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The Glory Days of the British Motorcycle
#596308 02/26/2019 8:21 PM
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Excellent BBC film - I had not seen it before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNNUYHhoDiU

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Bill #596309 02/26/2019 9:26 PM
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Love that video.

I am in the process of restoring a 1965 Bonneville at this very moment. Just pulled the jugs off this past weekend.


Road Rash Heals. Freckles Grow Back. Ride
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Bill #596310 02/27/2019 4:43 PM
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Loved that. Thanks for posting.
I thought the old joke about "when was motorcycle racing invented? when the 2nd bike was built" was a myth - seems to be proven in the first minute
44:44 - quite philosophical (but true) for a kid of the time !

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I am sitting here wearing my old goggles and a leather football helmet channeling T.H. Lawrence riding George in the quotation at 12:05 in the video.

"Boanerges" There is a new word for the vocabulary.


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