Posted on 10/10/2015 4:17:48 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Beautiful! But if I had moolah, here’s the auction I’d like to win;
http://www.bigsby.com/vibe/forum/vintage-bigsby-guitar-about-to-be-auctioned-off/
155 Pounds at today’s exchange rate is $237.00.
That bike is beautiful.
As a collector/restorer of vintage Triumph’s, and a biker for 51 years, I really appreciate this machine - it indeed was the ultimate and decades ahead of its time in every way.
I remember the one I saw at Barber Motorsports Museum near Birmingham, AL - incredible.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/420312577698823355/
Kind of reminds you of a later Vincent.
Been in love with this bike for years. Thanks for the eye candy.
Beautiful restoration!
I also have that pic of TE Lawrence on his Brough mounted and framed, in my living room.
I met the president of the Brough Superior Club in the early 90’S He had a bunch of them
I had a chance to buy one but could not bring myself to part with $30,000 for one bike.
I wish I had as I would have owned a diamond all this time that went up and up in value
It is an eye catching piece of machinery.
I forwarded the article on to a guy who is big on antique motorcycles. It’s out of his price range too. He sticks with vintage Japanese. I bought one that I am playing with partly from learning stuff from him.
This weekend I had motorcycle training booked at the local tech college. The water works cancelled it naturally. It’s rescheduled for next month.
Amazing that he owned eight of them. Wonder if they’re all still around?
I assume it is similar to what he was riding when he crashed and died. I notice the Prince of Darkness handled the lighting system. I once drove a Royal Enfield. I felt like I was on a tractor and all levers were on the wrong sides. If I am not mistaken, the death of Lawrence led to the development of the motorcycle helmet.
Like the one Richard Hammond had no success with in that Top Gear episode against the vintage Jag and locomotive?
Some Real Steel, that’s for sure. So many bikes I wished I was a test jockey for.
That’s a lot for a bike in those days, though not so much when you think about the investment you’re making. I walked away from a brand new Harley (with a whole lot of insistence from the wife) that was about that much in the mid-90s.
Ping!
1920 BSA http://oi58.tinypic.com/2wpja5l.jpg
1927 James http://oi61.tinypic.com/1zbawdd.jpg
I think that there was a form of helmet for them at the time.
I looked at the Royal Enfield, but want more oomph than that. An Indian friend and I were thinking of just buying a couple of them in India and riding the hell out of them for a couple of weeks and selling them back to a dealer for whatever we could get. We wanted to go, amongst other places, to the Wagah border crossing on the border with Pakistan to watch the gate closing ceremony that the Indians do with the Pakistanis.
Ping list?
Back in 1970 when I was stationed in the Canal Zone, I had a '69 250 Triumph Trophy while my two close buddies had a 650 Bonneville and a 650 BSA.........
Two other guys had bikes too, one had a 650 Triumph Tiger and another had a 650 Norton...........
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