The Bike you lusted for

[mainline]

just managed to meet the requirements for this poll   at the age of 15, I wanted Lechien's HRC125

[number 87]

I was 12 - had a very beat up YZ80C - Brian Collins used to throw me out of his Parramatta shop beacause I keep dribbling on the CB1100RC AND THE CR450/480's - couldn't make my mind up - I ended up working for the bloke - had a CR480 (EVIL THINGS) - now if I only had the loot for a CB1100R.......If

Cheers all

#87

[jimg1au]

 87

i know were there is a cb1100rc sitting in a shed along side a twin shock cb1000
lady thinks they are still worth what they were pulling in early 2000s
o well they can stay there
jim

[Marc.com]

down on the farm in the dark days teenage wet dreams were all about the Enduro bike, at the time IT175G, something that could double chasing cows and getting you to the bus stop for the hour plus grind into school. 

Ended up with a very used TS185, still have the same TS185 and the same mates off the bus all these years later.

[firko]

At sixteen I lusted after Julie Sangren

Ironically I just got an email from her, the first contact we've had in 30 years. How weird is that?

[steve234]

I lusted for a kx80 the one with the number plate rear guard. Had to get 80% for all school subjects that semester..........never got it then and still haven't cracked 80% since, except for PE.

[motomaniac]

At sixteen I lusted after Julie Sangren

Ironically I just got an email from her, the first contact we've had in 30 years. How weird is that?

The is strange! I'm not going to mention the girl that I lusted after when I was sixteen incase the same thing happens!
For the bikes I wanted a 74 Husky 125 and later a rotary valved KX125 and then  yz125c.

[Curly3]

Maybe the Goldie will come to you as well Firko.

[firko]

One can hope.

[DR]

At 14 I lusted over an RM80..I mowed a zillion lawns and managed to get myself one

At 15 I wanted a PE250 or a PE175 more than anything. 1 of my best school mates and myself had grand plans and shared visions of us riding across Oz on shiney new PE's without a care in the world....no idea where the money was going to come from but the plan in principle was good

At 16 I bought a new RM400C on inflated HP at the reduced price of $1199. My desires for any other model or make vanished over night and was never to return. I still love my old 400 and it still puts the fear of God into me if I choose to crank that little bit extra when I think seriously, apart from an RN370 there are very few bikes I'd even consider if it meant I had to trade or sell off my old RM as part of the deal.

I'm also regressing as it's the pre'75 era that does it for me nowdays back then (late 70's) if it wasn't made after '76 it was simply an old outdated shitheap a friend of mine, Mark Sudgen, had an RH250 when I had my RM80B, at the time he could have offered me the RH + $350 and I still wouldn't have considered a swap..a flogged out RH back then wasn't worth $100!...how times change eh! the bike (RH) finally came to live with many other abandoned wrecks at the bottom of CabbageTree Ck at Nudgee Beach..but I still have the RM80

[Rossvickicampbell]

I had an XR75 just as they were becoming uncompetitive - wanted a YZ80C or even better an RM80B (I think it was as they were rare as hens teeth).  Later on I lost sleep over the RC 400/500s as used by Matry, Jim Pierre et al.....................oh dear!!

[oldskool]

the only bike i lusted or realy wanted as a young fella was a cr not sure what rize it was but a bloke with the last name of blackburn used to wheelstand one down at a reserve in whalan western sydney.it was a red devil and he almost used to hold it up at almost 90 degrees looked like he was gonna flip but never did.i learnt to ride on dirt in the bush on a suzuki gt 250 road bike with collapsed front forks.first bike was a few years later early seventies honda xl 250 motorsport with 310 kit.

[rls840]

I remember my cousin had an immaculate 1986 CR80. I used to sit in the shed for hours drooling over it. I wanted one so bad, I used to cut pictures out of Just bikes and ADB and hassle my parents for hours on end. Never got one unfortunately. Although the desire never left me cause I now have an immaculate 1986 CR250. My dream eventually came true. Better late than never.

[mainline]

I had an 86 CR80  great bike

[TooFastTim]

Dead easy: