Bobber dazzleer?
Nov 18, 2018
4 minutes
WORDS: BERTIE SIMMONDS
PHOTOS: GARY D CHAPMAN, MOTO GUZZI/MORTONS ARCHIVE
Biking fads seem to be the way things are heading and one is the Bobber. In the same way that café racers seem to pop up from time to time, these stripped-down machines hark back to an era that marketing people seem to think we really want to relive. A ‘Bobber’ itself was a ‘pared back’ American machine, more often than not a Harley-Davidson. When the men came back from the Second World War, they could pick up ex-War Department hogs and strip them back, make them look more aggressive and make them unique. Today ‘hipsters’ love them and
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