Best Bits of Bikes Mash-up

[stu67]

Commuting in this morning got me wondering, what bits of of various bikes would you mash together to make your perfect ride?

I use a SV650 for my daily grind which is great for my mixed 30 mile commute. However It would be really great if it had shaft drive (Guzzi or BMW) so that everything kept a little cleaner and maybe a DCT (Honda) box for the last little bit in the city.

What would make your perfect bike??

[Krikkit]

800cc air-cooled V4 naked with enough weight saving to come in about 160kg wet.

[jjones]

The current africa twin adventure sport DCT with 50 more BHP and a shaft drive and much better fit and finish.

[spoodler]

Hmmm... 1200 Evo' Harley engine in a featherbed frame with a disc brake front end.

Z1000ST with early 900 bodywork and Zephyr 1100 wheels, forks and brakes.

Z650SR with GPZ 750 Turbo monoshock, forks, wheels and brakes...

I know... I know... but I really don't need sat nav's, abs, riding modes, fairings etc. for my style of riding.

[Bob_Defly]

The Unicorn Dualsport.

A Honda CRF400L, road legal, with a reliable road engine that weighs 250lbs, and costs £6K-£7K. Wide ratio gearbox suitable for trails and motorway.

It boggles my mind that any manufacturer won't make this bike, it can't be that hard. And they would totally OWN the dualsport and entry level ADV market.

[rigga]

Yamaha LC350 with Suzuki gsxr front end, tzr rear with a BMW shock, and rgv wheels


It works well.;)

[Bodo]

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Which in the end would look like this

[crofty1984]

What on earth just happened there?

[underwhelmist]

I thought it was Lorum Ipsum but didn't quite look like it. I tried it in Google translate and I think it's the lyrics to a Fall song in Latin:

No members of the vehicle are allowed to be transported. In the life of the rutrum of the arc, that valley wants the ullamcorper of life. For the pure price he receives from the doctor, from the real estate agent. The element of disease is no life support vehicle sometimes. For hatred is not the leaven of mourning. Some of the employees are concerned about the problem, but the situation is a little sad. In the layer of nibh not soft ultricies. In the tincidunt, how much life from the members, or the hendrerit wants the pellentesque. For the wisdom of the rhoncus diam of the arrows of the maleudia is imperdiet and fear. It does not take a lot of homework to advertise, and it is a real estate investment. The ship is located in the land, but the ferry is not made either. But the fans of the valley need a free weekend.

(edit: not really but I wouldn't have been surprised to hear Mark E Smith belting this out if he were still with us)

[ccr32]

underwhelmist said:

I thought it was Lorum Ipsum but didn't quite look like it. I tried it in Google translate and I think it's the lyrics to a Fall song in Latin:

[ccr32]

I have often vacillated over this, most of the time when grumbling about something wrong with the bike/road/type of ride I am on at the time.

I'm thinking that it would need:
- a 1000cc-ish 200bhp-ish V4 engine with the service intervals of a Japanese IL4, for character, grunt, grin factor, and reliability
- properly electronically adjustable suspension, with a firmness range from sofa to superbike
- flat bars for view of the road and comfort
- cruise control for motorway jaunts
- a DCT 'box with manual override foot lever and the ability to use it with a clutch for when you want/need it - auto mode for stop/start around town; manual for seamless shifting fun
- some sort of adjustable fairing and/or geometry, so you can have a a lot of wind protection while on the motorway/top speed runs on <cough> closed circuits </cough>, but retract it all when in town or out having fun at < Mach 1 - Perhaps MotoGP shape-shifting technology will trickle down in the coming years to make something like this viable. Perhaps not.

I've nearly described a Tuono / Multistrada Pikes Peak there, haven't I... hmm

[2ndclasscitizen]

The fact that Honda never made a VFR800-based naked is always surprising, so I'd stick the styling and riding position of my Hornet 900 on the pre-VTEC (98-01 model) VFR800.

[Speed addicted]

Out of the bikes I’ve owned.
The comfort and luggage carrying ability of the triumph explorer, the power (170bhp) of the VFR1200 and the booming roar of the Ducati st2.

I’ve just described a multi strada. Hmm…

[black-k1]

As I'm very happy with my H2 SX, I'd take a slightly different approach and just look at the things I'd change on that to make it even better.

I'd have the headlights off my K1300S, after I'd swapped the halogen bulbs for HID replacements.

The K1300S would also supply a replacement seat. That seat really was 12 hour/600+ mile all day comfortable.

I'd fit a shaft drive, probably off a VFR1200.

I'd also add the 23ltr tank of the SD1290GT.

Finally, I'd fit the weight of the Triumph Speed Triple 1200RS - The above at 200kg would be a near perfect bike for me!

[Derventio]

My old Caponord 1000 but with the reliability of a Honda Transalp, shaft drive and the build quality of a 90s VFR would be pretty much the perfect bike for me.

[ThreadKiller]

Bob_Defly said:

The Unicorn Dualsport.

A Honda CRF400L, road legal, with a reliable road engine that weighs 250lbs, and costs £6K-£7K. Wide ratio gearbox suitable for trails and motorway.

It boggles my mind that any manufacturer won't make this bike, it can't be that hard. And they would totally OWN the dualsport and entry level ADV market.

I would buy one of these - but with electric start as an additional feature.