mark72

thats a great way to see it ....but just say for arguments sake mate my bike was on the bike of the month ......all if any can read about are a few mods that has been done this year......the bike has been evolving since it was 4 years old when i got it .....so you only see the mods that have been done since i joined the forum.......
its a hard one to say reading the history of the bikes
but i dont expect to win .....as they are some really nice bikes about

oh and i voted for ray for the bike of the year .....if you want to know why ....have a read of the thread

oldninjadude

I think Ray would win Biker/Motorcyclist of the year hands down.
Id vote for em every time. (Ray is the real F-ing deal)

EvilTwin

How about this: One 6OTY winner, but runner up recognition for the bike of the opposite category with the most votes. So if a track bike wins it, runner up goes to the highest voted street bike, and vice versa.

bmbinder

That sums it up nicely, race bikes are all business and just look slick, but I can really appreciate all the custom work that goes into a street ride.

MistressOfMayhem

Ahhh the old 6OTM issue. I remember many years ago the last time this came around. The issue was that it became a contest in photography skills and not actual bike merit.

You could have a standard, nothing special zx6r and if you ran it through photoshop a few times, all of a sudden it became the most baddest ass bike to ever grace pavement. I mean... that's still kinda the case. Bikes are considered on the basis of many ridiculous nominations (No offense but remember when Kawigirl (not her bike) got nominated because she had a sexy voice?).

The point is that people are going to vote based on their personal biases. If we change the contest to accommodate "types" of bike then essentially we are stepping onto a slippery slope and the next thing you know we will have 9 different categories, some probably completely unrelated to motorcycles.

This place is more of a social networking site than anything these days so it only makes sense that people are going to want to alter the forum to reflect their values and biases as motorcyclists.

DejaVu

What if your bike does both...does that mean i can enter it in both catogories in the same month...IE a pic in street trim and a pic in track trim....

I just think people should stop whinging....If you dont want a track bike to win....dont vote for it....and to be honest, usually street bikes are in better condition anyway, alot of track hacks get droped and repaired multiple times...

greddytc05

I say keep it the way it is. Money doesn't matter neither does track or street. Hell I've got a good bit of money in my bike but most people look at it and can't tell. At the same time it also has 20,000 miles on it showing that it's not garage or trailer bitch. I rode her from Hagerstown, Md to New Bern, North Carolina and back in a single weekend. It's almost a 500 mile trip one way. So what category would that get put into, Vote for bikes that are garage kept and clean but still ridden daily with a good bit of money yet still doesn't look it?

Not trying to brag or put anyone down, just saying that when you start trying to break things down for voting you'll end up with 50 different ways of voting and only 3 bikes in each catagory.

raized1199

...just to jump to the end and post
Yes, there should be two.








...end of line.

1NastyZ

Couldn't have said that better myself. But, to add my personal spin to it...

The BIKE is what matters, or is supposed to in this contest... The backstory has almost NO bearing. If you saw some of these bikes on the street and didn't know the person behind them, you wouldn't look twice.

Street bike, Race bike, whatever. At what point do we stop drawing lines?
Colors? Naked? Race? Street? Street/strip? Stretched?
It just all seems superfluous to me.

ZXRen

This is just a suggestion, but what if you removed names from the poll option? Instead, call it bike #1, #2, #3, etc and vote based on that.That might help the bias issue/favored personalities thing. obviously some people will recognize some members bikes, but its a start i guess.

kawasakifreak77

Just like my street bikes! I suppose the one good thing is, in motorcycle hell, I can get away with just about anything.

Thank you! & Volfan's bike does look badass (even with fairings)

Thanks man. Now I just have to be FASTER!

To everyone.

The regulars / vets here know this but I wanted to make sure & reiterate this. Bonnie is no longer mine. I sold her almost half a year ago now.

BUT!

Her legend will live on, even on what's left of our beloved forum here. She is owned by another forum member, who I sincerely feel is just as passionate about continuing her evolution as a weapon, not a showpiece, as I was.

That was honestly the deciding factor in letting her go. I couldn't just let her go to some zit covered kid, fuck no. Seeing the mile wide shit eating grin on my buddie's face first time I let him take her out was awesome. I knew at that point, he'd do everything he could to take care of her & then it was okay to move on. We had a good run, it was beyond epic & it ended sweetly.

It still baffles me I won anything with her. The last thing I ever worried about was cosmetics & that's what the 6OTM revolves around.

Anyways.

She's getting wrenched on at this very moment. Tweaked & built & loved on as I would have, creating a masterpiece of insanity. Crafted only to do what a motorcycle is intended to do & do it exceptionally efficiently.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to Fiona.

-Outlaw.

NuggetNik

I voted for having two bikes... however after reading the whole thrread... maby there should only be 1 6OTY... lol

TxBornSooner

Sick 6 is a sick 6 Track street doesn't matter to me. I mean I would put Sef's up against any bike I have seen track or street.