Attached is my 95 Ducati 900SS/CR, she is my baby. Also attached is my commuter 09 Kawasaki Versus. It is hands down the best commuter bike I have ever owned. The only commuter that came close was my '04 Buell XB12. Right now I can't ride because of the issues with my neck. It is too hard to wear a helmet at this time without the weight putting too much pressure on the nerves. Drives the wife nuts when I walk around the house trying to just wear my helmet.

 

2013 Ski doo Skandic for a work sled.

Stinger said
Best dirt bike .. ever !!!

  

 

I really missed having a street legal Dual Sport Enduro, It's been a few years since I've had a plated one.

So I recently picked up a used Honda XR650L. Will be fun to drive both offroad and on road again.

My ex-wife used to really hate it when I'd park my old one in the house.

Doesn't get much simpler than a XR650L, and having an electric start is a nice perk. It still uses the same simple air cooled engine with pretty much no changes since 1993. Every couple of years they just change the color of the plastic. It's a neat package, but the stock metal 2.8 gallon tank obviously had to go.

Will give me something for me to look forward to, when the rain & snow season is over.

 

- Bullwolf

I still have a pair of old school 80's-90's 2 stroke dirt bikes on the farm. They don't see quite as much use as they did in my younger days though, when I hurt a lot less.

I'll run the YZ-WR up to the well occasionally, but the ATV, or tractor is more my speed these days. Too many broken bones in my youth. As I get older with bad knees and back, the electric start looks better and better.

I grew up doing top ends on 2 cycle dirt and street bikes. I remember Yamaha RD's and the Kawasaki triples were big at the time.

Took me a while to learn that using high end synthetic 2 cycle oils (like Red-line) gave a much longer maintenance window between top ends on 2-stroke Dirtbikes, Chainsaws, Jetski, and Street bikes.

I cracked a ring on my old 1979 RD 400 Daytona Special while using cheap oil.

 

I was using inexpensive Pennzoil 2 cycle oil at the time (and oil injection too) but Pennzoil was readily available at "high end" automotive stores like the Quickstop, 7-11 and the local Supermarket. Running pre-mix and synthetic 2 cycle oils, really extended my upper cylinder lifespans.

I've put in my time wrenching on old Iron Harley engines as well, mostly Shovel, and Pan heads.

My neighbor was getting rid of an old Harley Flat Head (1945 if memory serves) that I almost jumped on, but after working as a mechanic for so long, I just don't have it in me anymore.

My last Harley was a 1977 Shovel. I sold it to a gentleman from Germany, who shipped it back home.

I believe I sold my 77 Shovel around early 2000. I haven't had another big twin since. Really looking forward to riding the XR650L around the farm though.

I've owned a few used Dual Purpose bikes as well. A Yamaha XT600, Honda XL600, and Kawasaki KLR600. The KLR was the best (and heaviest) street bike out of the bunch, the XL was pretty much the best all around combo bike, and the XT600 was the prettiest too look at, but had the least amount of power out of the three.

The last XR I had around, was my ex wife's 1985 XR250. I sold it off quite a few years back. I think it's one of the red Honda's by the tree in this scanned pic of dirtbikes from the 1990's. The other red Honda is either a CR250R, or my CR500.

The Blue bike on the trailer was a 1984 Yamaha IT490, and the yellow one's a 1982 Suzuki RM 465. Good times.

 

- Bullwolf

My first street bike at 51 years old. I know it's a bit late in life to start but better late than n

ever. Without getting into detail I got a second chance in life (nothing to do with jail time) and I'm going to live it without regrets. I stumbled onto this "barn find" last year. 04 with 3,586 miles showing on the clock. I absolutely love it and pinching my pennies for a Heritage Soft tail to graduate to. I don't know what all has been done to it but definitely not stock and definitely hard on the ears even with the long pipes. The only obvious change are the Cobra drag pipes. I think the guy that sold it scared himself. His reasoning was a rotator cuff issue and he couldn't ride any more. I'm a bit skeptical after having this little rice burner, as you see it, breaking triple digits and still cranking with me aboard, weighing in at a little over 300 pounds.