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A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocation, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness. -TE Lawrence



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He was known to enjoy doing 100 mph along Bovey Straight on his Brough Superior, (and remember that tarmac had not been invented then!).

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Pete wrote:

He was known to enjoy doing 100 mph along Bovey Straight on his Brough Superior, (and remember that tarmac had not been invented then!).

 Was he local to Devon then or stationed here perhaps?



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"At the age of 46, two months after leaving military service, Lawrence was fatally injured in an accident on his Brough Superior SS100 motorcycle in Dorset, close to his cottage, Clouds Hill, near Wareham."

Born in Wales, he really was a bastard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Lawrence



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my dad used to ride with him occasionally as he was also Bournemouth / Poole based. ( a '16H Norton' was often mentioned )

Another of their mates playing 'chicken' in the dark, with two of his friends approaching, opted to ride between em .........

it turned out to be a bus ....... oops

Death was no stranger to these lads.

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we have got his brough ul656 George vi the one before the bike he was killed on, it has not run in the last 50 years , want to get it running some time, need a few bits 1st.



-- Edited by hoc on Saturday 13th of April 2013 02:21:05 PM



-- Edited by hoc on Saturday 13th of April 2013 02:21:29 PM

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