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In my opinion the fairing had some disadvantages: in warmer conditions, your feet got really warm due to the cooling air from the cilinders. It was possible to remove the lower part of the fairing, but that took quite some time and it did not improve the "looks". Secondly: depending the position of your head, the fairing could cause quite some noise due to turbulence. And there was no possibilty to adjust the airstream in any way. The fairing, having no air vents, even created a vacuum in front of the rider. But in cold, rainy conditions, this was an extremely comfortable bike for long distances.

You are right about the MV if we think of bog-stock FIM-viable competition machinery, otherwise CB750 & Z1. Good point.

It also had a chrome bore! I used Golden Spectro. Smoothe was the word. It didn't smoke much and ran very well.

I remember reading about that Yamaha 4-cylinder machine in 1971, when I was a teenager. It looked fantastic, and the styling is modern even today. In the end Suzuki came up with a more viable solution, and produced the awesome GT750, one of my favourite bikes of all time. I'd sure want to buy one of those, if I can find one in good shape.

Mean. I have a 72 RD350a in those same colours. This would have been twice as amazing of an engine.

What a Collection heaven in bikes gt 380 I'd be happy thanks

i owned 9 of them

My grandpa had a chief my grandma let him keep it in the kitchen

First sports tourer Vincent rapide , First full dress tourer Indian Chief , my 1972 QA50 Honda has a 2 speed gearbox .

"The Krupp Scootuh o' ine een ine een"

You might just have missed the cheapest of all: the 1990s Kawasaki GPZ 1100. Basically a ZZR 1100 but cheaper and lighter, luggage no problem, faired. Quick bike. Rare, not sure if it was a Europe only model, but its way lighter and faster than the GTR. Not shaft driven, very reliable. Incredibly cheap in the UK as a used buy. If you want shaft drive, the Yamaha 900 is unburstable, but down on power vs other tourers.

Not wrong about the 90s what a bike. Had one and it really did like to cruise close to top speed all day long.IIRC they placed well a couple times in the Castrol six hour back in the day

And soo beautiful

Never

The Summer of '72 when I was 8 years old, 2 older kids in the neighborhood had an 8 HP Clinton engine in a minibike (3½ HP stock) from what I think was out of a manhole ventilator ripped off from a construction site where the street 2 blocks from me was being repaired. It had no clutch, (direct drive) no brakes, (compression stalling the engine) no seat, (plywood with heavy gauge plastic dropcloth upholstery stapled to it), and no accelerator (just the throttle plate lever slip-knotted to the top bar. WOT or nothing). A Frank Zappa-looking dude (no proof of he was actually him or not. DAMN IT TO HELL! lol! 🤣)was taking a turn on it as I was riding my bike up to him asking if I could take a turn, too. I was cracking 50 MPH witin 3 blocks up, and back sooner than I had gotten on the damned thing with the wind in my hair 'tho I had no hair sporting a Quo Vadis haircut! lol! 🤣

Wasn’t the triumph adventure first

These videos are simply awesome. Knowledgeable and friendly presentation. Thanks for posting mate.

l owned a gold R100RS in 1979/80. beautiful motorcycle!... it had downforce design built into the fairing forty years ahead of its time...

I still love those Honda ct 70s. Just that design is so good and totally original

It looks awesome 👍

Too bad for you that you don't even like BEEMERS!!!

LOVE THIS BIKE and one WITH THE CANADIAN DESIGNED HANNIGAN FAIRING TOO ...BLOODY HELL...get over MATE !!!!!!!

4.00 -19 size Find the recommended sidecar tires in our shop !

They were not called widow makers years ago

I think some of the bias against those triples came from they didn't fut into any group. In the 1970s, there seemed to be two camps....the two cylinder guys (HD, Triumph, Norton, etc) and the 4 Cylinder riders (Honda 750, Kaw 900, etc). As the two stroke triples were regulated out of existence (I had GT550) 3 cylinder 4 strokes didn't seem to fit in anywhere. The 750 Yamaha triple tried to fill the gap between the 650xs twin and the vMax. If you were poor you rode the hell out of the 650 like I did and if you had more money you got a Max. The 40 year old commuter crowd seemed to be the only ones riding them. The Ducati still had the rep of needing constant tinkering to keep the going (rotary valves). There was no internet so parts for Ducati and the guzzies were not a click away. Even as AMF was trying to kill off Harley you could get parts readily....you did need them. As the British brands were dying out there were still alot of small shops around. Utter reliability wasn't as important as it is today. Shy of tearing the engine apart could do most of the wrenching yourself which was a big part of the ritual of the times. Fifty years and pushing 400,000 miles bike miles later this is how I recall it.

There is a 660 tiger also, it has the same engine as my trident.

You left out BMW

Most enjoyable in these woke, politically correct days!

This is awesome!! While I'm familiar with the gun companies I had no idea they had such close ties to motorcycle history. I have an old 303 No. 4MK1 service rifle and I do enjoy running the "Mad Minute" drill. Takes a few times to get used to firing with your middle finger. I really enjoyed this!! Thank you.

Buddy had a CX650 with over 225.000 miles on it. Still ran but man did it smoke. Bought in new in 83 Gave up the Ghost in 2006

Kh400 without take off the cylinders or new exhausts is around 40 PS on rear wheel and close to RD 400. With machining of the cylinders and changing exhausts it's close to kawasaki kz650 with better acceleration. You need some work on the clutch. The gt380 is slower when both are stock. Brakes and handling are okay for me. Only a little work on the fork is needed. If you take care it's durable too!

Great Review Aus!!! Bandit Man here......."BULLETPROOF" Simple as! better Allrounder than the equivalent Honda's in my experience. Better geared and more Torquey engine great for slow end commute type riding my sits perfectly at 40mph at 2k rpm hardly past tick out, great box smooth change when you need it. Brilliant bike. I tried that with Honda CBR and it moaned like hell, rattling on the back. Found it to be more temperamental than my Suzi. Honda still do great bikes no sweat on that. Bandit for me every time! Brilliant bikes. Worse thing Suzuki did in UK was dump the Bandit for the VStrom Monstrosity! Hideous.Bike. Really good review All great bikes. Really interesting. You ride all these bikes yourself instead of all the electronic gadgets. We have all lost the plot. 23k for a BMW? WAW. It still leaves me cold thinking about that. Thanks for the link.

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True Indian motorcycle ended in 1953.

S3 and S3A were better, why didn't you include them? Personal choice eh? 😊

Luv that Trumpy!!

Mmmmmmm,,, very interesting mate.!

I have a 1948 Indian Chief Roadmaster that I have inherited from my Dad. Thanks for the information

The vellocette venom veeline came with a full fairing,the even earlier vincent black knight and prince were fully faired but not a one piece fairing

I had a 350 GTR and it was the smoothest motorcycle I had ever ridden . The whole bike operated with a smoothness throughout its range. It was memorable. It was fast. Only the mighty Kawasaki triple Mach 3 was smoother and faster, by a lot. I had a charcoal beauty.

Excellent! greetings from Argentina

the film is great, i must read the book one day,

Yes.

You forgot about the Yamaha Road Star Warrior. 102CI V TWIN It Had decent power in the stock configuration none of the pitfalls of a Harley-Davidson And they made excellent drag bikes.

This was an awesome video . Both brands are great iconic American classics. This will be forever battle between American cruiser bikes.. i was born in 1977 and didnt get into bikes until mid to late 90s.. i would pick up your local Bike Shopper ( a small newspaper that sold bikes, motorcycle, atv etc) what i notice is that Kawasaki Vulcan drifter paid tribute to the classic style of the indians. If you look at the Vulcan Drifters from 99 to 2005 they look exactly like the indian, with their iconic fenders.... currently now i ride a 2018 indian springfield... what sold me to the indian vs harley.. i felt like i got more bike for my buck with all the standard options. The biggest seller was the color ... metallic jade green and thunder black... love at first sight

The true Widowmakers was the 500 H1 Mark III between 1969-72 I think.

Great Job 👍.

Excellent photos dude thanks

I don't understand how the RS can claim the best designation when the RT is around.

Toim, noin, droiv, moil, hoigher, boik, boi the way, nointy noin. The Strine is shockingly bad.