Brough Superior

[Selden]

Rather than lose some expiring frequent flyer miles for some periodical subscriptions, including the Financial Times, which includes a glossy magazine, How to Spend It, with the Saturday edition. Today's edition includes an article with some gorgeous photos of the new Brough Superior that is being built by an Englishman in Austria.

 

http://www.howtospendit.com/#/articles/1385-brough-motorcycles

 

Only a handful are built each year, and, as the saying goes, if you have to ask the price, you can't afford one -- somewhere in the 6 figures.

[Bill_Walker]

Gorgeous bike, and I'm glad to see they're building "new" ones, but that web site deserves an award for gratuitous overuse of Flash to the detriment of content.

[Peter Parts]

I still think it is one of the best movie shots in the biking world: T. E. Lawrence's ride on his famous Brough Superior. Pity it was his last.

[Selden]

Gorgeous bike, and I'm glad to see they're building "new" ones, but that web site deserves an award for gratuitous overuse of Flash to the detriment of content.

Good god, yes -- which means that Couchrocket can't see a thing on his shiny new iPad. I would have posted a photo, but it was more trouble thanI wanted to bother with to do a screen grab, save it as a jpg and attach it.

[11101110]

...that web site deserves an award for gratuitous overuse of Flash to the detriment of content.

 

three of my four browsers won't work with that site and the one that does slams the processor at 100%. Flash is really getting on my nerves.

[Quinn]

From the same web site, someone bought the Norton name again and plans to produce them again.

 

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[Paul Mihalka]

On the link all I get is the picture of the original bike jumping around.

In general I don't like it at all when somebody buys the rights to a old traditional brand name and builds something completely unrelated.

[Peter Parts]

Why doesn't somebody reproduce a great bike like the 1964 R69s? And beautiful too.

 

Umm, maybe too many of them are still running around.

[notacop]

A friend of mine was restoring a Manx and found parts on OZ. Pricey but it moved the project along.

He also suggested that all that old English iron may be eye candy bit it didn't handle worth a dang and didn't stop worth the same dang. Seems one of these fine types of English engineering provided the means of demise of T.E. Lawrence.

They look great in a diorama but I wouldn't depend on one as a rider.

[philbytx]

If you are talking about "old", as in the late 40's, 50's and 60's, that "Old English Iron", such as AJS 7R, Matchless G50 and Norton Manx, handled (Oh! and did the Manx handle!) and stopped pretty damn well. And that is compared to virtually anything else produced at the time!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Paul Mihalka]

If you are talking about "old", as in the late 40's, 50's and 60's, that "Old English Iron", such as AJS 7R, Matchless G50 and Norton Manx, handled (Oh! and did the Manx handle!) and stopped pretty damn well. And that is compared to virtually anything else produced at the time!

Tell me about it! I raced against them on my "Old Italian Iron" Gilera Saturno. The huge steps over the years were engine hp and tires.

[FlyingFinn]

Slight hijack but trying to keep on same general topic.

 

What modern bike would get your vote for "Brough Superior of Today"?

Lighting fast, tough as nails, do it everything kind of a roadburner? That can be ridden across the desert

 

And comes with (at least optional) factory saddle bags, LOL!

 

 

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Mikko

[ESokoloff]

Only a handful are built each year, and, as the saying goes, if you have to ask the price, you can't afford one -- somewhere in the 6 figures.

 

I have to say that if I had 6 figures to spend on moto art I would spend it on a MV Agusta 1000 F4 CC

$120,000/195mph

[Bill_Walker]

Slight hijack but trying to keep on same general topic.

 

What modern bike would get your vote for "Brough Superior of Today"?

Lighting fast, tough as nails, do it everything kind of a roadburner? That can be ridden across the desert

 

And comes with (at least optional) factory saddle bags, LOL!

 

R1200GS, of course. But you forgot to include "expensive".