Thread: Bike Porn - Regardless of the motor, Show off your "two wheeled" beasties

This is the quickest of the 750/4s I had from 30 years back. A race bred Yamaha FZ750 - made 1986. Beautiful machine, superb handling, and revved freely with its 5 valve per cylinder motor. About 106hp which was alot then. Alot in just 200kgs.. Only problem was 1.5 hours was all your arse could handle on it - very firm uncompromising ride. Not a tourer. Awesome machine but:



And this shows just how fast these road bikes were in the day. Here the 86 FZ750 with Italian legend Giacomo Agostini on board races against the top Ferrari Testarossa of the day. Also on the track is the reigning 500cc champion Yzr500 Yamaha. Little FZ750 blows the Ferrari..

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x563wqe

For the non-computer savvy people like me - put cursor over the link above, then click on sound and expand. Mmmm.. But ... would still rather have the Honda CB750F. I've no doubt today's sports tourers have much smoother, more powerful motors, better boxes, brakes and suspension, but many of those old late 60s/70s/80s machines gave a great ride.

Originally Posted by mudgripz

This is the quickest of the 750/4s I had from 30 years back. A race bred Yamaha FZ750 - made 1986. Beautiful machine, superb handling, and revved freely with its 5 valve per cylinder motor. About 106hp which was alot then. Alot in just 200kgs.. Only problem was 1.5 hours was all your arse could handle on it - very firm uncompromising ride. Not a tourer. Awesome machine but:

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And this shows just how fast these road bikes were in the day. Here the 86 FZ750 with Italian legend Giacomo Agostini on board races against the top Ferrari Testarossa of the day. Also on the track is the reigning 500cc champion Yzr500 Yamaha. Little FZ750 blows the Ferrari..

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x563wqe

For the non-computer savvy people like me - put cursor over the link above, then click on sound and expand. Mmmm.. But ... would still rather have the Honda CB750F. I've no doubt today's sports tourers have much smoother, more powerful motors, better boxes, brakes and suspension, but many of those old late 60s/70s/80s machines gave a great ride.

The FZ750 really was a bike to be reckoned with in the 80's. My 1985 RZ500 only produced 87hp, so was a far cry from the GP version. I remember having a Kawasaki GPZ1100 show me the way home once. Disappointing...

Originally Posted by outlander

The FZ750 really was a bike to be reckoned with in the 80's. My 1985 RZ500 only produced 87hp, so was a far cry from the GP version. I remember having a Kawasaki GPZ1100 show me the way home once. Disappointing...

Had an 87 fzr 1000 myself . 5 valve head but before exup, which was a good thing which meant I could modify carbs and pipes, ign etc to my hearts content..... and also swapped out wheels for 17 inchers both ends for fitment of race rubber and all the suspension mods...
And I don't think there would have been to much shame in the kwaka gpz thing... They were after all considered the king of the heap at the time.

Originally Posted by mudgripz

This is the quickest of the 750/4s I had from 30 years back. A race bred Yamaha FZ750 - made 1986. Beautiful machine, superb handling, and revved freely with its 5 valve per cylinder motor. About 106hp which was alot then. Alot in just 200kgs.. Only problem was 1.5 hours was all your arse could handle on it - very firm uncompromising ride. Not a tourer. Awesome machine but:

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And this shows just how fast these road bikes were in the day. Here the 86 FZ750 with Italian legend Giacomo Agostini on board races against the top Ferrari Testarossa of the day. Also on the track is the reigning 500cc champion Yzr500 Yamaha. Little FZ750 blows the Ferrari..

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x563wqe

For the non-computer savvy people like me - put cursor over the link above, then click on sound and expand. Mmmm.. But ... would still rather have the Honda CB750F. I've no doubt today's sports tourers have much smoother, more powerful motors, better boxes, brakes and suspension, but many of those old late 60s/70s/80s machines gave a great ride.

Agreed re the Honda....and this is the 'But'....You should almost never meet your hero as they can almost never live up to expectations....Nice ride, yup, drums front and rear to slow you down (notice I did not use the term stop....?)

All kidding aside, there are some fantastic bikes out there. I always lusted after a Bimota Tuatara but after seeing one in the flesh here in chch I know I could not 'live' with one. IA bit like a supermodel.... And on a side note- that Tuatara was powered by the 90s FZR 1000 exup motor albeit with the carbs and exup removed and EFI fitted....