I bought a "retro bike" because I wanted a motorcycle that looks like a motorcycle and not a transformer.

@juliustorre3746

4 жыл бұрын

Yup even me... i sold my Z1000 for Super Four CB1300

"The only way to acquire experience is to strike a deal with time" - A Great Man.

@MisterSal9895

5 жыл бұрын

That quote hit home. Gave me the goosebumps.

@kendotek9414

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, that stood out to me as well. Its hearing things like that which made me sub.

Parts availability - The issue you are veeeeeeeeeeeeery familiar with when you own a 30+ year old bike. "I need this cheap simple plastic bushing." $90 each. "what the fu...."

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

Tell me about it...

@johnmeurer4780

5 жыл бұрын

Old Honda parts are cheap

@OddBallPerformance

5 жыл бұрын

@@johnmeurer4780 that REALLY depends on the bike and the part

@johnmeurer4780

5 жыл бұрын

@@OddBallPerformance from my experience if it's made after 1970 than its pretty readily available. But alot of parts for my cl305 1966 don't exist on the internet

@JohnBehring

5 жыл бұрын

YES! So true, but hopefully 3D printers will help us solve some of these issues we run up against with old bikes. : )

wassaappp dude. i appreciate that you have been posting videos frequently. thanks dude i have not pressed the notification bell but i still get notifications from most of the youtubers that i have subscribed.

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for acknowledging the effort lol. No worries, just check back on Monday and Thursday

I am super into the neo cafe aesthetic. Classic lines with LED lights.

Great video and awesome editing as usual. As a 44 year old who spent his childhood in Europe I can definitely appreciate these bikes. When I was twelve I was riding around on my grandfather's 250cc beater that looked a lot like a Royal Enfield Bullet. Now when I see Royal Enfield's new models I'm taken back there. I think that as we age we try to recapture those days of infinite promise and almost no responsibility, and if a bike helps you do that, all the better. Keep on posting, I really enjoy your stuff.

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

Well said man.

Great video, one of the most underrated moto channels on youtube. Long live the classic bikes.

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

🤟🏾😎🤟🏾

Good video. I'm 67 years old and have a couple of modern cruisers (V-Twin drive shaft liquid cooled), a sport bike and an old school kick start only. I gave the sport bike and one of the cruisers to my son because these days I find myself having more fun on the kick start only bike (Yammie SR400) while still having a cruiser for longer rides. I'm in the process of making the SR400 a cafe racer.

@PortCharmers

5 жыл бұрын

Hello Fellow-SR-rider. I'm in the process of restoring mine for the second time.

Regardless of what anyone else says the way you delivered this video was amazing.

That was a pretty coherent and well worded and thought out video...Nice job!

Your content and production quality is fantastic, been watching since almost the start and gotta say you are killing it 👍

Great update. Loads of progress made! Must've been scary hacking so much off the wiring loom but so rewarding to find you've got it exactly right. This long episode must've taken ages to put together. I really enjoyed it. Looking forward to the next one 👍🙌

Big compliment to this video again. Your voice-over and edit is really great. So clean and great timing on everything. Please keep on doing this because you're gonna be (or at least should be) a huge succes. It's just a matter of time that people (& KZread) start to pick it up big time. 👌👏

@williamwintemberg

5 жыл бұрын

A True Artist with many skills! I absolutely agree with you!

Loving the frequent uploads. These types of vids are my favorite. After the k100 build of course. Keep it up

Love the new retro bike scene, there's some cracking looking bikes right there. Great video 👍

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

You are rapidly becoming my favorite bike channel. Keep at this. I think you have an amazing career in film making coming. Just great stuff.

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Another great video! You nailed the topic. And thanks for not swearing. I can show this video to my bike mad daughter. Cheers mate.

Another great one. You nailed it on the head, on all fronts. It doesn't escape me that the manufacturers are pushing nostalgia at the very same time their top-tier sport bikes are getting ridiculously - I mean RIDICULOUSLY - advanced and complicated. It's a shortcut to simplicity, without all the wrenching. For those of us who remember the original machines, and for those of us who don't...

Only patreon I’ve ever signed up for. Keep up the good content. Educational and entertaining

A genuine pleasure to listen to from the beginning to the end. Subscribed, I want more!

Love your choice of background music... Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the flowers... Love the video, love your perspective, I'm currently looking at a W800.

Came to your channel for the K100 videos (about to start my own K100 build) but am loving all your other videos too! Love your style, keep it up. ✋🏻 from across the pond.

Love these videos 👌keep em coming 🏍️

This is honestly one of my favorite videos, thanks man 💯

nice video! and very well thought out and eloquently put.

Keep up the good work. I'm glad I found you in this jungle we call life

Thanks for the vid, can’t wait to see the new bike. I love my 79 kz650. Got two other projects still waiting to finish!

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you're gonna be busy this summer!

Illestrator notifications make my day!

Dude I can tell you truly are passionate from your fondness of these old bikes I had no idea you liked, I’ve been on the opposite swing and am into sport bikes than classics like I grew up with.

Nicely done video, thanks!

Really like your content mate, subbed!

Keep up the great content man! I noticed that my knowledge started to expand about bikes as well once I started to get exposed to more bike cultures outside of the hood as well. Very educational video as usual my guy.

I am one of those that brought a retro style motorcycle (Ducati Scrambler Cafe Racer). I love it now I havent seen anyone with my bike riding around plus on the forms I see a lot of us have change our bikes to fit our style or styling. Which is really cool

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah these bikes have very strong aftermarkets because they're so non specialized

Love these style of videos

You have a very insightful take on culture and design. Good job 👍

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks

I appreciate the honesty and fair stance on this! You're a real one

I don't know who you are but that was an absolutely awesome synopsis of this new genre of motorcycles! Cudo to you and your insightful analysis of the industry. Good luck with your channel

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for checking it out!

Great content, well written and beautifully presented....🇦🇺👌

What a great presentation. As someone who has been craving one of the old 80's bikes I used own and not really sure why, or the recent Café Racer fad that I myself found myself wanting to bulid, and I'm in my 50's.You pretty much nailed it when you said the young want retro bikes to experience a time they never lived through and the old want retro bikes to return to a time they experienced

Lmao the Intro.... we've been waiting for this ... I had a feeling it was coming ... (CAFE RACERS) been looking into a old cheap moto for a cafe racer style bike build myself... Another Video Crushed.. well done..PeAse

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching as always!

Welcome to the brotherhood man! It’s amazing to hear you say what only motorcyclists get to know... an appreciation for bikes... all bikes.

Seeing that rebel makes me almost want to get one myself and do it up nice. Looked sick!

loving the vids bro 💙

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

Love ya!

@j0332

5 жыл бұрын

- The illestrator - 💙💙💙

Buying a retro style bike is ok, but there's no better feeling than bringing new life into something that's actually old and the satisfaction of knowing you gave it better life and also the skills it take to maintain said bike.

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

That's a fact

Glad I came across this video. Excellent take on the retro craze

Great content bro. Subbed!

Love the vids keep it up and never forget stay safe 😉💙

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

Likewise, thanks for watching

back on the grind man fair play

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

You already know 🤟🏾

Great vid. Cheers from West PA.

Solid video. Nice work.

Man...thank you for posting. Long life to you.

Great video, but the one I am waiting for is of you finishing your project!

You're quickly becoming my favourite moto channel because of your editing style and clever commentary. I'm a dual sport & adventure rider with almost no interest in road bikes but I'm loving your thoughts on bike culture and wrenching. Keep it up man!

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the praise!

Solid video man! Respect

great video, keep it up!

Another brilliant video!!!

I think you are a bit of an old soul, I really enjoy your videos. Keep up the great content, and thanks.

Yo these are some of my favorite videos bro. Good deal

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

🤟🏾😎

I have been on bikes since the late 60's. I watched the Universal Euro Bikes get beat down by the Universal Japanese Bikes. While Harley Davidson stayed Harley. I remember the early Sport Bikes well all the way to the present. But having said all that I couldn't have put it all together the way or anything near what you have. This is one of many Slam Dunk videos you have put out! As usual you got it beyond right! Thanks!

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that from someone with experience. Thanks.

Awesome video man

I watch Illestrator more than any other bike channel these days (now that Zach and Ari are gone ). You rock man!

Damn good videos dude!!!

An opinion piece with substance AND value?? Thank you for sharing your perspective man.

You have pictures of Guzzi's but you didn't mention them at all I love my v7 racer

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

*awaits punch*

I just bought a Royal Enfield Ingerceptor 650 and DEARLY LOVE IT

Great video man!

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

Long ass comment incoming - Fucking love this video topic illest. I own a RE Bullet, a 790 Bonneville and a 1050 Speed Triple that you told me I should get (glad that bike stuck with you, never looked back) and, having been into the retro scene for 7 years, am getting kinda sick of geezers asking me about my "beautifully restored classic" bikes. I've owned all sorts of bikes (CBX250, R65LS, GS500) but I bought into the retro scene purely because I wanted a reliable commuter bike that was made out of actual metal that you can access the engine and bash back into shape when it goes down. I think there's a distinction to be made between neo-retro and retro bikes, in regards to liquid cooling, LCD displays and LED lighting, and I've come to appreciate the Japanese neo-retro (CB1000R, Z900RS) so much more than the European retro (Bonneville, Guzzi V7) just because of the function these bikes perform, without the pretense. When the new Speed Twin was announced I almost creamed my jeans because it was an example of Triumph embracing the fact that the 60s are the past. No more "air-oil cooled" engines with fake carburetors or heavy ass inner-tube wire spoke wheels, just a huge parallel twin with the power to get shit done and the metal surrounding it to get that shit around a corner. I never viewed the Speed Triple as a retro bike before you mentioned it, but when I was shopping for one I intentionally sought out the pre-2010 model with the round headlights and lack of rider aids because that's what the motorcycling experience is, just two wheels and an engine. I thought I was stepping outside of my box when I bought it but you made me clearly see that what I always wanted was that nostalgic experience of a 90s streetfighter that I wasn't around to experience. I guess I want the best of every world and that's too much to ask, but honestly I just appreciate bikes when they are what they look like. I love my Enfield because even though it falls apart after every time I take it touring it's lived through 3 crashes. I love my Bonneville because it's a slow but reliable carbie bike that hops curbs and goes offroad and I love my S3 because it's a brutally fast EFI liquid cooled bike that looks like it. Definitely food for thought man. I loved watching you ride that Vulcan in your previous vid because, for such an unassuming Japanese middleweight cruiser, that thing looked like a hell of a lot of fun in NY traffic. Thanks for the upload man, as always looking forward to the next one 😉

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

REALLY long comment lmao, But I welcome these. I read through it and yes there's absolutely a distinction between retro and neo retro but I used them interchangeably because really I mean both at all times. You could even argue that all neo retro bikes are retro but not all retro bikes are neo retro. As far as the triple goes. MY FEELINGS EXACTLY! Honestly I have zero interest in post 2010 speed triples as they look like a generic European naked bike whereas the 2005 to 2010 actually LOOKS custom from the factory... Maybe I'll buy one eventually guess we'll see. Thanks for the comment.

@TheVestibulian

5 жыл бұрын

@@Theillestrator1050 Great insight man, love hearing your views on the industry. I hope one day you get to own a triple and spend some time with it, though I reckon your FZ1 does it all and more. Thanks for taking the time to read and reply bro, you're a legend youtuber 👍👍

Interesting video. I'm going to have a chance to get a 2005 Triumph running again. I'm looking forward to riding again.

Good vid. Well done. I ride a '99 Bandit 1200S. It was marketed as retro style when new.

About a month ago I bought a brand new 2022 cb300r, for exactly the reason of reliability. I *can* fix a bike. I have the tools and the skills, but I just dont have the space, or the time to fix up a bike regularly. I got a good deal on the cb300r, and it has served me amazingly so far. I've taken it cross country just over a week into riding for the first time. Its dead reliable, and it has the looks I appreciate, and is a good platform for me to make it into something my own.

I would love to one day fix up an old bike, but yea I want the reliability of a new bike first. But goddamn that CB650R is sexy

Usually I prefer gritty unedited videos, over scripted and polished ones, due to the lack of personality and the forced performance that most of them give; but I must say that your videos check every box for me. They evoke professionalism, while also providing an entertaining environment. Your storytelling and oratory abilities can take the audience on an experience that is formatted, yet personal, and the delivery of profound statements is on point. It would be an understatement to say that you have found your calling. Keep up the excellent work man, I know you'll make it big.✊

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

I'm glad these have appealed to you. Thanks for the praise and thanks for watching

Best neo retro discussion to date. Very positive and accurate.

Awesome video.

That’s the way to go ! New one but not soulless, while you work at slow pace on something unique ✊🏻

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

I like the way you put that!

so the question is: (when) will this development occur in cars?

@rastamoto

5 жыл бұрын

Benjamin Buljevic dodge

@benjaminbuljevic7977

5 жыл бұрын

@@rastamoto dodge is nothing more than a joke

@Nordspets

5 жыл бұрын

9:06

@Staghound

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think it will. as cool as having an original body mustang or mk4 supra or (insert your favourite vintage car) with modern underpinnings, the problem comes down to modern regulations (Pedestrian crash safety, airbags, etc) which is what has made modern cars "fat". there isn't really a way you can get round these safety laws. motorcycles are much easier as the only safety improvement they've mandated are Helmets (which is clothing essentially) and optional ABS/Traction control which is small and can be hidden within the bike and also isn't a legal requirement. I just think motorcycles have also lent themselves to being custom since the beginning. think about how you can completely reweld a motorcycle frame to change the style of bike entirely. there's basically no one cutting up car frames and bodies to reweld them into new shapes.

@alishalchi1260

5 жыл бұрын

The new Honda electric car looks like an old Civic

New Yorker, bikers, and does it own work, my Nigga keep it up. The videos and editing lit my man. I was weary of Craiglist but it may be the spot

Just subbed. Love your shit and it’s great seeing a NY rider. Much Love from CA fam

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for subscribing!

@Death_Sweet

5 жыл бұрын

- The illestrator - right now I’m binging all your motovlogs, so entertaining

Thumbs up. I've had all kinds of bikes over 20 years, from Japanese vintage to Italian superbike. The one thing I did not know before I got into bikes was just how much I would learn about mechanics, fabrication etc. and how much I would come to enjoy working on bikes. I have a restored 76 CB750K but I'd buy a retro like the Z900RS today if I had room in my wallet and garage.

You are very articulate and eloquently spoken, with a slight accent (my guess would be somewhere on the east coast) Great video!

Lol just bought a Cb500f. I plan to turn it into a rally Raid bike or scrambler. Your probably the most informed motovlogger out there bro. Keep it up

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks fam

It all started from ducati sport classic more then 10 years ago. And sport classic is still the best looking retro-ish bike for me. And its air cooled with no abs or other modern nonsence

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

Right? Alot of people run those bikes out here. Beautiful bike and it looks properly old....when I realized it as from the 2000's I was floored

Hey there, its this "retro wave" that is making me think about getting my first bike. I have my eyes on a Royal Enfield Super Meteor 650. Yes, that old school classic look is attractive to me.

I just got the xsr700 after not riding for 20+ years and I'm in love. "It's about the character of the bike". Great quote.

Great video! You covered all the ground. I’m rebuilding a classic, due to financial means it will take a year and a half to finish. I’ll have a SOHC when finished.

I like your point of view.

I love scramblers this video is spot on man loved it so mutch keep it up maybe talk more abaut this kind off stuff i mean indeed everboddy loves the caferacer and scrambler those give you a feeling you will never fotget ❤

Good job bro

To my way of thinking, the best way to understand “retro” motorcycles is to understand the pondering of Lev Vygotsky, who stressed the importance that culture plays on our perception of reality. If a culture holds the past as an imperative of what the future looks like, the present must replicate - and build upon- past products. We can’t move into the future until we say goodbye (or honor) the past. We can’t know what “next” looks like until we have some sense of the sum of what we know now.

Retro bikes are my favourite, and I wish this trend went into cars too. Would love to see more modern cars made like in the 80's and 90's

Bike ownership is diffidently an thirst that you can never quench. I currently own a 19 Honda Rebel 500 which I love. However I find myself wanting every type of bike out there now. A duel sport is probably next on the list followed by a classic Triumph Bonny after that. Non bikers often ask."what's the wave all about" you soon learn that the "wave" is not only a greeting but a shared acknowledgment of the addiction that runs through both riders veins. The phrase that motorcycling is a life style may sound cliche, but that's the simplest way to express what every rider feels. Wither it's the smells from a restaurant, or a country field to the temperature changes running down a valley that only reminds you of your childhood days on a bicycle and reminding you that your truly alive. People will often site the inherent risks of motorcycling but the real irony is with the sedentary life styles the majority live, with the spending time behind screens or in a cubical, getting out and riding and staying active, motorcycling can actually make you live longer.

"Don't tell anybody I said that." Fell on the floor. Good stuff

@Theillestrator1050

5 жыл бұрын

😂 I don't want any trouble with the FZ guys

No love for the z900rs? Your old dream bike, is my bike :D, I highly recommend the 03-06 ZX6R they are fantastic. I've put over 30,000 miles on mine. Here's to hoping Kawi makes a z636rs to compete with the CB650R.

The retro style is popular because guys my age (50) Have an affection for machines from the era we grew up in. Fuel injection and better suspension is the main difference of technology. I currently have a cb900c restoring it to road worthy status.

Bro, have you not checked out the Kawasaki Z900R retro?

I have been riding over 50 years. With emissions and fuel mileage figured into designs, many motorcycles and cars would look fairly similar. With a retro car, it is easily recognizable. In fact so many cars look alike that I search for the emblem. Anyway, I grew up with motorcycles engines exposed to the world. I love seeing the engine. Just think how tough it is making where exterior and interior are exposed at the same time. Tough engineering to make both look great. I own a 2018 Super Duke 1290r. The only engine that has BOTH high torque and horsepower with a completely exposed motor with all the safety assist features for just in case I am distracted.

I've had the pleasure of riding quite a few of these, a wonderful time for riding 😎

I bought a 2009 Speed Triple. I always wanted one and I watched your video on those ones vs the new ones. All I can say is DO IT! I’ve been riding for 12 years and I’ve yet to ride a better all round street bike. The torque will shock you.

As a self proclaimed "Scrub" (I like your honesty) I would love to have a beer and a bull session with you, well done and keep up the good work...

Very nice op-ed but why did you forget the ZRX or GB? Some of the first of the retro class. :)