Simviation Forum - Brough superior SS-80

Oct 12^th, 2012 at 5:06am

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One for Paul, were was it hiding, behind your old Allego Grin

Brough superior SS-80 found. Despite its run-down condition, it is being tipped to sell for at least £75,000 Shocked

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Reply #1 - Oct 12^th, 2012 at 6:48am

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Ta for the heads-up, Matt...

The nearest I got to it was my 1948, Series B/C 998cc Vincent HRD Rapide...(The HRD model). Purchased in around 1965...>>>> http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/19290/lot/336/

Caused me more trouble and heartache that all my other British bikes put together!
I bought it to replace my lovely 1958, 650cc Twin, BSA Super Rocket Sidecar outfit.
The extra power of the Vincent was requires to pull a large 4-Seater Busmar Sidecar, with all the family in it...and one on the pillion seat!

...but it gave me no end of mechanical+ignition+everything else problems.... Cry

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Finally sold it for a new 1992 Honda CBR 600cc 4-cylinder F2 Supersport super-bike...which got stolen out of my front garden... Cry

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Now I've got a 1995 Honda CB 500 Twin, which insists on falling onto my left leg, whenever possible.... Shocked

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Paul... Grin

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Reply #2 - Oct 12^th, 2012 at 7:40am

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WOW! Just WOW Shocked

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Reply #3 - Oct 12^th, 2012 at 8:33am

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Fozzer wrote on Oct 12^th, 2012 at 6:48am:

Ta for the heads-up, Matt...

The nearest I got to it was my 1948, Series B/C 998cc Vincent HRD Rapide...(The HRD model). Purchased in around 1965..
Caused me more trouble and heartache that all my other British bikes put together!

Back in his day, my dad had a Vincent Black Shadow. Seem to remember him using the same words that you use for your Rapide.... Grin

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Reply #4 - Oct 12^th, 2012 at 1:10pm

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expat wrote on Oct 12^th, 2012 at 8:33am:

Fozzer wrote on Oct 12^th, 2012 at 6:48am:

Ta for the heads-up, Matt...

The nearest I got to it was my 1948, Series B/C 998cc Vincent HRD Rapide...(The HRD model). Purchased in around 1965..
Caused me more trouble and heartache that all my other British bikes put together!

Back in his day, my dad had a Vincent Black Shadow. Seem to remember him using the same words that you use for your Rapide.... Grin

Matt

Good-old Dad!... Grin

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I have nightmare memories of leaping up and down on the kick-starter, for hours on end, turning the engine over by one revolution, (generally the wrong one), in a vain attempt to get the Lucas Magneto to produce anything other than a faint orange glow from the Spark Plugs.
It is possible to easily die from trying to start a Vincent HRD...
...trust me..

Paul...Bloody Magnetos!... Angry

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Reply #5 - Oct 12^th, 2012 at 8:11pm

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Paul, I also had a '92 Honda CBR 600 stolen right out of my driveway in broad daylight.....what a coincidence Wink

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings. Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun split clouds.....and done a hundred things you have never dreamed of.....wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence. Hovering there, I've chased the shouting wind along and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long, delerious, burning blue I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace where never Lark, nor even Eagle flew. While with silent lifting of mind I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand and touched the face of god"

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Reply #6 - Oct 13^th, 2012 at 12:06am

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Just to interject a little canny bit of common knowledge on this subject brought to light by Matt.....

I've heard somewhere that almost everyone who is known to have ridden a motorbike an a regular basis, is prone to being half daft !....Witness : Foz , Mark, myself.....etc - anyone else I may have missed ?

Feel free to own up....Edit in: Matt

Just sayin'..... Cheesy

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Reply #7 - Oct 13^th, 2012 at 1:46am

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Rifleman wrote on Oct 13^th, 2012 at 12:06am:

Just to interject a little canny bit of common knowledge.....

I've heard somewhere that almost everyone who is known to have ridden a motorbike an a regular basis, is prone to being half daft !....Witness : Foz , Mark, myself.....etc - anyone else I may have missed ?

Feel free to own up....

Just sayin'..... Cheesy

I was a biker right up until I got married........................ Embarrassed

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Reply #8 - Oct 13^th, 2012 at 2:02pm

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Matt you're just proved how daft you are, you gave up!

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Reply #9 - Oct 14^th, 2012 at 3:12am

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ozzy72 wrote on Oct 13^th, 2012 at 2:02pm:

Matt you're just proved how daft you are, you gave up!

True, but I do now have an MGB Roadster...............in kit form at the moment though......So I will in time feel the wind in my hair again..... Grin

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Reply #10 - Oct 14^th, 2012 at 6:51am

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CHUCK79 wrote on Oct 12^th, 2012 at 8:11pm:

Paul, I also had a '92 Honda CBR 600 stolen right out of my driveway in broad daylight.....what a coincidence Wink

I recall, every single day, without fail, the time I got up, looked out of my Bedroom window and observed just a slight oil stain on the ground where my beloved 1992, red+black, Honda CBR 600 FM, used to be, and which was going to last me for the rest of my life on this Planet....(The Bike, not the oil stain)...
It was like my brain exploding, and wondering if I had left it in a Car Park somewhere, the day before, and had forgotten.

No such luck. Some thieving toe-rags had carried it, locked, chained, and alarmed, from my front garden path in broad daylight, in the middle of busy a housing estate!

It was obviously targeted! Never saw it again.

The worst experience of my life!

Paul...Paranoid... Cry

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Reply #11 - Oct 14^th, 2012 at 7:19am

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Rifleman wrote on Oct 13^th, 2012 at 12:06am:

Just to interject a little canny bit of common knowledge on this subject brought to light by Matt.....

I've heard somewhere that almost everyone who is known to have ridden a motorbike an a regular basis, is prone to being half daft !....Witness : Foz , Mark, myself.....etc - anyone else I may have missed ?

Feel free to own up....Edit in: Matt

Just sayin'..... Cheesy

Motor cycles have been part of my life since 1950, and spent many years transporting myself and my Family around the countryside in a variety of Motorcycle Combinations (before Motorcars were invented.. Roll Eyes

..)..!. It was a rare occurrence to encounter another Motor Car on the road!...Austin 7, etc...

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A variety of British Bikes, terminating in some of Japanese finest models...which don't break-down...and have push-button starters!

Loads of fun...when it isn't cold and raining!... Shocked

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Paul...Meep-meep!... Cool

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Reply #12 - Oct 14^th, 2012 at 8:43am

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I remember catching a bloke trying to steal my beloved VF many years ago. I remember how his face exploded as I hit him (I'd forgotten I was holding the crash helmet in my right hand).
I also remember the kindly policeman writing up the report to say the well known scrote tried to stab me with the screwdriver he'd just broken my ignition barrel with and as it was over the maximum permitted length was an offensive weapon and I'd used reasonable force to defend myself Grin

Always a good thing to have friendly policemen as chums! Still cost me nearly £80 to fix the damage the little bastard had done... which I never got back. Mind you I doubt his nose and jaw were ever quite right again or that he was ever able to eat corn-on-the-cob Smiley

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