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It's difficult to describe really.......but despite it looking like a big, overweight ugly bastard the ride experience was like nothing I ever experienced before or since. It felt like you were sitting on an armchair on the roof of a car and no matter how bumpy the road got you were not disturbed in any way. Going round corners it was just so planted......you take a line and that's where it stays. It was like it was on rails. Pedro probably knows what I'm talking about......cos after riding Big Bird he got into Beemers.

The only bike I could ride for hours and get off feeling as fresh as I did at the start.

That pic would get you some TOTY votes for sure Ray!

Fuck knows Keith.......and why they keep storming the media outlets I have no idea.

@Mawsley........are you still blocking our resident annoying cunt?

You've gone from that to frolicking in swimming pools with all the other geriatric slapheads!

That's only the English Yen! Us lot just play rugby, go down the pit, and shag sheep. Not necessarily in that order though. Seen this @Tym, @Earache, @alfalfa, @DesmoDog

Looking very stylish there Ray!

And we never thought about weight back then.

Brilliant shots Yen........the Yanks will jump at this shit!

Loved it.......and amazingly, so did the wife! I do regret selling it tbh.......that, and the Kawasaki 500 H1 are the only ones I can say that about!

Sounds like you encountered a Pretentious Beemer Fuckwit Tony!

A new Z1 in 1975. Took one for a test ride and loved it.......but I just didn't have the dosh. I think it was 1247otr.

It seems anti-vaxxers are now storming ITV!

Just totalled up and I've had 19 since the launch of DSUK. This was the best.......

I think most of us do.......but that doesn't really clear up why go for the complete opposite to what you had before? After all......the rest of us are still in the same genre as we were before.

Back seats are for birds! There were times years ago that I had to give a lift to a mate but I fucking hated it. I used to tell them......sit right back, keep your feet on the pegs, and don't fucking touch me. With a bird it was sit forward, and hold onto me if you need to. If they weren't up close and holding on then it required some sharp braking so they'd rub their tits in your back! Simple pleasures back then!

What van did you have then?

Yeh......but you're in a different environment now Bob. So it's a complete change for you as it has been for me.

Time for another ButtRider account I'd say!

She needs a different bike Bob!

I was thinking back to DSUK days, cos it's now 17 years since that site launched, and comparing what we rode then to what we ride now! I had a Transalp, Tym had the same KLR, Moon had a Transalp, Bob had an AT, Catteeclan had a Transalp, Yen had an AT, Pedro had a Transalp etc. The point here is that we all ride very similar bikes now........exactly the same genre! So really our riding habits or tastes haven't changed that much over the last 17 years. But there's one exception.... @Buckster Back then he was riding a KTM........but now he's on a Harley cruiser! You couldn't get a more radical change! What can we learn from this?

Nice one!