Ok – let me just surmise your long-winded ramblings into something more intelligible.

1. “The Honda CB750 was an average bike made famous by marketing dollars and ripped-off ideas.”

Sure. That’s why it’s in the AMA hall of fame. Who’s wrong – you, or the world’s journalists, Wikipedia and the AMA?

2. “BWMs have great build quality.”

Genius. Take you long to figure that one out?

3. “70s Laverdas were faster and had far better overall build quality than most the Japanese machines.”

1970s Laverdas were delicate, oil-dripping prima donnas. Great build quality stands for nothing when the bike falls apart and fails to start.

4. “I don’t claim to know much about anything.”

What? You don’t? Sorry – I mistook your numerous, lengthy responses as you expressing an intelligent opinion. I’ll ignore anything you say from now on.

P.S. Your abuse of the ellipsis is as extraordinary as it is mind-numbingly repetitive. Here’s the wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis. Please, for the sake of the English language, read it.

My girl has a Honda Dream 305…. and would love to have a matching scrambler for me for around town! Great machines… and gorgeous.

@madvillian : Ha! No no… no ‘macho know it all game’… not at all. It’s not about that what-so-ever… and I don’t really like that whole pomposity. However… if someone comes across with some bold statement, I feel they should be prepared to back it up. I am… whether I am right or wrong about it… with mine. I’m not “right” all the time… not even close… and I am FAR from knowing it all. I DO like engaging debate about such things… and all is said in fun. Unfortunately… some people think motorcycles are like religion or politics… and take it all WAY too seriously. I called it a “game” as general parlance for “business”.

The Cossack! Ural…. a staple of Eastern European civilization. Somehow… they are all over the place there…. they’re pretty damn resourceful in Russia, Ukraine, Mongolia, etc… and *will* keep that stuff running come hell or high water (literally). God bless ‘em! I love their sidecars, especially one with the driven wheel. So fun.

New generation… new-comers. I don’t see them yet, frankly.
Wellllllll…. I seriously doubt that this next generation of people are going to give a crap about all this stuff… Vincents, Broughs, Laverdas… the ‘exotica’, etc. It’s the mid-30′s to mid-40′s guys that are going to carry that stuff forward next… and I would not be surprised to see a lot of interest die out in the next 20 years. Sad but true. There is about to be a HUGE shift in the ownership of a lot of this stuff… combined with one of the largest transfers of wealth in US history as the baby-boomers pass-on and their kids inherit. It will be very very interesting to see what happens in the next 5 to 10 years because of all that. My fear is that the majority will look at all this stuff as “investments” and never ride it… the worst thing for the motorcycles. I can’t stand when people do that. The only really good decision I can say I made when I started doing this as a ‘job’ was to not customers who do not actively *ride* their bikes…. and that is very limiting for a customer base. There are not many guys willing to ‘risk it’ hauling ass, using their machine as intended on a half million dollar motorcycle, etc. Pretty ‘rare air’. Kinda limits my potential… but in turn… I really love what I do and the customers I have. Could not ask for anything better in that regard.

There really is NO “judgement”… except for on the historical significance and real world usability of the Honda CB750. Motorcycles, I can judge… people, I can’t. It’s *just* messing around… nothing more really. I find this all interesting.

im not condoning, im just say’en