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SUPERIOR COMPLEX

COMPILE a list of the world’s most beautiful motorcycles of all time. Now compile a list of the world’s fastest in their day. How about the most exclusive ever, the most collectable, the most desirable. Chances are a Brough Superior SS100 is on all of them.

“IT WAS THE FASTEST, BEST-HANDLING PRODUCTION BIKE EVER AT THE TIME”

George Brough took his lead from Rolls-Royce when he established Brough Superior in 1919, aged not yet 30. His target market was the landed gentry, England’s wealthy upper classes, or at least the more thrill-seeking ones amongst them. George’s strategy was to build the best and most

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