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[Silli]

[FONT=&quot]Last Brough Superior SS100 motorcycle to be auctioned[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]A Brough Superior SS100 cost £170 in 1925 [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The last Brough Superior SS100 motorcycle to come off the production line in Nottingham is to be sold at auction in California.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The motorcycle, which was built at a factory in Hadyn Road, has a pre-sale price estimate of $350,000 to $400,000 (£213,000 to £244,000).[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]George Brough, who made the bikes from 1924 to 1940, designed them to meet each customer's requirements.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]There are thought to be only 71 Brough Superior SS100 models left worldwide.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Each bike was certified to reach 100mph (160km/h), a speed which very few road vehicles could manage at the time.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Dave Roach, from the National Motorcycle Museum, said: "It's a very important motorbike, it was classed as the Rolls Royce of British motorcycles in its heyday.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]"In 1924 it was the world speed record holder at 124mph. It was untouchable."[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]TE Lawrence [Lawrence of Arabia], the British army officer famous for his role in the Arab Revolt during the World War I, owned seven of the bikes.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]He was killed riding a Brough Superior SS100 in Dorset in 1935.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Bonhams will sell the SS100 at its auction of Exceptional Motorcars and Motorcycles at Carmel in California on Thursday.[/FONT]

 

[DaveM]

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Some interesting info here but I won't be rushing out to try and purchase this one thanks

 

[otherwise]

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It's a great bike but at $400,000 ?
You can get most nice restored classic British bikes for about $15,000, now let me do the sums...

Hmmm, that's a collection of about 27 top quality classics. It's an easy choice for me, keep your Brough.:y8:

 

[DaveM]

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I can even get a new Triumph for that

 

[shanered6]

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I can even get a new Triumph for that

dave i think you could get quit a few new triumphs for that sort of money

 

[DaveM]

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Not too many gold plated ones I suppose

 

[Silli]

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I haven't done the sums, but I reckon you could get one of each model for that.............

 

[DaveM]

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I sure sound like it

 

[Rocky]

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Prices for the Brough and Vincent have gone out of all reason. People with too much money are getting into bidding wars and driving the prices to absurd levels.
Once that's done that market is ruined for most reasonable people and those prices become the norm.
There is a fellow in our vintage bike club who owns 2-3 Vincents and rides them like any other ordinary vintage bike.
To him they are just another motorcycle like his collection of HRD's, old Indian and Vintage Harley - made to be ridden.
It makes us smile when we see him - knowing what they are worth on the market these days.

 

[CarlS]

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A lot of car collectors have entered the motorcycle collectors market and are driving the prices way up. While that Brough is beautiful, I have no desire to won it. I could not ride it on the street. I will stick with vintage Brit bikes.

 

[Ksquared]

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. . . I will stick with vintage Brit bikes . . . .

H'mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Aren't Broughs "vintage Brit bikes"?
It's just amazing, though, the power of the movies. People who couldn't tell you the number of wheels on a motorcycle can tell you that T.E Lawrence was killed while riding a Brough Superior. I know this to be true from personal experience.

 

[otherwise]

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Strange thing going on with this thread, I can't view page two, forbidden to me, but I can look at page one and I hope post this from page one.

 

[CarlS]

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H'mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Aren't Broughs "vintage Brit bikes"?
It's just amazing, though, the power of the movies. People who couldn't tell you the number of wheels on a motorcycle can tell you that T.E Lawrence was killed while riding a Brough Superior. I know this to be true from personal experience.

I should have said vintage Triumphs, BSA's and Norton's as as opposed to rare classic Brit bikes such as Vincent and Brough. There; are you satisfied?

 

[keystiger]

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Wow this is an odd thread..........nice bike, nice history, but really?????? 400,000.00 for a bike ??????????????????? Thats like basketball/baseball ..."ATHLETES" making hundreds of thousands of dollars a week......its just wrong.....wrong....and beyond wrong. Oh by the way its just wrong.

 

[DaveM]

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Strange thing going on with this thread, I can't view page two, forbidden to me, but I can look at page one and I hope post this from page one.

:y148: Yes it is a bug in the software I have fixed the thread now. It happens when the title of the thread has a lot of training ......... at the end of it

 

[Silli]

Ok. No more trailing dots then. ........................................

 

[DaveM]

I also forget about it

 

[shanered6]

ok i get it ! no morse code

 

[Doug]

Family legend has it that my father had a Brough 'till 1940 when he met my mother.Priorities I suppose,and there was a war on,but it must have fitted the image of the dashing young naval officer pretty well.

 

[otherwise]

Family legend has it that my father had a Brough 'till 1940 when he met my mother.Priorities I suppose,and there was a war on,but it must have fitted the image of the dashing young naval officer pretty well.

I see that you're in SA, if your dad was in the UK at that time they may have taken it and put it into service. In 1940 they were hard up for machinery. I read a story on another forum about a bloke with a side valve BSA at that time and he removed the cylinder head after each ride so that he could say it was under repair and not have it taken into army service. You probably know taking off and replacing a head on a side valve BSA takes about 30 seconds.