The Best Retro Motorcycles you can buy for under 10k 

What about Mash?

Because i t. Is un changed since the 60s that l know it is not retro

@@fnglert I'd love to have the Mash Side Force sidecar motorcycle but they are not available here in the USA. They should be and I don't understand why not. EU standards are higher than our requirements so that's not the issue. I guess no one wants to do the work to setup a dealer network and get importation approved. The only competition would be Ural sidecar motorcycles but those are extremely expensive. A new high end Harley Davidson costs less than the cheapest basic no accessories Ural.

Glaring oversight. You are forgiven.

Moto G might be a retro bike, but an awfully dismal one. Had two of these as brand new ones, models 2014 and 2015 (Stone and Special). Both were technical disasters and very unreliable. They left me in trouble far too many times while trying to commute for 75 miles one leg. Nostalgic and beautiful, but unfortunately just waste of money!

Omg you're right! One of the best, most interesting options in those segment. Thanks! Everyone like this comment

@@bartmotorcycle just pin it

Agreed. I considered most of the bikes in this video but settled on a 2018 Guzzi V7 Milano. To me, it still has the feel and character of the early Guzzi twins but is much more user friendly with abs, fuel injection etc.

The moto guzzi v7 is a sexy bike!

Dude it's a British brand.

The original British Royal Enfield company has closed in 1971 You can check out it’s wiki page for more info. The present bikes are being manufactured in India by Royal Enfield (India) which now holds the license to this name.

Lol its a symbol of how the brits dominated your people for centuries. India is the laughing stock of the world. You should give your land to the proud Pakistani

@@GaneshPalraj1991 bike they are selling right now are all indian designed. old british designed bullets are discontinued and are honestly living fossils

@@GaneshPalraj1991 Hate to break the news to you but there's nothing British about the Royal Enfield brand. It's now an Indian company with an Indian CEO and its HQ in India.

Bart even qualified his comment, stating that he didn't care if the range was less.

Gas tanks on many bikes today are sadly all to small.

Totally agree. It’s the guys who could walk to the coffee shop who don’t mind smaller tanks. But if you reason for riding is to go somewhere….id say find a way to have a six gallon tank. I’d gladly give up aesthetics for more range.

Wasn't it underpowered?

Its the same power as the original 1960s W2 . You could also make it brake better with dual discs on the front and a disc on the back. You could also make it handle better with a smaller front wheel. You could water cool it and tune it for power and make it rev out by making the engine over square. But then just buy a modern sports bike. If you want a retro then this bike is a more reliable version of the 1960s/70s twins and has the same feel. @@fjp3305

Thanks for that info! Glad to hear it's such a good bike

@@bartmotorcycle Thank you for posting the reviews and analysis here. It's really interesting and helpful.

It's a year later, are you still happy with it?

@@davidbrayshaw3529 100%. The bike is proving to be incredibly reliable and I could still hardly be happier. Are you in the market?

@@TheInterloafer I'm keeping my eye on the classifieds. I was quite enamoured with the 650 when it first came out, but a newborn and a mortgage pushed it to the back of my mind. Fast forward nearly 25 years and I'm a long way past being an empty nester and the house is paid off. I definitely fall into the category of "returning rider", these days with my last bike being a well used Honda CB 250 that I sold about 15 years ago. I've borrowed bikes here and there to keep my hand in, so to speak, but I'm not kidding myself about either my ability or intentions. As much as I like vintage machines, they're just not for me. A couple of hours yesterday NOT solving the electrical problem on my friend's '73 Guzzi reinforced this. Identifying faults, paying and waiting for parts and crawling around on a cold concrete garage floor installing them just isn't my thing, anymore. I don't particularly like too many of the "modern" offerings and I certainly don't want some 100+ horsepower beast to nurse around at legal speed limits on, down to the shops and on the back roads where I live. The W just makes a lot of sense to me, although I haven't ridden one. I've ridden a couple of the Triumph range and while they're great bikes, they're definitely modern bikes. The 750 Guzzi doesn't quite do it for me. A couple of the Enfields come close but I keep going back to the bike that I yearned for nearly half a lifetime ago. Something to putt around on, something reliable, something with a bit of individuality and something that I don't feel obliged to throw half the bank at in aftermarket accessories. I've thrown around the idea of something like a Goldwing or a Harley. But I'm just not going to use them for their intended purpose and they'll be an out and out PITA for my most like use case. I just want a toy, but a practical one. I keep coming back to the W.

I agree with you on the XS650, I love it!

I just looked up the W1 and I never even knew that that bike existed. Cool looking bike. My dad had a Triumph Daytona 500. Nice bike but totally unreliable.lol. Maybe he should have got one of those.

Yep, I owned British bikes in the 70's and they were definitely trouble to own . I now have a W650 and it IS better . Apparently the Japanese experimented with the first W's and found that 624cc vibrated less than any other with the crank-geometry they used

It's still a buzz factory. Couldn't get rid of it fast enough.

@@30smsuperstrat considering buying it. What do you mean by “buzz factory”?

I want to ride one!

love my 2019 w800 street 😎 picked it up a cpl year ago at a reduced old stock price which was a bonus that swayed me away from the re intercepter 😊

Isn't it underpowered?

@@fjp3305 maybe due to the emission controls ? but they can be easily modified. but unless your on the race track how much power do you really need ? i mean i ride a honda supercub for work and that keeps up with traffic 🤣

@@FRANK-cents I like to feel the power and the speed, but with so many radars now is not that possible. I ride a scooter 300 in the city, is the best for the city, I don't more.

Is it a pretty quiet bike?

@@bartmotorcycle Not really quiet, I have aftermarket exhausts on it though, that was on when I bought it. Not sure how it sound stock.

Some years back a local multi line dealer had a brand new leftover W-650 on the floor for $1995.00 And like a FOOL, I passed it by!

@@rickhibdon11 Oh man, too bad, that would have been a great deal. Most that sell around her (Sweden) goes for at least $5000, and they are not in new condition.😁

@@rickhibdon11 I bought mine for $2200 in 2020

You stole it!

That's what you get for living in Washington 😂

Do it! You won't regret it

@@bartmotorcycle actually want to get a royal enfield now. I’ve just been search for a bike all day long. The royal enfield meteor fire ball yellow will be my first bike.

I looked her up just after i read your post. Yes she's beautiful. So glad to see the founders of Janus cared to hark back to the pioneering days of motorcycling and produced a modern version that on looks could have traded places with any of the originals. And she's quite a flyer, judging by the videos. And of course, Leno fell in love with her. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

I had one. Way underpowered just like my Royal Enfield Himalayan with the 400cc engine and not a very comfortable ride either.

I just Googled it. Really handsome.

I had 2 SR500 Yamahas. low power, slow acceleration, poor handling, lousy ride----but wonderful bikes and fun to ride

I hope Yamaha updates the SR and makes it competitive with other bikes like the RE 650.

As a old motorcycle mechanic, I remember that too.

Or those clocks 🤔

@@kevindarkstar The clocks have the same sweep as the original Gold Star had. Might take a bit of getting used to though.

@Alfred Wedmore Hi. I went to 'Motorcycle Live; today, and saw it. . Sat on it as well. I have to say, it looks better when you see it. Te radiator isn't too bad, when you see it 'live' as it were.

@Alfred Wedmore ….Rotax, just a great engine builder….

You need look at the 1965 Bonneville

@@robertveith2255 Exactly that's what I I have mentioned ...next to vintage triumph Bonneville and norton commando 750s...presently current generation under production I guess w800 is the best looking engine.

you probably look like donkey kong from Mario kart lol

@@thatpete Quite possibly ;)

I think RE recently fixed those issues