who owns their dream bike(s)?

[BarneyRubble]

I always wanted a Klein Attitude and was offered one as a swap once, but I found it horribly harsh to ride (IMO, don't want to start that debate!). I think sometimes it's best to keep the dreams from your teen years as just that...dreams!

I don't know if anyone saw the Top Gear a few years ago when James May drove the Lambo Countach?? He was gutted to discover that it is rubbish, so I think I'll save my San Andreas for the posters of my childhood!

 

[greenfinger]

DM "dream bikes don't always turn out to be so great".

you've a very valid point there also, sometimes you build up something to be so great in your head they can be a let down in practice! when i was a kid i always lusted after a suzuki gsxr, one of the original ones(slabside). i had all the posters up on my wall etc. i eventually found an imaculate one a few years back, it really was stunning. i traded in my honda vfr750 for it and the whole way home i couldnt help but think i dont like the way this rides :? here it is-

don't regret getting it as it was a boyhood dream and an experience...

 

[BarneyRubble]

I just thought I'd add a final thought on my last post, if Pamela Anderson turned up I'd make an exception to the rule!

 

[South Bound]

Suppose it depends what one wants from one's dream bike. I dreamed of mine hanging in a shop. It is now hanging in my garage and I am very happy to leave it there!

 

[greenfinger]

can't get pic to show, got my stupid head on :roll:

 

[BarneyRubble]

Suppose it depends what one wants from one's dream bike. I dreamed of mine hanging in a shop. It is now hanging in my garage and I am very happy to leave it there!

That's true, if the Mrs would let me hang a San An in the front room I'd have one. Always seems a shame though!

 

[Dr S]

DM "dream bikes don't always turn out to be so great".

you've a very valid point there also, sometimes you build up something to be so great in your head they can be a let down in practice! when i was a kid i always lusted after a suzuki gsxr, one of the original ones(slabside). i had all the posters up on my wall etc. i eventually found an imaculate one a few years back, it really was stunning. i traded in my honda vfr750 for it and the whole way home i couldnt help but think i dont like the way this rides :? here it is-

don't regret getting it as it was a boyhood dream and an experience...

Doesn't always work out does it. There are cars I lusted after as a kid and eventually bought just to be disapointed.
On the other hand, ever since a holiday in Italy in the late 70's I hankered after Alfa Romeo Bertone Coupes and collected anything I could do do with them. I finally bought one three years ago and every time I get in it I fall for it, it gives me butterflys like a love struck teen everytime I see it. Despite building it to god like status in my head for 20 odd years it has never once dissapointed me. I shall be burried with it.

 

[Marmite King]

I got into mountain biking in my mid twenties with a Saracen Tufftrax, I always liked the Kili`s but could`nt afford, later on the one I really wanted was the 92` Kili Ultra E-stay made with True Temper Ultra tubing and kitted out with Campag Record and was a lovely turquoise colour, again could`nt afford at the time........................I don`t suppose anyone knows of one for sale anywhere ?

 

[LeeDevelopment]

Guess I've been kinda lucky to have owned the so-called 'dream bikes'...first was the blue and purple Zaskar LE, followed by two Foes LTS 16" bikes and then came the several Intense M1's, plus a Scott Octane WC too. Also had my own bespoke hardtail frames made up as I went along...saved for each and every time.

At the moment although wouldn't class it as a dream bike (you get to a point where you know what your build is going to be, you know how to get the cash for it to get all the bits with etc, you know you need to choose between buying kit and putting food on the table!). I'm planning a cyclo-cross-cum-commuter bike based around the new Spooky 'cross frame....it'll be a mix of retro, modern and sheer eccentric parts. Eventually I aim for a Brooklyn SR6 based downhill bike too but that can wait for the time being (and will probably change frame-wise as time goes on).

 

[stevek]

I have (I think?) nearly all of my dream bikes...? but then you see something that becomes the next sought after thing. Maybe it even becomes an obsession? :? Especially when it's very hard to find. :evil:

And so it goes on...

Sometimes the cost (to me at any rate) is incredible. But for me it's not about the money spent, it's my passion for what I think are nice things. I've owned some nice bikes but for one reason or another sold some of them on that I just didn't click with, the ones I'm left with I've had for quite a while now.