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Re: If you can't afford a Brough
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 5:21 pm
by vanzen
Zombie Master wrote:
Unfortunately not. Bev is a great guy, but he is a collector, and his many, many, rare bikes just sit there unprepared to ride.
Had a friend who owned a Norton Commando Production Road Racer with about the same attitude.
He finally reworked the bike and got it up to snuff, had it raced –
but now he's dead.
Re: If you can't afford a Brough
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 6:40 pm
by Zombie Master
vanzen@rockerboxer.com wrote:Zombie Master wrote:
Unfortunately not. Bev is a great guy, but he is a collector, and his many, many, rare bikes just sit there unprepared to ride.
Had a friend who owned a Norton Commando Production Road Racer with about the same attitude.
He finally reworked the bike and got it up to snuff, had it raced –
but now he's dead.
I would imagine that most of his bikes will not get used until after he is gone, unless they end up in a museum. He's got a fortune in his bikes. He's a great guy though.
Re: If you can't afford a Brough
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 7:02 pm
by Garnet
Zombie Master wrote:
I would imagine that most of his bikes will not get used until after he is gone, unless they end up in a museum. He's got a fortune in his bikes. He's a great guy though.
He is a great guy. And it's not that he doesn't ride, he just doesn't ride the real valubale stuff. Most of his collection is original and unmolested and comes with a long story.
Re: If you can't afford a Brough
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:20 pm
by vanzen
Zombie Master wrote:
I would imagine that most of his bikes will not get used until after he is gone, unless they end up in a museum. He's got a fortune in his bikes. He's a great guy though.
Be the loudest to proclaim that good machines need the exercise to stay fit –
and then volunteer for the job !
Re: If you can't afford a Brough
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 12:05 am
by Zombie Master
vanzen@rockerboxer.com wrote:Zombie Master wrote:
I would imagine that most of his bikes will not get used until after he is gone, unless they end up in a museum. He's got a fortune in his bikes. He's a great guy though.
Be the loudest to proclaim that good machines need the exercise to stay fit –
and then volunteer for the job !
Oh I have. Ole' Bev is not mechanically inclined. He just inherited one of the new
Triumph Bonnevilles. As if he needed it! He rode it for a while and I think a coil died. It will probably not run again cause he's too cheap to buy a coil. I guess we all have our weird ways. He's got a R50/2 with an English flag sticker on the front fender. When asked why he has this on a German machine: "Because we won!" Like I said he's a great guy!