I found this image in my clippings file and thought I would share it...it is my pinnacle NSR model and variant.
The Repsol MC28 comes a very close 2nd, (or even sometimes 1st depending on my mood)...
I love the Repsol colours, always have . Mc21 for me because as Andy says, the tank and seat unit shape.
As a youth it was the mc21 that was my dream bike.....5 years later I ended up with an Rgv250!
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I think Zeus and Andy have picked up on something about the angular design, it definitely was the design language of the time.
The first twin light 'blade and 916 were fairly angular...I suppose as a "faster" sleeker looking design after all those late 80's square, slab sided wardrobes!
I like the sculpted rounded shapes (and the lower screen) found on the MC28, which particularly pick up on the Rothmans lines around the seat unit. It looked just like the GP bikes of the day, epic! And the single sided swingarm is genius, even if the performance gain was negligible.
MC28 is my favourite shape fairing, but as for colours I can’t decide. Used to Rothmans, owned 2x 28 and 1x21 versions in the past, but when you see the Repsol colours in the flesh, especially in the sunshine it looks stunning.
Also really like the R colours, SE colours including the later tracksuit purple versions.
Max wrote:
I like the sculpted rounded shapes (and the lower screen) found on the MC28, which particularly pick up on the Rothmans lines around the seat unit. It looked just like the GP bikes of the day, epic! And the single sided swingarm is genius, even if the performance gain was negligible.
The MC21 looked like the NSR250...
long before the MC28 tried to look like the NSR500...
...which ironically was a 1992 (MC21 era) model with a Gull-Arm!
The MC28 should've been styled after Okada's 1993 NSR250...
...which is unquestionably beautiful, even to a Gull-Arm fan!
The Pro-Arm is a bone of contention. It was designed purely as an endurance part. In 1986 it was a ground-breaking and massive performance gain in 8hr World Endurance and at the TT. For anything else, even in GP, it's probably nothing more than an styling/licensing thing with Elf.
Every successive release was increasingly braced, be it on an RC30, an RVF, or NSR, culminating on a massive swingarm on the factory NSR500V...
...that I am sure would've been better off with a conventional swingarm. They retained the Pro-Arm to overtly distinguish the V-twin from the V4. By 1994 it was purely cosmetic for the MC28. [Both TSR and Bakker racing produced NSR500V chassis with conventional swingarms.]
In 1999 Kato was already back on an NSR250 with a conventional swingarm...
...and in the worst colours to ever grace any NSR!
The factory RVFs even went to a conventional swingarm in the final year of World Superhype.
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The final TT-F3 spec is unquestionably the finest of them all. However, it could still be better. But as a complete and overall package, and from a technical standpoint, it's the MC21.
In fairness though, whichever NSR you choose, it's the best. _________________ Andy.
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For me, the shape of that Campsa nsr, beats them all hands down, this being the reason why I prefer the Mc21, especially with the standard shape bodywork, adding tyga stuff, although nice, to me completely spoils them, and makes them look too modern, also another reason why I like the look of my 92 NF5, but iam envious of that SPL s/arm on the Campsa bike. _________________ Proud Father of , 05 ktm 400exc supermoto 2018 honda crf rx supermoto
yes i saw it max,i should have left my 2 pentax sp's in the garage,worth stupid money now but technically 1 is still there but no where near standard pentax,but has done nowt for years other 1 went for a pram and nappies _________________ ive seen more tarts than mr kipling
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but technically 1 is still there but no where near standard pentax,but has done nowt for years