quick survey for old school people who have been riding for over 30 yrs.?

Fastest was a supercharged double motor Shovelhead Drag bike for racing. Vincent Black Shadow for street was fastest bike built from 53-74. (still held speed record almost 20 years after last Vincent was built, till Kawasaki Z1 900)

Scariest 750 Kawasaki (3 cyl. 2 stroke)

Uncomfortable 650 twin Ariel (worst vibration I ever saw)

Reliable BMW (then and now) second only to Honda Trail 90 which at the time was considered by most bikers to be a moped and not a motorcycle.

Least reliable any thing with Lucas electrics

I never had a bike that scared me. My current 'big' bike is a Honda ST1100 and it is faster than I want to go, but I can control it.

My most uncomfortable bike was a Harley 350 Sprint (made in Italy by Aermacchi). I had it for a year in college.

The coolest bike was a BSA. It was a WONDERFUL bike, comfortable, good handling, beautiful, very fast. When it ran, which was about half the time. 8^<

One of the most fun bikes was a Lambretta scooter--my first bike. I went more places on that thing! It was 200ccs and it could run 70 mph all day. I would do 200-mile days on it.

The most reliable would probably be the Honda. But I also have an old BMW 'airhead' and I love that bike too, and it is 30 years old and still rock solid reliable.

What bike was the fastest? 1983 V65 Honda Magna

What bike scared you the most? H1 500cc Kaw.(friends bike)

What bike was the most uncomfortable to ride? HD 900cc XLCH

What bike was the most reliable? 98 ST1100

What do you ride now? 98 ST1100

Most unreliable - Triumph Thunderbird(electrics)

First Bike 125 cc Benelli

Fond memories bike X-6 Hustler Suzuki

What bike was the fastest? Kawasaki KZ750, 3 cyl, 2 stroke

What bike scared you the most? Honda CB550-4 (top heavy)

What bike was the most uncomfortable to ride? HD XL1200

What bike was the most reliable? 94 Honda Interceptor

What do you ride now? 05 Yamaha FZ6

What bike was the fastest? highly modified VROD

What bike scared you the most? Honda goldwing 1200 (top heavy and handled for crap)

What bike was the most uncomfortable to ride? cousins Ninja

What bike was the most reliable? 2001 Road King

What do you ride now? 2001 Road King

fastest; gsxr1000 most uncomfortable; 2006 Buell

scariest; chopper with 23" over springer and no front brake

present bikes two 1980 Harleys one FXEF and one FXE. Both are modified so I don't know what the difference should be.

Most reliable; FXEF

Now almost 35 years.

The scariest was our Kawasaki KZ-650. Not the bike itself, but what we did with it - rode cross country from WA to SC in the middle of winter, running into ice in Oregon, a flash flood in Arizona, a sandstorm in Texas, and a mean cop with a ticket book in South Carolina.

The fastest was a BMW R-100RT, mainly because we lived in Germany at the time and could ride it on the autobahns almost every day at speeds in excess of 200kph (125mph).

That BMW was also the most reliable, until the guy we eventually sold it to ran into a car while riding on the wrong side of a road in England. Yep, totalled - and he didn't fair so well either.

I go back as far old British bikes, foreign machines were very rare. Our Sunday afternoon treat was to congregate at a certain local mile-long straight and see if we could get to the magic "ton". My 650 Matchless would do it, if it was feeling like it that day . . .

I still ride more sedately than most, having been brought up on a diet of non-existent brakes, suspension that did nothing and tyres that lasted for years because they never gripped the road. I still miss the oily boots, too.

My Honda VFR...but at an indicated 130 my friend's kid passed me like I was standing still on his modified Yamaha R1. Any scare was me, not the bike. I test drove a Yamaha R6, very uncomfortable leg position for me. My BMWs and Hondas have been pretty much breakdown free. Right now I have a Honda VFR a BMW GS and a Suzuki DRZ

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