weeksy wrote: ↑Fri Sep 24, 2021 8:15 am
You had access to a level of exclusivity in motorbikes that's hard to find.
Agreed, my mate phoned the bloke that owns the company and they managed to find me one, recall it to the factory and then fly it here, but you could do that if you had a mate that knew Mr Yamaha.
I'm not knocking it, it was a really nice thing to do and to own when it got here, but like I keep saying, it was no RC30.
In terms of fundamental design there is little difference between my Rudge and a 916, by the 1930's the fundamentals were all done, but it was how the designer presented them, it's entirely possible to build a thing of equal beauty today, it doesn't need an extra wheel or anything, it just needs a designer who can create something that no one else has, with unrivalled beauty.
It's a different era though and in comparison to any other biking era motorbikes are just about dead, it's the worst era for bikes since the turn of the 20th century.