Classic Bike Guide

Frank’s Famous Last Words

SPIRITED CONVERSATIONS ON SOCIAL media are very often highly entertaining. And sometimes they are genuinely interesting, too. Occasionally they’re both, although not as frequently as I would like, somehow.

For a reason which has now entirely faded from my memory, I posted a picture of a bike I’d found offered for sale. Apart from being silver (I have never really liked silver as a motorcycle colour, despite enduring not one but two Norton Commandos in a metalflake edition of that very shade, and being a non-unit construction engine, when my preference is for unit, although that’s only today...

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