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18 Feb 2010 | Here’s your chance to tell us what made your choice the standout.

Five fantastic bikes. All very influential. How do you pick a winner?
Do you go for one of the early trailblazing in-line fours that set the bike industry on its ear?

Or one of the ultra high-performance fours that ultimately evolved?
Perhaps the iconic Ducati for its beyond-sexy looks and its stirring V-twin engine.


You’ve made your choice. Now tell us why. Your comments might make it into our poll feature in Motorcycle Trader magazine. So make sure you include your name.

Go for it!
COMMENTS (13)
Comment by Unknown
posted 1 year ago
RG500
if you need to have it explained you haven't ridden one.
Comment by Unknown
posted 1 year ago
I think the best bikes are Harley Davidsons . Nothing can compete. They are so awesome! Going on long trips are so fun and they're easy to ride and very comfortable.
Comment by Unknown
posted 1 year ago
Suzuki TL1000R, Katana, RG500, RGV250. Kawasaki GPZ900R, ZX9R, Z1000, Versys. Honda CB1100XX Blackbird, CB1300S. Harley Davidson XR1200. KTM SM990T. Triumph T'bird 1600, Tiger 1050. Yamaha MT01, Road Warrior 1700. I've owned some of these bikes and some I haven't, the ones I haven't owned I haven't ridden but have listed them because of their coolness or all round capability. I've owned and ridden a lot more bikes than I have listed. The modern sport bike evolved for me with the Z900 like in the movie 'Stone'.
Comment by Unknown
posted 1 year ago
As an all around road bike, the Blackbird.As a sports bike the Ducati 998R.
Comment by Unknown
posted 1 year ago
Well it has to be the Honda 750. They were the first in with the bike that changed it all. They transformed us from accepting leaky unreliable bikes from the other countries to Japanese bikes that were smooth, powerfull and everything worked on, plus they held their oil.
At the time we didn't want to associate machines from the land of the rising sun with quality, but this bike forced us to admit it.
I remember climbing off my twitchy XS650 onto my brothers first model CB750 and thinking why didn't I buy one of these.
Comment by Unknown
posted 1 year ago
Well I still remember standing in awe of the first Honda 750 I saw (envious that a mate had bought the first one in our state) and the grin that spread from ear to ear on my first ride of a Z1 Kwaka, 82 horsepwer and all. But it's the 916 for me. It brought form and function together in a package that was light, incredibly powerful, handled like it was on rails, achingly beautiful and with enough passion built in from it's Italian heritage to make it a hands down winner.
Comment by Unknown
posted 1 year ago
The CB750 was truly revolutionary. Before that, British twins ruled in Australia - boy did people trade them in fast after that. Here was smoothness, sophistication and power. I couldn't believe the experience of my 1969 test ride - watching the needle on that big tacho climb as the bike's turbine power rumbled through those four pipes. It was surreal. It looked good, felt good and yet had a ton of chunky character that lives on. No wonder it's a classic. Make mine red.

Kristo, Queanbeyan.
Comment by Unknown
posted 1 year ago
From this list, I had to choose the fireblade. The emphasis on weight and handling over unlimited power changed the game. Still, isn't that what the GSXR750 was for?
Comment by Unknown
posted 1 year ago
From this list, the 916 is the standout for me but the real bike of the modern era for everyday riders who couldn't afford a stable was the VFR750FL. There was nothing this machine couldn't do on a bitumen surface and it wasn't half bad on a dirt road either - try that on your 916! BTW Mr Honda, your new so called VFR is a BMW cloned abortion. Greg C.
Comment by Unknown
posted 1 year ago
The Ri as it was the total package, handling power good looks and price with reasonable servicing costs.
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Comment by Unknown
posted 1 year ago
I havn't voted because the GSXR 750/1100 are for my opinion the ones that changed everything for the benifit of the masses. And for that matter what about the Katana? These are curious omissions from your list. The CBR I think was less iconic than the RC30 and really was just an evolution of what the Big Four were already doing.
Comment by Unknown
posted 1 year ago
I agree that the 916 has spawned a lineage of sports bikes without paralell in racing success. However, you have left off the list a bike which I believe (and I'm sure many other riders do too) encompasses not only phenomenal racing results but is also a practical road bike. The GSXR. I unashamedly admit bias as the owner of an original 1986 slabside 1100. The gixxer is able to transport me in relative comfort for several hundred kilometres without inflicting carpal tunnel syndrome as the 916 and its descendants do. I do find the omission of this landmark series puzzling as the 1985 GSXR 750 completely changed the superbike as an affordable, reliable and practical form of transport. PK in Brizbogan
Comment by Unknown
posted 1 year ago
The ducati 916 came out when I was barely out of my teens.The design of the bike with its flowing lines and single sided swingarm with underslung exhausts demanded attention.It was a bike that was marketed to all(who would not want one?) yet could only be afforded at the time by a few lucky well heeled bike riders, as the price tag made me despair!How was I to afford one?I still remember walking down Elizabeth st Melbourne and seeing one parked outside on the sidewalk. I stopped gawked and drooled for at least 10 minutes taking in every loving detail of the bike hoping that one day I could afford such a machine.Sixteen years later I have the said machine.One ducati 97 strada model 916.A beutiful example, unmolestered and standard since new.Do I dare take a new modern bike for a test ride and spoil my long awaited dream.In short no.I dare not.Such a simple task could ruin my long awaited journey in discovering what every magazine and bike journo raved about 16 years ago!I am blissfully trapped in my ignorance that any other modern day bike could be better.I can not test ride another bike for fear this would ,dare I say it ,but ruin all my value and my own validation of the bike for the want of a newer better handling modern bike.(are they that much better???...)So aside from my own love affair with the 916 ,other reasons to vote this bike is its influence on modern design,Troy Corsers Phillip Island Lap record which stood for some time,and its own engineered abillity to withstand competitors for some years.The latter being the sole reason for ducati emerging out of biking curiousity into a main stream player ,all on the back of a single motorcycle.Yes I am a tragic,but isnt that what love is all about? The wood

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