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5. "RE: graphic at random"
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   >>(who still doesn't like British bikes. Style over substance, IMO)
>
>If you're referring to the classic English bikes, you may be judging
>the products of 1950s engineering by the expectations of a later era.
>That is essentially what killed the British motorcycle
>industry, after all - the British bikes of the '60s were still
>basically the same machines that had ruled the world in the '50s,
>while at that same time over in Japan, they were already
>building bikes with the technology of the '70s. English and American
>bikers of the late 1960s were astonished to discover that a
>motorcycle did not actually have to break down all the time and
>leak everywhere. :)

Really, it's the bikes of the '70s/'80s that I didn't like. My first bike was an old (well, 77, which was almost 20 years old by the time I got it) honda xl550, and a buddy of mine had a british bike of some sort (Norton I think?) from not too much earlier. Mine leaked a bit of oil, but other then that ran flawlessly.

The british bike was in the shop what seemed like 4 days a week, and wouldn't run in the rain, which considering that I grew up in Northern California was a problem.

He did look like a badass when it was running, though.

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-Pasha
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Oh yes.
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