Bikes you've bought multiples of

I love people with control issues!

3x CB400F SuperSports

The one I kept is my Varnish Blue 75. It's sporting a few parts from a Light Ruby Red 76 that had a perfect muffler, but was rougher than my 75 everywhere else, so I sold it. The other was a borderline basket case that I think wound up in a dumpster. No title, no idea which year (never checked or cared to check VIN, title, etc..). It was BAD. Saw it leaned up against a tree outside a house in the country and paid $50 for it. Yeah, that was $50 down the drain. I remember the seat was painted with a blue swirl-a-delic paint job, you know where you spray paint on a pool of water then lower the item through it for an interesting effect? Well, that looks horrible on a seat!
 
Well all others aside I have had :

2 x ST1100's
2 x NC750X's
3 x Honda NT's
However one was a 650, one a 700 and the current one an 1100... but all NT's!

I will probably end up with a third NC750X in the not too distant future when the NT1100 gets a bit older, I bought it new....
 
2 1986 Concours. Couldn’t afford to keep the first one then bought another when money was ok.

ST1100s.
92, sold because I couldn’t afford to keep it, immediately found a cheap 94 that I fixed as money came in. What’s that? Redneck payment plan?
Then later after a life adjustment (see below) a 2001ABS.
Then a 1995 basket case that I put together for fun.

1986 VFR 700, had to sell it because I couldn’t afford it.
However, this time I wised up and used the money to divorce the wife I couldn’t afford.
After that bikes were bought and sold freely.

Later I would I have a 2000 VFR and a 2006.

CBR1100XX.
1997
2003

ST1300
2006
2003A
2004
And currently settled with two bikes,
2006A
2009A

Hey ferret, this is a fun thread.
 
the Ferret said:
Ok so which bikes have you enjoyed enough that you bought at least 2 of?

I've had

3 Harley FLH's 49, 56 and 57
2 Harley XLCH's 59 and 94
3 Yamaha XS 650's 73, 79, 81
2 Suzuki GT 750's 74 and 76
2 Yamaha FZ-1's 01 and 04
2 Yamaha YPV 400's 06 and 08
2 Honda CB 750's 76 and 00
2 Honda CB 1100's 13 and 14
and if I buy another NC 750X (which is my plan for my "last bike"), I'll have had 2 Honda NC 750X's 21 and 25? or 26?
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2006 and 2013. ST1300
 
the Ferret said:
It's IS interesting that we buy a bike, for some reason sell it, then decide with so many great bikes out there to buy another just like the one we had and sold. I find it fascinating.
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I totaled my 2006 and it took me 5 months to find the 2013. In the process I looked at a Goldwing and a K1600GTL. Goldwing you can't remove the bags or top box, THE K1600, too expensive.
 
6- BMW K100/1100RS 86 (Bun Burner Gold on this one), 87, 89, 92, 94, 95
2- ST1100 91,93
2- ST1300 05,05
2= FJR's 08, 14
3- BMW R1100S 99, 01, 03
4- Goldwings, 84 Aspencade, 85SEI, 2017, 2018
2- Honda VFR's 86, 87
 
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Holy crap!!! Some of you guys change bikes more often than I change socks!

I am more of a buy and hold type but I have bought 2 2004 St1300's. I would still have only bought one if I hadn't joked many times about inheriting my 85 yr old riding buddy's O4 when he died. He called one day asking if I wanted to buy it since it was getting too heavy for him. My own 04, having only some 300,000 kms on it, was hardly broken in so I politely declined his offer. I hung up the phone and my wife was giving me the stink eye. "how could you not buy that bike after all the grief you have given him??" Called him back up and said I would buy it. It only had some 60,000 kms on it. I still have it, although there is another 100,000 on it. Fits in nicely with my 20 yr old car and 25 yr old Blackbird.
 
Whisperquiet said:
Nine Kawasaki KLR650s over a 25 year span
Three Honda ST1300s
Three Honda CR125s
Three Honda CR250s
Three Honda CB750Fs
Six Yamaha Super Teneres
Two BMW GS/A
Three Suzuki DR350s
Four Suzuki TS125s
Two Harley Road Kings
Two Harley Electra Glides
Two Honda CX500s
Two Yamaha RZ350s
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when did you have time to ride them all?
 
I rode 10-12000 miles a year while working and 20-30000 miles a year while retired. I worked the afternoon shift most of my career……play/ride in the morning to early afternoon and then go to work tired!

BTW, I’ve owned 90 motorcycle in 54+ years of riding and worked at a Honda motorcycle dealer for four years while attending college.
 
sirbike said:
ST1100s.
92, sold because I couldn’t afford to keep it, immediately found a cheap 94 that I fixed as money came in. What’s that? Redneck payment plan?
Then later after a life adjustment (see below) a 2001ABS.
Then a 1995 basket case that I put together for fun.
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You're another re-cycler also?
 
I can only join this club by accident. Two accidents, to be accurate.
My first street bike was totalled when I was run over after a year of ownership, when I was 17. The 1974 Suzuki GT550 was replaced with the next year's new model by the lady's insurance company, probably because they were afraid of being sued. Thus, 2 each GT550, but only owned one at a time.
Likewise my first dual sport 3 decades or so later, a 2003 BMW f650gs thumper bought used. Again hit by a car, but my fault this time, but the insurance company settlement was within spitting distance of a new 2005 model, so I bought it. Again, 2 bikes but only one at a time, in succession, bought with all our insurance premiums.
As a divorced guy, I found myself with a small but nice collection of 3 Hondas all at the same time, a 1993 Honda CBR600F2, a superb 1997 CBR1100XX first year, and a 1978 CB750 K8, last of the single overhead cam engines. Someone above mentioned a wife he couldn't afford... nah, I'm not going there. But still, it does seem in hindsight that 3 Hondas cost me less...
 
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