Lawrence's bike

[Paul in NZ]

Interestingly the 'Brough Superiour' name was up for auction this year. I wonder when we will see a chinese 'superbike' labelled such...

[pritch]

I have posted this before but it seems appropriate here...

http://telawrence.net/telawrencenet/.../mint_3_16.htm

[janno]

Thanks for putting up that TE Lawrence link! Blasting along at those speeds without today's helmets sounds like it was most uncomfortable

I went to a bike show over the weekend here in Brisbane, and the best bike there was one of the spectators - he rode his 1927 (I think) Indian. Pretty much a rat bike in regular use, not a show pony by any means.

It started first kick after two strokes to get the compression up, and off he chuntered. Sounded like a cross between a tractor and a Harley without an exhaust.

It looks a bag of bastards to try and get it around corners, he was navigating it very carefully through the crowd to get to the road and it looked bloody hard work. It was really noticeable just by looking at it how awkward and lumbering the handling was compared to today's bikes. Amazing what 80 years of technology will do!

I'd hate to ride that thing through heavy Brisbane city traffic but he obviously copes just fine.