Dream Stable!

Everybody is frozen in so let's talk dreams.

You win the lotto tomorrow. What's in the garage and where are going to ride?

I'd head to for Australia for some warm summer riding! If I'd won the lotto, I'd just buy whatever street/dirt/dualsport bike I felt like riding that particular day!

Frozen in? Come on man, you live in Florida. Don't you know it doesn't get cold here?  I rode 12 miles to breakfast at 6:00 this morning as I do many mornings. Not on the WR but on the Tiger. BTW heated gear is great.   

As for your original question I love my Tiger 800XC and the WR and think there may be a Gold Wing in my distant future also but not to replace anything. If I hit a big lotto I would probably have a bunch and varied variety of antique bikes.

However I love the two I have.

My (hopefully) realistic plans for the future in a few years time would be:

WR250R as my fun bike, for the trails
Aprilia RS250 2 stroke as a sportbike that will not get you to jail too quickly
KTM 690 SMC fun/hooligan summer ride
Ninja 1000 (Z1000SX in Europe) for sport touring and cold wet weather


now if I won the lottery it would be a different story. I'd have lots of old school bikes. like a lovely NR500 oval piston, an RZ350, old school ZXR 750 with the "vacuum pipes" for the intake, and I'd try to import a ZX2R from japan or australia (seen quite a lot ride around there) with the 20k rpm redline just for the fun of it!

Here's mine:

Yamaha 2014 YZ250F for the MX track

KTM 250 XCF-W for serious trail riding

KTM ECX 500 set up for day slab and small adventuring

Triumph Tiger 800 XC for large adventuring

The bikes and I will be living in a nice toy hauler being pulled by a F350 King Ranch.

That'll work for me. I'm not much for hooligan riding or giant adventure bikes.

You'll find me from Alaska to New Mexico, hitting tracks, trails and backroads eventually wandering deep into South America.

The wife's been traveling for work. Does strange things to a guys mind.    

I'm not lusting after any other bikes right now, and that's unusual for me. So, I guess, for the time being, I have my dream stable.

I own a bored stroked & properly suspended KTM that other than running on pavement has always been the bike I wanted to be on.
My last two 200 mile outings have been on the R2 the 1st ride stock, the second uncorked. When I got home Saturday, cleaned up & sat down. It dawned on me, not one time that day did I think about the 70 plus HP KTM   

4play wrote:

I own a bored stroked &  properly suspended KTM that other than running on pavement has always been the bike I wanted to be on.
My last two 200 mile outings have been on the R2 the 1st ride stock, the second uncorked. When I got home Saturday, cleaned up & sat down. It dawned on me, not one time that day did I think about the 70 plus HP KTM   

Not sure I get your point here?

That like Builder Bob, I'm not lusting after other bikes right now. The little R2 to my surprise has proven itself to be more bike than I thought it was.
With a little bit more torque I'm not sure I need anything else & I'm already gather parts to make more torque.

Patagonia/Altiplano with a Christini 450 DS.

Carbomb wrote:

Patagonia/Altiplano with a Christini 450 DS.

Two wheel drive bike!!!  Patagonia!!!! That's what I'm talking about ....      
(What the hell is that red thing on the side of this bike and how the hell is power getting to that front wheel?)

It's a secondary drive chain that runs off the counter sprocket. It feeds into a gearbox that turns a driveshaft with a few pivoting joints in it that runs all the way down one fork and turns the front axle. Pretty clever stuff.

Hmmm, this list changes all the time, and I'm not lusting after a lot right now, but off the top of my head....

KTM 500 EXC with a Timbersled Snow Bike Kit because we have a few months of mountain sledding left.

A comfortable lightweight V4 street bike.... mainly for the engine sound. Something like the VMax but 250 pounds lighter.

Vincent Black Shadow.