The bikes of our dreams will one day be mine

2023 Author: Nicholas Abramson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-11-27 02:44

If you do a bit of memory, I am sure that since you can remember for some strange reason there are motorcycles that have you as hypnotized, abducted, magnetized, ultimately fascinated. For the short time that has passed since you last saw the motorcycle of your dreams, you will have a poker face again admiring it if it appears in your life again. It is like a strange irrepressible attraction every time you cross his path. This spell is kept in the most hidden part of your mind and it jumps like a spring from time to time. Well, these motorcycles are the ones that we are going to discuss in a series of special articles each of the editors. The motorcycles or the motorcycle of our dreams. Those motorcycles that are closer to our heart than what reason dictates and that for one reason or another we have always wanted with all our might. Come in and you will know mine.

Honda NSR 75

Let's start with the most distant wish in time. The typical motorcycle that all the boys of my time we long for sometime in our adolescence. Brand new as few, it was a new blow of authority from Honda to the competition, building a reliable and durable motorcycle with a racing aesthetic and very versatile. With its 74cc two-stroke engine you can imagine that its bass was almost non-existent, but once you kept it up in laps you could have a great time. Some even made real road trips of hundreds of kilometers with them. It did not matter that it had a high consumption, or that its plastics were somewhat fragile or that it did not even have reserve light, the fact is that it was a motorcycle with a very beautiful aesthetic for the time and also surely the first motorcycle of many, so that would become unforgettable for them.

Despite being a two-stroke engine, having a tank for the oil, it alone was capable of making the necessary mixture. You forgot forever about having to buy the oil tube at each gas station and mix it in the tank itself, pissing, shaking the whole bike as much as you could. Later came replicas of the NSR model such as the Repsol Carlos Cardus, or even Honda continued the saga with models such as the NS1, but what do you want me to tell you, the NSR 75cc II in white and red It had already taken hold of my reason and it is the first motorcycle that I remember as the motorcycle of my dreams. Certainly now with the market being the way it is, I could get one of them at a reasonable price. The difficulty would be in finding something that was moderately cared for, but the problem would be another. I put one more motorcycle at home and I have to go out the door.

Suzuki DR Big 750 S

Moving further in my memory the next bike that I remember as one of my most desired, is the bike that we know a lot as "the one with the duckbill." That Suzuki DR Big 750 S in the colors white and orange It featured prominently on the wall of my room in poster form. And at the time the decision was not easy since its competitors, the Honda Africa Twin or the Yamaha Superteneré, were also the object of desire.

But perhaps the differentiating aesthetics of the DR Big with its impressive tanks, with two filling spouts that had to be fed in a balanced way so as not to have more weight on one side than on the other. Or that big cylindrical monkey that consumed oil at every long-distance outing, if the bike had been poorly maintained or abused, they weren't enough inconveniences. Even so, it was another of the motorcycles of my dreams and like the NSR 80, it is now one of the motorcycles that would be within my reach if I found one in good condition, I even think that its time of revaluation will come soon.

MV Agusta F4

Honestly, it is a motorcycle that I do not know much more than what I have been able to read briefly and I have not bothered to investigate it and its behavior. But I do know something fundamental, and it is that for some strange reason I have always wished I could have one. Imagine that its beautiful aesthetic invoice it will have something to do with its sound, engine and that little bit of exclusivity. But I also have to confess that the MV Agusta F4 that I like is not the current MY13 model. The one I really like is the one I really like, with its four tailpipes coming out from under the tail and the typical MV Agusta colors of war with its rhomboid headlight.

Besides, I don't care about 750cc or 1000cc, and as I said, it doesn't have to be the limited edition gold series, or the Senna, or the Agostini, or the Tamburini special edition. Is more, of all these me I still lean towards the normal model S with its super square engine design and light steel multi-tube chassis. So you could admire that piece of engineering in the form of a rear swingarm.

As you can see, these are some of the "thorns" that I have stuck in my heart and that one day will be mine, but I'm looking forward to knowing what is the motorcycle of your dreams just like I'm already wanting to know what the next fellow editor's are.