Edward
Bartender
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Those early 70s Japanese bikes really nailed the classic Brit bike look. Probably what killed the British bike industry as much as anything, but still very cool, very reliable, and I gather still a pretty affordable way of getting a bike on the road. My Dad for a whiled some years ago had a Honda CB360 - a very rare birdy indeed in the UK. They were sold on the US market, but here they fitted the equivalent with a smaller engine (350cc being the point at which there's a jump to a new insurance group in the UK, and nobody would pay the extra for the sake of 10cc more). Dad's bike was imported to the UK by a US military guy originally and, as so often happened, sold on when he went back to the US. Road going version, though. There's something very cool about those raised exhaust, Street Scrambler types. A lot of custom bikes are being built based on these now - at some point, the originals are going to get rare!