The British motorcycle industry was dead by 1970.

"The BCG report provided the justification for Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s Labour government to cease subsidising the motorcycle industry, which had absorbed nearly £24 million of public funds since 1973."

Read the whole thing, it's short.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/knowledge/socialscience/stevekoerner/

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. H. L. Mencken