PAUL D’ORLÉANS
IT WASN’T A storybook ending, but stories we collected in spades. I began the Motorcycle Cannonball Endurance Run rosy with hope and fingers-crossed tension, feeling our two machines, a 1925 Brough Superior SS80 and replica 1925 Brough Superior SS100, would yield mixed results: the SS80 would soldier ever onwards, while the replica, as it hadn’t done many miles, would need continual development as we racked up our daily mileage. I was both very wrong and very right in my assessments. I’m as guilty of magical thinking as
