5 VERY SIGNIFICANT MOTORCYCLES 

You're so right about how the Black Bomber should've been the wake up call for the British bike industry, I remember my sisters boyfriend taking me out on the back of his and it blowing off his mates 500 Tigers and being just as fast as the 650 Bonnies, plus it didn't leak oil like a dodgy refinery, but I remember them being described as "Jap scrap" by people who's bikes were being humiliated by the "Jap scrap".

You have to wonder what engineers like Scott and Turner would have come up with if they had access to the modern materials and techniques we take for granted, Soichiro Honda was perhaps more fortunate. Thank you.

Excellent video, the early footage was awesome! No health and safety in the good old days!! 🇬🇧

Try the Rondine 500, that turned into the Gilera 500 straight across the frame GP bike ,

My Grandad loved his Scott. Great presentation

The first Knucklehead and the first Speed Twin. Two real beauties. Ace video as always and the graphics, photographs and film footage are perfect. Especially the acetylene lamp sequence. Very enjoyable. 👍

Good selection! I'd rather have have a Bonneville too.

Hi MC, a superb upload. Thank you.

A very fun trip down memory lane. Loved the look of that Honda Black Bomber engine. An old chap I know in ACT has one he built from a basket case of boxes.

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FN (Fabrique Nationale de Herstal) is a Belgian company established in 1889 to make arms and ammunition, and from 1901 to 1967 was also a motorcycle manufacturer. FN manufactured one of the world's first four-cylinder motorcycles, was famous for the use of shaft drive in all models from 1903 to 1923, achieved success in sprint and long-distance motorcycle racing, and after 1945, also in motocross.[1]

cheers from argentina mate!

Nice sound track!

i had a 750 oil frame bonne loved it so much when it was going lols

I cant believe I'm the first . I agree 100% with these picks and yes give me a Bonneville any day . On another note I had a 72 honda XL 250 and I believe that is the first 4 valve engine for regular consumer use that is so common today . I know the turn of the century racers had them and I know the ww2 Alison aircraft engine had them but common public use .

So inspiring to see a four valve Rudge with exposed valve train showing off George Hack's design genius. 🤫

My take is bikes like the BSA Bantam, many small post war european bikes...then the Japanese single two strokes of the early seventies...for making reliable performing cheap bikes

There's no real way the British industry could have taken notice and responded to the Honda CB450. They were still recovering from years of WW2 bombing. Japan was only heavily bombed in the final year of the war and suffered much less industrially until the nukes ended the bombing altogether.

it was 1908 not 1910 on the Scott. Youll find all the right details in the motorcycle innovations video on my channel lol maybe its time we did a collaboration 🙂 we have a different angle but similar stance it seems 🙂 ride free mate the bomber was far from the first DOHC engine either, plenty of early Brits did and Peugeot did it in the early 1900's

That procedure for lights was not at all necessary. You just rode in the dark like on a horse. Still a superb presentation, by the way.

My 1999 Harley evolution Sportster has more miles on it and all of my Japanese motorcycles had combines before they all died from cam chain tensioner failure. Buy 1965 triumph TR6 is only a couple years away from being 60 years old and is still on the road 🛣️. All of the so-called technically Superior Japanese motorcycles went from dealership to ownership to scrap yard. The so-called unreliable unsophisticated British motorcycles with last long enough to outlive their owners. The camshaft in my TR6 wore out when they were 50 years old. I have a Fairbanks Morse magneto for ignition and she is a first kick bike. I love my BSA 250 singles Starfire. They make great little commuting bikes as well as great little dirt bikes. When these guys with these water-cooled wanderers brag about how much horsepower they make I tell him I will wave at you while the ambulance crew is peeling you off a tree 🎄. Love I love the gear drive in a BSA, triumph or my Harley Sportster 883. It is a myth that the Japanese ran the British out of the motorcycle business the British business basically committed suicide. I miss the variety of motorcycles that were available for purchase back in the old days because today's motorcycles are a collection of government regulations on two wheels.

so your video is only about motorcycles build by english speaking people. Not very complete as below link shows. Study a bit more next time before publishing

The Triumph comment right for a million reasons none of which to do with engineering prowess or speed pure style and class and acceptance by the crowd. I remember leaving the pub one night to find my jap crap bike being knocked over and pissed on by a local bikie gang who naturally only rode US and UK bikes. I went back in for another drink it wasn't worth the kicking.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_Four