what you think ?

been there a few times, great museum.

Quite a beautiful looking bike, I always think that two rear springs on a bike make a bike look so much more classy looking than a single mono-shock which is a bit bare looking, (except on a field bike where a mono shock looks practical.

I once sent an e-mail to Honda Power-sports enquiring as to why most of their latest modern bikes looked so dreadful !

After a few weeks they send me a reply explaining that it was marketing strategy, and that if they continued to build a broad range of bikes which resembled the classics of the past then people would compare the higher prices of the new bikes with the cheap prices of the old bikes and most would decide to just buy the old bike instead. So in order to avoid that situation they design new bikes where by buyers feel justified in paying a new price to get the latest new design.

I sent the same question to the other main Jap manufactures just for fun but none replied, however I then asked a friend who works in a vacuum cleaner company designing new shapes of 'Vaccum cleaners' the same question and he had an even more unusual answer he said that adults buy 'big toys' which somewhat resemble the 'small toys' they played with as children, be it cars, robots, transformers, planes etc.
The children of the 1950's and 1960's played with basic simple round or square toys, and classic bikes and classic cars have some resemblance to this.
But the children of the 1990's and 2000's played with more spikey aggressive looking toys, planes, transformers, race cars etc, or played energetic daring video games and that this gets carried on into their adult buying preference.
Not sure if the theory is accurate or not but it made me laugh !

Very nice

That like all of the Rickman bikes is beautiful the Rickman brothers made some cracking bikes for us to drool over in the 70's.they actualy made their "own"  complete bike.They bought a batch of Royal Enfield Interceptor engines when RE went bust 1970 ish bunging them in their own nickel plated frames adding quality cycle parts  but they were too expensive.There was one of these Rickman Interceptors for sale for £5k at Stafford yesterday just the frame/wheels/crankcases in frame with seat and the Orange fuel tank present too(they were nearly all orange) a bargain maybe?