Post a pic of your V11 - No words

[Lucky Phil]

  On 3/8/2025 at 1:56 AM, activpop said:

Thanks for the Italian lesson but these were off a 2003 Mille. Model and name change happened the next year. Might be the same fork, or not. 

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Depends on where you live but RSV1000 is a more accurate description with regards to this conversation in that I'm identifying the base model RSV series of bikes not the Ohlins equipped bikes for example. I've owned 3 RSV1000's. A base model a 2000 R model and a 2002 R model. Here's a 2000 model Mille for you.

https://www.bikesales.com.au/bikes/details/2000-aprilia-rsv1000-mille/SSE-AD-18567453/?Cr=9

 

[Onibaka]

[activpop]

Finally off the stand! Yep, this project certainly dragged. It's easy to neglect the project bike when other bikes are ready and waiting. I got my ass in gear this last month and got it done. 

[Speedfrog]

Beauty! ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

[NicoNZ]

Heading to IMOC AGM. Looking over lake Taupo heading to National Park

Edited April 1 by NicoNZ

[audiomick]

I've heard rumours that NZ is pretty (apart from the way the locals speak). Apparently there is some substance to that.

[PhillipLarsen]

Had my first ride of year on 2004 Ballabio after completing my 20 year (approx 25,000 km ) maintenance visit.

With all the work done, new tires, all callipers & master cylinders rebuilt, new brake pads, all new engine sensors, complete “Decent Tune Up”, including plugs, air filter, etc., Roper Plate installed, drive shaft removed and greased, etc. it is just like it came out of the showroom in 2004. Good for another 20 yrs/ 25,000 km. Not sure I am!
What a pleasure to ride. 

[swooshdave]

[Pressureangle]

[audiomick]

That dog looks very happy with itself in that nice boot.

[guzzler]

  On 4/4/2025 at 12:06 PM, audiomick said:

That dog looks very happy with itself in that nice boot.

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He does doesn't he....

But how could you do that to a greenie...or a V11 for that matter??

Sidecar I mean!

 

[docc]

  On 4/4/2025 at 9:10 PM, guzzler said:

He does doesn't he....

But how could you do that to a greenie...or a V11 for that matter??

Sidecar I mean!

 

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I will go do far as to say I am relieved it was not converted to a trike . . .

[Lucky Phil]

Sidecars, good lord sidecars. All the worst aspects of a car and a motorcycle rolled into one and then made even worse. A case of less than the sum of it's parts. The sidecar is what the poor working class in the early 20th century bought to attach to their motorcycle to transport the family because they couldn't afford a car. They were a poor persons transport band aid and nobody worried about the obvious dynamic shortcomings which not only make them suspect to operate but also destroy the motorcycle itself mechanically. A motorcycle chassis isn't designed to cope with side thrust loads so the mechanicals take a beating and you end up with chassis cracking and high wear on everything including the driveline lugging around the extra weight. The advent of the Austin 7 or Baby Austin, in the early 1920's, an affordable car that the working class could afford killed off the sidecar manufacturers almost entirely and with good reason. 

Phil    

[Pressureangle]

  On 4/4/2025 at 10:16 PM, Lucky Phil said:

Sidecars, good lord sidecars. All the worst aspects of a car and a motorcycle rolled into one and then made even worse. A case of less than the sum of it's parts. The sidecar is what the poor working class in the early 20th century bought to attach to their motorcycle to transport the family because they couldn't afford a car. They were a poor persons transport band aid and nobody worried about the obvious dynamic shortcomings which not only make them suspect to operate but also destroy the motorcycle itself mechanically. A motorcycle chassis isn't designed to cope with side thrust loads so the mechanicals take a beating and you end up with chassis cracking and high wear on everything including the driveline lugging around the extra weight. The advent of the Austin 7 or Baby Austin, in the early 1920's, an affordable car that the working class could afford killed off the sidecar manufacturers almost entirely and with good reason. 

Phil    

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Yet they remain.

[audiomick]

  On 4/4/2025 at 10:19 PM, Pressureangle said:

Yet they remain.

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Yes, because some people find them fun. A mate of mine had a double-boot on a CB900. Sitting in the boot was fun, hanging out in the corners and such. Riding it was interesting. I picked it up for him after he had a sky-diving mishap, and rode it about 100 km home (somewhere down near Dandenong up to Macleod, for those who know the territory...). It was fun to ride somehow, even though it pulled to one side pretty heavily. The mate was about 30 kg heavier than me, the thing was set up well for him, and with me on riding it didn't want to go straight.

So I can see why people like them, but don't want one. The reasons why not are pretty much exactly what @Lucky Phil wrote.

I would like to have a go on a serious racing sidecar, though. Both as rider and as swinger.