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8 Long-Lost Brough Motorcycles Found Rotting Are Up for Sale
Villamars ^
| 2.15.15
| Alex Davies
Posted on 12/15/2015 1:51:48 PM PST by Daffynition
Bonhams will auction off eight Brough Superior motorcycles, which spent five decades in barns in a Cornwall village before their discovery.
(Excerpt) Read more at villamars.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Travel
KEYWORDS: brough; cornwall; motorcycles
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Been a rash of barn-finds latelty.
To: Daffynition
Yup.
I caught a rash from something I found in a barn once.
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posted on
12/15/2015 1:59:30 PM PST
by
shibumi
(Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
To: shibumi
There’s now a glut of space in barns .... open quickie clinics for treatment of undetermined rashes in them.
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posted on
12/15/2015 2:02:10 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(*Gun control is a tool to make innocents pay the price for the guilty* W.LaPierre)
To: Daffynition; shibumi
Some blistering riposte, going on.
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posted on
12/15/2015 2:04:07 PM PST
by
Salamander
(It's your world, but it's my street....)
To: Daffynition
Didn’t Lawrence of Arabia own several of this model and wasn’t he killed riding on one?
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posted on
12/15/2015 2:05:57 PM PST
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
To: Daffynition
The market is way ahead of us...
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posted on
12/15/2015 2:05:58 PM PST
by
shibumi
(Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
To: Salamander; Daffynition
"Some blistering riposte, going on." No, not riposte.
These comments are all original.
(But after the rash there was some blistering.)
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posted on
12/15/2015 2:08:04 PM PST
by
shibumi
(Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
To: shibumi
I found a Vincent in my barn....
He didn't hear me sneaking up for some reason.
To: Daffynition
looks like a lot of work to me.
To: riverrunner
I doubt anyone will find many parts on bike-bandit.
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posted on
12/15/2015 2:11:20 PM PST
by
Seruzawa
(All those memories will be lost,in time, like tears in rain.)
To: elcid1970; Daffynition; Salamander
"Didn't Lawrence of Arabia own several of this model and wasn't he killed riding on one?" He named all but one of his bikes "George."
He died riding "George VII."
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posted on
12/15/2015 2:11:47 PM PST
by
shibumi
(Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
To: Tijeras_Slim
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posted on
12/15/2015 2:15:26 PM PST
by
shibumi
(Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
To: Tijeras_Slim
four score and 20 ears ago
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posted on
12/15/2015 2:16:54 PM PST
by
Bob434
To: Bob434; Tijeras_Slim
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posted on
12/15/2015 2:18:27 PM PST
by
shibumi
(Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
To: Daffynition
There is ton more information and pictures at this link:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3359441/Collection-rare-Brough-Superior-motorcycles-discovered-barn-gathering-dust-50-years.html
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posted on
12/15/2015 2:21:59 PM PST
by
Revel
To: shibumi
I think that a moment before Lawrence went flying off that motorcycle to his death, its name quickly changed from “George VII” to “you stupid GIT!!!”
;^)
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posted on
12/15/2015 2:24:56 PM PST
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
To: shibumi
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posted on
12/15/2015 2:25:18 PM PST
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
She swore to me it was just an allergy.
First time I ever had to get penicillin for someone else’s allergy.
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posted on
12/15/2015 2:34:45 PM PST
by
shibumi
(Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
12/15/2015 2:38:12 PM PST
by
djone
(Boasters are seldom seen on the battlefeild....)
To: Daffynition
The motorcycles were dubbed the "Rolls-Royce of Motorcycles" by H. D. Teague of The Motor Cycle newspaper. Approximately 3048 motorcycles (19 models) were made in the 21 years of production; around a third of that production still exists. T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") owned eight of these motorcycles and died from injuries sustained when he crashed number seven, the eighth was on order.
Sounds like a rare and special motorcycle.
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posted on
12/15/2015 2:40:01 PM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
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