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Has multiple personalities- probably designed by a team & everyone got their way. Sport bike? Cruiser? Off road? Yes to all!
 
Just another 90 degree inline V. Original Borough’s were 60 degree if I am not mistaken. Putting an “old” badge on a new model rarely works.
 
I like it ..... made by Boxer in France , I think ........ better looking than the SS100 ......... priced at around £60 grand though ..... pity , it would be quite fun to pull up at the lights on something which everyone thinks is crap , and then blast them into the weeds on it ....... quite feasible..... the SS100 has120 bhp and weighs around 180kg , ( about the same as a Yamaha R6 ) , and has quite an impressive top end power kick , apparently ....... , although the version pictured will have been de-tuned a little , I expect .....
 
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Forget it's bastard origin what counts is giving it a chic nouveau riche moniker. How about
Rodeo Drive Urbo-Scrambler or Mayfair Assault Cycle, Park Avenue Soccer Mom Special...
something the manufacturer could entice the stupidly accidentally affluent younger generation
to pursue so they can brag to other nouveau riche morons. The knobby tires and headlight guard
should prove invincible at the next ISDT..oops...ISDE !
 
Guess T.E.Lawrence would have been a fan. Sure beats traversing the deserts around Damascus on a camel...

piet
 
KLEINDORF said:
Forget it's bastard origin what counts is giving it a chic nouveau riche moniker. How about
Rodeo Drive Urbo-Scrambler or Mayfair Assault Cycle, Park Avenue Soccer Mom Special...
something the manufacturer could entice the stupidly accidentally affluent younger generation
to pursue so they can brag to other nouveau riche morons. The knobby tires and headlight guard
should prove invincible at the next ISDT..oops...ISDE !
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Remember when new Laverda were 50 to 100% more expensive than the Japanese equivalent? Some were bought for the show off value.
Look at how often financial value crops up on this forum and the expected evolution of that value. A lot more often than the rideabilty of the contraptions.
Classic bikes in the vast majority, Laverda included, have become just what you describe.

Paul
 
Based upon what the young men down here are buying and building, the Urban Assault Vehicle look is quite popular. Is this any more dishonest or less authentic a style than the racer replica look which was the default for so long? At least an adv style machine will have softer long travel suspension well suited for the broken pavement and potholes so common in modern cities.
 
Alzero said:
Based upon what the young men down here are buying and building, the Urban Assault Vehicle look is quite popular. Is this any more dishonest or less authentic a style than the racer replica look which was the default for so long? At least an adv style machine will have softer long travel suspension well suited for the broken pavement and potholes so common in modern cities.
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They just need orange paint.

Paul
 
That sort of look / styling excecise has been around since the 1960`s .......... The Japanese would tack knobbly tyres and high handlebars and exhaust onto a standard road bike and call it a street scrambler ......... very little in the way of any more off road ability than the standard version ....... ( the clue was in the name ........ " street " scrambler ........ ) .......

Probably born out of a desire to cash in on the American leisure " desert sled " style of bike , which , again , was usually nothing more than a standard , heavy 650 twin with off road tyres , high handlebars , and the lights and silencers removed ....... still just a road bike with off -road pretentions ........ no particular reason why it shouldn`t be reasonably effective in that role though ......... ISDT bikes were usually road going bikes modified in this way ...... until the Czechs and East Germans took over with more dedicated lightweight two strokes .......
 
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Alzero said:
Two questions about the Brough: is that a bespoke engine and how common is a left side chain?
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Yes and very common ( now practically universal ).......... Mark Upham bought the name , then asked Thierry Henriette who owns Boxer Design in France to build a new engine for a revived SS100 .... which he did ....... Thierry runs the whole production side of things now .....

It seems it`s quite an impressive bike to ride ...... with that power to weight ratio , it would surprise a lot of people ..... ( including the rider .... ! ... ) ...
 
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rocketonarail said:
Yes and very common ( now practically universal ).......... Mark Upham bought the name , then asked Thierry Henriette who owns Boxer Design in France to build a new engine for a revived SS100 .... which he did ....... Thierry runs the whole production side of things now .....

It seems it`s quite an impressive bike to ride ...... with that power to weight ratio , it would surprise a lot of people ..... ( including the rider .... ! ... ) ...
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I went back over my pictures and I cannot believe I overlooked something as obvious as where the chain is located! The left side chain is indeed near universal.
 
Paul Marx said:
You can't screw a Brough.

Paul
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A little while ( long ) time ago , a family in Southampton were clearing out their recently departed fathers possessions , and found some letters .....

Their father used to manage a public swimming baths ,,,,,,one of these letters was from T E Lawrence , and confirmed a story he ( their father ) once told them .....

The letter requested that the Baths should give some swimming lessons to Lawrence`s young nephew , who would attend whenever convenient , but added that this nephew could be quite unruly , and may require a firm hand ........ 🤨 ..........

The Baths , although not quite sure what to make of this , agreed ....... and said " nephew " turned up at the given time ........ although this was no unruly young nephew , but quite obviously Lawrence himself .....

The swimming lesson took place , whether or not any firm hand was required isn`t recorded ..........

Just demonstrates what a lasting effect being captured , and held captive , and being buggered by the Turks , can have .....


Middle East hostage Terry Waite once said he quite regularly had to fight off the advances of one of his more amorous ( male ) captors ........
 
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