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What bike be it model or famous or even belonged to a famous person would be your Holy Grail? Whether there is any real hope of having it or not. What's your dream bike? If its an idea in your head describe it.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Should be Riding
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1939 Brough Superior SS100
Blowing gravel off rural roads
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1939 Brough Superior SS100
and Laurence of Arabia on dvd/box set  and a triple peperoni pizza with jalapeno on thin crust
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Jeff Decker's 1941 Crocker bobber. Absolutly beautiful!
"Sickboy He rides a big motorbike" - Mike Ness (Social Distortion)
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One of the ten ever-built Britten V1000's that the Kiwi motorcycle genius John Britten built before that scourge, "The Big C", claimed his life at the tender age of only 45 in 1995. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britten_V1000(...there was NEVER a motorcycle in the history of motorcycles which featured so many innovative ideas that actually worked, than this motorcycle...NONE!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Any year of the old Kiwi Indian chief.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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Morituri Nolumus Mori
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"My hats off to you. That's a Vincent Black Lightening, 1952"
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would that be complete with the wedding pants and nitro heart pills Chad? 
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Check Pants
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1939 Brough Superior SS100
You and me both.
Every bike guaranteed to leave the factory capable of cracking the ton.
Last time I was at the National Motorcycle Museum I was asked to leave ... I gather drooling on the exhibit is not the done thing 
(Hey Jim, look at the link, go to 'museum', look at 'photos' - pics 2, 4, 6 and 20)
"You can't believe everything you read on the internet" : William Shakespeare
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I'm torn between the Crocker (not the one mentioned, but the real deal, untouched Crocker), and the Brough. Both period examples of what true motorcycling was as well as ultra fine examples of rolling art. Pure beauty.
2004 Triumph Speedmaster (J Lo) 2006 Yamaha Stratoliner (Adele)
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Holy Grail meaning you don't already own it?
1937 Speed Twin has got to be the one.
I try to aggravate one person a day. Today may be your day.
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1939 Brough Superior SS100
You and me both.
Every bike guaranteed to leave the factory capable of cracking the ton.
Last time I was at the National Motorcycle Museum I was asked to leave ... I gather drooling on the exhibit is not the done thing
(Hey Jim, look at the link, go to 'museum', look at 'photos' - pics 2, 4, 6 and 20)
Photos taken in the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, Leeds, Alabama
Matchbox motorsickles, except each one is the real deal...and they run.
Blowing gravel off rural roads
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Should be Riding
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1942 Triumph 3HW 
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Looking at that transmission, I wonder how long that same trans was in use. It was still in use in 62 and goes back into the 50s and looks like early 40s, wonder how far back it goes. They made a change to it for some models and called it a slick shift. As you shifted the shifter pedal disengaged the clutch eliminating the need to pull the clutch by hand. It worked about as well as the sprung hub.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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Wow, I guess I'm a good fit. My dream collection would have a Crocker, a Vincent Black Shaddow, a Brough Superior, and an Indian inline 4. That would be a good start.
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I have a good start too, but if you had to pick one what would it be Paul?
I have a 54 and 58 T110s ,a 64 Norton P11 ,my Speedmaster that I love a couple Bonnevilles, a 250cc Triumph dirt bike, 66 TR6C chopper, couple hardtail Brits,70 BSA Lightning, 64 BMW R50 and so on but I still have a few I would like to add and the holy grail of those would be a 37 Speedtwin.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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I would love to have a Crocker, or an Excelsior, or a Flying Merkel...
Always remember to be yourself. Unless you suck. Then pretend to be someone else.
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I have a good start too, but if you had to pick one what would it be Paul?
I have a 54 and 58 T110s ,a 64 Norton P11 ,my Speedmaster that I love a couple Bonnevilles, a 250cc Triumph dirt bike, 66 TR6C chopper, couple hardtail Brits,70 BSA Lightning, 64 BMW R50 and so on but I still have a few I would like to add and the holy grail of those would be a 37 Speedtwin.
It would be a Britten
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3/4 Throttle
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1912 Henderson 4 cyl. Saw this on Mecum auctions lastnight it is one sweet looking bike....
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Elvis' 1956 KH and, while I am at it: '57 Les Paul Gold Top '87 Buick Grand National GNX and a bar of soap recently used by Megan Fox (why soap? because I am trying to keep it clean  )
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Elvis' 1956 KH
and, while I am at it:
'57 Les Paul Gold Top
'87 Buick Grand National GNX
and a bar of soap recently used by Megan Fox
(why soap? because I am trying to keep it clean )
Never mind the Britten, I'll take the soap! 
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I don't know enough about vintage bikes to comment, but I can say that when I lived in Paris as a young adolescent riding on my 125 CC Lambretta, I saw the only Norton I've ever seen on the street. I don't know which model it would have been — this was in 1958 — but as it and my uncle's 1948 Harley were my first introductions to MCs, it would have to be one or the other.
Thanks for the links in this thread. Seeing as it isn't that far to the Barber Museum, I'll see if I can get the boss to approve a weekend up that way this fall.
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The Britten V-1000. 
Steelheart- '03 Speedmaster Black/Yellow
The Hayabusa Killa
16" Shorties/140 mains/Airbox drilled
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Put me down for 2, maybe 3. A sunbeam S7 or S8 would do for one. The other would have to be an Ariel square 4, especial the later 4 exhaust port version.
The maybe one is a bike I saw a few times at a bike shop/museum in Arcadia CA years ago. It was a prewar HD Knucklehead with an interesting twist. In 1942, to get around gas rationing, the owner converted it to run on steam. The engine (said to have come from a Winton car) had 1 cylinder disconnected because it had so much torque as to be nearly unmanageable.
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Now I like that Indian! But I'd have to go with this one. I know it's recent vintage but this a cool bike. 
'06 TBA - Black, AI and Snorkel removed, K&N Drop In, Gutted Stock Pipes, 145/42, 2 turns out.
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