The Classic MotorCycle

Pride and prejudice

practically all activities, there’s a hierarchy of status, and motorcycling is no exception. The owner of a vintage Brough Superior would have felt, er, superior to his neighbour with a Baby Triumph, and today’s purchaser of a brand-new Brough Superior probably feels the same way about a lad with a twist and go moped. Well I get all that and I suppose it’s inevitable when the money laid out on the Broughs would buy literally dozens of their smaller contemporaries. And – like

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