Buying the same bike twice

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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 two 92 Nighthawks. Crashed the first one and quit riding for quite a while.

Then another one in babied condition came up for $900 and I jumped on it. I put almost 20K on it in less than two years before I traded it in for the 1100. The Nighthawks are highly underrated bikes. Mine had 83K on the clock when I traded it in and still ran very well. While I really miss the self adjusting hydraulic valves, the 1100 is an all around better bike.

I would even buy another one if I didn't have the 1100.