same bike twice

[flynrider]

I read all the time when guys are talking about bikes they've owned " wish I had never sold it". How many of you have liked a particular motorcycle so much that you bought another one of them.

I liked my 73 650 Yamaha so much I ended up buying 3 of them. The 73, a 79, and an 81. Something about that paint shaking vertical twin I just loved. Such an elemental motorcycle. A Japanese Bonneville if you will. Oil tight, reliable electronics, but not quite as good looking.

i bought a new 04 Yamaha FZ-1. Fast, handled well, good looking, a little tall for me, but one heck of a bike. I ended up selling it to my son who wanted it badly. Missed it so much went out and found a used 01, same color. Kept it until the CB1100 came along and sold it to my brother to get a CB. Even now when we are out riding together and his is on the FZ, I look at it and wish I had one lol.

Of course I sold the FZ to buy my 13 CB. When the 14 DLX came out I traded the 13 for the 14 so I have owned 2 CB1100's.

I like my ST1300 so much I wouldn't mind having another one of them with low miles on it. Mine has got almost 70,000 miles on it now. They say they will go 200,000 miles but mine is beginning to nitpick me with little repairs. Nothing major, a leaking rad hose I can't get to without tearing the bike apart, a cracked taillight lens that started cracking at a seam a couple of years ago ( there's a replacement sitting on the shelf), and now it seems my rear shock has lost it's springiness for lack of a better word ( that's about $750 to repair plus labor I think). I don't want to be bandaiding this thing along for the next 130,000 miles, and I really don't want a failure somewhere in North Dakota while on a trip.

One of my good friends has bought 5 RD350s, 3 FZ-1s and 3 Kaw Versys over the years and just texted me the other day he found a good deal on another Versys but he had just bought a BMW GSA and wasn't sure if he should buy the Versys. Lol

So how many of you have bought a bike, sold it, missed it and bought another just like it?

I had a similar thing for the Kawasaki KZ 750 twins. They had the same paint shaker qualities as the Yammie 650, but they were solid machines with bullet proof reliability. As a poor college student, another attraction was that they were priced about 1/3 less than the four cylinder 750s of the day.

In all, I owned 3 of the 750 twins (not counting my parts bike). I had a '79 KZ with a Windjammer, which was the first (an only) bike I ever totaled. In '81 I replaced it with a leftover '80 LTD model which I rode for almost 80K miles. When that one was getting a bit worn and shabby (it lived outside), I picked up a used '82 CSR model.

This was my '80 LTD prepped for a 5K mile road trip to Canada in '87.


Here's my '82 CSR on a road trip in '89.


On long road trips the vibration was enough to cause body parts to go numb and parts to fall off due to metal fatigue, but on all my adventures around the western U.S., Canada and Mexico, they never once left me stranded on the side of the road. They were great, simple, reliable bikes.

[Wisedrum]

I read all the time when guys are talking about bikes they've owned " wish I had never sold it". How many of you have liked a particular motorcycle so much that you bought another one of them.

I liked my 73 650 Yamaha so much I ended up buying 3 of them. The 73, a 79, and an 81. Something about that paint shaking vertical twin I just loved. Such an elemental motorcycle. A Japanese Bonneville if you will. Oil tight, reliable electronics, but not quite as good looking.

i bought a new 04 Yamaha FZ-1. Fast, handled well, good looking, a little tall for me, but one heck of a bike. I ended up selling it to my son who wanted it badly. Missed it so much went out and found a used 01, same color. Kept it until the CB1100 came along and sold it to my brother to get a CB. Even now when we are out riding together and his is on the FZ, I look at it and wish I had one lol.

Of course I sold the FZ to buy my 13 CB. When the 14 DLX came out I traded the 13 for the 14 so I have owned 2 CB1100's.

I like my ST1300 so much I wouldn't mind having another one of them with low miles on it. Mine has got almost 70,000 miles on it now. They say they will go 200,000 miles but mine is beginning to nitpick me with little repairs. Nothing major, a leaking rad hose I can't get to without tearing the bike apart, a cracked taillight lens that started cracking at a seam a couple of years ago ( there's a replacement sitting on the shelf), and now it seems my rear shock has lost it's springiness for lack of a better word ( that's about $750 to repair plus labor I think). I don't want to be bandaiding this thing along for the next 130,000 miles, and I really don't want a failure somewhere in North Dakota while on a trip.

One of my good friends has bought 5 RD350s, 3 FZ-1s and 3 Kaw Versys over the years and just texted me the other day he found a good deal on another Versys but he had just bought a BMW GSA and wasn't sure if he should buy the Versys. Lol

So how many of you have bought a bike, sold it, missed it and bought another just like it?

I had a similar thing for the Kawasaki KZ 750 twins. They had the same paint shaker qualities as the Yammie 650, but they were solid machines with bullet proof reliability. As a poor college student, another attraction was that they were priced about 1/3 less than the four cylinder 750s of the day.

In all, I owned 3 of the 750 twins (not counting my parts bike). I had a '79 KZ with a Windjammer, which was the first (an only) bike I ever totaled. In '81 I replaced it with a leftover '80 LTD model which I rode for almost 80K miles. When that one was getting a bit worn and shabby (it lived outside), I picked up a used '82 CSR model.

This was my '80 LTD prepped for a 5K mile road trip to Canada in '87.


Here's my '82 CSR on a road trip in '89.


On long road trips the vibration was enough to cause body parts to go numb and parts to fall off due to metal fatigue, but on all my adventures around the western U.S., Canada and Mexico, they never once left me stranded on the side of the road. They were great, simple, reliable bikes.

Yes, indeed they were.
I did not buy this bike three times, but bought a used one and kept
it for 10 years. When I discovered the W650 and a good opportunity
for a change, I did a switch.

The LTD had a good portion of vibration but a fairly strong engine with its 50hp.
It build my love for parallel twins.

Here is picture of it:



Wisedrum

[redbirds_imp]

I've never gone back to the same bike. I came close to going back to an air head BMW once as I was so fond of the R75 I bought in '73. I was advertising my Triumph Tiger 1050 on Craig's List and a fellow with an R90 asked me if I would think about an even swap for his BMW. I test rode his bike and though a nice, well preserved example, it would have been a major step back from my Tiger. I sold the Tiger and bought a Guzzi; a shaft drive air cooled twin all the same but with fuel injection, Brembo brakes and the best stock seat in all bikedom.

Pamela had been riding a DL650 V-strom since 2007 and loved it. Right after I bought the Guzzi in 2012 she deccided she wanted a Bonneville SE. We had seen one at a show and she fell in love with the style. Her V-strom was soon sold and she got the Bonnie. From the first ride she hated it. The suspension was harsh, the seat like a board and the motor had no soul. Right away I ordered Hagan shocks and a Sargent seat for it but all for naught as she still was unhappy with it. About 4 months later the Bonnie was traded on a new 2012 V-strom and she's been a happy camper since.

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[flynrider]

I read all the time when guys are talking about bikes they've owned " wish I had never sold it". How many of you have liked a particular motorcycle so much that you bought another one of them.

I liked my 73 650 Yamaha so much I ended up buying 3 of them. The 73, a 79, and an 81. Something about that paint shaking vertical twin I just loved. Such an elemental motorcycle. A Japanese Bonneville if you will. Oil tight, reliable electronics, but not quite as good looking.

i bought a new 04 Yamaha FZ-1. Fast, handled well, good looking, a little tall for me, but one heck of a bike. I ended up selling it to my son who wanted it badly. Missed it so much went out and found a used 01, same color. Kept it until the CB1100 came along and sold it to my brother to get a CB. Even now when we are out riding together and his is on the FZ, I look at it and wish I had one lol.

Of course I sold the FZ to buy my 13 CB. When the 14 DLX came out I traded the 13 for the 14 so I have owned 2 CB1100's.

I like my ST1300 so much I wouldn't mind having another one of them with low miles on it. Mine has got almost 70,000 miles on it now. They say they will go 200,000 miles but mine is beginning to nitpick me with little repairs. Nothing major, a leaking rad hose I can't get to without tearing the bike apart, a cracked taillight lens that started cracking at a seam a couple of years ago ( there's a replacement sitting on the shelf), and now it seems my rear shock has lost it's springiness for lack of a better word ( that's about $750 to repair plus labor I think). I don't want to be bandaiding this thing along for the next 130,000 miles, and I really don't want a failure somewhere in North Dakota while on a trip.

One of my good friends has bought 5 RD350s, 3 FZ-1s and 3 Kaw Versys over the years and just texted me the other day he found a good deal on another Versys but he had just bought a BMW GSA and wasn't sure if he should buy the Versys. Lol

So how many of you have bought a bike, sold it, missed it and bought another just like it?

I had a similar thing for the Kawasaki KZ 750 twins. They had the same paint shaker qualities as the Yammie 650, but they were solid machines with bullet proof reliability. As a poor college student, another attraction was that they were priced about 1/3 less than the four cylinder 750s of the day.

In all, I owned 3 of the 750 twins (not counting my parts bike). I had a '79 KZ with a Windjammer, which was the first (an only) bike I ever totaled. In '81 I replaced it with a leftover '80 LTD model which I rode for almost 80K miles. When that one was getting a bit worn and shabby (it lived outside), I picked up a used '82 CSR model.

This was my '80 LTD prepped for a 5K mile road trip to Canada in '87.


Here's my '82 CSR on a road trip in '89.


On long road trips the vibration was enough to cause body parts to go numb and parts to fall off due to metal fatigue, but on all my adventures around the western U.S., Canada and Mexico, they never once left me stranded on the side of the road. They were great, simple, reliable bikes.

Yes, indeed they were.
I did not buy this bike three times, but bought a used one and kept
it for 10 years. When I discovered the W650 and a good opportunity
for a change, I did a switch.

The LTD had a good portion of vibration but a fairly strong engine with its 50hp.
It build my love for parallel twins.

Here is picture of it:



Wisedrum

Nice one, Wisedrum! The spoked wheels, rear fender and grab bar would indicate that yours was an '82 model. That bike was sold in the U.S. as the CSR 750, with only a single front disc.

The only version I didn't own, but came very close to buying, was the '83 belt drive LTD.

[Wisedrum]

Flynrider , you come very close. The papers said it was
from 1983, that may be the same as the 82 model.
The belt drive was also sold in Germany but without spoked wheels, which I like.
It came slightly after my model, was sold parallel and stayed the longest time on the market
until this motorbike disappeared.

Wisedrum

[hb9400_imp]

Heck I've bought a few models more than once but my "unicorn" has been the 2008 Kawasaki Versys. Have owned it 6 times, even bought and sold the exact bike twice. First model year the insurance premium was stupidly high, they categorized it as a sport bike then it was a matter of my wife never warming up to the high passenger seat. The bike is just a bit tall for us. A friend bought his 2 weeks after I bought my first one and he's put 40k miles on his and loved it. He just bought a '15 Versys 1000 and I took it for a spin and was very impressed. I'll probably at some point break down and buy a '16 Versys 650 in orange but that would mean I'd have to let go of the CB1100 and she's just too pretty to give up "today"

Never been a Kawasaki fan but I'm smitten with the Versys............

[the_undecider_imp]

I had a 2006 V-strom 650, sold it and was bikeless a couple months, bought the CB, and after a few months bought a 2013 V-strom. I had a 2005 FJR and would buy another (newer) one if I had the opportunity. In fact, a customer is supposed to be trading in a clean 2013 FJR on a new 2016. We'll see what plays out...

[Papa Weeley_imp]

I've regretted selling (almost) every bike I've owned, but even though I've come close to buying a replacement of a couple of the older ones, so far that still hasn't happened yet.

[kdwolfinger_imp]

My first bike was an '81 CB650. I absolutely loved it. Other than the electrical issues that I eventually fixed. Bad stator. And the carbs that were a pain to keep synced. I had it for about 4 years before I sold it privately. Now I'm picking up my CB1100 tomorrow.



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[ClassicVW_imp]

Well, I just did it too. No, not another CB1100, altho I can see that happening one day.

Bought another Honda NT700V, the middleweight tourer. It's on the road being shipped up from Florida at this very moment.
This is the bike I had before the CB. The Honda Accord of motorcycles.
Somewhat plain, some say boring, but does both the 'round town and long trips very well. I couldn't pass up the deal.
$5K even for a bike with only 527 miles on it.

So, the Moto Guzzi Cali 1400 that I only bought in December went bye-bye to a new home in Massachusetts just yesterday.
We never bonded all that well. I actually DID like the technology- the three user settable riding modes and the three
settable levels of traction control. That plus ABS made it a very safe bike.
I couldn't get used to the feet-forward floorboards, or the angle of the floorboards. My right foot kept sliding off.
The left foot was OK, the heel-toe shifter kept my foot there. Also, in turns, the bike kept wanting to turn into the turn more.
A LOT more. Maybe a combo of the heavy front end and the rake, I dunno. But it felt unsafe to me to keep trying to put more
and more countersteering effort just to maintain your line in the turns. I could picture myself being tired after a long day and
forgetting or being sloppy and then getting into trouble.