Where are the singles?

I've been looking to find a big single for my next ride and singles are pretty much limited to dirt bikes these days. I haven't seen any out there any longer, gone are the days of big velocettes, and goldstars. I would like to keep it as simple as possible with air/oil cooling, and as you can see in my tag line I already own a DR650, so as for road thumpers what are my choices for 650cc and bigger?

Suzuki S40 is one.

How about an older bike?
GB500 Tourist Trophy
Aprilia Sumo
BMW Xmoto

Ditto! The Suzuki Savage is a nice little cruiser.

http://www.rycamotors.com/

I saw that in cycleword a couple of months back, that motor is really great looking to bad the bike isn't. Some subtle changes would make it look a lot better, I'll have to keep my open for a good used one for sure. Does anyone know what carb comes on the bike, mechanical of cv carb?

Royal Enfield Bullet 500

Aprilia Pegaso was a nice bike, and there might be the odd new one lurking at a dealers. The BMW G650 uses a variation of that Rotax engine, although BMW are migrating the 650s to their parallel twin motor.

Nvm

My Dad had a Sprint.

Man he hated that bike.........

Don't forget about the Yamaha SR500 and the SRX600.

There are rumors of Triumph coming out with a single cylinder street bike around 350cc. The Royal Enfield 500 is still very much in production. The S40 street bike. Suzuki TU250 is a new fuel injected single. Suzuki GZ250.Suzuki DRZX400S supermoto. Older discontinued bikes? Honda 500 Ascot. MUZ or MZ Skorpian, and a supermoto. BMW had a trio of cool singles including the XMoto, XChallenge, and another one.

I like thumpers a lot also and have owned quite a few over the years.

jon

Emissions controls have ensured that air/oil cooled carbureted singles are extinct.

That's perfectly fine, the new water cooled parallel twins from Kawasaki and BMW are just as good, as is the triple from Triumph. I don't see the fascination with old technology, particularly for a street bike.

Duke III

Water cooling is just one more thing that can/will fail.

But fuel injection I would like to have, yes.

MZ Scorpion - nice bike, handles well, way cheap, Yamaha engine and other common parts.

XCountry

One of my all-time faves.

One of these days I'll have one.

A friend had a Sport Cup.

That was a fun sporty single!

Yeah, I test rode an MZ Travellor (sp?). Great bike with full fairing and nice hard saddlebags. Should have bought it.

Jon