Classic Bike Guide

PAUL D’ORLÉANS

“But, is allowing a slew of machines to sit for years, unridden but rideable, noble in any way?”

suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortunes spent on motorcycle ownership, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by selling, end them. To collect no more, and end the heartache, and the thousand natural shocks that motorcycles are heir to; ’tis a consolation devoutly to be wished. To keep is perchance to dream, of bikes to come, but conscience does make cowards of us

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