Speed Week 2017 - Lake Gairdner

[Smee]

Just thinking here............I could be wrong, but wondering if you (Andy) thought that money in an H2R was better than money in super

(given the govts haphazard handling of super funds).

Wishing I'd bought a GTHO new in 1971 for $5300. (Except I was only a kid then)

the difference between the bike and the super is simple. Andy can ride the bike & the hovt of the day will always manipulate Superannuation to their advantage, by which I mean, by the time Andy gets hold of it, he will be too Rickerty to use it. The bike easily wins, spend it before the w@nkers do.

[DesigningByCoffee]

Love bikes too. I've just had to pull my FJ1200 off the road … just too hard to justify it at a time with 3 kids from 11-15! (and when I realised that my 5-6 rides a year were costing about $200 a pop it mad for an expensive hobby!)
Oh well - the big 5-0 is not too many years away … maybe I'll try to pull and Andy! Although, I'd struggle with a Hypersport after the FJ. I've sat on a few and being 6"4 they make me feel like a monkey on a tiny bicycle at the circus!

[LFM60]

Just thinking here............I could be wrong, but wondering if you (Andy) thought that money in an H2R was better than money in super

(given the govts haphazard handling of super funds).

Wishing I'd bought a GTHO new in 1971 for $5300. (Except I was only a kid then)

[LFM60]

Guess I'd better post a pic of my 2007 Bonneville.[ATTACH=CONFIG]15143[/ATTACH]

Very nice Yelta.........

[LFM60]

I had, among others, an orange 1971 Kawa H1 500 mach 111. The 1969 had a front drum brake but mine was the first year I think with a disc. Bought for about $500 or $550 secondhand in about 1978? Would be worth more now.

What I really wanted was an H2 750 triple.

I admit that they sound like an outboard when idling and any smoke was good for keeping the mosquitoes away.

Also bought a brand new 1976 Yamaha RD350 for $810 on the road from Norm Fraser Motorcycles in Breakfast Creek Rd, Brisbane. They were discounted down from about $1100 because the new RD400 was coming out.

Those were the days...........

This must be the old buggers, coffee drinking, bikers forum. Too old for the Ulysses club.
Bit harder to kill ourselves falling off a coffee machine, although.......

[Smee]

Love bikes...
Really miss 'em.

Mal.

You should get another one Mal.

One of my favourite bikes of all times was an old chook chaser, actually it's the second longest I kept any bike in my life. It went everywhere, over hills, across the beach, through carpark gardens......I use to blast around the place without a care in the world, wind in my face, rarely cost me money, was not attractive and I never worried about it getting stolen or scratched.......served me well the old girl, Happy days.

I woke up one morning and there was an old guy in the mirror, he just stared at me......"wtf happened, I know, a bike will make me young again". You don't need a race face like Andy to enjoy a bike.....go on, you know you want to

[Yelta]

Guess I'd better post a pic of my 2007 Bonneville.

[Dimal]

Love bikes...
Really miss 'em.

Mal.

[Smee]

About 18 years ago I had a litre bike, it was the latest and greatest back in its day (or there abouts), I remember riding it home in the back roads thinking to myself, geese it arrives at the corner quick.....it had about half the herbs of that ROCKETSHIP you're riding Andy and I almost filled my diaper a few times on it.

These days, I'm happy blasting along the back roads @ 80km/h.......it's a bit like 'driving miss daisy'. No desire to go quick anymore.

Some years back I use to ride with a guy in his late 80ies & he was quick too......he got me worried towards the end because I use to remark to him when we!d stop for a Coffee, "Hey Bill, you got a bit close to that truck back there" & his reply was, "What truck"!

Anyway, he gave it away at 90, died before his 91st RIP Billy.

I believe I would have covered more than a few 100,000 kilometres on bikes....never had a real accident, except I've dropped 2 in my driveway whilst cleaning them. Idiot.

[LFM60]

Note to self.

Turn the volume down before playing the YouTube video of the H2R on Phillip Island so that the dog doesn't die of fright!!!!!!

[Dimal]

300+ KPH is very impressive indeed....
The fastest I was able to crank my 900SS up to was about 285 KPH on the old Surfer's Paradise Raceway (long gone now).
Ran as straight as an arrow and also sounded awesome. Gotta love a high revving Duke 'on song' too I reckon...

Mal.

[Andy]

Yeah, its a Kawasaki 2015 H2R.
...and the only one I know that gets ridden... unlike the handful that made it to Australia and are in storage unridden in the hope to make a dollar one day.

I've seen that video too, have no idea if my bike does that at full noise as I'm too busy hanging on and looking where the missile is pointing.

[DesigningByCoffee]

Is that the H2R Andy? I saw some of the promo videos too - the dyno run blowing flames at the bike show was epic
Stay shiny side up - and have fun!

[Dimal]

That Kwaka sounds wonderful mate, really crackles...

Mal.

[Andy]

Hi Andy,
I vividly remember touching Donald Campbells Bluebird when it was displayed in David Jones in Adelaide in1963-absolutely mind boggling !!!!

You win! I just touched a wheel and that made my month. I'm jealous.

We have been following Afflick and Afflick (postie bike) on facebook.

I'll have a look for them there. 100cc nitro supercharged putting out 30hp is impressive.
There are a few turbo postie bikes entered too.

My ride is a turbo ZX10R

Sweet... I bet that would be a pile of fun too.

and HOLD ON!

Been practising that bit. Trick is not to sit up at 300kmh when you back off.