Ok, here’s the place for innovative bike/vehicle thinking that has been around but fallen off the face of the planet. It can be fun or serious; useful or dangerous etc… but let’s see what you’d like to bring back!
I’ll start… I think these are car tyres, but I could see myself climbing walls with them on me Yam!
On a similar vein…
One of the guys we used to occasionally ride with back in the 80’s / early 90’s used to have a problem with remembering accessory company names.
His classic ones were like this…
A bike with a Dunstall exhaust> “cor it’s got a Dunstable exhaust on it”
A Rickman Fairing> “ it’s got a Rickmansworth fairing”
A Motad n-eta exhaust> “ it’s got a Neatad fitted to it”
If a bike had a combination of the above we used to collapse on the floor when he started to explain the bike…
Oh happy days…!
Sounds a bit like my good wife. She always remembers the first letter of the correct word but comes out with some hilarious alternatives. She also has her own terms for car parts and accessories. My favourite is her name for “main beam” which she calls “sparklers”.
Originally designed for guys with two girlfriends, but strangely never really took off.
The man that used to go round the country roads with a spade cleaning up the verges. Added a good couple of foot to the width of the roads. Been a long time since I seen him
The humble giant road atlas that everyone had in their car for route planning. Almost always with the crucial page missing / defaced…
On a more serious note, please bring back lightness. What was Triumph’s most powerful bike in the mid-sixties? The T120R Bonneville, perhaps? The dry weight was 166 kg/363 lbs. A Kawa Ninja 250 weighs more.
Why I love the street over the speed triple. It has a dry weight in the 160’s! Lightness makes everything better 
I remember those on sale in Barton Motors in Bath.
Check, still got them in all the cars…and intact.
Bring this back! I’d take it as a daily driver
