svm9

Good thoughts all! The pics of bikes on this thread are great. The Porsche's you folks have on here are just plain sexy! I drop in on this thread at least once a day to see what's been posted - bikes and cars. I've got to go drive one of these 993's soon. If they drive as good as they look I think I will end up owning one in my future.

Keep the opinions and pics coming. Thanks!

dryadsdad

Don't have a pic of my wife with her Trumph Bonnie, but here she is with her 993. The car is wonderful and really goes. I thought I'd feel any car kinda sluggish compared to my liter bike but that's not the case.

The car also has this sense of being of such high quality that it's a pleasure just sitting in it.

onboost

Yeah... I'm an ex-motocross racer too! But was also into Harley's at the ripe old age of 16. Never did the crotch-rocket thing (unless I wa borrowing someone elses). Porsche bug took over many years ago but I keep a vintage Hog around for oldtime sake!

craig001

Add me to the list of ex-Harley riders who swicthed to p-cars. Sold my sled to get my wife her engagement/wedding rings and a 928s. And so it began....

Sean Hamilton

I was already into Porsche and motorcycling. This was my last ride, 97 Bad Boy. Sadly no longer around. We took a slide 100k’s into a street pole and near jellied myself. 2 years re-hab but can’t depress a clutch with confidence so the 993 Tip Cab was the perfect next Porsche. But miss my riding greatly. So I restored a boat and took up sailing - softer landing

utahrock

Sports cars are one of life's necessities, but I can't go without motorcycles either. I've had road bikes but inevitably (especially living in Utah) I'd pass lots of interesting dirt roads that were off limits for a sport bike. Then BMW invented the adventure bike. Now their version is a nice bike, but they are a street bike manufacturer that made a dirt bike. KTM is a dirt bike company that made a street bike. The KTM is less gentlemanly, just like my 993 (or me, for that matter).

Some other bikers don't know quite what to make of it. On one trip some Harley riders came over at a gas stop and asked about it, wondering just what it was good for. I'm congenial to all bikers, but probably even more so when one of them has a hot, leather-clad blonde perched on the back, with really big, curious eyes. I ended up riding with them for a few miles, at which point I peeled off onto a fire road, accelerated away from the hot, crowded traffic and 10 minutes later I was at 9,000 feet with no one else in sight.

Then after a fun day of this I headed back for a rendezvous with another hot blonde. The one I keep at home.

goofballdeluxe

There's about 100 great polygamy jokes I could make here, seeing that you live in Utah

Nice KTM.

steve porter

I keep telling myself that I haven`t given up bikes, which is why I can`t part with these two . Have owned the 851 since new in 89 and the GT since 91.
The 993 seems to scratch that itch that only bikes used to be able satisfy.

fixedgame

+1 RC30 is one rare and beautiful bike.

I am still kicking myself for not keeping my RVF400 with 600 mi on the clock.

clib

I would never sell that 750! I doubt I'll ever stop riding - the sports cars are great, but they are not the same as the lean and acceleration of a bike - not to mention feeling the subtle changes in the air temp, or smells when on a great country road. They are both great past times but I am hooked on 2 wheels - plus much cheaper to keep a variety of them around and a lot easier to wrench and modify.

utahrock

Speaking of polygamy, we (the lost sheep) were having dinner with the religious side of the family the other day. I enjoy tweaking them a little bit, so I mentioned a thing or two about polygamy. My very nice, but very devout aunt strongly insisted that "The men didn't want polygamy, but they had to do their duty for the Church, and it was the hardest thing by far that they had ever done."

My wife and kids and I immediately had to bite our tongues to keep from bursting out laughing. We all were thinking of Dr. Strangelove, which we had recently watched. There is a scene where the General, after being told that they would have to hold up underground with several nubile girls for each man, asked "Am I to understand, Dr., that we would have to abandon the tradition of monagomy?" To which Dr. Stangelove replies "Sacrifices must be made..."

steve porter

I would never sell that 750! I doubt I'll ever stop riding - the sports cars are great, but they are not the same as the lean and acceleration of a bike - not to mention feeling the subtle changes in the air temp, or smells when on a great country road. They are both great past times but I am hooked on 2 wheels - plus much cheaper to keep a variety of them around and a lot easier to wrench and modify.


I stupidly sold these two to get the 851 (it seemed like a good idea, and something that had to be done at the time)

Rinty

Well, after a few years of not owning a bike (see post 35), I'm about to acquire a little number, exactly like this one:



utahrock: welcome. And you must be a hardass to ride with that stock seat.

Ouch!

thirdgenbird

i sold this:


for this:


now she can come:

JDHertz11

I have a few bikes but really haven't ridden much in the last year or so. Anyone want to by an MV Agusta 1000 F4 or a KTM Super Duke? Both have low mikes and live in the A/C.