What's your favorite classic (pre-1974) motorcycle?
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you don't have to have owned one, or even ridden it.
(but it helps!)
they were easier to work on back then. which was good, 'cos you sure got plenty of practice... and handling, braking and acceleration were much more primitive than the contemporary era. but they tended to have a certain character. less self-conscious times.
and now they're frequently valuable.
this one's extremely rare: an Egli Vincent. controls all a bear to operate; ran on Castrol, so had that gorgeous bean-oil smell, along with a great sound from its fishtail pipe.
picture taken about 25 years ago; I'm no longer so youthful. (still have my Langlitz leathers, though.)
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This topic was started by adrianrf on December 12th, 2006. 25 grupies have voted on one or more of the 16 answers.
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Dupage? http://www.grupthink.com/topic/1245 maybe not.
@famousperson
not to a bike enthusiast!
if you have a serious long-term interest in bikes, you know manufacturers have good years/decades, and not-so-good. and a biker's primary relationship is with the specific bike -- my specific bike -- certainly not the "brand".
the only motorcyclists I know who have a primary relationship with a brand are a) Ducatisti; a snob thing, but at least based on engineering merit; and b) the clueless herds lumbering about on Hardly Ablesons; they lash out on vastly-overpriced, overweight, crudely-designed, ridiculoously loud two-wheeled agricultural implements, because they're smitten with some kind of "rebel image".
I own a 1971 Honda 750. Some consider it a classic because they sold so many of them.