[Closed] Best looking race motorbike

No RC30's? I prefer Yamaha's myself but here you go..
Freddie Spencers two brothers racing RC30 @ Stafford the other month.
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I'm surprised no-one has mentioned this already, but this years IOM TT Norton. If anyone didn't see the documentary on the making of it before this years TT you missed a great spot of viewing!

UK made and my [b]god[/b] it sounds glorious too.

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One wheel good and vineyh beat me to the xr 75 harley, like you onewheel I'm not a harley fan, but when my lottery numbers come up I'm going to have a xr lookey likey built!
Nice to see jarno the flying Finn' Saarinen getting a mention too, cracking thread, I could be hear all night!!

What engines in the Norton benn?

Apprilla rsv with a custom crank I belive[s

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned this already, but this years IOM TT Norton.

Their own engine now I believe. For custom sounds courtesy of Norton themselves visit;

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Always been a two stroke lover so the previous pics of the Jap import Honda NSR250, Yam TZ250, Suzuki RGV250 (The road version which I owned, immense B road blaster) and culminating in the ultimate 2stokes, the 500 class will always be close to my heart.
Of the superbike class the RC30 and RC45 were great looking bikes (the 30 pipping the 45 in looks department I think) but the best looking bike that Honda did of this class was the RVF750, ridden by Foggy and Hislop at the IOM
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Speaking of Foggy he'll always be remembered with the Ducati 916 range, beautiful bikes but I've always preferred it's predecessor, the 888:
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AS a Yamaha fan here's a couple of my favourite colourschemes
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There was some beautiful looking engines on early Yamahas

Bill Ivy's Ra31 125 - V4 2 stroke, 9 speed, the rev counter started at 10,000 & red lined at 18

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This. 700cc of 2 stroke madness. Having rode a 500cc Maico, this thing must be bonkers. Love it.

There's a version of this kicking about with the text 'Maico 700cc 2 stroke - Because committing suicide with razors is for pussies'. Makes me laugh every time I read it.

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Here's THE 250
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Yamaha Canada also had good paintschemes.This is the TZ250 that Steve Baker won Daytona with in 1977.Very 70's look to it.
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Talking of Canada reminded me of Yvon Duhamel's H2 750 Kawasaki

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The original Lawson superbike
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My own Lawson replica is based on his Daytona winner 😀
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Im my mind i raced this 🙂
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There's too many bikes with fairings in this thread. If it wasn't for the paint and stickers, you'd never tell them apart. 😛

Agreed that the XR750 deserves two pictures.

Best looking production racer ever, the BSA 441 Victor Grand Prix.

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Pretty close, Rickman Metisse.

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E.J. Potter's bike, because it's so ugly, it's beautiful.

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Manx Norton.

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Perhaps the only thing to trump E J Potter, Rollie Free on his Vincent, not so much for the bike, but more for his efforts at weight reduction and aerodynamics while achieving 150+mph for the flying mile. 😯

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If we're doing Trails bikes (and I think we should include them) then the thread can not be complete without Sammy Miller and a few of his era trials bikes, heres two..

Bultaco, who rewrote the format..
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And a Tiger Cub that almost started it..
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Given the title of the thread it's inevitible there will be lots of images of bikes with fairings.If you took the paint & stickers of them I reckon most people could tell them apart 😀 ..
I love the look of some of the 'old skool'racers,especially the Endurance racers
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There's so many good looking drag bikes, that it's hard to pick a "best".
Russ Collins creation has got to be a contender, it's absolutely barking.

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The infamous Scottish Six Days trail...

When a Man a bike and an oily rag ruled..

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Another vote for the V1000 here.

1980s HRC works Hondas, beautiful bikes. Many an hour spent staring at pictures of Malherbe, Thorpe, Bailey, Magoo, O'Mara, Johnson & Geboers in TMX and Motocross Action.

(Not enough gold rims in the world)

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Well done Bustaspoke for injecting some sense in amongst the plastic crap.

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This was by far the best ever looking CR500.
If I remember correctly it had a hinge in the large radiator on the right for better access to the barrel.
It also used a fuel pump in the tank as the bottom of it was way lower than the carb.

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Docstar, is that hailwoods?

Don't think it's his exact bike as I plucked it right outta Google images but yea same bike more or less RC166

Bustaspoke, here it is without it's clothes
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My dad and my Uncle John, about 200yds from where I live now.

The Britten, wins, followed by 917.
RD350LC is a race bike as it had its own race series, stock bikes, pick the keys out of a hat madness.

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DownhillDave I think that's a XR69 frame.I've seen a few images of those over recent years..

Whatever it is ,it's bloody gorgeous.

Dickyboy - Page 2 - MGS-01 - Sublime!!!!

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bikebouy - Member
The infamous Scottish Six Days trail...

When a Man a bike and an oily rag ruled

Yes - Gordon Jackson on the Devil's Staircase...

I very nearly bought one of these in 1980.....
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but ended up buying an enduro bike instead (a Yamaha IT250G actually)

I must have been mad, not only because I was far better on a trials bike than I ever became on an enduro bike but because it's just so beautiful and had Marzocchi forks too.
I'd love one now anyway, but ideally modified to use disc brakes....

I did have a Miller framed TL 125 that I bored out to 180cc and then stroked to 230cc - there was a spacer under the barrel(because of the modified crank) and one on the generator case to accommodate extra flywheel weighting.Modified XL leading axle forks (converted to air), XL 125 head and carb.
All sort of Pete Jerred-inspired stuff.

I'm not sure puddle jumpers have any place on a thread about racing machines 😉

jota180 - Member
I'm not sure puddle jumpers have any place on a thread about racing machines

bikebouy - Member
If we're doing Trails bikes (and I think we should include them)

We should have a "best looking trials bike" thread because nothing else looks half as nice, although I'd give that HL500 houseroom...
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Just beautiful!!

"Puddle jumpers" 😆

Well I like em' and they are "raced" and are beautiful, so I vote we have em'. 😉

I once owned a C15 trials, got it was heavy and bloody good fun. It would stroke twice once at the start of a section then again halfway through.. Also, briefly, I owned a TL125. Totally unfettered, light and lythe and great fun.

Puddle jumpers???? Thats just rude 😆

Shirty and Mick Andrews fanatstic creation

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My sister rode a KT250 in trials for a while in the late 70's - they were a [s]bit[/s] lot shit, but looked lovely. Sold well in NZ due to the local equivalent of the Lampkin's (father and son) being Kawasaki riders.

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If you're going to talk trials then there is only one true trials... scooter?

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Chap who props up the bar in my local was one of the lambretta team in the '59 scottish, proper madness-genius.

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Likes ^^ 🙂