windhund116

What model Duke is that? I don't think I've ever seen one with back seat and seat case before. Did ride a 999 once. Very nice handling bike!

Mjhenk

2012 Multistrada 1200 ABS. It's Ducati's sport touring bike. Re-tuned engine from the Panigale 1199 super bike. Shes an absolute dream. Super comfortable 2-up riding for the lady and I, but completely trackable via the infinitely adjustable riding modes. If only the maintenance wasn't a costly nightmare!

Nikosnoopy

i own a 2007 gsx 750 sold it and got a s2k
and years later i got the itch so got myself a 2015 gsxr 750

s2000Junky

Yep that used to be my woods bike for several years, but converted it to supermoto/street legal when all my friends quite riding dirtbikes, so at least i could still ride it. I started riding dirtbikes when I was 9, in my early teens started racing my Dads vintage flat track and hair scrambles bikes and later got into racing some enduro and desert events as an adult and general weekend trail riding with the buds. At age 39 (2 years ago) I finally got a street endorsement haha. I feel like a total hoodlum on that thing. Im familiar with all those old bikes. One of my fave bikes to race in the hair scrambles when I was 15 was our 1975 Bultaco Pursang 250. The mid range power on that motor was very good if I recall. I had no problem picking the front wheel off the ground in 3rd gear. Lots of problems stopping of course. 4 finger braking and a foot drag was never a great idea from the factory, but it was the standard for many years. Gawd I can still feel my forearm pump! haha.

That Kawaski triple flat tracker is cool, and will kill you!!! haha!

windhund116

Bultaco Pursang! Haven't heard about that one in decades. Ridden that and the Spanish made Ossa. Things used to break a lot on MX tracks. But, the sweet 2-stroke sound and smell of castor oil burning! Yay!

s2000Junky

^^Haha nice! That's my bike except mine was Blue Can hear the popcorn popping and the arm pump throbbing lol The suspension and brakes on that bike was horrid, but so was every other bike for 1975 lol. Engine was sweet though.

We had a 250 Ossa engine in a sweet nickel plated Champion flat tracker frame. That was a nice bike. Not sure where my Dad acquired it, but I didn't know how he got half his bikes. He was a wheeler and dealer for sure.

windhund116

I had a 1992 KTM 350cc for a year of two. That tiny kick start on the left side was funky to get used to. Esp when on tight trails. Left side and tightly tucked up and away. Think KTM went to right side kick starter in the mid-1990s?

The Honda CR500 was a brute to start. But, what torque! It's the only bike I've owned that I could upshift on long, steep uphill climbs.

s2000Junky

Yeah I think by Mid nineties they figured it out, but not sure as the only KTM I ever owned was the current 04 EXC pictured. My 1979 CR250 Elsinore had a left side kick also. Not sure what that was about back in those days. Maybe a European scrambles thing they did that carried over on the Jap bikes too for a period of time.

windhund116

That Elsinore had the shift lever on right or left? That one always bugged me, on old Husky bikes.

s2000Junky

No, thankfully they had that standardized with left shift for that bike. That bike I owned from 15 years old up until I bought my current KTM. I loved that bike! Still crap drum brakes, but actually my first "modern" long travel motocross bike I always wanted when i was a kid. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your perspective lol) I learned on/rode big ass scary, heavy vintage British, Italian and Spanish bikes from the 50-60-70's when I was a kid, because thats what my dad was really into and what he acquired most of.