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Re: all time ugly bike #10 ; CB 400F
« Reply #25 on: June 24, 2008, 04:57:15 AM »
I mean, seriously, if this bike makes his list:



Then you can just add in all Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha, kawasaki, and most Harley cruisers into the mix as well. I mean, they all look the same.  ;D

If he put in the M109, I wouldn't have thought he was such a crack pot.   ;)
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Re: all time ugly bike #10 ; CB 400F
« Reply #26 on: June 24, 2008, 06:43:24 AM »
That Stratoliner is on my short list of new bikes I would own.

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Re: all time ugly bike #10 ; CB 400F
« Reply #27 on: June 24, 2008, 09:29:38 AM »
My short list of bikes I want includes the BMW K1200R. Now that bike SHOULD be on the ugly list, but man is it a blast to ride!!!  ;D

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Re: all time ugly bike #10 ; CB 400F
« Reply #28 on: June 27, 2008, 05:53:38 AM »
These are pretty *^&%ing ugly...  :-\
http://zo-d.com/blog/archives/design/the-second-ugliest-motorcycle-ive-ever-seen.html
ugly anyway you look at it...
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Re: all time ugly bike #10 ; CB 400F
« Reply #29 on: June 27, 2008, 06:24:56 AM »
love buells..ugly but fantastic looking all at the same time...i dont see to many people riding them either...to bad I dont have the loot.
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Re: all time ugly bike #10 ; CB 400F
« Reply #30 on: June 27, 2008, 07:51:59 AM »
That guy's full of #$%*.  Not one of those bikes should be on that list.  Granted, I do think some of them are less than examples of what a particular motorcycle should look like.
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Re: all time ugly bike #10 ; CB 400F
« Reply #31 on: June 27, 2008, 11:32:52 AM »
Ha-ha-ha, getting cramps by now, cant stop laughing!

this guy put the Suzuki 650 savage in his list of:Top 10 Japanese Street-Legal Bikes Of All Time

his reasons:

10: Suzuki Savage 650. This was the first street-going Japanese thumper to do it right. The Yamaha SR500 went into the clip-on British nostalgia Tavern to Tavern bike mode and that was the completely wrong direction. Yammy's thumper was heaven in the XT incarnation but was balky, slow and vibration-stung in its street going version. The Savage did it right with superb styling, extremely comfortable cruiser ergonomics, and what was essentially one half of a Harley 1340 cc engine. It sounded right, it moved right, it handled right, it was priced right and I'm amazed that Suzuki didn't sell a few extra million of them.

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Re: all time ugly bike #10 ; CB 400F
« Reply #32 on: June 27, 2008, 12:42:41 PM »
It really seems like his idea of a good looking bike is anything that looks like/is kinda like a Harley... all other bikes be damned.
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Re: all time ugly bike #10 ; CB 400F
« Reply #33 on: June 27, 2008, 10:37:13 PM »
At least he has the CB350F on the top ten of best bikes.  But his reasoning for not having the CB750 is bogus as well as why he thinks Honda killed the 350F.  Honda didn't "kill" the 350F, they improved the performance of the small four and captured the cafe' styling in the 400F.  What universe is he from?
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