Brough Superior SS100
‘HA-KIDS, EH? DON’T KNOW they’re born’. Those often-ridiculed rug rats, wage-eaters, spoiled brats, call them what you will – but one of them, a young, vociferous lad by the name of George Brough, brought us and generations before us a range of motorcycles the likes of which we hadn’t seen, and never will see again.
The Brough Superior was born from a young man’s enthusiasm – and a little egotism – to break away from the well-made and respected bikes and then motorcycles that his father, engineer William Brough was making in Nottingham.
This was a momentous time, with industrial advances the likes no one had seen before. Coal was powering most moving machines and an intelligent engineer like William not only built his own house, but saw the revolution of personal transport as a good future for the family. Brough built bikes, their own engines and even cars, albeit on a small, sensible scale.
George, probably from hanging around his father’s works, quickly picked up
